Otis Day's Blog-A-Doodle-Doo - XER

Norman the very smart Briard dog knows how to ride a bike.

With the help of his mom Karen Cobb, Norman has recently mastered riding his special blue, personalised bike outside his home in South Carolina.

Will Smith's teenage son Jaden is launching his rap career--- online.

The 13-year-old actor debuted his solo video for the track "Give it to Em".

Jaden wrote the new song himself.

So....yah er no?

This guy eats crazy things....like an entire bottle of maple syrup, a shoelace, an uncooked NY strip steak, and more. The cup of kitty litter gets him though.

There's an 18-year-old aspiring singer from North Carolina who just goes by 'Noah', and he did an interesting acoustic version of LMFAO's "Sexy and I Know It." He posted the cover on YouTube last week, and it already has over three million views.

A man from Florida became the first man to ever juggle his way through a triathlon -- even swimming.

This 31-year-old man swam a quarter-mile while juggling three balls, then biked 16.2 miles while juggling two balls in one hand and ran four miles, also juggling. What's even more amazing is that he did it all in 1 hour and 57 minutes.

The man has been juggling since he was 8. He got into "joggling," juggling while running, in 2008. He became obsessed with that sport's Holy Grail: Completing a full triathlon while juggling.

Juggling while swimming was the hardest part of his race. He somehow managed to complete the running and biking portions of the triathlon without dropping a ball. Swimming wasn't as successful—he dropped balls three times while he was in the water.

RecordSetter.com recognized the feat by achieving Fastest Time To Complete A Juggling Triathlon. He did apply for the Guinness record, but the committee wanted him to ride the bike without using his hands.

A Marine got the gift of a lifetime when he returned from Afghanistan to find that his son with cerebral palsy had learned to walk.

The heartwarming moment was recorded as it unfolded in a school gymnasium, as Staff Sgt. Jeremy Cooney believed his son's cerebral palsy would keep him from being able to move without assistance for his entire life.

His wifes says the family "kept the fact that he could walk a secret the whole time his dad was gone."

As the boy's father enters the gymnasium, he looks around for his family until he spots his son.

Sgt. Cooney crouches down and watches his smiling boy walk across the gym floor to his father.

I hope they're better at baseball.

We haven't gotten a new album from Gwen and the boys in over 10 years....but that's all about to change. September 25th we get a new No Doubt album.

They're putting the finishing touches on it in Santa Monica now and take us inside the studio with their first Webisode. Enjoy.

A 14-year-old from Johnsonville, S.C. pitched a no hitter, a feat that's pretty amazing in little league, and even more amazing because he only has one arm.

He was born with only half a right arm, and he hasn't let it stop him from leading a normal life.

When his parents tried to fit him with a prosthetic arm, he didn't see a need for it and tossed it aside.

He's been a star baseball player for years, plus he hunts, plays guitar, and more.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers did their best to pay tribute to late Beastie Boys member Adam Yauch, who passed on Friday after a battle with cancer.

Before the show in New Jersey even started, the Beastie Boys' "Check Your Head" was blasting on the PA. Anthony Kiedis then took the stage in a homemade "MCA" t-shirt and dedicated the show to Yauch.

Kiedis told the crowd: "We lost a good man today. He left the world a lot of beauty. I hope you carry that flame. Adam was for real."

The band did instrumental Beastie Boys covers of "Gratitude," as well as "What'cha Want".

As the band left the stage, the house lights went up and the PA blasted the Beastie's 1986 hit, "(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)". The Peppers and Beastie Boys were both inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in March.

Almost every applicant for US citizenship passes the civics section of the test, but everyone who was born here should be glad they don't have to take the test.

According to a study, if every American were to take the citizenship exam, more than a third would fail.

77% of Americans think we should all be able to pass it, and 60% think it should be required to receive a high school diploma.

In the study, people did particularly poorly on questions that asked about the government's function:
• 75% didn't know what the judicial branch did
• 63% couldn't name one of the senators from their own state
• 62% didn't know who the House speaker is
• 61% couldn't name their governor
• 57% couldn't say what an amendment is

I took the sample test and was suprised how well I did. I went through 5 sets of questions and only got one wrong. I did have to guess on one of them, but I got it right!

Test your citizenship here.