Ha! You & I both know you don’t need another Top 11 post of anything right now.

Happy new year!

For being a good sport, here’s a video of Canadian icon Don Cherry playing his piano desk –

I’m in Cambridge this week taking a class – about an hour’s drive each way for me. One of my favourite things about spending time in a different city is that I often have friends who live there that I can catch up with. Today was no exception!

I spent about 5 years touring around North America with a bunch of guys putting on rock shows and leading worship at events. It was an awesome time in my life and we still get together a couple of times a year. I had the chance to get together with my friend Jamie for lunch today. Jamie was the weird one in our band – you know how there’s always ONE GUY in a band who’s just weird?? That is Jamie. Weird hair, weird clothes, would play shows in bare feet – just weird.

Since he’s the weird one, he’s continued on to youth ministry. That is a completely natural progression, I would argue! :) Getting together with Jamie today for a quick lunch was very cool but almost as cool as just being with him was the place we went to.

Check out this photo!!

Pho Shizzle! That is amazing. So brilliant. The best part is that as good as the company was and as good as the name of this restaurant was, the food was even better – famous award-winning pad thai and spring rolls. What a great way to spend an hour!

So next time you’re in Cambridge, Pho Shizzle on me!!

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Jim Drake is a poet
and loves Twitter, too

There is new crew who has influence on me
They don’t look like birds, but they tweet merrily
About nothing special, about something obsurd
They might even use an objectionable word

But they’re Tweets, the best of their kind
Who give of their thoughts, their thinking, their minds
They share what they know and the make up the rest
Who can tell who’s story’s the best!

We all rush to home to see whats a buzz
For the limbs of the tweets are shimmering because
We’ve found a familiar home with these creatives, these tweets
and to all who know it–it is certainly sweet!

HT: Skyler Goodman

I may not be American but I’m smart enough to realize how scary this is. Yikes!

Joshua Blankenship from NewSpring blogged about these bears that Kent Rogowski has been taking apart and putting back together. Basically he opens the bears up, turns the inside out, re-stuffs them, sews them back together and then takes their picture.

Wow. Pretty creepy but very cool. +10 points to the first person that uses these as promo for a series at their church.

Yeah. Zack Kim wins. Wow.
HT: Transition Pete

If I had glasses like that I wouldn’t take them off either!

Pat and I were talking the other day about strange things that people google to end up at our blogs.

In no particular order, here are my Top 10 Favourite Google Searches of 2007:

1. diaper change video
2. awesome canadian pastors
3. adultery consequences in canada
4. chris tomlin heresy
5. does jesse lacey hate god
6. funny things to get canadians to say
7. kinderegg commercials (That was probably Rich!)
8. christmas songs to sing to your puppy
9. fred mckinnon oh holy night (Fred, it’s never going to die!)
10. the golden compass is a dud

What weird searches are bringing people to your blog?

Dan, my friend and also a guy I work with, sent this to me and it reminded me that I need to subscribe to this blog again:

That’s great.

By the way, Dan reads lots of blogs (including this one!) and sends me lots of good stuff that he reads. He knows he should be blogging but hasn’t started yet. He’s our Associate Pastor and has lots of good thoughts on processes and structures and staffing and keeping things running smoothly in a church environment. But he hasn’t started blogging yet. Tsk, tsk, Dan! Maybe if people leave some comments here to let him know that his thoughts would be appreciated he’ll start!! :)

Tell Dan you’re a fan!

My two-year old, Avery: “Papa, ca-I wear my mortens?”

Me: “Uh, what are mortens?”

Avery: “Yeah.”

Me: “Yeah, what?”

Avery: “Mortens.”

Me: “Okay. How would you wear mortens?”

Avery, holding her arms in the air: “On hands!!”

Me: “Ooohhh. You mean mittens?”

Avery: “Yeah. Mortens.”

I love two-year olds.