While at rest, Chef Eddie Stone enjoys a Grey Goose martini, with Brie-stuffed olives.
TRYPTOPHAN :: I think I’m still full. Full of turkey. Full of stuffing. Full of mashed potatoes, carrots, gravy, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie. All of it prepared by yours truly. That’s right, this year I hosted my first ever Thanksgiving Day meal, and it was a butt load of work.
There’s the shopping.
There’s the prep.
There’s the timing of all the food so that you are enjoying it all at the same time.
EDDIE STONE :: What I’m thankful for this year.
And of course, there’s the advice. Oh yes, everyone suddenly became a turkey expert. Everyone had their tricks and tips and they were going to share them with me whether I wanted them to or not. There’s nothing better than unsolicited advice coming from all angles. Delicious!
“Start with the turkey upside down to keep the breast moist.”
“Make sure to baste the turkey constantly.”
“Don’t baste the turkey, it makes the skin soggy.”
“Cook it with the stuffing inside.”
“Don’t cook it with the stuffing inside because it plays havoc with cooking times.”
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But I think my favourite turkey advice came when I was browsing the internet looking for turkey tips. One site (which looked especially homemade) suggested that “…cooking the turkey is definitely the wife’s role, but if you want a Happy Thanksgiving, it’s best to let your husband choose the bird. After all, a man’s hunting instinct is strong, and he will be proud to choose which turkey you eat for Thanksgiving.” Holy crap, 1950 called, they want their advice back!
Anyway, my kitchen looked like a war zone. Pots and pans everywhere. Knives, spatulas, mixers, bowls, it was crazytown!
But by the time the plates hit the table, the food was perfect and the guests were happy! I can now check ‘Prepare and host a Thanksgiving dinner’ off my bucket list!
Thank god.
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THANKSGIVING :: Thanksgiving. Who can say where it all started? Something to do with pilgrims and turkeys (or is that American)? Anyway, we all know the drill. A bit of time off work, family obligations and eating until we feel sick. Literally sick. Why is it okay to eat so much during the holidays? Seriously, I will have a heaping plate of turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, veggies, mashed potatoes, yams and god knows what else, polish it off, and go back for more. Why is that acceptable during the holidays and not at any other time of the year? Is it fear that this could in fact be our last meal? Are we fattening ourselves up for a long hard winter? In truth, I don’t have the answer, and more to the point, I have gotten completely off track from what I wanted to discuss in the first place – what I’m thankful for.
I’m thankful for my adoring husband, Shaun Proulx.
I’m thankful for my furry children, Jack, Ella and Annie.
I’m thankful for how perfect my wedding day was.
I’m thankful for how well my family got along on my wedding day.
I’m thankful for Dan & Nicolle for pulling out all the stops for my wedding day.
I’m thankful for my good health.
I’m thankful for our thriving businesses.
I’m thankful for my ever expanding knowledge of business.
I’m thankful for my friends.
I’m thankful for the ‘Real Housewives’ franchise.
I’m thankful for knowing more and more who I am and what I want.
I’m thankful that I don’t hold anyone accountable for how I feel.
I’m thankful that at any minute I can change the course of my life.
I’m thankful that I always remember to wash my hands after the gym (weights are dirty).
And finally, I’m thankful for knowing that it’s out of the ‘bad stuff’ that the ‘best stuff’ happens!
All your favourite online voices give thanks this week!
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BUSTED :: When you find out that your fiance has something really big in common with Kim Kardashian, what do you do?
A few days ago, Shaun and I sat watching a preview for an upcoming episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians. In the preview, the family is sitting in some impossibly gorgeous vacation location, chatting and painted up within an inch of their lives.
It comes out in that conversation that Kim had been married before. Her new husband Kris Humphries is in shock.
“I was a teenager,” she says, shrugging it off as no big deal.
STRIPPING DOWN :: Eddie Stone gives the shirt off his back.
NO BIG DEAL??
How could information that important NEVER ONCE come up in conversation? Do you and your husband never talk?
I turn to Shaun, my jaw on the ground, astonished that something like that had never come up between them. In all the wedding planning, in all the leading up to the day, in all the discussions about wedding stuff, not once could the conversation have lead to “Oh, by the way I was married once,” or, “When I got married the first time,” or “Hey, you’ll be my second husband!”
Shaun is unruffled by Kim’s attitude and somehow the conversation shifts to an old boyfriend he had.
HERE COMES THE GROOM :: Eddie Stone checks out a wedding show.
Later that day, as Shaun and I stand in a frustratingly slow line at the grocery store, we come face to face with ‘The Star’ or ‘The Enquirer’ or some equally trashy magazine. On the cover is KIm Kardashian in full wedding garb, which reminds me of our earlier conversation. I bring it up again.
