LeVar Burton Appreciation Thread

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YOU WERE THE FOUNDATION OF RACE CONSCIOUSNESS IN MY YOUNG LIFE

― elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 19:14 (twenty years ago)

READING RAINBOW IS BROUGHT TO YOU IN PART BY KELLOGG

a little butterfly told me that shit
get me some frosted flakes
boy, i love reading

― elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 19:15 (twenty years ago)

i luv levar!

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 19:27 (twenty years ago)

Women who prefer male friends

― Dan (Dirty Geordie) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 19:32 (twenty years ago)

http://www.simonsays.com/assets/isbn/0689707495/C_0689707495.jpg

― elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 19:39 (twenty years ago)

TAKE A LOOK
ITS IN A BOOK

― kingfish pibb Xtra (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 20:14 (twenty years ago)

he's not dead, right?

― don't start a RYE-OTT! (plsmith), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 21:06 (twenty years ago)

remember the reading rainbow when they went on set at star trek: the next generation? man that was cool.

― tres letraj (tehresa), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 21:59 (twenty years ago)

JESUS CHRIST I AM OLD

― Dan (Hello, Children!) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 22:12 (twenty years ago)

I had to watch the first few episodes of Roots in 8th grade social studies as part of black history month

― elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 22:28 (twenty years ago)

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― elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 22:34 (twenty years ago)

this import is worth the price:

http://www.pictureiraq.com/jsmith/pages/rootsbyalexhaley.jpg

― titty sanskrit (sanskrit), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 01:58 (twenty years ago)

tehresa, that episode was awesome, especially when they showed you how they made the transporter special f/x (glitter swirling in water!) and showed how they put on Worf's make-up who then exited the trailer saying loudly "Stand aside -- I take large steps." CLASSIC.

according to wikipedia, that episode was also the only authorized broadcast of ST:TNG bloopers!

― elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 02:18 (twenty years ago)

I remember watching the original broadcast of "Roots" on TV.

― Dan (33 In 8 Days) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 02:29 (twenty years ago)

i remember being utterly shocked at how small the set really was... how can an intergalactic startship be the size of a closet!?!?
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― tres letraj (tehresa), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 03:15 (twenty years ago)

33 In 8 Days

that's all? i coulda sworn you were older! not much older, but older.

― 2 columbus circle in 1964 (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 03:21 (twenty years ago)

http://images.zap2it.com/20050511/015_levarburton2_enterpriseparty.jpg

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 04:21 (twenty years ago)

a lovely coat choice for a starfleet officer

― kingfish pibb Xtra (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 07:01 (twenty years ago)

I remember watching the original broadcast of "Roots" on TV.

Me too. Kunta getting whipped and that guy getting boiled alive in "Shogun" are my first two television mini-series memories.

(33 in 296 days.)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 08:09 (twenty years ago)

33 in three years and about 323 days (i think)

― 2 columbus circle in 1964 (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 08:19 (twenty years ago)

That's his wife in the pic, btw.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:43 (twenty years ago)

shes got a stupid mouth.

my mother used to have us watch roots every year

― bb (bbrz), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:49 (twenty years ago)

I think Richard Chamberlin wandering around with a bandage over his eyes was the only thing i remember from the Shogun broadcast. 3.5 years 'til i'm 33.

― kingfish russian bigamist (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 15:58 (twenty years ago)

http://geordiewyld.ytmnd.com/

― elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:05 (twenty years ago)

http://levarburton.ytmnsfw.com/

― elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:06 (twenty years ago)

I'm not old enough to have watched Roots when it was originally broadcast (wasn't even a glimmer), but I'm old enough that most of my Reading Rainbow-watching was before Burton was on Star Trek: The Next Generation. I particularly remember an episode about Chinese New Year.

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Memorable Quotes from
"Reading Rainbow" (1983)

[Closing phrase]
LeVar Burton: I'll see you next time.

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LeVar Burton: Of course, you don't have to take my word for it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:15 (twenty years ago)

LeVar: Of course, you don't have to take my word for it.

cue: horizontal wipe to young kid sitting in front of large projection of the book they are reviewing

― elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:20 (twenty years ago)

i wanted to be transformed into a cartoon astronaut like the girl in the Reading Rainbow opening sequence.

