1. Levar Burton: My Living Nightmare Of Encouraging Kids To Read Is Over

    A guest piece in The Onion by the long-time host of Reading Rainbow:

    Thank god.

    After 26 long years, I can finally rest easy. Twenty-six years I spent standing in front of a camera, gritting my teeth, and shilling the latest works of every hack children’s book author imaginable. For 26 years, I’ve told kids they could open a magical door to another world just by reading a book, when the only door it ever opened for me led to a soul-sucking career in the horrifying abyss of public television.

    Via DavidinIndy