“So you don’t think it’s weird, that in all the time they’ve known each other, dated, proposed, and planned their wedding, that it NEVER came up that Kim was already married once?”
“No,” comes the answer from Shaun.
“It’s not that she owes him an explanation,” I continue. “I just think somewhere along the way it would have come up!”
“Not really” he says. “But since your pushing the subject…”
“What?”
“Remember that old boyfriend I had mentioned earlier today?”
“Ya.”
“We had a commitment ceremony in San Francisco.”
DECEPTIVE APPEARANCES :: Eddie Stone on the illusion of the adult film industry.
I thought my brain was playing tricks on me. Was Shaun actually telling my that when I had my reaction to the fact that Kim did not mention she had been married before – and then started talking about one of his exes – he pulled a Kim on me and didn’t mention that they had had a commitment ceremony (the gay equivalent of getting married in the US!)?
Us talking about Kim and her decision not to tell Kris she had been married before would have been the perfect time to say “Hey, you know what, I had a commitment ceremony once with an old flame.”
But the story doesn’t end there. Oh no! Shaun then tells adds, “Oh, and I was engaged once.”
I’m dreaming right? Not because any of it changes anything. Not because he owes me anything. Not even because I should know any of this. But for the simple fact that I can’t understand how such important parts of your life (marriage related) would never come up as we talk and plan our wedding. ESPECIALLY when I see Kim doing the exact same thing on TV, then turn to him and express my shock.
Wouldn’t that have been a good time to bring it up, Kim? I mean Shaun?
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STRIPPING DOWN :: Summers in Canada are hot and humid. When temperatures rise, clothes come off, and this past weekend was no exception. Now that I have a garden, a backyard, a front yard and lots of windows there a lot of up keep to be done if you’re a house proud guy like me.
This weekend was hot, hazy and humid, so as I toiled away in the garden, pruning, plucking, planting and weeding I started sweating through my shirt. So off it came!
I was meticulously taking care of the front yard when I looked up to be met with my neighbors eyes on me.
“Hello.”
“Hello.”
I returned to my work. Sweat dripping down my spine, my only relief a chilled beer I kept in the shade.
After a few hours in the sun, I decided I had done a good day’s work and went inside to shower and change for the night’s festivities. As the sun went down, friends came by.
“Hey, great shirt!” came a comment from my friend Craig (a straight guy with hockey butt).
We went out. As drinks flowed, Craig kept going on about loving my tee shirt.
“Do you want it when I’m done?” I finally asked. I half meant it. I had had it for a while and worn it enough.
One-thirty in the morning saw our group saying goodnight on a street filled with people coming and going from the bars with more people outside the bars, smoking in congregations.
As I hugged Hockey Butt good-bye, I peeled off my shirt, throwing it at him.
“Here you go, it’s yours!”
His face said it all, he was happy he was getting the shirt.
Topless, I began to walk towards home, through the crowded streets in the hot summer air, hand-in-hand with my fiancé.
As we made our way down our street we were met by – of course – by the same neighbor who had noticed me gardening earlier that day topless.
It’s not that I don’t own shirts, I wanted to explain, it’s just that a hot Canadian summer keeps them off me more than on!
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Many things are not as they appear. Take the adult entertainment industry. So many preconceived notions, I hardly know where to start.
I’ve often heard how ‘hot’ porn stars are. How they got into the industry because of their sculpted, tanned bodies. How they were plucked from obscurity for their sexy physique.
In short, the belief is that porn stars get into the industry because they are admired for their physicality.
Think of it this way: someone who is doing porn is spending a lot of time in the gym. Lifting, crunching, toning – because they know their bodies will be photographed and filmed. Waxing, trimming, tanning – all in the knowledge that their hard work will be viewed by millions (hopefully)! Hours are spent, down to the tiniest detail, to present the most appealing package possible to a waiting audience. It’s literally their job to look good!
Here’s the twist: Often, someone doesn’t get into porn because they’re ‘hot’, but rather, they get ‘hot’ because they got into porn. Deceptive appearances indeed.
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I guess it’s hot to imagine that someone is built for, and thinks only of, sex. They want it, they get it, they have it some more. Unfortunately, porn stars have brains too. We think about stuff. We ponder things. We come to realizations.
Like an onion, I have many layers, and to highlight that point, I need to tell you of a deep moment I had with myself last night.
I’ve been a fan of Keeping Up With The Kardashians for a while now. My favourite is the mother, Kris. She holds that family together.
More recently, I’ve started watching The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. On that show, there are two sisters. Kim & Kyle Richards. Kim, a former child star is somewhat delusional as to the extent of her former fame, and her sister Kyle, who played Lindsey Wallace in the first Halloween, one of my FAVOURITE movies ever! But I digress.
Those two women are sisters with Kathy Hilton, as in Paris Hilton’s mom. Ok, so now we have Kim, Kyle & Kathy. 3 sisters – 3 K’s.
