Happy New Year. Version 2008.

We didn't blog so much in 2007. We broke up with Madeleine and lost our muse. We lost our appetite to eat out all the time, lost our favorite person with whom to make out at shows, our inspiration to constantly find the next bar, gift, event, hotel, band, everything. So with that, we worked. We wrote our first piece for Epicurious off of which our name was taken because we didn't want to fuck the Epicurean with whom we wrote it, we discovered what went into professional molecular gastronomy by managing the supply company WillPowder, managing the bar at Room4Dessert and later signing-on to manage Picnick before realizing this shit was imminent.

It's been true in the 21st Century our years have alternated between work and romance. In '01 we were studying art history, in '02 dating Julie. In '03 it was the street-art-fashion-gallery thing, in '04 it was Emily. In '05 it was internet-gossip-blogging and Madeleine then and through '06. In '07 it was all about the molecular gastronomy and private dining and in '08 who knows where we'll follow our heart but we're off to a good start.

Replacing Zoe as our new favorite decadent biracial downtown hottie is Siena and her ghost-white goddess of a sidekick Brooke who each morning in their Alphabet City apartment line the floor with Wee Wee Pads for their dogs then line up the pills they pop before starting their day ordering take-out, drinking tea, watching Bravo and playing video games while manipulating men they meet online before riding their bicycles into the night to eat meat pies, and do crosswords and strangers in selvedge denim. We've really never been so inspired by anyone in years. Being with them is like The Dreamers meets Slaves of New York, except breakfast is at Balthazar not Jerry's and it only feels like incest.

Needless to tell you, this will fuel our blogging to come. Breakfasts will become the new dinners, as we keep winning them over Scrabble games, at Balthazar and Shopsin's and City Bakery and Clinton Street. And the year's starting off with so many new and old ways to entertain us at night, with the return of the American Songbook at the Allen Room, Jerry Springer: The Opera at Carnegie Hall, Ethan Coen's plays at the Atlantic Theater, Kate Nash at Bowery next week and Rambo and Be Kind, Rewind coming out this month. And we'll be posting passages from our first book as we complete it, chronicling the rock star pastry chef scene in the year Room closed and P*ong and Tailor opened, as we're all too happy and too ready to tell you who was golden, who was toasted and who was burnt this past year.