Re: [scifinoir2] LeVar Burton on the End of "Reading Rainbow"
Agreed, that was the intention, it just didn't work for me, especially with a black man. - Original Message - From: "Bosco Bosco" To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 2:52:43 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] LeVar Burton on the End of "Reading Rainbow" I just got so used to him in it that it freaked me out when he wasn't wearing it. I think it would have been way better if they simply grown him new eyes in a vat or surgically altered his to repair them. I think Gene's intention was to show that in the future disabilities would be irrelevant to the job at hand and there would be no bias for those who were differently-abled. I just don't think he pulled it off very well. B --- On Fri, 9/11/09, Keith Johnson wrote: From: Keith Johnson Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] LeVar Burton on the End of "Reading Rainbow" To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, September 11, 2009, 11:16 AM It was canceled, due to a combination of budget cuts and a feeling the show wasn't remedial or direct enough in teach basic reading skills. As for the eye piece, I'm ecstatic he didn't have it. I always hated the VISOR on TNG. I didn't get why in a time when Data exists and they have nanobots and genetic engineering, a big clunky thing like that was needed. Why couldn't they grow some organic eyes for Goerdi and implant them in his skull? Surely that's not beyond people who can create Augments and enhance Bashir's brain power. Why did the VISOR have to be so big and bulky: the more normal eyes he sports in the later movies made way more sense. I just never got the artifice of that contraption, and was really really glad to see it go. And, to be honest, I did have one of those "why does the black man have to have the disability" attitudes about the whole thing. Get enough of that in comics with the likes of Deathlok, Cyborg, Spawn, etc. - Original Message - From: "Bosco Bosco" To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 12:07:36 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] LeVar Burton on the End of "Reading Rainbow" I don't have time to read the transcript just now, was it cancelled or did Mr. Burton retire? That show was bad ass. Almost no whistles and bells, just books and stories and kids. I haven't seen it in a while but I'm sad to see it go. As a side note, I always found it creepy that he didn't wear the eye covering on the show. B --- On Thu, 9/10/09, Keith Johnson wrote: From: Keith Johnson Subject: [scifinoir2] LeVar Burton on the End of "Reading Rainbow" To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Date: Thursday, September 10, 2009, 11:34 PM A sad and mostly unnoticed end to a very important program. Several people called into the broadcast to thank Burton for his two-plus decades of teaching their children to read and love reading. They were very upset. Hey...maybe Obama should make a statement supporting the program? Yeah right: that'll make sure it stays dead and buried for all time. Can't risk having Burton teach the kids anything dangerous like how to read something outside of headlines and webpage tickers You can listen to the broadcast at the link below, or read the transcript. http://www.npr. org/templates/ story/story. php?storyId= 112679753
Re: [scifinoir2] LeVar Burton on the End of "Reading Rainbow"
I just got so used to him in it that it freaked me out when he wasn't wearing it. I think it would have been way better if they simply grown him new eyes in a vat or surgically altered his to repair them. I think Gene's intention was to show that in the future disabilities would be irrelevant to the job at hand and there would be no bias for those who were differently-abled. I just don't think he pulled it off very well. B --- On Fri, 9/11/09, Keith Johnson wrote: From: Keith Johnson Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] LeVar Burton on the End of "Reading Rainbow" To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, September 11, 2009, 11:16 AM It was canceled, due to a combination of budget cuts and a feeling the show wasn't remedial or direct enough in teach basic reading skills. As for the eye piece, I'm ecstatic he didn't have it. I always hated the VISOR on TNG. I didn't get why in a time when Data exists and they have nanobots and genetic engineering, a big clunky thing like that was needed. Why couldn't they grow some organic eyes for Goerdi and implant them in his skull? Surely that's not beyond people who can create Augments and enhance Bashir's brain power. Why did the VISOR have to be so big and bulky: the more normal eyes he sports in the later movies made way more sense. I just never got the artifice of that contraption, and was really really glad to see it go. And, to be honest, I did have one of those "why does the black man have to have the disability" attitudes about the whole thing. Get enough of that in comics with the likes of Deathlok, Cyborg, Spawn, etc. - Original Message - From: "Bosco Bosco" To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 12:07:36 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] LeVar Burton on the End of "Reading Rainbow" I don't have time to read the transcript just now, was it cancelled or did Mr. Burton retire? That show was bad ass. Almost no whistles and bells, just books and stories and kids. I haven't seen it in a while but I'm sad to see it go. As a side note, I always found it creepy that he didn't wear the eye covering on the show. B --- On Thu, 9/10/09, Keith Johnson wrote: From: Keith Johnson Subject: [scifinoir2] LeVar Burton on the End of "Reading Rainbow" To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Date: Thursday, September 10, 2009, 11:34 PM A sad and mostly unnoticed end to a very important program. Several people called into the broadcast to thank Burton for his two-plus decades of teaching their children to read and love reading. They were very upset. Hey...maybe Obama should make a statement supporting the program? Yeah right: that'll make sure it stays dead and buried for all time. Can't risk having Burton teach the kids anything dangerous like how to read something outside of headlines and webpage tickers You can listen to the broadcast at the link below, or read the transcript. http://www.npr. org/templates/ story/story. php?storyId= 112679753
