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it's to keep the ALIENS from STEALING your THOUGHTS

*I* am staying in tonight, the first Saturday in AGES, and retiring to a bubble bath with my book on iPod. This being, of course, Dark Tower VII, and I've got about eight-ten hours left to go so I'm trying to let it linger (while desperately needing to know WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!).

_maayan is off to the bar to represent, yo, take one for the team, as it were, and tell Shox that I'm wet and naked at home with no interest in anything else. *g*

Last week I was in NY for Dad's 70th birthday -- photos to come, including some highly adorable ones of baby me and baby

spycookies -- and I blew off this week under the pretext of recovering from my cold and writing the Great American Screenplay about Abe Lincoln, but next week it's back to the grindstone and 40 hour weeks with the DNC. Which is fortunate if for no reason than I need the money, putting aside the great Democratic post-election ennui that needs a sharp kick in the ass. I'll keep you posted.

But mostly, mostly, I'm suffering sensory overload. I ain't built for this rockstar lifestyle, yo! THOUGH, yesterday I saw Jason for the first time in weeks -- M and J and I went out to a little middle-eastern place and sat quietly in the courtyard and drank Lebanese beer and spoke like civilized people, which was long overdue and very nice. Ostensibly the extended Jason-Chris-Elijah brigade is having brunch tomorrow at some ungodly hour, which may or may not also be calm and civilized, but it sure as hell better be if I'm waking up at 8:00 for it. But I swear, I haven't spent so many nights a week drinking since COLLEGE.

pene, you would not recognize me what with all the groovin' and bar-hoppin'. I need a WEEK holed up in my room, is what.

While we're on the subject. Or not. I notice I've got some new friends since I laid the smackdown on Jason's behalf regarding his photographs of Elijah et al. Welcome welcome, there's nothing wrong with new friends, but if you're expecting me to be some sort of font of Elijah info I'm afraid you'll be disappointed. I don't know Elijah terribly well yet, we only met a couple months ago through Jason and Shox, and even if I did, I'm not in the business of using this LJ to chronicle anyone's life but my own, and me, I'm just yer run-of-the-mill fangirl. It's also worthwhile to let you know that I've known Jason and Shox for YEARS, and they're both well aware of my porny fangirl habits -- and Lij et al are certainly aware of the internet's interest in them. So, y'know, keep on keeping on -- I have always endorsed a healthy fannish lifestyle, and plan to continue mine for years to come. *g*

I'm also not terribly familiar with the LOTRips fandom (everything I know I learned from my loyal henchwoman

esorlehcar) but -- as I venture toward being part of canon what with this new surreal twist my life has taken, I find myself exposed to some marvelously tinhatty freaks. So, you know, if you're a freak, and you're reading this, basically as long as you don't show up at my house and throw stuff or try and harm my family we'll all get along fine. Yes? I'm not in the habit of friends-locking my LJ (I tend to use that to keep RL friends *out*, and therefore only lock it if I'm, like, bitching about my current girlfriend or boyfriend or co-worker or boss) and I don't wanna, but maybe I'm just being stupid. Seriously -- is anyone out there plotting to harm me or my family? If I friends-locked this journal, would that PROTECT me or my family?

spycookies, are you afraid of tinhats harming you or Beanie? And -- world at large -- do you think I'm being stupid? Am I putting myself in danger? How dangerous ARE these LOTRips people?

In conclusion, a kitten, thanks to

tzikeh, and I am off off off to the Dark Tower and a bubble bath for mon peau sensible!

(Meanwhile,

likethesun,

gamesiplay, whatever hat you're wearing, and

septicemic [purveyor of fine icons everywhere], go have lunch together on my behalf and I'll buy you both dessert and I'll even text-message your cell phones while you're there so I can participate in the festivities.)

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yayyys for life being good, mostly and Dark Tower and Baths and time down!

Hello! :-) As one of the aforementioned "new friends," I figured I might as well introduce myself. I indeed came across your LJ through your comments regarding "the photographs"...it actually made me quite happy that you were so understanding of fandom and the corresponding mindset. I'm actually more of a Billy Boyd fan than a fan of anyone else, really, and I avoid RPS anyway (okay, except maybe the occasional Billy/Dom fic if it's extremely well-written). I will confess to being a tad "starstruck" when reading about hanging out with these actors, but hey, it also is a good reminder that they are real people, not as "untouchable" as I sometimes tend to believe.

