Gilles Makes Us Feel Old
Happy Birthday Gilles! (Even though your real birthday isn't until November 16th...)
posted by Hydrostone at 3:49 PM
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PowerPoint Surprise Birthday Party
On Friday Stephen celebrated is 29th birthday, or if you're dyslexic, his 92nd birthday. Jeff, the newly appointed Director of Suprise PowerPoint Birthday's, did a fantastic job of planning the event and keeping it all a secret.
For all Stephen knew he was going for a nice dinner with Scott to Jane's on the Common and then going to see the movie Babel out at Bayers Lake. Scott and Stephen had a wonderful dinner at Jane's. Scott forced himself to eat dessert so that he could stall Stephen. Stephen had absolutely no idea that there were about 30 of his friends waiting to celebrate his birthday in the living room. When Stephen walked into the Hydrostone kitchen and saw a group of people at first he thought, "everyone must be gathering here before we go to see Babel." Then he saw the poster with him dressed up as a lady... and the balloons... and it became clear.
It was great to have so many of our good friends gathered together in the hydrostone. Amazingly the police weren't called even when all the windows were open, the music was blaring, and Joseph was singing "remixed" Christmas carols at the top of his lungs... "Oh Holy Night... Shake Your Dix, Shake Your Tits".
As with every hydrobuzz party of late, a large part of the evening was dedicated to dancing and trying on cowboy hats and Scott's high heel shoes from Wal-Mart.
The night ended with Rocky seeing dead people...
...a Congo Line through Marcus's bedroom after he and his secret BF had gone to bed, and three hours of listening to Sarah McLachlan. After screaming "get your coats" until five in the morning, the stragglers went home and the party was officially over.
For all Stephen knew he was going for a nice dinner with Scott to Jane's on the Common and then going to see the movie Babel out at Bayers Lake. Scott and Stephen had a wonderful dinner at Jane's. Scott forced himself to eat dessert so that he could stall Stephen. Stephen had absolutely no idea that there were about 30 of his friends waiting to celebrate his birthday in the living room. When Stephen walked into the Hydrostone kitchen and saw a group of people at first he thought, "everyone must be gathering here before we go to see Babel." Then he saw the poster with him dressed up as a lady... and the balloons... and it became clear.
It was great to have so many of our good friends gathered together in the hydrostone. Amazingly the police weren't called even when all the windows were open, the music was blaring, and Joseph was singing "remixed" Christmas carols at the top of his lungs... "Oh Holy Night... Shake Your Dix, Shake Your Tits".
As with every hydrobuzz party of late, a large part of the evening was dedicated to dancing and trying on cowboy hats and Scott's high heel shoes from Wal-Mart.
The night ended with Rocky seeing dead people...
...a Congo Line through Marcus's bedroom after he and his secret BF had gone to bed, and three hours of listening to Sarah McLachlan. After screaming "get your coats" until five in the morning, the stragglers went home and the party was officially over.
posted by Hydrostone at 3:00 PM
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Saturday.... Was a Drag
Saturday night started out innocently enough. Stephen, Scott and Marc had everyone over to the Hydrostone for BBQ Chicken Salad. After dinner everyone decided to have a "low key" evening (it always starts out this way) and play Trivial Pursuit: Pop Culture Edition. The teams were made up of Stephen and Paul, Jeff and Marcus, Brendan and Joseph, and Benjie, Scott and Kevin.
Jeff was great at yelling out the answers... for the wrong team, and Stephen's partner Paul passed out half way through the game (we blamed it on the rufies). In the end Brendan and Joseph won, shortly after Stephen declared that he was totally bored with the game anyway. In all fairness he was a one-man team by that point.
Benjie decided that he wanted to make it onto the famous Hydroblog so it was time for drastic measures. He found some high heels and, blond wig and slinky black dress, all remants of the Halloween party in the valley. Everyone was amazed at Benjie's seamless transition to a stunning blond bombshell in less than 5 minutes, considering it seemed to take about 3 hours for everyone to look pretty on Halloween.
Pretty soon the night devolved into rampant transvestism, with everyone trying on various wigs, fake boobs and high heels.
Some were willing participants, while others, namely Paul and Ollie, were not.
The next morning Stephen, Scott and the secret boyfriends awoke to a living room filled with empty glasses, wigs, high heels, fake boobs and dresses – all signs of a pretty fun evening. It was a fantastic “low key” drag of a Saturday night.