Re: [scifinoir2] LeVar Burton on the End of "Reading Rainbow"
You bring up a good point. They have the ability to heal broken limbs instantly and they couldn't fix homie's eyes? What is up with that? They replaced Worf's spin with a new one. Remember that? On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Keith Johnson wrote: > > > It was canceled, due to a combination of budget cuts and a feeling the show > wasn't remedial or direct enough in teach basic reading skills. > > As for the eye piece, I'm ecstatic he didn't have it. I always hated the > VISOR on TNG. I didn't get why in a time when Data exists and they have > nanobots and genetic engineering, a big clunky thing like that was needed. > Why couldn't they grow some organic eyes for Goerdi and implant them in his > skull? Surely that's not beyond people who can create Augments and enhance > Bashir's brain power. Why did the VISOR have to be so big and bulky: the > more normal eyes he sports in the later movies made way more sense. > I just never got the artifice of that contraption, and was really really > glad to see it go. > And, to be honest, I did have one of those "why does the black man have to > have the disability" attitudes about the whole thing. Get enough of that in > comics with the likes of Deathlok, Cyborg, Spawn, etc. > > > - Original Message - > From: "Bosco Bosco" > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 12:07:36 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] LeVar Burton on the End of "Reading Rainbow" > > > > I don't have time to read the transcript just now, was it cancelled or did > Mr. Burton retire? That show was bad ass. Almost no whistles and bells, just > books and stories and kids. I haven't seen it in a while but I'm sad to see > it go. > > As a side note, I always found it creepy that he didn't wear the eye > covering on the show. > > B > > --- On *Thu, 9/10/09, Keith Johnson * wrote: > > > From: Keith Johnson > Subject: [scifinoir2] LeVar Burton on the End of "Reading Rainbow" > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > Date: Thursday, September 10, 2009, 11:34 PM > > > > A sad and mostly unnoticed end to a very important program. Several people > called into the broadcast to thank Burton for his two-plus decades of > teaching their children to read and love reading. They were very upset. > Hey...maybe Obama should make a statement supporting the program? Yeah > right: that'll make sure it stays dead and buried for all time. Can't risk > having Burton teach the kids anything dangerous like how to read something > outside of headlines and webpage tickers > > You can listen to the broadcast at the link below, or read the transcript. > > http://www.npr. org/templates/ story/story. php?storyId= > 112679753<http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112679753> > > > > > > -- Bringing diversity to perversity for 9 years! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] LeVar Burton on the End of "Reading Rainbow"
Oh, I was okay with him being the navigator, I just disliked the VISOR and the fact that he was the one to be blind. I liked him more as the Engineer in some ways. Remember the first season when he was Navigator and they had those chairs that reclined? - Original Message - From: "Martin Baxter" To: "SciFiNoir2" Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 3:56:46 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] LeVar Burton on the End of "Reading Rainbow" Keith, the tale I've heard regarding LaForge and the VISOR was that, in Roddenberry's vision of the future, things would be so copacetic that even a blind man could fly a starship. And the sentiment was widely admired, until someone said something to the effect of, "You know, he's nothing more than the chauffeur." After that, he quickly became Enterprise's chief engineer... "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:16:01 + Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] LeVar Burton on the End of "Reading Rainbow" It was canceled, due to a combination of budget cuts and a feeling the show wasn't remedial or direct enough in teach basic reading skills. As for the eye piece, I'm ecstatic he didn't have it. I always hated the VISOR on TNG. I didn't get why in a time when Data exists and they have nanobots and genetic engineering, a big clunky thing like that was needed. Why couldn't they grow some organic eyes for Goerdi and implant them in his skull? Surely that's not beyond people who can create Augments and enhance Bashir's brain power. Why did the VISOR have to be so big and bulky: the more normal eyes he sports in the later movies made way more sense. I just never got the artifice of that contraption, and was really really glad to see it go. And, to be honest, I did have one of those "why does the black man have to have the disability" attitudes about the whole thing. Get enough of that in comics with the likes of Deathlok, Cyborg, Spawn, etc. - Original Message - From: "Bosco Bosco" To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 12:07:36 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] LeVar Burton on the End of "Reading Rainbow" I don't have time to read the transcript just now, was it cancelled or did Mr. Burton retire? That show was bad ass. Almost no whistles and bells, just books and stories and kids. I haven't seen it in a while but I'm sad to see it go. As a side note, I always found it creepy that he didn't wear the eye covering on the show. B --- On Thu, 9/10/09, Keith Johnson wrote: From: Keith Johnson Subject: [scifinoir2] LeVar Burton on the End of "Reading Rainbow" To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, September 10, 2009, 11:34 PM A sad and mostly unnoticed end to a very important program. Several people called into the broadcast to thank Burton for his two-plus decades of teaching their children to read and love reading. They were very upset. Hey...maybe Obama should make a statement supporting the program? Yeah right: that'll make sure it stays dead and buried for all time. Can't risk having Burton teach the kids anything dangerous like how to read something outside of headlines and webpage tickers You can listen to the broadcast at the link below, or read the transcript. http://www.npr. org/templates/ story/story. php?storyId= 112679753 Get back to school stuff for them and cashback for you. Try Bing now.
