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What they're serving in London
Some people care about Kate's dress. I care more about the food. Here's the menu for today's meal at Buckingham Palace:
The palace said guests would be served a selection of canapes, including:
_ Cornish crab salad on lemon blini
_ Pressed duck terrine with fruit chutney
_ Roulade of goats' cheese with caramelised walnuts
_ Scottish smoked salmon rose on beetroot blini
_ Miniature watercress and asparagus Tart
_ Poached asparagus spears with Hollandaise sauce
_ Quails eggs with celery salt
_ Scottish langoustines with lemon mayonnaise pressed confit of pork belly with crayfish and crackling
_ Wild mushroom and celeriac chausson
_ Bubble and squeak (a leftover veggie dish that starts with potato and cabbage) with confit shoulder of lamb
_ Grain mustard and honey-glazed chipolatas
_ Smoked haddock fishcake with pea guacamole
_ Miniature Yorkshire pudding with roast fillet of beef and horseradish mousse
_ Blood orange pate de fruit
_ Raspberry financier
_ Rhubarb creme brulee tartlet
_ Passion fruit praline
_ White chocolate ganache truffle
_ Milk chocolate praline with nuts
_ Dark chocolate ganache truffle
Vote by mail info for LA city voters
Today’s the deadline to get vote by mail applications to the LA City Clerk for next Tuesday’s citywide election. Starting tomorrow, you can deliver an application by hand or fax. Applications for vote by mail ballots are on the back cover of the official sample ballot. VBM ballots also may be dropped off at any polling location on Election Day.
More information at http://cityclerk.lacity.org/election/. Phone 213-978-8050; Fax 213-978-0611 or 213-978-0612.
Local Catholic priest is out
Fr. Martin P. O’Loghlen interviewed my parents and me months before I entered my freshman year at Damien High School in LaVerne. We were not Catholics and I remember Fr. O reassuring us there were “many roads to get to the same place” – a reminder that even Lutherans can get to heaven, I suppose. We did have to pay more, however, than Catholic families.
My mom supplemented my dad’s income by making custom dresses at home. Her clientele put me through parochial schools from K-12. By the time I reached my senior year at Damien, I had developed a love of writing. I was the editor in chief of the Laconian, our weekly high school newspaper.
One Friday, Neil turned in an op-ed piece on why non-Catholics, like he and a few dozen others, should not have to attend Wednesday mass in the gym. He had left for the week before I got to it, so it fell to me to title it. I pasted (yes, literally pasted) “Mass-o-chist” across the top and sent the galleys to the printer.
Immediately after the following Monday morning’s pledge of allegiance and Hail Mary, Fr. O summoned Neil, another student named Jack and me to his office. Neil and Jack had no idea why we were there. I suspected.
Fr. O’loghlen sat in front of hundreds of bound copies of the newspaper. “These are not going out,” he told us. He went on to say we were off the newspaper and should be ashamed of ourselves.
Well, Jack had nothing to do with this, but he was a troublemaker of sorts, so he was off the staff. Neil was dismissed for writing the piece; I was kicked off for giving it its title. We were threatened with expulsion and sent to homeroom with an assignment: a term paper on Journalistic Integrity and Its Responsibilities.
I took the assignment seriously and interviewed professional newspapermen at the Progress Bulletin, the Pomona Valley’s then-premiere regional newspaper. I remember pouring a lot of time and soul into the piece, quoting true pros about journalism and ethics.
It came back with a D-minus grade and a note from the homeroom teacher: “I will not allow you to use this assignment as a sounding board against Damien High School.” My mom saw this and grew even more nervous about my graduating.
The clock ticked away, June came and went, and I got my diploma along with Neil, Jack and a 150 other young men. Some of us are still friends and have been lighting up Facebook with this weekend’s announcement that Fr. O’Loghlen has been dismissed over his ethical choices: he had an ongoing sexual relationship with a female high school student at Bishop Amat in the 1960s, a decade before he questioned our integrity.
Here’s the New York Times story that led to his dismissal.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/us/12abuse.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1
Jack Popejoy video tribute
I met Jack Popejoy, briefly, a few years ago. Our paths haven't crossed since. The 63 year old KNX newsradio anchor died this weekend of cancer; he worked on-air until just a few weeks ago.
KFWB's remembrance of him includes a video tribute at http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/02/06/knx-news-anchor-jack-popejoy-dies-at-63/
Oscar nominations list
Complete list of 83rd Annual Academy Award nominations announced Tuesday:
1. Best Picture: ``Black Swan,'' ``The Fighter,'' ``Inception,'' ``The Kids Are All Right,'' ``The King's Speech,'' ``127 Hours,'' ``The Social Network,'' ``Toy Story 3,'' ``True Grit,'' ``Winter's Bone.''