Jeff was great at yelling out the answers... for the wrong team, and Stephen's partner Paul passed out half way through the game (we blamed it on the rufies). In the end Brendan and Joseph won, shortly after Stephen declared that he was totally bored with the game anyway. In all fairness he was a one-man team by that point.
Benjie decided that he wanted to make it onto the famous Hydroblog so it was time for drastic measures. He found some high heels and, blond wig and slinky black dress, all remants of the Halloween party in the valley. Everyone was amazed at Benjie's seamless transition to a stunning blond bombshell in less than 5 minutes, considering it seemed to take about 3 hours for everyone to look pretty on Halloween.
Pretty soon the night devolved into rampant transvestism, with everyone trying on various wigs, fake boobs and high heels.
Some were willing participants, while others, namely Paul and Ollie, were not.
The next morning Stephen, Scott and the secret boyfriends awoke to a living room filled with empty glasses, wigs, high heels, fake boobs and dresses – all signs of a pretty fun evening. It was a fantastic “low key” drag of a Saturday night.
posted by Hydrostone at 5:00 PM
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What the BLIP?
Stephen and Scott decided it was about time to replace their sorry excuse for a mattress. With the assistance of personal shopper Jeff and Executive Director of Gay Affairs Joseph, Scott and Steve headed out to Halifax Shopping Centre.
First stop was Pizza Delight, where the boys met up with Benjie and Kevin. Everyone had the $9 buffet, and we enjoyed the service of our waitress, Jenny Penny (yes that was her real name). After Pizza Delight everyone tried some beds at Sears, but felt disappointed by the experience overall.
Personal shopper Jeff recommended heading out to the BLIP (Bayers Lake Industrial Park) to visit Bedroom Depot and The Brick. Bedroom Depot looked like a dirty sketchy warehouse, and even had some pictures of half-naked women posted up in the back storage room.
After deciding Bedroom Depot was not nearly fabulous enough personal shopper directed the boys to The Brick. To our great pleasure we were treated to a fabulous sales person named Cheryl. She sold Scott and Stephen a wonderful memory foam mattress, for %50 off!! When Stephen asked Cheryl if there was any mid-century Scandinavian furniture, she replied that they likely only had 21st century Dartmouth - hilarious! We decided that Cheryl is actually a gay man. We loved her so much that Benjie stopped by later in the afternoon and bought a bed from her as well.
After returning from BLIP there was an Andrew Murphy sighting in the hydrostone, confirming that he does still actually exist, and then everyone and their dog (Ollie) came over to the Hydrostone to pick a playlist for Peter and Bev's new restaurant Pasta Jax and Ribs. It was a wonderful, productive afternoon.
First stop was Pizza Delight, where the boys met up with Benjie and Kevin. Everyone had the $9 buffet, and we enjoyed the service of our waitress, Jenny Penny (yes that was her real name). After Pizza Delight everyone tried some beds at Sears, but felt disappointed by the experience overall.
Personal shopper Jeff recommended heading out to the BLIP (Bayers Lake Industrial Park) to visit Bedroom Depot and The Brick. Bedroom Depot looked like a dirty sketchy warehouse, and even had some pictures of half-naked women posted up in the back storage room.
After deciding Bedroom Depot was not nearly fabulous enough personal shopper directed the boys to The Brick. To our great pleasure we were treated to a fabulous sales person named Cheryl. She sold Scott and Stephen a wonderful memory foam mattress, for %50 off!! When Stephen asked Cheryl if there was any mid-century Scandinavian furniture, she replied that they likely only had 21st century Dartmouth - hilarious! We decided that Cheryl is actually a gay man. We loved her so much that Benjie stopped by later in the afternoon and bought a bed from her as well.
After returning from BLIP there was an Andrew Murphy sighting in the hydrostone, confirming that he does still actually exist, and then everyone and their dog (Ollie) came over to the Hydrostone to pick a playlist for Peter and Bev's new restaurant Pasta Jax and Ribs. It was a wonderful, productive afternoon.
posted by Hydrostone at 3:04 PM
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Special Announcement
(Glamour) Jesus Appointed as Executive Director of Gay Affairs
Seen above being prepped in hair and makeup for his first public engagement. His mandate includes scheduling of special events and glamerous trips abroad.
Seen above being prepped in hair and makeup for his first public engagement. His mandate includes scheduling of special events and glamerous trips abroad.
posted by Hydrostone at 7:16 AM
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Restaurant Review: Fiasco
On Friday night the boys (Scott, Stephen, Charles, Benjie, Jeff, Joseph, Paul) went for the monthly Friday Night Dinner to Fiasco. Some of the “fiascos” before getting to the restaurant included:
• Benjie phoning every single cell phone and landline and having Marcus answering.