Now, it’s a well-known fact that Kim Kardashian was BFF’s with Paris Hilton. Which means Kathy Hilton knows Kim Kardashian’s mom, Kris, who logically would also know Kim and Kyle (Kathy’s sisters).
Kris Kardashian/Jenner gets pregnant with her first child and calls her Kourtney. The second is Kim. The third is Khloe. 3 sisters – 3 K’s.
My questions is: Coincidence? Or did Kris Jenner borrow the triple K idea from the originals, Kim, Kyle & Kathy?
For further reading on The Kardashians, check out fellow blogger “NateyWeb’s” piece on Kardashian Konfidential.
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Friday nights I do a little thing on Twitter I like to call my Porn Star Bed Time Story (#PSBTS). These are stories from porn sets, real life sexual encounters, lessons I’ve learned along the way and slices of life.
This past Friday I shared a full circle moment in my life that went like this:
In the darkness of the strange room the only sound was my breathing. My body was tingling with anticipation of the thought of what was to come…
Silently, I stepped out of bed and crept to the door. I made my way down the dark hall and stood in the doorway of his bedroom…
I paused outside the door for only a second before turning the knob and slipping inside. I stood over his bed and reached out to him…
Slowly he came to and realized what was about to happen. I slid my hand under the covers keeping an ear out for any sound from his parent’s bedroom…
It was my first gay experience and my only time in Bobcaygeon, a small town in Ontario’s cottage country…
Years later, I find myself planning a wedding. Venue after venue doesn’t work out until our wedding planner makes a suggestion…
“I have a great place north of Toronto right on a lake, you could have the wedding there, it’s beautiful in September”…
It wasn’t until we drove down the main road that I recognized where I was. I had come full circle and life has brought me back …
I had lost my virginity there, and now, I’m going to be married there, in Bobcaygeon.
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The alarm goes off, but my eyes are already open from the excitement. Today is the day we go to Palm Springs for Modernism Week.
I heart Palm Springs. From it’s glamorous old Hollywood getaway history, to it’s near perfect weather year round to the immaculate architecture of the mid-century era.
At the airport I reluctantly walk up to the self check-in kiosk (why should I do a job that someone else is being paid for?) and try following the instructions. Immediately I’m faced with a bizarre selection: gender. As a gay man well aware of the fluidity of gender I’ve met a lot of people who would find this simple question annoying. First off, what the fuck does it matter what gender I am for me to check into a flight to go to Palm Springs? ‘Male or Female’. Those were the choices. God forbid I don’t fit into one of those two very narrow categories that the airline has so thoughtfully laid out for me. I roll my eyes, click ‘male’ and move on.
The airline rep hands us a form to fill out. Name, address, citizenship etc. I notice on the form that Shaun and I, who are engaged and living together, only have to fill out one form because we live in the same household. The flight rep confirms that if we live together, that’s all we need to do. Great! Less paperwork for us to do.
So we check in, go through the first security check point and look back at the growing number of travelers behind us. We stand in a long line until finally it’s our turn and together we walk up to the customs agent, a small, hard-looking woman with poorly-applied make up.
She looks at Shaun and I with a question mark expression. “Are you two related?”
“No.”
“Then you have to come up separately.”
“But we live together. And the form says…”
“It doesn’t matter.”
“But we’re engaged.”
“We don’t recognize that.”
“You don’t? How about when we get married? Will you recognize that?”
She nods yes but at that moment I doubt very much that they will.
I am now forced to backtrack through the growing customs line, past the security check point all the way to check-in to grab another form, to fill it out independently of my live-in fiance. I can’t help but wonder if we would have been granted access as a man and a woman. Looking back, maybe I should have ticked that I was a Woman at the self check-in kiosk?
I finally make my way through Customs (as a single man, according to the form) to meet Shaun waiting on the other side. We board and enjoy an easy flight and eventually begin our descent into Palm Springs.
The flight attendant comes on the speaker to welcome us to California and tells us to look out the plane on the right side. “There the men will see Palm Spring’s famous golf courses, and, if you ladies will look out on the left side, you’ll see Macy’s”.
Really? Men play golf and women shop? Period? More narrow, dated thinking. Another box to try to shove us into. Men play golf and women shop. Not in my world! In fact it’s very much the opposite.
After all of these forced gender roles and failure to acknowledge my relationship, all I could think of as Shaun and I disembarked after landing and walked through the Palm Springs airport was ‘Modern Family… Coming Through!’
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For many gay men, there’s nothing more attractive than a masculine man. And from birth we are inundated with information on what it means to be a man’s man, a real guy, a dude.
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Sex is like a backyard. Some are lush and full. Some need special care. Some are full of weeds. And others have just been paved over completely
When I was younger I didn’t know what I wanted in my backyard, and so I planted everything and anything I could
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