2. Actor: Javier Bardem, ``Biutiful''; Jeff Bridges, ``True Grit''; Jesse Eisenberg, ``The Social Network''; Colin Firth, ``The King's Speech''; James Franco, ``127 Hours.''
3. Actress: Annette Bening, ``The Kids Are All Right''; Nicole Kidman, ``Rabbit Hole''; Jennifer Lawrence, ``Winter's Bone''; Natalie Portman, ``Black Swan''; Michelle Williams, ``Blue Valentine.''
4. Supporting Actor: Christian Bale, ``The Fighter''; John Hawkes, ``Winter's Bone''; Jeremy Renner, ``The Town''; Mark Ruffalo, ``The Kids Are All Right''; Geoffrey Rush, ``The King's Speech.''
5. Supporting Actress: Amy Adams, ``The Fighter''; Helena Bonham Carter, ``The King's Speech''; Melissa Leo, ``The Fighter''; Hailee Steinfeld, ``True Grit''; Jacki Weaver, ``Animal Kingdom.''
6. Directing: Darren Aronofsky, ``Black Swan''; David O. Russell, ``The Fighter''; Tom Hooper, ``The King's Speech''; David Fincher, ``The Social Network''; Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, ``True Grit.''
7. Foreign Language Film: ``Biutiful,'' Mexico; ``Dogtooth,'' Greece; ``In a Better World,'' Denmark; ``Incendies,'' Canada; ``Outside the Law (Hors-la-loi),'' Algeria.
8. Adapted Screenplay: Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy, ``127 Hours''; Aaron Sorkin, ``The Social Network''; Michael Arndt, John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich, ``Toy Story 3''; Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, ``True Grit''; Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini, ``Winter's Bone.''
9. Original Screenplay: Mike Leigh, ``Another Year''; Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson and Keith Dorrington, ``The Fighter''; Christopher Nolan, ``Inception''; Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg, ``The Kids Are All Right''; David Seidler, ``The King's Speech.''
10. Animated Feature Film: ``How to Train Your Dragon,'' ``The Illusionist,'' ``Toy Story 3.''
11. Art Direction: ``Alice in Wonderland,'' ``Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1,'' ``Inception,'' ``The King's Speech,'' ``True Grit.''
12. Cinematography: ``Black Swan,'' ``Inception,'' ``The King's Speech,'' ``The Social Network,'' ``True Grit.''
13. Sound Mixing: ``Inception,'' ``The King's Speech,'' ``Salt,'' ``The Social Network,'' ``True Grit.''
14. Sound Editing: ``Inception,'' ``Toy Story 3,'' ``Tron: Legacy,'' ``True Grit,'' ``Unstoppable.''
15. Original Score: ``How to Train Your Dragon,'' John Powell; ``Inception,'' Hans Zimmer; ``The King's Speech,'' Alexandre Desplat; ``127 Hours,'' A.R. Rahman; ``The Social Network,'' Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
16. Original Song: ``Coming Home'' from ``Country Strong,'' Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey; ``I See the Light'' from ``Tangled,'' Alan Menken and Glenn Slater; ``If I Rise'' from ``127 Hours,'' A.R. Rahman, Dido and Rollo Armstrong; ``We Belong Together'' from ``Toy Story 3,'' Randy Newman.
17. Costume: ``Alice in Wonderland,'' ``I Am Love,'' ``The King's Speech,'' ``The Tempest,'' ``True Grit.''
18. Documentary Feature: ``Exit through the Gift Shop,'' ``Gasland,'' ``Inside Job,'' ``Restrepo,'' ``Waste Land.''
19. Documentary (short subject): ``Killing in the Name,'' ``Poster Girl,'' ``Strangers No More,'' ``Sun Come Up,'' ``The Warriors of Qiugang.''
20. Film Editing: ``Black Swan,'' ``The Fighter,'' ``The King's Speech,'' ``127 Hours,'' ``The Social Network.''
21. Makeup: ``Barney's Version,'' ``The Way Back,'' ``The Wolfman.''
22. Animated Short Film: ``Day and Night,'' ``The Gruffalo,'' ``Let's Pollute,'' ``The Lost Thing,'' ``Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary).''
23. Live Action Short Film: ``The Confession,'' ``The Crush,'' ``God of Love,'' ``Na Wewe,'' ``Wish 143.''
24. Visual Effects: ``Alice in Wonderland,'' ``Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1,'' ``Hereafter,'' ``Inception,'' ``Iron Man 2.''
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Online:
http://www.oscars.org/
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