Production Update

Another DriveTime first: a video-based DriveTime Production Update -- letterboxed, no less!

(QuickTime, 01:37)

Episode Twenty-Nine

For once it is all fun and games, as Ravi and Sonia welcome David Leschinsky from Eureka! into Studio-A to talk about games and puzzles.

Plus, Peter Bebergal belts himself in for an overloaded DriveTime Cultural Minute Package:

• Marvel's The New Avengers
• The Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA's Desert Origins deluxe reissue by Pavement
• Tabula Rasa by Arvo Part
• The Penguin Dictionary of Classical Mythology
• Ships by Danielson

(QuickTime, 09:17)

Production Update

The DriveTime Production Elves are still drying out from the floods-upon-floods that have inundated the Boston area.

Next episode (of DriveTime, not RideTime) will be posted later this weekend (probably Saturday).

Yankee Alert!

Thanks to the stateside commenters who've informed me that the legendary Beyond Tomorrow segment on "DriveTime TV" is now airing in the states....

And I mean right now -- at this moment!

It's on The Science Channel and is airing a couple of times today and again on Sunday according to their schedule on-line.

RideTime Episode One

Ravi and Sonia break away from gridlock, road rage and $3 a gallon gas -- and doff their helmets for the debut episode of RideTime.

After a jaunty recap of the Wake Up The Earth parade, the tandem-mounted duo welcome bicycle activist Doug Mink who fills them in on the upcoming Bike Week activities in Boston.

(Quicktime, 06:59)

Episode Twenty-Seven

The comments, votes and suggestions have been tallied and Ravi reveals whether he's with Beard or No Beard. But first, a video comment from "Down Under" is shared. Does it tip the scale?

With beard business out of the way, Ravi and Sonia brave an unrelenting rain to pick up Ching-In Chen, a freelance writer for Hyphen Magazine. Ching-In reveals the poet within and the DriveTime Poem Room is quickly christened. And before it's all over, Ravi chimes in with a limerick he wrote when he was 13.

(QuickTime, 09:10)

Production/Beard Update

Oh, how I've grasped the razor in recent days, only to put it down. Before picking it up again...

The next new episode will be posted Saturday.