• Getting Benjie over to Scott and Stephen's place (poor thing, he was afraid of big bad Marcus)
• Trying to figure out the mystery of our pre-dinner snacks, Toppables Crackers. What if they were called Bottomables, would they be bottoms or tops??
• Finding parking downtown.
The restaurant was lovely. Benjie decided to live on the edge and ordered the four-course surprise, Scott had a delectable seared Tuna. The calamari was delicious as well; it was crisp but not too chewy and just spicy enough. Everyone enjoyed their food, martinis and wine and the company. Thanks for a great Friday night boys!
For those keeping track here is a tally of the Friday Night Dinners so far (ratings are out of five stars)
Fiasco ****
Great atmosphere, great food, good service.
Saege ***
Decent food, but the decor and overall atmostphere was an odd cross between Smitty's and Onyx.
Luxx **
Decent food, sucky service. Luxx suxxxxx.
Doraku Sushi ***
Great Sushi, and a little bit of Bonnie didn’t hurt either.
Gio **
Good food, great (but weak) drinks, but it took too long to divide our bills and we all left stone cold sober.
• Benjie phoning every single cell phone and landline and having Marcus answering.
• Getting Benjie over to Scott and Stephen's place (poor thing, he was afraid of big bad Marcus)
• Trying to figure out the mystery of our pre-dinner snacks, Toppables Crackers. What if they were called Bottomables, would they be bottoms or tops??
• Finding parking downtown.
The restaurant was lovely. Benjie decided to live on the edge and ordered the four-course surprise, Scott had a delectable seared Tuna. The calamari was delicious as well; it was crisp but not too chewy and just spicy enough. Everyone enjoyed their food, martinis and wine and the company. Thanks for a great Friday night boys!
For those keeping track here is a tally of the Friday Night Dinners so far (ratings are out of five stars)
Fiasco ****
Great atmosphere, great food, good service.
Saege ***
Decent food, but the decor and overall atmostphere was an odd cross between Smitty's and Onyx.
Luxx **
Decent food, sucky service. Luxx suxxxxx.
Doraku Sushi ***
Great Sushi, and a little bit of Bonnie didn’t hurt either.
Gio **
Good food, great (but weak) drinks, but it took too long to divide our bills and we all left stone cold sober.
posted by Hydrostone at 6:41 AM
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Halloween is a Drag
On the weekend, the gaggle of gays decided screw Halifax because apparently - the Middleton Lions Club Hall in Nictaux is the new Reflections!! (the cover is cheaper, and the drinks are stronger, what more do we need to say).
Scott, Stephen, Marcus, Rocky, Brendan, Gilles, Jeff and Joseph all headed out to Stephen's parents place in the valley. The original intent was to stay at Stephen's parents cottage - which has no hot water and would not have had the heat turned on. Thankfully Stephen's kind mother Bev insisted that we stay at their place instead. After having some of delicious chilli for dinner (which made a certain someone viciously smelly later on) everyone quickly went to work on making fake boobs out of knee-high stockings and rice.
For some of us, the transformation was stunning (Rocky) and for others it was downright disturbing (Scott).
Rocky starred as the beautiful Crystal Carrington, and Marcus was her bitchy modern-day rival Paris Hilton.
Scott and Stephen were both positively hideous, Scott was some sort of woman-thing from the swamp with purple hair and bad eye-makeup, and Stephen was a transvestite inspired by Emily Howard of the BBC sketch comedy Little Britain.
Brendan sexed it up as a Pretty Woman-esque “ho” (leftover from a “Pimps and Hos” party, complete with $15 boots from Payless Shoes and Gilles went back to his roots as Pokahontas (Poke-a-hot-ass).
Finally Joseph and Jeff were two classy ladies of television, with Joseph as the lovely Bree VandeCamp of Desperate Housewives, wearing a prom dress freshly stolen from a 16-year-old girl, and Jeff as Sofia from The Golden Girls.
After getting all dressed up Stephen’s father Peter took pictures of everyone coming down the stairs, and Bev gave us purses that were given to her by her mother! Later in the evening Scott not only broke his purse, but got blood all over it after an unfortunate table incident (more on that later).
