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!

The 25 Most Popular Posts
Updated hourly based on how often posts are read

Hunk du Jour Interviews
We are most proud of the fantastic interviews we've conducted (especially Ryan Diesel, who we got to have drinks with in California this weekend!)

Recently Commented on Posts
Keep up with the latest conversations about the best hunks!

Tag Cloud: View All Hunks & Topics
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

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The Hunk du Jour crew are packing up and hitting the road! For the next week Chris, Doug, and Kat will be posting from the big city... New York City! The bags are packed, house sitter in place, and reservations confirmed -- so long, Seattle! See you next week!

Interested in how our trip is going? Check out Chris' LiveJournal for occasional mobile updates.

MySpace Monday : Sarbel
Athlete : Ian Thorpe Retires
Athlete : Brady Quinn Shirtless
Actor : Bradley Cooper
Actor : Scott Caan Shirtless
Reality TV Star : Andy Baldwin, The Bachelor (pictured)
Comedy Video Clip : Scrubs : Guy Love
Reality TV Star : Bear Grylls
Actor : Mischa Pfister
Awareness : World AIDS Day 2006

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We're enjoying a relaxing weekend in Portland, Oregon. We're nestled up in our riverside hotel wearing robes and feeding each other grapes... actually more like napping and sitting in our pajamas playing with the laptops.

Well, in case you're frazzled from your long week too -- here are the perfect distractions from earlier in the week at your favorite blog, Hunk du Jour!

Hunk of the Month : Mario Lopez
Hot Politician : Martin O'Malley
Actor : Jim Verraros, American Idol Survivor
Awards : Hunk du Jour is a finalist in the Verve Weblog Awards -- go vote!
Chaos Men : Jherrad and Rob
Male Model : Andrew Stetson (pictured above)
Window Shopping : Big Headed Boxers
Video : Spiderman 3 Trailer
Actor : Jay Hernandez

Doug & I went to our local watering hole, Skylark Club & Cafe, and hung out during the early part of their Halloween party. It was cool seein' everyone dressed up, I bet they had fun after we ran off to make our 10pm bedtime!

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MySpace Monday : Jeremy
Photographer : Dylan Ricci
Actor : Milo Ventimiglia (pictured above)
Male Model : Bryan Tubaugh
Soap Opera Hunk : Bryan Dattilo
friday flickr : Photographer Dre

Also taking place this weekend -- an update to the look of the site! Please share your thoughts in the comments section, or by contacting us via the site!

MySpace Monday : Identical Twin, Ex-Jehova's Witnesses, Gay Musical Duo Nemesis

All-Amercian Guy of the Month : Brian B. (See more at All-American Guys.com)

Actor : Adrian Pasdar from NBC's Heroes

Podcasters : Fausto Fernos and Marc Felion from the wildly popular Feast of Fools Podcast

Male Model : Eddie Bilowich

Soap Operas : The sexy-when-silently-smoldering Austin Peck

Male Model : Jonathan Janes

Thank-you for reading! We're glad you've decided to either check the site out. Some other fun things you can do are: Subscribe to our RSS Newsreader Feed, join our MySpace group, make Chris your friend on D-List, or share some of your hot photos at our flickr group.

Also remember, no registration is required to post comments -- just proof that you're not a spam-bot. Type the red text at the bottom of the entry into the box provided and see the comment form magically appear!

This week on Hunk du Jour we...

...met Arin, one of the new faces at ChaosMen.

...asked you which Desperate Housewives hunk you like more. Jesse or Josh?

...visited the MySpace profile of Jordan, a straight married soldier who was seen on Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List

...learned the Paso Doble and dreamt of a sexy tango with Macksim Chmerkovsky from Dancing with the Stars

...celebrated National Coming Out Day

...glanced into the modeling portfolio of Ruben Rua

...used our x-ray vision on Justin Hartley, the Green Arrow from Smallville

...and wished a fond farewell to Kyle Brandt as he leaves the cast of Days of Our Lives

...saw a flurry of new friends and faces in our Hunk du Jour MySpace Group

And if you thought THAT was great... just wait until next week!

1. Mario Lopez : Nip/Tuck Booty!
2. Half Naked Footballers: Podolski, Lahm, Ronaldo, Beckham
3. Another Naked Rugby Calendar
4. Jason Lewis : Absolut Hunk
5. Eric Balfour : Six Photos, Half Naked Thursday
6. Mike Rowe, the dirty man behind Dirty Jobs
7. Dieux du Stade: More Photos Released from 2007 Calendar
8. Tyler and James, The Amazing Race's Male Models
9. Dan C you All-American Guy of August 2006
10. Nip/Tuck Video
11. Raoul Bova : Italian Actor
12. Greg Bird : Australian Rugby League Player
13. Dean Cain
14. Dieux du Stade 2007 Calendar : Pre-Order Today
15. Male Model Angel Bonanni: Half Naked Thurs
16. Tel-Aviv Hunk, a friday flickr
17. Pete G, All American Guy of the Month
18. Johnny Knoxville
19. Davis : Half Naked Thursday
20. Alexsander : a friday flickr
21. Ahn, Philly Gay Calendar Boy
22. Jackson : September 2006 All-American Guy
23. New aussieBum Model
24. Channing Tatum: Step it Up YouTube Style!
25. Mario Lopez : Dancing with the Stars Week 1 Performance

by Alan46 on flickr

Looking forward to this weekend -- going to beautiful Portland, Oregon for a good friend's wedding. See you cool cats on Monday!

Congratulations to the sexy Nandor Gyongyosi, Mr. Gay Hungary, for winning Mr. Gay Europe 2006!

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