The Lynda Malone Foundation

In memory of a close friend who recently passed away to lung cancer, some friends and I set up a foundation in her name. We are collecting funds to donate to cancer research, with the goal of collecting $10,000 to begin an endowment fund that will donate yearly proceeds to further cancer studies.

The website is www.LyndaMaloneFoundation.org and it has an area to donate money online, or an address to send donations, as well as a biography of Lynda Malone. Please take a moment to donate $5 or $10 so that we can reach our goal of $10,000. Thank you!

Hot Fuzz

Holy crap this movie rocks. Hot Fuzz director/co-writer Edgar Wright and actor/co-writer Simon Pegg have successfully made a cop movie that makes fun of everything I hate about action movies. Every scene is edited together like the most absurdly over-acted chase scene you see in every crappy "Fast & the Furious Bad Boys II Gone in 60 Seconds Point Break"-style movie. This goes for every scene, including those with swan-chasing and paperwork filing.

Trust me, if you liked any scene in Shaun of the Dead you will love this movie. There are a few gory parts, but you'll be laughing so hard you'll hardly notice them. Also apart from the two main actors in Shaun of the Dead, the Hot Fuzz cast includes Love Actually/Pirates of the Caribbean's Bill Nighy and James Bond himself, Timothy Dalton. Almost every word spoken in this movie made me laugh out loud... those damn Brits are so funny.

Go see this movie. Thank me after you see it.

Professor Likes a Good Cuban Cigar

We knew he had good taste, but recently we've seen Professor lounging around the house, smoking only the best Havana Cigars. We're not quite sure where he got them, and we've learned not to ask. We did, however, manage to get a few snapshots of him before he put on his smoking jacket and lit up another Cosacos Partagas Astorias -- hailed for being a "strong" cigar.

Professor added, "The Astorias have a good draw and even burn with espresso, cocoa, vanilla and cinnamon flavors; they make this cigar a real treasure if you know how to age it properly."