So, speaking for myself only, I'm not a stalker ;-) A) I can't afford it and B) it's obviously more terrifying than endearing to actors anyway, so I can't really understand what the point/goal is. I'll stick to being a convention-geek with my cheesy button collection.

But as a side note, I'm also a total X-Phile ("Clyde Bruckman" even trumps LOTR on my favorites list. Best. Thing. Ever.) and I haven't read XF fanfic in awhile, so it's been great exploring your fanfics! They're very fun reading! (and in the first one I read, you quoted Sondheim, which made me very happy). So, hey, rock on for X-Files fandom as well.

I don't actually know if I have a point. But hello! Don't mean to freak anyone out. I think I'm harmless.

*goes back to polishing knife collection*

Seriously -- is anyone out there plotting to harm me or my family?

:::puffs out chest:::

i'll protect you!

consider me your own personal wind-up toy. er, wait. don't overthink that. or, uhm, do, if it'll be fun and involve m&m's poker.

wow. that paragraph needs to just stop while it's ahead.

as another of the new friends, i'd like to state that i'm not at all here because you know anyone named elijah or shox (which, incidentally, sounds suspiciously like his parents couldn't work out whether to call him "shoes" or "sox", but that's beside the point entirely) and am totally here because you know someone named

sorlklewis. she made me. it's all her fault.

plus, hi. :D

Well it certainly isn't pleasant to be afraid for yourself or your family. Even when you are fairly sure you don't need to be, just an inkling of it is enough to ruin your day. I'm a friend to Eso and also to at least some of the tin. Have been tin and used to be friends to all but maybe not so much anymore. I'm not sure. Time moves on and the world changes as do we. Anyway, I don't think you have to worry about hordes of brick throwing tinnies attacking your doors and windows. As for being an Elijah font... well... having heard what he does to fountains, at least the one in New Zealand, I would think you would want to pass on that deal anyway.

Nice to visit here, thanks for listening. As for friends locking... I'd hate to be cut out. Perhaps give it a while and see what happens?

you're still beautiful with the words, E.

I feel like I've been living in the dark. I had no idea the final three books of the Dark Tower series was out in hardback. Squee! I know what I'm buying myself as a x-mas gift. *vbg* THanks for mentioning it.

Er. I'm into LOTRips but far from dangerous. In fact, I'd never even consider doing anyone harm. Unless they're a spider. Those are icky and need to be squished asap.

It's true, though. There are some, how shall I put this, not entirely sane people in LOTRips fandom, but you learn to ignore them after a while. I only know of two major nutcases, Amy whatshername and someone else who fell for her spiel, who actually seems to think she's Elijah Wood and is looked for by the police for fraud, but other than that... ;)

In conclusion, I for one am harmless, and while your post in the community did lead me to your journal, the reason I've added it to my flist is that you're into Scrubs and other cool fandom-y things, and did your best to kick Bush's ass in the past election. *thumbs up*

Hey.

I have nothing to say on the tin hat front whatsoever, except I did actually once see people who were wearing tinhats and pirates gear at Disneyland. Was v. strange.

Mostly wanted to drive by to give my sympathies about not being cut out for the rockstar lifestyle. I hit the same wall. Had invites to do fun stuff last night and I opted to stay home and clean the apartment because it had been like a month since I'd had a chance to do so. I have a lot of cleaning left to do, but at least I found the living room floor.

My new motto, spawned while on the phone a couple of weekends ago in one city not sure anymore what city

weraremany was in? It's always more fun in fic. In fic, the rockstar lifestyle seems cool; in practice, it's mostly exhausting.

Hope all at the wayward home for girls is well after your weekend night in.

Enjoy the r & r, girl! Sounds like you need it. o.0

I said it in my first comment in your journal, but it bears repeating here: I HAVE NOT FRIENDED YOU BECAUSE YOU ARE FRIENDS W/ ELIJAH, k? *Hugs* And you don't have to worry-I'm no freak, I assure you. Just your normal, average, everyday college student...Well,
I do have a rare chromisonal disorder, but other than that....I'm also extremely anti-tinhat.

OMG CUTE KITTY YAY!

HI,

You may remember me from the Seekrit pics posting a couple of weeks ago.

I deliberately did not friend you not because you aren't a cool person but because I did not want to seem to be doing so only because you know a certain someone I am a major fan of.

As someone who has battled with tinhats on many occasions to the point where ,and esorlehcar will confirm this, I have developed a 'reputation' for it and have since retired from the battle because they are too ridiculous to bother with anymore, I hope I can give you some reassurance about them and most Elijah fans in general.

