From the Mind of MandoRon

A little Saturday linkage…

• This is a hilarious commercial - What Old People Do For Fun.
• Chuck Norris reading a top ten list of Chuckisms. Very funny.
• Clive Batkin is offering some free acoustic folk/roots CDs on his blog. Mine is in the mail. I’ll post a review when I get it.

It’s that time of the month again. Edge of Grace will be playing at Got Coffee this Friday night from 6:30 - 8:30. The address is 12111 W Maple St in Wichita, KS.

Weather permitting, it will be the first outside show of the year. I wonder how may phone calls Trent will get from the neighbors this time…

I’m pretty jazzed. After getting benched for a few months, I get to rap on Jesus Freak again.

While you’re chilling at Got Coffee, I highly recommend trying the Chai Tea Latte and the Cashew Chicken Salad sandwich. Both are top notch.

It ought to be a lot of fun, so don’t miss it.

To whet your appetite (hopefully), he’s a video from a few months ago:

If any of you were at GracePoint Sunday and heard Mike’s sermon where he talked about in the lake, then you’ll understand why this video caught my attention when my father-in-law, Larry, sent it to me.

May I present it to you the Lifeguard clip from the Jamie Kennedy Experiment.

Also, you can watch Mike’s sermon on maturity here if you missed it.

We took the kids to the zoo yesterday and had a great time. In my experience, there are two ways to approach the zoo when the kids are in tow.

The first way is to think that you are at the zoo for yourself. You end up yelling at the kids a lot because they are constantly running ahead of you as you try to read every sign. They cry because they want to see the chimpanzees next, and not the giraffes that are on the top of your list.

The second way (and the better one in my opinion) is to realize that you are at the zoo for the kids. Go see what they want to see. Let them set the pace. Try to keep up with them rather than fighting to hold them back. Then leave when they get tired. Even if you haven’t seen everything that you wanted to see. It’s less stressful, and everyone is happier.

Get an annual membership. Then it’s not such a big deal that you don’t see everything on each trip. And you can take the family every week or two for free.

Just my 2 cents.

Hello good people of earth!

I hope you’re enjoying this Memorial Day Weekend.

If you’re not, maybe these links will help.

• I don’t have a clue what a hang drum is, but this hang drum solo is pretty cool.
• Phil Keaggy, guitar master, and an ebow courtesy of Joel Klampert.
• My good friend sent me a link to ElectroVoice’s PA Bible. Although it’s a little dated, there’s some great information on live sound.
• Check out Rick Kirkpatrick’s Worship Mythbusters series.
• The brave people over at the Deadly Viper blog have had some tricky discussions on sex this week.
• Shane Duffey had another great post on leadership this week. Simple, but very true.
• Josh Cary posted a list of the 25 recordings that were recently added to the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress.  Very interesting.