I know I’m preaching to the choir here, but the price of eggs is out of control! The USDA reported that the average price of a dozen eggs has tripled to $3.13 this month. Honestly, I’d be delighted if I could find them for that price! In my area, a dozen eggs costs nearly $5. My sister who still lives on the East Coast told me that eggs in her area are nearly $8 a dozen, which is shocking. As a vegetarian (formerly a vegan, but I found the diet too restrictive), eggs used to be one of my main sources of protein. However, they’ve just gotten too expensive to justify adding them to my grocery list. So lately I’ve...
In the classic science-fiction movie, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Obi-Wan Kenobi impresses Luke Skywalker with his Jedi mind tricks. Not only is Luke impressed, but so was every kid that watched that movie. Even as adults, we wish we could do the Jedi mind trick like Kenobi and get people to do what we want. While humans haven’t figured out the Jedi mind trick yet, there are other awesome mind tricks you can do to fool your friends. These mind bending tricks will impress and fool everyone you meet and are great for a laugh. At the next party or get-together, bust out one of these awesome mind tricks and be the star of the night. 12...
Focus this week is on two studios who more or less got in on the ground floor of the 80’s-90’s animation resurgence. Film Roman scored early with the long-running hit, “Garfield and Friends”, providing a healthy helping of robots fit for the “fat cat’s” appetite. Also an early-riser in the wake of the success of the Disney Afternoon was WB, who, in collaboration with Steven Spielberg, produced two early hits, “Tiny Toon Adventures” and “Animaniacs”, which will be discussed below. Robodie (10/21/89) – While Garfield raids a local “all-you-can-eat” buffet for everything they’re worth, Odie, left outside, is dognapped by a mad toymaker/scientist, Dr. Garbanzo Bean (who, as a reader observed of tree robots last week, bears a certain resemblance...
A couple of months ago, around mid November, my friend’s therapist told me to make a list of everything that I wanted from a partner and to read it to myself every day for 21 days. Why 21 days? 21 days is the time needed for the cells in your body to regenerate and therefore to embody a new mindset. If you think about it, we tend to see what we focus on in the world. For example, if you are fixated on having a bad nose, you always notice other people’s noses whereas the friend who is a little bit overweight (this would be me) always notices the size of people’s thighs. In the same way, when we subconsciously...
Zoë Petersen, Deseret News When I started dating David Cook, the Romeo and Juliet jokes got old.The Cook family came over on the Mayflower and pulled handcarts into the Salt Lake Valley, then made money manufacturing explosives and spent it on right-wing politics. On the other hand, my progressive parents converted to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Dad grew up with a single mom who rose from small-town hospitality jobs to become Colorado’s lieutenant governor. Mom’s parents were Holocaust survivors whose passion for human rights led Grandpa to the U.S. Congress, where he and Dave’s father were colleagues.That our patriarchs were on opposite sides of the aisle went without saying. They might as well have been from...
