That's right, it's my birthday again! I turn 29 this year, and am glad that I've made it this far. (I also learned this year that it is also the birthday of Andy Towle from Towleroad, so Happy Birthday Andy too!)

I just wanted to mention that I love and appreciate your readership, and that you don't leave me for someone younger and prettier. :)

But now onto the important business... birthday presents. Leave a comment with which hot hunk you'd like to have wrapped up and delivered to my doorstep in celebration! (If you also have wonderful things to say about the site, well, I won't stop you. *wink*)

Thanks for reading, the hunks will resume later today.

Celebrate Easter like they did in the days of yore... with friends getting completely tanked. This demonstration video from Tiki Bar TV shows you and your friends how to play Bunnies and provides historical context and membership information for the Royal League of Bunnies.

But in all seriousness, Happy Easter from Hunk du Jour.

Hey folks, it's Chris from Hunk du Jour.

We'd like to wish you "Happy Holidays" and say thank-you for visiting our site. We appreciate your comments, e-mails, and links to the site. It's hard work, but with great readers (like yourself!) it is definitely worth the effort. We love our readers!

Next week, Doug & I will be taking some time off from the blog to recharge and enjoy more time with our family and friends. While we are on a brief hiatus, here is a top ten list of how you can explore the site and discover new favorites you may have missed previously!

1. See who's a Facebook Fan of Hunk du Jour and join us there
2. Vote for tomorrow's Hunk of the Day
3. Read the Top 50 Most Popular Entries from the past week
4. Put Hunk du Jour on your web page, MySpace, or blog with our site badge
5. Browse the archives with our Subject/Category Tag Cloud
6. Search our site for your favorite hunks
7. Check out the boys in our MySpace Group
8. Check out our Flickr user community, with thousands of user submitted photos
9. Bookmark your favorite hunks with our Share button
10. Share your favorite entry in the comments!

Thank-you for visiting. Happy Holidays, and we'll be back before you know it!

Sincerely,
Chris & Doug

We were the first runner up for the 2007 Queer Verve Award for Best Eye Candy Blog. In the event that A cause des Garçons is unable to complete the duties of Best Eye Candy Blog, we shall assume the title.

In the meantime, I need to scratch out "Best Eye Candy Blog of 2007" from the 50,000 business cards I just got in the mail. :o) Just kidding of course, but we were beaten by the site that also took Best GLBT Blog of the Year - so if you have to be 2nd fiddle I guess that's who you'd want to be alongside!

Thanks for the votes!

We just flew back into Seattle from Anaheim, where we got to hang out in Disneyland for the weekend with family and friends. We've got sore feet (and possibly sunburns -- we'll find out about those when we hit the showers tomorrow, I'd bet).

While we won't be able to put together a MySpace Monday for you this week, we'll give you a few paths to try to rediscover some previous favorites! MySpace Monday will return next week with an all-new hunk!

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A super easy way to find posts by topic. The bigger the word, the more there is to see!

I made a few small changes to the site this afternoon... do you think things are loading much faster now?

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Just wanted to take a moment and let folks know that today is Doug and my 6th Anniversary. On May 4th, 2001 we met for a drink at Red Robin in Bellevue, WA after a few weeks of online flirting (as I recovered from having mono.) Soon after, we were inseperable.

Now we own a home, co-author this blog, and are way too competitive playing Mario Party. (We're a good fit.)

I love you Doug! 6 down, 65 to go!

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Hey gang! Doug wrote a letter to the editor of Genre Magazine a little while back and we ripped open our May 2007 issue this afternoon to find that it'd been published and linked to from their website.

We're tickled - now go pick up the issue and put page 8 in a frame and hang it in your den. If you're visiting after reading -- welcome!

I'm sure we'll have more to talk about once we read past page 8, so stay tuned.

Love, Chris & Doug.

P.S. Sorry for two "business" posts in a row. I'll make it up to you tomorrow.

Check out this post at A Socialite's Life for the men of the red carpet at last night's Oscar awards.

We hosted a little gathering at the Hunk du Jour World Headquarters with a gaggle of gays, and our own pop culture princess Kathryn won our contest to see who could best predict the winners of each category.

Who do you think was the best looking lad at the ceremony this year?

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As I mentioned earlier in the week, Hunk du Jour is taking a brief mid-winter's break. But never fear -- you can take this week to catch up on some of the great posts that you may have missed!

Some personal favorites have been Andy Baldwin (The Bachelor 2007), the delicious Calvin Klein underwear model Travis Fimmel, Dirty Jobs host Mike Rowe, football star Brady Quinn, or super man Brandon Routh.

If those don't float your boat, how about looking at posts by category via our tag cloud or just a sorted list?

Or check out our list of top referrers to find some folks who aren't on vacation!

We love you all dearly -- and will see you back in a week!

Take care,
The Hunk du Jour Crew