As absolutely crazy as the tinhats are I doubt they pose any real threat. They seem to prefer living in their little made-up fantasy world online. Though many of them including their 'leader' have met Elijah and friends on many occasions they have never, to my knowlege, ever done anything more than greet him, take his picture and get autographs. If they've ever done anything worse Elijah would be the one who knows and you should ask him about that. And if any of them or any other fan I know have ever done anything worse I'll 'virtually' clobber them ;)

I don't think you are in any danger. Most Elijah fans of all sorts are really pretty nice people. A few, a small few, are borderline-lunatics but not, I hope, dangerous ones.

I am very obsessed with your small friend as are all my online pals but I live in the boonies of PA and I'm old and tired and sickly and rarely venture beyond my neighborhood. So I pose no threat whatsoever. Aside to Eso... All right no wise-cracks..I'm obsessed and prone to manic type posts on occasion but I'm not dangerous and neither are any of my good friends.

Have any of the tinhats or anyone else been bothering you particularly, beyond just friending your journal? If they haven't been doing anything I doubt they will.

If you'd really like more info from the point of view of the obsessed side of fandom you can email me (it's on my info page) and I'll be glad to answer any questions I can.

Most of us including those wacky tinhats are OK people. Many of us are actually quite nice and non-threatening.

hee. I'm all impressed, cuteness. LA and semi-famous rockstar hobbit boys is all it takes? dude, if only I'd known... *g*

and then I spent last last Saturday in and also at home. I rented movies and watched them alone. also Friends DVDs. maybe I've stolen your personality.

then again it sorta freaked me out and I've been out every day since. though my lifestyle is significantly less rockstar and significantly more of the gay. maybe I need a back-up band. ;)

love you babe.
xoxoxo

This will never, ever, ever stop being funny.

are you muttering about your icon again? cos man, SHO TRU.

but if you're expecting me to be some sort of font of Elijah info I'm afraid you'll be disappointed

WHAT?!? False advertiser!! *unfriends immediately!* Heheh! Just kidding, of course! Can't get rid'a me that easily! :p

Nah...as I said in my introductory post to you, I stumbled across you journal during a "journal hopping" journey through friend's friends pages(and it's a good thing I didn't have to get back out the same way I came in, because I could not tell you all the leaps I took to end up here). While there was most definitely a moment of "OMG! She's friends with Elijah!!", the more I looked, the more I found you interesting - and, SCRUBS - and later I discovered, M*A*S*H* and Northern Exposure!!! Need I say more.

As far as fic writing goes, I'm not into RPS (or, slash in general for that matter, though there have been a few exceptions to that - but it's gotta be super good story telling for me to read it). The only RPS I have ever read (from start to finish - I have stumbled onto a few and stopped after I read the rp's name) was one that came HIGHLY recommended and was, in my humble opinion, fantastic writing. Actually, I'm not sure it would really even be considered real RPS as the characters, though named for some of the LOTR actors, were not at all themselves...that is, none of them were actors or celebrities, etc. Basically, I think the author just borrowed their names and some similarities to their personalities. Oh - wait, there was that one other - but again, not really RPS because it wasn't really about their real lives - being that it was set in ancient Mesopotamia, and so, bore no real similarity to their real lives;-).

There's a reason I don't write (or normally read) RPS (and this is not meant as a slam on anyone who does). The reason I write fictional person fiction is this: I feel that I KNOW those characters. I "know" Frodo. I have been inside his head and heard his thoughts and felt his emotions. I know what makes him tick, etc. One of the saddest moments in the books, to me, was the moment that Frodo was stung by Shelob - because that is the last moment we are allowed inside his head. In some ways, that is the moment we (the reader) really lose Frodo. After that point, we only know what Frodo is going through from someone else's point of view. *sniff* Anyway, though Elijah did an absolutely awesome job of portraying Frodo, he is NOT Frodo. He is who he is - and I can claim no similar knowledge of him. I know him only through the media as most everyone else.

