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It was one year ago today – on October 6th, 2006 – that the now-(in)famous first commercial from my campaign for Rockingham County Board of Education started broadcasting on WGSR in Reidsville…

I had just finished it that morning, and while the video was doing the final render I ran out to find Debbie Moore so that I could give her the check for a month’s worth of airtime. Then I got home, burned it onto a CD and drove it over to WGSR and handed it to Matt Smith. Right after that I had to go to Greensboro for an errand, then got back home and after seeing Lisa I went back to the station to see if the commercial was running yet.

Ooh-boy…

Y’know, this commercial, I had to make it. If I didn’t produce it for my school board run, I would have regretted it for the ...

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Most of this weekend was spent in Raleigh. I left Reidsville at about 4 p.m. on Friday afternoon and reached my friend Chad‘s place a little after 6. For the past five weeks I’ve been studying my brains out for the Praxis exam: that’s the big series of tests given to prospective teachers. It was actually two exams that I took on Saturday: one that morning for content knowledge, and the second later that afternoon on teaching methods. And, I think that I did pretty well on them! The first was over a hundred multiple-choice questions that you had to use a number-2 pencil to fill in those little bubbles for your answers, but the second was stuff you had to think about and write out. Basically that exam provided two knowledge areas that you had to make lesson plans out of. Even though that was the harder of ...

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Just one more post before I really absolutely do take a self-imposed sabbatical from blogging for the next few days: it was first mentioned last week that the first commercial from my school board campaign – the “zany” Star Wars-inspired ad – will be screened this weekend at the first-ever Pixelodeon Independent Video Festival at the American Film Institute… in Hollywood! So if you’re in Los Angeles for the next few days, I guess you can stop by and watch the Death Star blow up a schoolhouse.

Hey, it helped get me almost forty-seven hundred votes, didn’t it?? 🙂...

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Next weekend, on June 9th and 10th, the American Film Institute in Los Angeles will be hosting the Pixelodeon 2007 Annual Independent Video Festival. Over 300 independently-produced videos and short films will be shown. Well, guess what: the “Star Wars”-themed first commercial from my school board campaign has been given the honor of being one of them! It really amazes me that all these months later, it’s still seems to be rather popular. I just made it because (a) the idea was too good not to do and (b) with 16 candidates running, I really did have to try to stand out a little. But lo and behold, it’s something that became bona-fide viral… which I never expected to happen. And now it’s being shown at the AFI!

Pixelodeon 2007 sounds like it’s going to be a lot of fun! I won’t be there unfortunately (there’s a teaching exam that ...

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