Tuesdays with Muerte

Soundtrack Cover Art Book Summary [Spoilers] Paul A treides  embarks on his hero's journey as a   royal manling . He's then stranded on a harsh planet, surrounded by treachery, with nothing but his mother, his training, and fate to aid him. He ultimately faces off against the universe—and wins! There's no wrong age to visit the pages of Dune, but I'd say the ideal reading age for young men is 12-20 years. Why? It consoles young men who perceive themselves as  misunderstood; it serves as a guide. By co-experiencing Maud'dib's adventure, adolescents can believe that  their coming of age can be survived. Additionally, it teaches parents how to communicate with their omniscient sons. These actors were so cool in 1984 Book Review Dune  by  Frank Herbert My rating:  5 of 5 stars Desiring to appear literate, like my college friends, I lied about having read Frank Herbert's Dune. Sure, I had read the Cliff's Notes in high school....

Personal Experience I first discovered this beautiful melody while watching Christian Bale salute a squadron of Japanese Kamikaze pilots of the Zero-sen in Spielberg's 1987 cinematic masterpiece,  Empire of the Sun . Spielberg adapted this WWII story with such beauty and sadness, it was incomparable to anything else I have ever seen. Bale's performance brought me to tears. I had never witnessed anyone his age give a truer performance. For me, Bale's singing of this song was the central moment of this entire 2.5 hour, coming-of-age film. It perfectly captured the juxtaposition of boyhood innocence, and the horrors of war depicted throughout the flim. In a prison camp—infused with the hate of the Allies for their captors, sedated by Bales's youthful view of humanity, and countered by the extreme honor felt by the Japanese Zeros—Bale's character, Jim, exhibited great reverence and empathy for his fellow human beings, despite them being his enemies. After view...

Preface I slept from 11pm to 11am last night—a luxury I felt I deserved after spending literally all day on BYU's tennis courts. One of the benefits of sleeping past the morning and well into the day is it enhances my ability to remember dreams. (I love remembering my dreams; they're dependably bizarre.) Dream My family was chilling at an exclusive mountain resort for week-long getaway. (Think Snowbird, but Ritzier.) We were in one of the hotel's larger guest rooms awaiting a formal dinner in the resort's main banquet hall. My 95-year-old mom's mom, Besta, sat on the couch facing the bay window. And 10-12 of my extended family members on my dad's side shuffled about aimlessly. Arnold Schwarzenegger was also there, naturally. He was seated comfortably in the love seat closest to the window, which overlooked a snowy, alpine landscape. (High muscle mass = immunity to cold seeping through the window.) Strangely, Arnold was dressed from head to toe in jean. I c...

This is an actual job "aid" from my STATS 747 class, Structural Equation Modeling. Man, These Times Are Hard Only fourteen days until the end of Spring semester, and I just realized I'm not going to be able to finish my school projects on time. [Deep exhale.] I can't seem to buckle down. I never want to work on them because, essentially, I have no idea what I'm doing. And as a PhD student, the feeling I get from my faculty is that they expect me to discover the resources I need on my own.  I am feeling crippled and alone. It's like I'm a blind wanderer. And I don't know how legs function. girl  by Tomiokajiro My Boy Scout training taught me to hug a tree in situations like these. But I'm afraid the tree  in this analogy  (aka: Netfilx) has done nothing but filled me with guilt and anxiety. I needed to figure out how to get my mind right. The Plan In an attempt to escape the hole I found myself in, I first identifie...

How about a nice piledrive to the face... How 2 year olds experience the world. Sportsmanship. Sadistic predator torments cornered feline. Frog Dog. So cute! This girl JUST discovered she could raise her eyebrows. What I imagine happens in Crossfit gyms. Just two girls at the office. Bboy Flipty. Let's take this New Years party to the next level! When you discover you're on TV. How Europeans parents deal with their kids when they throw a tantrum. LL&P Inspirational Quote: "The problem is not the problem; the problem is your attitude about the problem." —Captain Jack Sparrow

Preface As many of you already know, I just ended an eight-month relationship, which I thought was going to last infinitely longer. Upon returning to the single's  dating pool,   I realized that my stay would be finite, and that I didn't have nearly enough funny dating stories to share with my posterity. This  #datingprobs  post is an attempt to remedy that. Enjoy. The FB Epiphany Three weeks into my return to Tinder dating, I came to another realization—that I wasn't dependent on a dating app to present me with suitable, online-dating prospects. I have a facebook account! Facebook already suggests friends that it thinks I'd be compatible with. So why not leverage this list for dating purposes?!  (Surprisingly, this was the first time the thought of using facebook to  find  friends had seriously occurred to me. Perhaps, I should have thought more about why that was before doing what I did next.)  With fresh eyes, I looked at the...

1) Your Partner is the Secret to Career Success BY CINDI MAY, SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN Researchers have identified  conscientiousness  as the character trait in a significant other that allows you to excel in your profession. [The rest is sciencey stuff:  In their longitudinal study, Solomon and Jackson tracked responses from 4,544 heterosexual married people, roughly 75% of whom were in dual-income households. Participants first completed a personality assessment that measured five personality traits: extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness.] 2) Loving Others and Living with Differences BY ELDER DALLIN H. OAKS Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, LDS.ORG Here are some key quotes I enjoyed from Elder Oaks' address: "We are to live in the world but not be of the world."   (see  Luke 13:21 ;  Matthew 13:33 ; also  1 Corinthians 5:6–8 ). "Even as we seek to be meek and to avoid contention, we ...