As far as my own writing goes, I write mainly H/C and FLUFF! :D Yes, FLUFF. There. I said it. I'm fluffy and proud of it! I guess you could say, I use my writing to give Frodo (as he is my most favoritest one!) all of the comfort and gentleness and tenderness and happiness that the good professor often did not. I just can't seem to help myself! :p So, with works like, "The Early Adventures of Fwo and Unga Bee" to my credit, I doubt you'd have anything to worry about from me. Hehe - judging by my fan fiction, the worst I might do is come and hunt you all down and snuggle you all to itsy-bitsy-teeny-tiny pieces! Look out! I'm coming to pet you and love on you and cuddle you and wrap you in warm blankies until you are dangerously close to being "sleepy-go-ni-ni"! Oh, and I might make you drink some athelas (spelling's prolly wrong!) tea. Other than that, you're safe!

EEEEEP!! What a darling kitten!! (look away, cp! look away! the two you have are more than enough!)

Blessings! :-)
cp

*slides in under Eso* Argh am not an LJer so I can't even share my ICON LURVE.

Hi Sabine, am popping in to add my wee ugly self to the hoopla over at this end of the cyber net. Frankly I don't know how you are functioning at all after the elections, although I am so very glad that you are. We (collective "we") need you to be, need everyone at DNC to be. I'm still stunned, though I shouldn't be I suppose, and I didn't even work on the campaign. It's absolutely horrifying.

Anyway, reaching beyond election ptsd and back to topic. Am tin, or ex-tin, or simply disgusted at the vehemence of tin. Something made of thin metal with smooth edges. I don't hang with the crowd anymore, although I've kept a few close friends and cherish those a great deal. Some good people and well worth keeping.

I've no problem with the tin canon, simply with the few that get way too personally invested in such a thing. What I take issue with is how anything that doesn't *fit* the mold gets systematically ripped to teeny bits and reshaped as something other than it was. This is especially irritating when enormous attempts are made to discredit PEOPLE. In fact I bailed the tinhat realm shortly after Fiona Apple got a blatantly misogynist slapdown following Torn. "Like OMG that whore/druggie/tramp tried to molest poor innocent Elijah who was just trying to give her a ride home!" Yeah okay. Fiona is hot as hell. Wish I had gotten to give her a ride home, I would have even let her drive ;) Lately, I've been busy in other places (some amazing blogs out there by Iraqi teens talking about what the hell is actually going on there) but I popped over to DL last night and saw a slam at you for being fangirl. Shit starting already and of course that DL poster wasn't a fangirl too. Perhaps the Pope himself popped over to DL to proclaim you a heretic. Yeah. Okay.

The majority of tinhats and wankers for that matter are completely harmless. Most will simply wave, watch, or move right along. However, a few will try to discredit you and come up with reasons why it is that they (who don't KNOW any of these people) are far more aligned with the "TRUTH" than you could ever be. Oh, and they will peruse your LJ madly in order to collect this info and glean any tidbits of Elijah's whereabouts that they can. If it "fits" you'll be deified. If not, vilified.

Now, you seem to know exactly WHO you are, appear quite comfortable in your own skin and can easily say "to hell with it" and ignore.

However, if I were you - I would simply friend's lock it. It just doesn't seem worth the hassle of doing otherwise. Besides, do you really want to share anything that might hint of Elijah's whereabouts or dealings with people who are too interested in that kind of info? I wouldn't.

That's my 2 cents, it's certainly not gonna be popular (oh damn I don't get to be prom queen AGAIN ;) Heed or not as you will, I wish you well whatever your decision. Please keep up the good fight over at DNC.

And Sabine? Nick Bantock? Yes? Adore. Absolutely adore.

Peace~
NaT
(all flames can be directed to Nat_for_nothin@hotmail.com as am too lazy/busy to regularly check LJs.No need to mess up Sabine's pretty pages - DON'T MAKE GRIFFIN MAD NOW! ;)

No problemo. Welcome! And XF fic has among it some of the finest writing in all of fandom -- there's tons of good writers who got their start around those parts.

*snort* No worries, you came vouched for, or, you know, as far as we can trust SL, you're covered. Whether you're nuts or not is another matter, but at least you're one of our nuts...

Thanks, and welcome! And as I said, the only reason I'd friendslock is to protect the safety of my kith and kin, but so far y'all seem friendly and harmless...as it were. *g*

Really? And to think, I was just rambling. Imagine what I could do with, like, adjectives and stuff!

Meanwhile, I made Maayan watch "The More I See You" the other night, for the first time, and, of course, I thought of you. Master complicator...

xoxox

DUDE. Dude. DT7. Dude.

Welcome! Thank you for not killing me with an axe. *g* And, yes, so far so good, I've only met nice fans and friendly folk.

Back atcha.

No worries, welcome. Just makin' sure. *g* Glad to have you.

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