From his opinion piece:
When the news came that Reading Rainbow would be canceled due to a lack of funding, I felt—well, to use a cliché like you'd find in one of the hundreds of books I pimped endlessly—like a huge weight had been lifted from my shoulders. Every day I went to work hoping that maybe the studio had burned down, that maybe the program had been cut, that maybe PBS would finally stop squeezing the life from me drop by drop. Now that it's over, I feel the relief a bruised and broken soldier must feel when he is rescued after rotting away for decades in some dank, forgotten POW camp.
May that godforsaken show burn in hell.
It's from The Onion, obviously. And it made me laugh like a loon.
(via @levarburton)

Okay, see, I should NEVER read your updates via Facebook. I was all *GOBSMACKED!* And thinking this was serious. I was going to have to hunt him down.
Posted by: tanita | 24 September 2009 at 01:21 PM
Well, I didn't want to ruin the joke by giving away the source in the title of the post!
Posted by: Leila | 24 September 2009 at 01:28 PM
Oh, that is AWESOME.
Posted by: Jackie Parker | 24 September 2009 at 02:04 PM
That really had me going for a minute. Which was just the laugh I needed.
Posted by: libraryliz | 24 September 2009 at 03:22 PM
EXCELLENT - I was so upset and then I was laughing so hard I nearly cried. Thank you!
Posted by: Kelsey | 24 September 2009 at 06:12 PM