We’re sorry. It won’t happen again. Well, it will. But we’re still sorry.

Wow. We’ve been gone for quite a while now. We’ve let Hanukah, Christmas, Kwanzaa and the New Year pass us by. Happy all of them to you and yours.

Speaking of the new year, maybe we should resolve to write more posts. We’ve gone through a few changes over the last year, especially in recent months. Greg started new full-time blogging gig at Wonkette (Editor’s Note: Congrats, by the way. Bastard.) Chester became a corporate slave and blogs some over at the Houstonist. Molly is across the Atlantic teaching children the wonders of the English language and lollipop ghosts. Annie’s working hard on her own blog, Eternal Youth, which you should keep checking out.

Not to fear though; we’re doing our best to keep maturity and adult-like responsibility at bay and to revive our hollow promises of constant updating, not for our sake, dear reader, but for yours. We’re even almost finished with our much-delayed best albums of 2007. Almost. Anyway.

Featured Song: “I Apologize” by Hüsker Dü

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Photo by Carlos Lorenzo.

From Madrid’s Metro:

See it all.

Source:
Museo Prado English
Museo Prado Spanish

Don’t know how I feel about this semi-new White Stripes video. Song included, it’s just too cutesy, am I right?

Radar Magazine’s October issue hosted the Hype Report starring overly portable dogs, cupcakes and Keira Knightly. CW humbly offers the flip side. Add to the list.

TACOS
Food trends have seized classics like hot dogs and vamped them up with gourmet add-ons. The charm of an eight dollar weiner aside, tacos remain a pure every-man’s meal. The taco is endlessly modifiable without being fussy.

GARY OLDMAN
The Brit who reinvents himself completely for each role like a Spice Girl with an identity crisis. CW is especially delighted by recent supporting roles as the future Commissioner Gordon in ‘Batman Begins’ and Sirius Black in the Harry Potter series. As if playing Sid Vicious and Pontius Pilate weren’t enough to please us.

HELIO
Helio’s ‘Ocean’ offers almost all of the conveniences of an iPhone/Blackberry without looking like a yuppie dick’s must-have. The most useful feature is a GPS locator that pairs with snappy Internet access from the Sprint network. When using Google Maps, you’re actually a blinking blue dot on the screen with step-by-step instructions from where you are. The phone service was originally pitched to the Korean-American market. So, it’s therefore totally inherently good. Insert joke about kimchee and nuclear proliferation.

TIMES NEW ROMAN
Helvetica got an adoring round-of-applause this year with its namesake documentary doing well on the indie circuit. We could say Times New Roman is worthwhile for simply foiling the dominance of Comic Sans, squiggly fonts and the unforgivable Arial. However, not all defaults are bland. Add a high gird to a word typed in Times New Roman and you’ve created a clean anti-statement statement.

HOUSTON
The shadow of Austin hides a gem, albeit an industrial one like a diamond mounted on an oil drill. Edgy without being contrived, Houston also offers a ridiculously diverse and cheap restaurant scene specializing in Tex-Mex and Vietnamese. Music and nightlife in the country’s fourth largest city remain affordable even as the raw size of the diverse population ensures tour stops from wide-ranging national artists. Nicely, Houston* is still a city where you can go out for a night with only a twenty dollar bill and ID in your back pocket.

*One more note, the minority-majority city gives off the feel of a modern Constantinople. A random single strip could host a washateria, noodle shop and ice house side-by-side. Cons: No-zoning laws mean incredible sprawl with no serious mass tran options.

(I ripped off various people for some of these — Jen Turner and Caitlin WhatsHerName)

Three generations of Romneys campaigning in Iowa.
Oh, the smell of fresh grass and budding political dynasties.

The contrast between the Romneys and Giulianis is astounding and overwhelming favor the Mormon horde.

That said, it’s been a bad week for the Giulianis:

• Rudy’s 17 year-old daughter Caroline calls herself a liberal and Barrack supporter on her Facebook profile (since removed.)
• Vanity Fair publishes an extremely negative profile about Judi, wife number three for Rudy
• And I’m sure Rudy’s son Andrew still takes dad’s checks without any sense of affection.

Ultimately, the Mormon is the only Republican candidate with just one wife.

Featured Song: “My Son Calls Another Man Daddy” by Hank Williams

We love the Swayze, and not just because we may or may not have attended the same high school. For this reason we also love Beyonce, but that’s a whole other post because right now we bring you this gem, from the hit 1991 film, “Point Break.” No need to set up the clip, it explains itself.