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For some reason I always thought that this scene (embedded below) from the 1986 classic, Rad would be the way I’d want to show up at my first middle school dance. I’d roll in on my sorta-BMX bike and perform slow motion dance maneuvers, to the bewilderment of everyone there. Two lines would then form: guys to the left (for high fives), and ladies to the left (for make-outs).

Instead, I broke my front teeth in training days before, and had to go to the dance sans incisors and stunt bike. I did, however do a rather mean Michael Jackson dance - with my mouth tightly closed.

Back in the day, I thought Rad was one of the coolest movies ever made and I was strangely compelled this afternoon to do a YouTube check for it, which didn’t disappoint.

I have so many things to blog about, but not just yet. Partly because some of the awesome stuff is top secret (how’s that for a sweeps tease?) and will be revealed later this week. Anyway, here’s some of the fabulous things I’ve been engrossed in for the past few days:

1. Sweeps promos: Now that I’m part-time in the promotions department, I’ve been churning out promos for the May war effort. So far I’ve produced: “Permanent Makeup” ; “Sex and the Bible”; and “Could Your Job Be Killing You?”

2. Special reports: The only sweeps segment I’ve been assigned this ratings book is called, “Permanent Makeup” [video link] and it’s all about women who are getting makeup tattooed onto their eyes and face, rather than apply it all day the normal way.

3. Here’s where I stand on this week’s pop culture: Still blown away by Lost. Missed this week’s BSG. Forgot to see Iron Man. Played a ton of GTA4 (mostly getting run over by Hasser online). Ashamed I’m obsessed with the polygamist ranch story (also looking forward to the next season of Big Love).

Today’s shooting assignment took me to the sleepy, little town of Jonesville to shoot video of a controversial church sign. The pastor wanted to call attention to the fact that Barack Obama has a similar last name to Osama Bin Laden’s first name - a similarity that perhaps makes him a Muslim, despite the fact he’s a practicing Christian and has denounced the Muslim claim about a trillion times.

To my surprise, many of the church’s neighbors found the sign offensive, and one lady even asserted, “No, I don’t think that they are brothers.” Personally, I find the sign offensive on several levels, and many for reasons of bad grammar and punctuation. Perhaps the pastor doesn’t have a question mark tablet. I’ll let that one pass. But, “Humm?” Pretty weak. [All that said, the pastor was a really nice guy and we were thankful he granted us an interview.]

This weekend the wife and went down to Myrtle Beach for the South Carolina AP Awards. Hours before the ceremony we found ourselves feeding the disgusting catfish in the pond at Broadway at the Beach. For only a quarter you get to see hundreds of fish and water fowl battle over cheap food pellets, dropped from the grubby hands of somewhat loving tourists.

I used the nifty, new video service on Flickr to embed the following video clip. It’s a perfect way to share the occasional, short videos shot with digital cameras along with your sets of still photos.

Later, in a different spot we fed the fish again. This time baby ducks joined the fray, fighting for food [video clip]. I can only describe it as: sad-awesome-disgusting-rad.

Another brilliant video from The Onion. I have the videos downloaded to my Tivo now, so I always have an awesome present when I scroll through the “Now Playing Menu”.