Commercial debut

The Janet Cowell campaign commercial I mentioned is now available on YouTube. The first few times I watched I actually missed our scene. Then I realized we’re on the bottom of a split-screen part. Its not much screen time, but considering how Travis was making faces and our nerves were getting a bit shot, the scene is better than I expected. Regardless, it was a lot of fun!

Look for us 19 seconds into the commercial across the bottom of the screen when the announcer says “improving our schools.” Blink and you might miss it: we’re there for less than half a second!

Wikijackpot: I made the front page of Wikipedia!

I’m told that one of my photographs appeared on Wikipedia’s front page yesterday. The “Did You Know?” section showed a fact about Raleigh’s Long View Center and my photograph from the article was included. Alas, I didn’t get to see it on the front page because I just found out about it this morning.

I feel famous. If anyone knows how to display the previous day’s Did You Know page, let me know!

Hobnobbing with politicos

I voted early on Friday, stopping by the downtown Wake County building around 2 PM. On the sidewalk I encountered both Democratic candidates for the District 16 N.C. Senate seat being vacated by Janet Cowell: Jack Nichols and Josh Stein. I can’t tell you how wonderful they both are, because they are both excellent candidates. I voted for one and I suggested that Kelly vote for the other.
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