RE: [scifinoir2] LeVar Burton on the End of "Reading Rainbow"
Keith, the tale I've heard regarding LaForge and the VISOR was that, in Roddenberry's vision of the future, things would be so copacetic that even a blind man could fly a starship. And the sentiment was widely admired, until someone said something to the effect of, "You know, he's nothing more than the chauffeur." After that, he quickly became Enterprise's chief engineer... "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:16:01 +0000 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] LeVar Burton on the End of "Reading Rainbow" It was canceled, due to a combination of budget cuts and a feeling the show wasn't remedial or direct enough in teach basic reading skills. As for the eye piece, I'm ecstatic he didn't have it. I always hated the VISOR on TNG. I didn't get why in a time when Data exists and they have nanobots and genetic engineering, a big clunky thing like that was needed. Why couldn't they grow some organic eyes for Goerdi and implant them in his skull? Surely that's not beyond people who can create Augments and enhance Bashir's brain power. Why did the VISOR have to be so big and bulky: the more normal eyes he sports in the later movies made way more sense. I just never got the artifice of that contraption, and was really really glad to see it go. And, to be honest, I did have one of those "why does the black man have to have the disability" attitudes about the whole thing. Get enough of that in comics with the likes of Deathlok, Cyborg, Spawn, etc. - Original Message - From: "Bosco Bosco" To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 12:07:36 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] LeVar Burton on the End of "Reading Rainbow" I don't have time to read the transcript just now, was it cancelled or did Mr. Burton retire? That show was bad ass. Almost no whistles and bells, just books and stories and kids. I haven't seen it in a while but I'm sad to see it go. As a side note, I always found it creepy that he didn't wear the eye covering on the show. B --- On Thu, 9/10/09, Keith Johnson wrote: From: Keith Johnson Subject: [scifinoir2] LeVar Burton on the End of "Reading Rainbow" To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, September 10, 2009, 11:34 PM A sad and mostly unnoticed end to a very important program. Several people called into the broadcast to thank Burton for his two-plus decades of teaching their children to read and love reading. They were very upset. Hey...maybe Obama should make a statement supporting the program? Yeah right: that'll make sure it stays dead and buried for all time. Can't risk having Burton teach the kids anything dangerous like how to read something outside of headlines and webpage tickers You can listen to the broadcast at the link below, or read the transcript. http://www.npr. org/templates/ story/story. php?storyId= 112679753 _ Get back to school stuff for them and cashback for you. http://www.bing.com/cashback?form=MSHYCB&publ=WLHMTAG&crea=TEXT_MSHYCB_BackToSchool_Cashback_BTSCashback_1x1
Re: [scifinoir2] LeVar Burton on the End of "Reading Rainbow"
It was canceled, due to a combination of budget cuts and a feeling the show wasn't remedial or direct enough in teach basic reading skills. As for the eye piece, I'm ecstatic he didn't have it. I always hated the VISOR on TNG. I didn't get why in a time when Data exists and they have nanobots and genetic engineering, a big clunky thing like that was needed. Why couldn't they grow some organic eyes for Goerdi and implant them in his skull? Surely that's not beyond people who can create Augments and enhance Bashir's brain power. Why did the VISOR have to be so big and bulky: the more normal eyes he sports in the later movies made way more sense. I just never got the artifice of that contraption, and was really really glad to see it go. And, to be honest, I did have one of those "why does the black man have to have the disability" attitudes about the whole thing. Get enough of that in comics with the likes of Deathlok, Cyborg, Spawn, etc. - Original Message - From: "Bosco Bosco" To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 12:07:36 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] LeVar Burton on the End of "Reading Rainbow" I don't have time to read the transcript just now, was it cancelled or did Mr. Burton retire? That show was bad ass. Almost no whistles and bells, just books and stories and kids. I haven't seen it in a while but I'm sad to see it go. As a side note, I always found it creepy that he didn't wear the eye covering on the show. B --- On Thu, 9/10/09, Keith Johnson wrote: From: Keith Johnson Subject: [scifinoir2] LeVar Burton on the End of "Reading Rainbow" To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, September 10, 2009, 11:34 PM A sad and mostly unnoticed end to a very important program. Several people called into the broadcast to thank Burton for his two-plus decades of teaching their children to read and love reading. They were very upset. Hey...maybe Obama should make a statement supporting the program? Yeah right: that'll make sure it stays dead and buried for all time. Can't risk having Burton teach the kids anything dangerous like how to read something outside of headlines and webpage tickers You can listen to the broadcast at the link below, or read the transcript. http://www.npr. org/templates/ story/story. php?storyId= 112679753
