2008 Man of the Year.

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Tomorrow is Valentine's day. Unless a very gorgeous guy looking like Brandon Routh falls from the sky onto my backyard or a temptress like Angelina Jolie in Beowulf forms from mist before my very eyes, I will be dateless. Again. No Quincy, Rachel or Leslie to celebrate the day.

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Happiness is a state of mind. And so is being in or out of a relationship. So, instead of sulking over the fact that I would probably be spending tomorrow evening in front of the television, I have decided to make a date with an ideal man.

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Yesterday, I arrived at a decision upon whom to bestow the title of Man of the Year. The first winner in this site is Playgirl favorite Julian Fantechi (2007). But if I made an announcement two years before, it would have been porn superstar Pavel Novotny (aka Max Orloff). Somehow, I never got to publish that blog entry.

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The pool of nominees for this year represents the various guys who preoccupied me from different fields such as film, music, porn videos, print media and the internet. They are: Jensen Ackels, Joey Amis, Orlando Bloom, JC De Vera, Josh Elliot, Chris Evans, Julian Fantechi, Jake Gyllenhaal, Leighton Stultz and Chad White. They are the Men of 2007. A couple of weeks ago, I narrowed the choices to five, between Ackles, Bloom, Evans, Gyllenhaal and White.

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The winner, I will consider my virtual date for Valentine.

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Over the other guys, I have picked Orlando Bloom as 2008's Man of the Year. I previously inducted him in my SpeciMen honor roll, together with the best actors of his generation, Gyllenhaal and Gael Garcia Bernal. He also barely made it in my Men of 2006 slate.

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In the past couple of years, Orlando is one of the busiest and most visible actors. He started wowwing audiences by playing the delicately beautiful and golden haired Legolas in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. In the middle of the release of the three films, he appeared with a short role in Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down.

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But minor roles is not what Orlando was born to play. He had "star" written all over him. Thus, except for that role in Black Hawk, Orlando essayed marquee characters in Ned Kelly, The Calcium Kid, The Pirates of the Caribbean (his second blockbuster franchise), Troy, Elizabethtown and Kingdom of Heaven. Sure, he played second banana again in Pirates and Troy but they were starred by Johnny Depp and Brad Pitt, not Josh Hartnett.

Movie fans went gaga over Bloom as early as the release of Rings. From the multitude of hunks that appeared in the trilogy, women picked him above everyone else. I did not understand what the hoopla was about and never jumped into the bandwagon. Personally, I still harbored a childish crush over Elijah Wood (Frodo) and was smitten by the rugged looks of Viggo Mortensen as the ranger, Aragorn.

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It took Troy, Pirates of the Caribbean and the stills from Elizabethtown for me to warm up to Orlando. After he shed off the golden mane and gained a couple of pounds to stuff his thin physique, after he put on the armor of Paris (in Troy) and competed in a beauty pageant with Pitt and Eric Bana on screen, and after he wooed Keira Knightley and Kirsten Dunst on film, I finally appreciated how much of a romeo Orlando could be, or is.

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At World's End is one of my favorite movies from last year. Critics and American audience were not as delighted with this last installment of Disney's explosive blockbuster but I found it the most entertaining movie of that year.

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This year, I've gone from Mark Wahlberg to Orlando Bloom when thinking of a Hollywood boyfriend. Orlando is just about my age and we share a sense of adventure and a zest for life. I think we'll enjoy each other's company. (I wish.)

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Presently, Orlando is taking a sabbatical from acting. I checked imdb and the site does not list any film of Orlando either in production or awaiting release. A few weeks back, I saw him guest in Larry King, speaking about global warming. Environmentalism and averting global warming are two causes that he is presently spending time on.

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Congratulations, Orlando. Actor, environmental protection advocate, Man of the Year, valentine date. Ha ha ha.

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Addendum. I got this picture of Orlando. The actor decided to grow a thin mustache ala Errol Flynn. Bloggers panned him for this new look but I like it. Very sexy and mature.

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The Runner-Ups. It was by no means an easy victory for Orlando. It was a close fight between him and TV actor Jensen Ackles and body beautiful Chad White. Anyone of them could just have ended with the title.

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Jensen single-handedly made Supernatural my favorite TV show. He is not only beautiful, he also lends credibility to the show by his dead pan acting reminiscent of The X Files' David Duchovny. Everytime I watch him ---I bought the DVD just so I could ogle over him and Jared Padalecki at will--- I am so overwhelmed by a crush that just glues me into the show.

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On the other hand, if lust is the sole category by which I would have proclaimed the winner, Chad White would have ran away with the crown. No other guy in the last year featured in my fantasies more than Chad. He has the perfect body that is my inspiration and my aim whenever I sweat in the gym. What I wouldn't do for the chance to lick his body all over.

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Completing the Pair. I would have dated reigning Woman of the Year Jessica Alba but her current physical condition prevents her from spending late hours and drinking wine. Just last month, she announced that she is pregnant with her first child.

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Now I have it, Bloom and Alba as my man and woman of the year. Time to contact their agents and arrange a threesome.

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Julian of the Day. Orlando takes over as the king of this blog from last year's honoree, Playgirl centerfold and also MOTY winner, Julian Fantechi.

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Orlando and Julian look very different from each other yet both represent the spectrum of my guy types ---from the innocent-looking pretty boy next door to the unreachable and ripped gym buff.

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What do they have in common? Both are handsome, clean-looking and sympatico.

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