All I can say about Jamie Durie is, “wow!” He first caught my attention when PBS had him host their snooze fest of a gardening show, The Victory Garden. He seemed held back as its host and didn’t fit with the other drab segment hosts.

I was intrigued when I heard he would be hosting a new gardening show on HGTV and tuned in. OMG he shines on this show as he seems in his element as the designer whose eye is always changing and seeing new things to do and accomplishing the impossible. He is dirty. He is sweaty. His muscles bulge as he digs right in with the workers and doesn’t maintain the cookie cutter “show host” persona that HGTV has come to style all of its hosts as — making them unwatchable. Jamie is the exception to the rule in every sense and his show, The Outdoor Room is a true gem and may even help reignite the “garden” part of HGTV as the channel seems to have forgotten they have a G in their name.

Here’s hoping for more seasons of The Outdoor Room with Jamie Durie and his hot, dirty, sweaty and muscled Aussie self.

Now things have been set right. John Barrowman was voted Favorite Male TV Star in AfterElton’s Second Annual Gay Peoples’ Choice Awards!

John crushed the competition (Neil Patrick Harris) by a landslide, correcting the injustice when Neil stole the crown of Gay of Decade from him by mounting a tweeting war. Pay back is a bitch and she is a hot 41-year-old dude named John who can do everything from singing and dancing to wielding guns and time travel to save the world from invading aliens. Take that Neil Patrick Harris!

This CNET video counting down the Top 5 Computers of 80s recently appeared on my Tivo. What a blast from the past! I remember every one of them. My first computers were the Commodore line starting with the Vic 20, Commodore 64 and the Commodore 128. I remember learning programming on both the Apple II and the IBM XT 8088 too.

To think that way back then these were powerful computers and you would never need more processor power, memory, storage or more than 80 or so characters across your screen. Interesting that this came along while I’m looking to buy a new computer. Qaud core processors, 1TB hard drives, 8 GB RAM and 20+” screens are the norm these days. I suppose in 20 years people will think these computers underpowered.

AfterElton and its readers have crowned Neil Patrick Harris with the title of Gay/Bisexual Man of the Decade, with John Barrowman being runner up. The caption for the photo they ran with the story should have:

Neil: “Ohhh yeah. Was there any doubt?”
John: “Are you fucking kidding me?”

You must be very disconnected if you haven’t heard about the social media battle between the two hot celebs. To ensure each would win, they enlisted their gazillion Twitter and other media followers to vote. They were neck-in-neck until Neil pulled out his bullybamboozle and escalated a war of tweets. Well, if John didn’t win then I’m glad Neil did. However, John Barrowman is still the Gay Man of the Decade in my eyes.

I watched One Life to Live for 15 years but gave it up (along with All My Children) a number of years ago because the writing and acting just was not what it had once been. With all the talk of a gay love scene on One Life to Live, I had to check it out. I still love Dorian and Viki and am glad to see them still around, though I still wonder how I could have watched so many hours of this show. I was surprised with how the love story between Kyle and Oliver has played out and how their love scene was depicted.

I really shouldn’t be though as One Life to Live was also the show that brought a little known kid called Ryan Phillippe from out of nowhere to play gay teen Billy Douglas way back in the days when I would freak if I missed even a minute of “my shows.”

I was thrilled to see how the alphabet network let the scene play out, although I was a bit disappointed when they pulled back to the candle and faded. I watch too much cable I guess. But the real treat was the next episode today when Kyle and Oliver woke up and were interrupted by Roxie who barged in and thought nothing of two hot, naked men in bed on daytime TV. Hell, she wanted to join them! Who wouldn’t.