Re: [scifinoir2] LeVar Burton on the End of "Reading Rainbow"
I don't have time to read the transcript just now, was it cancelled or did Mr. Burton retire? That show was bad ass. Almost no whistles and bells, just books and stories and kids. I haven't seen it in a while but I'm sad to see it go. As a side note, I always found it creepy that he didn't wear the eye covering on the show. B --- On Thu, 9/10/09, Keith Johnson wrote: From: Keith Johnson Subject: [scifinoir2] LeVar Burton on the End of "Reading Rainbow" To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, September 10, 2009, 11:34 PM A sad and mostly unnoticed end to a very important program. Several people called into the broadcast to thank Burton for his two-plus decades of teaching their children to read and love reading. They were very upset. Hey...maybe Obama should make a statement supporting the program? Yeah right: that'll make sure it stays dead and buried for all time. Can't risk having Burton teach the kids anything dangerous like how to read something outside of headlines and webpage tickers You can listen to the broadcast at the link below, or read the transcript. http://www.npr. org/templates/ story/story. php?storyId= 112679753
Re: [scifinoir2] LeVar Burton on the End of "Reading Rainbow"
Yes indeed. Burton has had an interesting career. Interesting fellow... - Original Message - From: "Mr. Worf" To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 4:13:39 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] LeVar Burton on the End of "Reading Rainbow" Wow. That show was on a VERY long time! I was a kid when it started. On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Keith Johnson < keithbjohn...@comcast.net > wrote: A sad and mostly unnoticed end to a very important program. Several people called into the broadcast to thank Burton for his two-plus decades of teaching their children to read and love reading. They were very upset. Hey...maybe Obama should make a statement supporting the program? Yeah right: that'll make sure it stays dead and buried for all time. Can't risk having Burton teach the kids anything dangerous like how to read something outside of headlines and webpage tickers You can listen to the broadcast at the link below, or read the transcript. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112679753 -- Bringing diversity to perversity for 9 years! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
Re: [scifinoir2] LeVar Burton on the End of "Reading Rainbow"
Wow. That show was on a VERY long time! I was a kid when it started. On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Keith Johnson wrote: > > > A sad and mostly unnoticed end to a very important program. Several people > called into the broadcast to thank Burton for his two-plus decades of > teaching their children to read and love reading. They were very upset. > Hey...maybe Obama should make a statement supporting the program? Yeah > right: that'll make sure it stays dead and buried for all time. Can't risk > having Burton teach the kids anything dangerous like how to read something > outside of headlines and webpage tickers > > You can listen to the broadcast at the link below, or read the transcript. > > http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112679753 > > > -- Bringing diversity to perversity for 9 years! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
[scifinoir2] LeVar Burton on the End of "Reading Rainbow"
A sad and mostly unnoticed end to a very important program. Several people called into the broadcast to thank Burton for his two-plus decades of teaching their children to read and love reading. They were very upset. Hey...maybe Obama should make a statement supporting the program? Yeah right: that'll make sure it stays dead and buried for all time. Can't risk having Burton teach the kids anything dangerous like how to read something outside of headlines and webpage tickers You can listen to the broadcast at the link below, or read the transcript. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112679753
