They truely ARE fabulous!

I want a gay best friend.

I would like a fun-loving, over-the-top, funny man who likes to go shopping and can discuss in detail the pros and cons of each of Tori and Dean's multiple reality shows. There are no straight men who fit within those parameters, so that means I need a gay man to fulfill the list.

Unfortunately for me I only know a couple of gay men, and none of them fit perfectly into the fabulous friendship I've envisioned (see: ex-roommate who didn't know he was gay but made me watch America's Next Top Model marathons and could tell the designer of every purse I owned on site). So I am forced to settle for the next best thing: TV gays.

Every Sunday I tell Shannon how much I love David Tutera, because I truly do, but I think I want him as a wedding planner and not so much a gay bestie. He seems like Martha Stewart but with a smaller ego (not to mention smaller prison following, bwahaha)... Nope, I have my heart set on not one, but two gay men, namely in the form of The Fabulous Beekman Boys.

For anyone who doesn't know The Fabulous Beekman Boys, they are a couple who moved from the city (New York City??? Get a rope!) and bought a historic farm in upstate New York. Now they raise goats, whose milk they use to create soap and cheese and film a fantastically hilarious reality show of their experiences.

Dr. Brent Ridge was born in the south and after medical school went to work for THE Martha Stewart. He's like a mini-Martha; ever the perfectionist, very anal-retentive, detail-oriented, and an over-achiever. I wasn't the biggest Brent fan the first season, I felt like he needed to loosen up, but now I love him as much as his partner. I think he is just misunderstood. Plus, you have got to love a man who washes his pigs before a party!

Josh Kilmer-Parcel is really the character in the show. He still works in the city during the week in advertising, a job leftover from his days as a drag queen named Aqua who had goldfish floating in her boobs. I highly recommend his first book "I Am Not Myself These Days" about his experiences while Aqua dated a crack-addicted gay hooker named Jack. Very entertaining read, although being the girl who couldn't ever watch Unsolved Mysteries because I couldn't take not knowing things, the ending bothered me, and still does to this day, but that shouldn't stop anyone from reading it! Josh is a lot more laid back, very witty and the skilled chef of the two. He even comes with his own model walk, which isn't easy to pull off in his wellies!

The show The Fabulous Beekman Boys airs on Planet Green. Not sure what day or time, I always catch it on demand (Life and Style/Planet Green/Fabulous Beekman Boys). It is so worth it!

This week was the conclusion of their road trip. Josh wanted to take a vacation, so Brent booked a fabulous road trip....to South Carolina to pick up some black sheep for Martha. While driving back up the east coast, they stopped at a bed and breakfast that allowed pets. Josh snuck them in the room while Brent distracted the shopkeep. When Josh opened the window to tell Brent he could come upstairs, one of the sheep baa'd so he baaa'd his conversation to Brent to mask it.

After dropping the sheep off at Martha, Josh commented that Martha Stewart's barn smelled like lemons. "I'm not sure what she's feeding her animals," he said. "Well, obviously lemons." (It's actually really funny if you watch it).

Anyway, I love this show and every week I literally laugh out loud at something someone says or does, and that doesn't happen too often  anymore with tv shows. I highly recommend everyone check it out as well and looking up Josh's first book. There is a link to their site, on my main blogger page. So worth it. Or you can just help support their efforts and entertainment by purchasing some of their goat milk soap, sold at Anthropologie everywhere :)