― latebloomer: Let's just say I do for bullshit what Stonehenge did for Rocks (lat, Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:35 (twenty years ago)

(xp) Doesn't he then say "Read the book!"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:36 (twenty years ago)

no, but there was a three-note riff cueing the kid reviews

― elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:52 (twenty years ago)

33 in... twelve years.

ya'll are gonna die you fucks.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 17:53 (twenty years ago)

We're all gonna die in 2012. Who'll be laughing then?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 18:24 (twenty years ago)

Sun Ra's bitches, obv

― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 20:37 (twenty years ago)

new agers who believe in that terrence mckenna 2012 singularity bullshit are just as dumb as fundie xtians with their left behind rapture bullshit

― elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 22:04 (twenty years ago)

I thought that 2012 was the end-of-the-Aztec-Calendar thing

― kingfish russian bigamist (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 22:17 (twenty years ago)

it was the mayan calendar, but yeah. terrence mckenna did some numerological bullshit with the i ching and arrived at the same date (12/12/2012). which just proves that numerology is bunk.

but if the mayans had not been destroyed, i think they would have extrapolated their calendar a little longer, ne?

― elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 22:35 (twenty years ago)

anyway, the universe will not end until 2350 at least, if only to witness the birth of Geordi LaForge

― elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 22:36 (twenty years ago)

I am absolutely disgusted that nobody has brought this up yet:

http://www.geocities.com/babylon_and_ting/littlefluffy

What is wrong with you people?

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 22:44 (twenty years ago)

Only one more pope, too.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 22:54 (twenty years ago)

gygax!!!!!!!!!

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 23:23 (twenty years ago)

Where is the love for him in Looking For Mr. Goodbar?

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 23:24 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

http://airmagination.com/sh6.jpg

― Should've Never Give Jimmy Mod Money (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 17 March 2006 06:55 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

wow i had no idea that 'reading rainbow' was still going. 26 years, damn levar.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112312561

― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 September 2009 21:11 (seventeen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWMIXgCaJPQ

― *⁂((✪⥎✪))⁂* (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 1 September 2009 22:43 (seventeen years ago)

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII CAN GO AAAAAAAAAAAAANYYYYYYYYYYYWHEEEEEEEEEEEERE

― write about this significant and fascinating and comlex artist (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 September 2009 05:04 (seventeen years ago)

heard about that npr feature last night. it was like they didn't even care (not levar, the pbs peeps).

― tehresa, Wednesday, 2 September 2009 05:06 (seventeen years ago)

~~about~~

― tehresa, Wednesday, 2 September 2009 05:07 (seventeen years ago)

I did not know that was burton in FLC.

― write about this significant and fascinating and comlex artist (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 September 2009 05:08 (seventeen years ago)

It's LeVar Burton interviewing Rickie Lee Jones on a Reading Rainbow episode.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 2 September 2009 20:53 (seventeen years ago)

thanks jaymc.

― *⁂((✪⥎✪))⁂* (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 2 September 2009 22:22 (seventeen years ago)

You're welcome, Steve Shasta. I suspect you already knew that, but I thought forksclovetofu might like to know.

― jaymc, Thursday, 3 September 2009 13:41 (seventeen years ago)

I am absolutely disgusted that nobody has brought this up yet:

http://www.geocities.com/babylon_and_ting/littlefluffy

What is wrong with you people?

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, January 11, 2006 2:44 PM (3 years ago)

― *⁂((✪⥎✪))⁂* (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 3 September 2009 14:19 (seventeen years ago)

caught dummy (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079088/) on the tv one time. he was good. gets buggered in a fairly graphic way!

― andrew m., Thursday, 3 September 2009 14:48 (seventeen years ago)

eleven years pass...

interesting photo choice by local newspaper

https://bkreader.com/2021/08/18/5-men-injured-in-shooting-outside-brownsville-deli-nypd/

http://i.imgur.com/9S7tqVY.png

― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 August 2021 14:40 (five years ago)

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