Nobody wanted to be a DD (you try being sober in heels and a skirt) so Peter drove everyone to the Halloween dance in Nictaux in the family van. Upon arriving we looked around in horror to realize that only about five people were dressed up – we made quite the entrance! This blog doesn't have any pictures from the dance, but you can check out shutter happy Glamour Jesus, Hatchet Lake Ho and Ray of Delight for more pictures and stories from the evening.
The dance was a blast. Among the highlights of the evening were us using the women’s washroom the ENTIRE night (which irritated more than a few lesbians), Scott falling flat on his ass after the table he sat on collapsed, Jeff sharing Rocky's lipstick with a random leather daddy, Rocky and Marcus rolling around on the floor pulling each-others hair out, and Stephen calling his dad to pick us all up in the van after realizing that cabs apparently take two hours to arrive in the valley.
After we returned to Peter and Bev’s house we went to “Pizza Corner” (the corner of the basement) and Joseph posed for the Vera Wang Perfume photo shoot. Joseph refused to take off his dress and wig well after everyone else had changed – he’s such a lady. We also learned that Gilles had stolen the guest book which appeared to contain the email addresses of every gay man in the valley.
The next morning we had breakfast, did a drive-by tour of the pumpkin people in Kentville, and stopped to get something to eat at Mary Brown’s in Sackville. The weekend pretty much ended there - after Rocky proclaimed he was sick of seeing all our faces... can you blame him?
It was a fantastic, absurd weekend. Naturally the planning for next year’s Halloween outfits has already begun.
Scott, Stephen, Marcus, Rocky, Brendan, Gilles, Jeff and Joseph all headed out to Stephen's parents place in the valley. The original intent was to stay at Stephen's parents cottage - which has no hot water and would not have had the heat turned on. Thankfully Stephen's kind mother Bev insisted that we stay at their place instead. After having some of delicious chilli for dinner (which made a certain someone viciously smelly later on) everyone quickly went to work on making fake boobs out of knee-high stockings and rice.
For some of us, the transformation was stunning (Rocky) and for others it was downright disturbing (Scott).
Rocky starred as the beautiful Crystal Carrington, and Marcus was her bitchy modern-day rival Paris Hilton.
Scott and Stephen were both positively hideous, Scott was some sort of woman-thing from the swamp with purple hair and bad eye-makeup, and Stephen was a transvestite inspired by Emily Howard of the BBC sketch comedy Little Britain.
Brendan sexed it up as a Pretty Woman-esque “ho” (leftover from a “Pimps and Hos” party, complete with $15 boots from Payless Shoes and Gilles went back to his roots as Pokahontas (Poke-a-hot-ass).
Finally Joseph and Jeff were two classy ladies of television, with Joseph as the lovely Bree VandeCamp of Desperate Housewives, wearing a prom dress freshly stolen from a 16-year-old girl, and Jeff as Sofia from The Golden Girls.
After getting all dressed up Stephen’s father Peter took pictures of everyone coming down the stairs, and Bev gave us purses that were given to her by her mother! Later in the evening Scott not only broke his purse, but got blood all over it after an unfortunate table incident (more on that later).
Nobody wanted to be a DD (you try being sober in heels and a skirt) so Peter drove everyone to the Halloween dance in Nictaux in the family van. Upon arriving we looked around in horror to realize that only about five people were dressed up – we made quite the entrance! This blog doesn't have any pictures from the dance, but you can check out shutter happy Glamour Jesus, Hatchet Lake Ho and Ray of Delight for more pictures and stories from the evening.
The dance was a blast. Among the highlights of the evening were us using the women’s washroom the ENTIRE night (which irritated more than a few lesbians), Scott falling flat on his ass after the table he sat on collapsed, Jeff sharing Rocky's lipstick with a random leather daddy, Rocky and Marcus rolling around on the floor pulling each-others hair out, and Stephen calling his dad to pick us all up in the van after realizing that cabs apparently take two hours to arrive in the valley.
After we returned to Peter and Bev’s house we went to “Pizza Corner” (the corner of the basement) and Joseph posed for the Vera Wang Perfume photo shoot. Joseph refused to take off his dress and wig well after everyone else had changed – he’s such a lady. We also learned that Gilles had stolen the guest book which appeared to contain the email addresses of every gay man in the valley.
The next morning we had breakfast, did a drive-by tour of the pumpkin people in Kentville, and stopped to get something to eat at Mary Brown’s in Sackville. The weekend pretty much ended there - after Rocky proclaimed he was sick of seeing all our faces... can you blame him?
It was a fantastic, absurd weekend. Naturally the planning for next year’s Halloween outfits has already begun.
posted by Hydrostone at 4:11 PM
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