Not me on the video. I just felt like posting a video. Sometimes you get the urge to do this when you blog.
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Today we compare and contrast. Yes, it’s metal cover time again. Today it’ll be the Monkees!
And now, the original Monkees version!
I talk with my mommy almost every day on the phone. Today she told me she was making chicken stroganoff. Sounded good. All the while I was waiting for church to start I made a mental list of ingredients. Only missed one in the final mix, mushrooms. Such is life.
Take the pepper, curry, chili, red pepper, and salt along with some super-fine flower and mix it up in a plastic bag. Cut up two chicken breasts and flour them thoroughly. 
chicken in flour coating
Put the floured bits into about 1/8 inch of hot olive oil in a frying pan. (It doesn’t work holding the hot oil in your hands.) Brown them and then add the cream of mushroom, cream of chicken, sour cream, and 1 cup of half/half to the mix. Stir thoroughly and let simmer.
Noodles
In a pot of boiling water seasoned with salt and chicken stock bring the curly egg noodles to a medium firm state. Drain off the water and mix with the chicken in the frying pan.
Viola – slumgullian! My grandmother would be so proud.
finished product
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It is once again time to jump up on my beloved soap box. Today’s hectoring session regards the treatment of celebrities in the press of late. I’m not counting Filthy Filner – he’s just sleazy.
What I am talking about is the cruel treatment of celebrities with substance problems and mental health issues. The press delights in howling at the failings and foibles of performers who can’t handle their lives due to drugs, alcohol, or mental health problems. Very rarely will a full month go by without some poor character being dragged across the television screen on their way to jail or rehab.
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Some of the headlines and song parodies this brings out are rather clever. But they are all ultimately cruel. I admit I laugh on occasion when I see this stuff, but then I regret it all the more. There is something horrible about what the press does just to sell another ad at the expense of a lost soul.
The recent drunk driving arrest of David Cassidy is a great example. The pictures that accompanied the arrest were either the booking photo or a picture of him as he appeared on The Partridge Family. David has been around a long time and has his share of demons to fight. I don’t know how anyone with his past could remain level without the help of God on an hourly basis. Incredible pressure as his youth expired, temptation of every sort, drugs and alcohol at his beck and call. After the end of his teen glory years (brought on, in large part, by the death of a young fan in 1974) he struggled to just make a place in life.
David is a guy with a good voice. He had those Tiger Beat looks as a teenager and a stage presence that most performers would kill to get. He still sings well as he makes his way from casino to casino in pursuit of his career. But he can’t drink. He does. He shouldn’t drink and drive. He does.
Now he’s faced with a felony charge in New York for repeating the offense.
What does the press do? It revels in the destruction of this man. If David was a child molester, fine. Laugh it up. I’ll join right in on the fun. But he’s just a guy with a drinking problem who needs treatment and prayers.
The list of people we destroy in the media is long and awful. It will only stop when we quit buying the premise that that’s how you sell papers or advertising. Report the news but give it some sort of balance. Does the arrest of a singer for drunken driving rate more attention than the hundreds of murders in Chicago this year? Let’s pick one of those innocent kids caught in the crossfire and dedicate a small percentage of the ink to talking about controlling the rampant gang violence that caused the death.
Well, nice thought, but you won’t see it on the cover of the gossip rags at the checkout stand.
In the meantime, please say a prayer for the next one of those celebrities you see doing the perp walk. They need the help. And it will make me, and probably you as well, a better person for thinking of them as a man or woman with a need for prayer rather than a fallen star.
Finally, a little early Cassidy to rock you out.
Never, under any circumstances, strain boiling water from a large tub of pasta when naked.
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Same goes for Roman Candles – clothing is not optional.
Week Seventeen is upon us. As always, I appreciate your taking the time to read about this week’s child and giving thought to financially supporting them. The response has been wonderful, and I love you all for taking care of these children.
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This week’s child is: Ally.
Ally
Like most kids at Grace Village, Ally loves to play soccer and he thinks it is one of his special talents. Ally enjoys studying and finds biology one of his best subjects in school. Ally looks forward to when they sing Bless the Lord in school or church. Ally says that rice is his favorite food and blue is his favorite color. Ally wants to do well in school so that he can be an engineer when he grows up. Ally‘s prayer request is that he will be able to finish school.
Ally came to Healing Haiti in February, 2009. Ally was abandoned by his mother and his father is unknown.
Birth Info
Birthdate: January 29, 1995
Place of Birth: Port au Prince, Haiti
It is my hope that one of you will find your heart touched by this child and take up a bit of Christ’s work by sponsoring them for an extended period. My wife and I are sponsoring a pair of sisters and we took on the commitment based on having to only gave up a fast-food dinner each day to change the life of a child. God came through with a very lucrative bit of voice over work for me that covered the bill that same day, but it really is as easy as skipping a value meal. Healing Haiti will do the right things for these children and I have full confidence in their work. I am not affiliated with them, they don’t endorse this blog, nothing like that at all. I just love kids (can’t be Santa and not love children) and know that Grace Village is the difference between life and death for many of these children. Please open your heart and prayerfully reflect on the opportunity God’s giving us to sponsor these children. Some of them have come out of slavery and have some of the toughest lives you could imagine prior to Grace Village.
Just click the link and it will take you directly to the page where you can sponsor this week’s child. And if God is particularly good and that child is sponsored when you get there, please grab another smiling face and change their life instead. My goal is to put Sponsorship Sunday out of business as quickly as possible and take that day off each week. Thank you. God bless you for your generosity.
Some of the finest people you’ll ever meet. The hands and feet of Christ.
