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Yo Merry, wasSUP?

Love the Way You Lie - Eminem and Rihanna

Dom Monaghan gets his white-trash on.


Damn, this sure threw me. Guess he REALLY ain't a hobbit no mo'!


So, any kerfuffles on this? I've been out of the loop for a while.


ETA: Comment at Metafilter: Huh. I saw this in the gym without the audio the other day and I figured it was the long-awaited video for "You All Everybody".

...but then, most of you know (or surmise) that already.

Went to the Best Buy autograph session this evening. Hung with some TORn ladies. Had nice time chatting for four hours while waiting to be let in. Fun conversation and taco-eating.

Ok, enough about that. Here's stuff about Dom...

Not very surprising to find he's much better looking in person. Though he's never been all that attractive to me, I had the suspicion that if I met him it'd be a different story, and lo! it was. Very pretty eyes, and a relaxed, gentle mien. Crazy hair as usual, kind of long but short on the sides, and very bleached out. (Except for the dark roots. Oh to be a guy and not have to care about such crap!)

Now, here's the thing. I don't normally get autographs - never understood the attraction of it. In my whole collection of stuff, there's only one other autograph, and that was got on the spur of the moment. I went to this event for the purpose of giving him a gift, so I figured OK, autograph. He signed my copy of the LOTR FanClub Merry issue, and as he was signing I asked him a leading question to see if he had what I wanted to give him. It turned out he didn't, and the gods granted me the cool opportunity to grin and pull it out of my bag. He was surprised and pleased, and when I told him it was my personal copy, he said "I'll treasure this. I will." Which filled me with joy, cause how often do you get to give back to someone who's made you so happy, by giving them something they actually want to receive?. (Besides, I just love to give people presents.)

Then - oh dear, I have to admit this - as we were saying so long, I leaned in close and he leaned up and we had a little kiss. Oh squee! (sheesh, I feel like a schoolgirl) Hey, it just happened on its own. I swear I wasn't being grabby, really! But I'm a very huggy, touchy person, and it really feels wrong to end a nice conversation or encounter without some kind of contact. So without even thinking, I found myself going for it, and he was completely casual and accepting about it. Lovely.

So I'm glad I went, and very, very glad I got to meet Dominic. He's a doll, and very yummy, and I get the Dom thing now. He still ain't gonna dethrone my darlin' Elijah, but I sure wouldn't kick him out of bed for eatin' crackers.


ETA: notjustwonderfu's great encounter from last night. You MUST read it for the BILLY LOVE!

HEADS UP, EVERYONE!

I just received an email in my inbox purporting to be from LiveJournal. Here is the text:

Dear user of "Livejournal.com" mailing system,

Some of our clients complained about the spam (negative e-mail content)outgoing from your e-mail account. Probably, you have been infected by a proxy-relay trojan server. In order to keep your computer safe, follow the instructions.

For details see the attach.

For security reasons attached file is password protected. The password
is "00257".

The Management,
The Livejournal.com team
http://www.livejournal.com


This email came along with an attachment, which I was supposed to open to get the solution referred to in the email itself.

Well, sir, the similarity to a number of "spoof" (i.e. fake) emails that I've gotten from ripoff artists claiming to be part of eBay, or Paypal, etc., made me suspicious, so I emailed the folks here at LJ. I got this reply:

Dear Serai,

You are correct that this email did not come from LiveJournal.com. DO NOT open the attachment. For more information about this recent spoof mailing, please see this entry from the News journal: http://www.livejournal.com/users/news/76799.html.

To keep up on important site announcements, you can add the News journal to your Friends page by clicking this link while logged in: http://www.livejournal.com/friends/add.bml?user=news.

Regards,
LiveJournal Support Team


So a virus is sent around, cloaked as an attempt to protect you from a virus you supposedly already have. Pretty damn clever, that.

Anyway, if any of you get this thing, for Goddess' sake, DON'T OPEN IT!! Hit Delete right away.


And now, a little picspam to liven up your evening. Remember that cute report about Elijah and Dom finding stick ponies to ride to the Hidalgo premiere? Well, herein you will find sweet delight:

( Now we will squee... )

Enjoy! ;)

...I'd probably be madly in love with Sean Astin. Energetic, responsible, kind, loving, industrious, and sexy. I'm actually thankful about the political thing - like I really need another beautiful young guy over whom I can pine in unrequited adoration. NOT. As it is, I think his wife is incredibly lucky, not to mention his daughter. Why can't I find a man like this? Sheesh.


( Sean and Dom on ROTK )

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Oh, swoon. Gimme an actor who uses words like "sacred" when talking about his experiences. Especially in the context of LOTR. Yes! What he said! I love the way he encourages us to go back to the book, to look again and again. There's always something there we haven't seen before – that's one of the great beauties of LOTR for me, and he gets it.

( Sean Astin and Samwise Gamgee )

*Sigh* Five more months. How will I survive? Oh well, at least I'll have the DVDs.

*sigh*...