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."

I *heart* Farfegnugen

Last week I paid the last payment on my undergraduate student loan. This week I bought a car:

That's right, no more driving around in the '97 Ford Contour deathtrap (sorry DeMar). We are so excited because this VW is the first new car I've ever owned and it comes with a ton of cool standard features including:

• Air conditioned glovebox
• Keyless entry and alarm system
  
• Automatic transmission with optional manual shifting
• One-touch power windows on all windows
  
• Blue/red lighted display for night driving
• Groceries hanger in the trunk
• Inserting key in door can roll down all the windows
  
• Passenger side airbags
  

Anyway it totally rocks; here are some pics:

Good Times

Last weekend our good friend DeMar came into town to audition for grad school at UT. We had an awesome time including some highs and lows:

Highs:
-The best dinner ever at Traxx, which is run by our friend Jerry
-The best lunch ever at Las Manitas on Congress Ave.
-Hefeweizen beer at the Scholtz Garten beer garden
-Great Austin weather
-Endless hours of foosball at the house
-The best brunch ever at La Madeleine
-Playing Fusion Frenzy on the XBox. One character made asshole face as you can see here:


Lows:
-DeMar's lost luggage that arrived 2 hours before his audition
-My boss making DeMar sing an opera song in front of other people
-DeMar going back to Boston :(

Good times, good times. Looking forward to next time!

Elaina's Ashtanga Blog

So, I don't know how interesting any of you will think it is, BUT, I've started a blog about yoga.

So, while this blog will still chronicle Eddie and my adventures together, it will be mostly his blog, and since most of my adventures are yoga related anyway, this address will be my blog:

stilltheturning.blogspot.com
(You can just click the link to the right ;) )

Enjoy!

Fun in NYC

I recently had the opportunity to travel to New York City on business. I spent the week working 14 hour days, and the nights were spent hanging out at bars with NYC co-workers. The best part of the week was hanging out with Scott and Carl the Friday before flying home. Typical of Scott, I told him about being in NYC on Thursday, and he bought a flight that day, flew out on Friday, and flew home Saturday morning.



Hanging out with Clefs in the city is fun, even for an hour.

So the funny part is that apparently NYC brings out the "finger-giver" in me. Every picture taken of me includes my middle finger. I wasn't mad... I just really like flicking people off in New York.







So long New York City! Until next time!