Holy Sh!t, LeVar Burton is Awesome!

I screen grabbed the sh!t out of this.

Investigative journalism is not dead!  In my in depth research for my last blog post, I googled LeVar Burton because I wasn't sure how to spell his first name.  Well, you're all welcome because check this sh!t out:

Raise your hand if you knew LeVar Burton was in the "Word Up" video...Bueller?  Bueller?  Yeah, didn't think so.  Here are some other highlights from his Wikipedia page, which I take as Gospel:

Burton was born to American parents at the U.S. Army Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in West Germany. His mother, Erma Jean (née Christian), was a social worker, administrator, and educator. His father, Levardis Robert Martyn Burton, was a photographer for the U.S. Army Signal Corps, and at the time was stationed at Landstuhl.  Burton and his two sisters were raised by his mother in Sacramento, California.  Burton was raised Catholic and, at the age of thirteen, entered St. Pius X seminary in Galt, California to become a priest.  He attended Christian Brothers High School and graduated in the class of 1974. He is a graduate of University of Southern California's School of Theatre.


How about that?  How do they let kids study to become priests at 13?  Talk about Bad Idea Jeans.  All thirteen year olds want to do is jerk off and dream of finding their Dad's stash of Playboys, not praying all day and taking vows of poverty and celibacy.


That little early life bio was the big one in addition to the "Word Up" bombshell, but while we all know Burton was the host of "Reading Rainbow," he was also the executive producer.  That's big time.  He is married (to the woman below) and has a 17 year old daughter.

CUE THE MUSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!

-Big Ran

PS: I bet someone could make a sweet remix of this jam. I would buy that on Amazon for $0.49.