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Boyfriend and fellow castmate, Dominic Monaghan, was out as well -- but Lilly didn't appear concerned with his whereabouts.

As always, dude, her focus was on hitting some waves.

Wednesday night also happened to be the same night as TMZ's one-year anniversary party, so I am writing this slightly hungover on Thursday morning, and I didn't watch it with my usual posse. And that kinda sucks. If the "Lost" Diary is about anything, it's about watching this show with your peeps. "Lost" isn't my favorite show, but it's my favorite show to watch. I hope some of you out there have started your own "Lost" night with your friends. Good times.

Enough with the sentimental BS, on with the show!!!

10:00 -- Kate flashback time, and I can't say I'm excited that it's her turn tonight. So she was going to marry a cop, huh? Odds he survives the episode? -- I'm at 50/50 right from the get-go.

10:02 -- Henry Gale flashed Jack the weirdest little half-smile I have seen from him -- a sign of worry, almost.

Ok, I'm fine now. Anyway, we only have one more new episode after tonight, so let's gobble up all the island goodness we can. As always, I watch Lost with a group of friends, and I write down what I see. This week I am joined by Ari, Lauren and April. On with the show ...

9:01 -- Eko flashback time. Seems that the themes of tonight's episode will be confession and sin -- and boy does Eko have his fair share of that.

9:03 -- And Eko's brother's ghost just confirms that. This has to be the only show on TV where getting killed off doesn't mean you're out of the show, except for All My Children.

The photog, who one source claims was his neighbor, was snapping pics of Dominic Monaghan on his long board just off the shore before the "Lost" actor stepped out of the water to confront him.

Monaghan was overheard yelling, "What the f*** are you doing?! Why are you taking pictures of me?," exchanging harsh words with the photog before storming off.

The paparazzo apparently didn't learn his lesson though -- he was snapping more shots of Monaghan as he drove away.

So yesterday morning I received two nearly identical instant messages from friends of mine. The message was simple: this better be good. "Lost" has had three episodes that have been below par (except for "those five minutes") -- and the ratings have echoed that. This episode might be the most anticipated non-premiere or finale so far.

As always, I gather with a group of friends to watch the show and keep track of what happens. Tonight's crew: Ari, Lauren (aka Sawyer's future ex-wife) and April. On with the show ...

9:00 -- We open up on Desmond as he stares at Claire and Aaron, no doubt pondering the future. His offer to fix Claire's roof are shot down -- just a guess, but I am thinking they should have listened to him.

9:02 -- Jack is still in captivity, watching cartoons and seemingly fighting psychological warfare with psychological warfare. I think he might be getting to Juliet. Meanwhile, the Others are a little pissed about Sun shooting Colleen. Understandable.

9:04 -- "Sounding a little stuffy there, Chinatown." Sawyer. Seriously, Sawyer must subscribe to Netflix or something.

Dominic Monaghan's hand got "Lost" on Wednesday afternoon as the actor was spotted leaving a Hawaiian cafe with his buddy.

The TV star grabbed, uh, a bite to eat before hitting up a local Safeway for some food essentials.

Since I started writing this blog, I get more and more people chiming in to me about "Lost." And the growing sentiment among the majority of them is that they are getting a bit fed up. Not enough happens, nothing gets answered, blah blah blah.

I can't argue with people who are frustrated by the show -- watching "Lost" is work. It doesn't wrap up in a neat little bow each week. If they answered everything, then I'd have nothing to do on Wednesday nights.

As always, I gather with a group of friends to watch the show and keep track of what happens. Slim pickings this week: just me, Ari, Matt and April. Our beloved "Lost" nazi Lauren is out of town, so in an act of defiance I am leaving my cell phone on for the duration of the episode.

9:00 -- The previously on "Lost" intro gave everyone a refresher course on Locke and his button insanity. Glad to have you back, Locke.

9:01 -- The patented eye-opening shot leads us to Locke waking up in the forest and Desmond running around like a lunatic. Locke can still walk -- I was kinda thinking maybe he wouldn't be able to again.

Despite our unadulterated love for "Lost," the show is losing viewers every week and is down nearly five million viewers from the same time last year.

According to early ratings reports, "Lost" pulled in 16.66 million viewers at 9PM, just 180,000 more than "Criminal Minds" over on CBS. Just a year before, the show pulled in 21.66 million viewers -- a 23% drop. To drive the point home, "Lost" lost nearly three million viewers from the last half hour of "Dancing With the Stars," the top show of the night with an average of 18.14 million viewers.

"The Nine" couldn't capitalize on the "Lost" momentum at 10PM, pulling in just 8.41 million viewers -- a drop of 3.5 million viewers from its premiere last week.

Bad news over at NBC -- with stiff competition ("Dancing," "Jericho" and MLB playoffs) running at 8PM, NBC's new Tina Fey comedy "30 Rock" finished third in the hour with 8.26 million viewers. "20 Good Years" premiered at 8:30 with just 6.97 million viewers.

Meanwhile on CBS, their freshman drama "Jericho" continued its strong run with 10.9 million viewers, a comfortable number considering it competes with "Dancing" every week.

Going back to last week for a second, I got a few comments about my remark that I threw up after Jack asked about his ex-wife at the end of the episode. Look, I get choked up by television more times than I care to admit, and "Lost" has certainly done it to me from time to time, but last week's attempt at drawing out emotion was just silly.

Let's look at the situation: you survive a plane crash and spend the next two months being terrorized by "monsters" and a gang of island inhabitants known as the Others. Then they kidnap you and your friends and drug you. One of them shows you a file with everything you have ever done in your life in it and asks you if you want to know anything ... and you ask if your ex is happy? Are you kidding me? How about, "Hey, what's with the crazy black smoke monster?" Or maybe, "Um, what did you do with the children you kidnapped?" It's just bad TV, plain and simple.

As always, I watch "Lost" with a group of friends and keep track of what happens. Tonight I am joined by Ari, Lauren, Matt, April, Dana and Jason. On with the show ...

9:00 -- It's Sun flashback time -- or should I say Lil' Sun flashback time. The title of the episode isn't too hard to figure out this time, as Lil' Sun broke a glass ballerina and blamed it on the maid.

Love birds Evangeline Lilly and Dominic Monaghan were caught enjoying the sun and surf on Sunday in Oahu, Hawaii. The "Lost" couple was inseparable while on dry land and in the water. Although one of Dominic's friends joined the two, he left Lilly and Monaghan alone for some quality one-on-one quality time.

The weather may be cooling down, but this pair are still heating things up.

Here's how this works: Every week I gather with a group of friends to watch "Lost." I keep a running diary of what happens on the show, throw out some theories and jokes along the way, and hopefully the rest of the peanut gallery chips in with some good stuff. Maybe you do the same thing each week, maybe you don't have any friends who watch "Lost" -- either way, this is the place for all TMZers to sound off on the most addictive show on TV.

I am joined this week by the usuals and a couple of newbies: Ari (our host), Lauren (the "Lost" Nazi) and Matt (be sure to check him out on the new CBS online dating show "Hook Me Up" beginning next week! Couldn't resist.) along with April and Sonia making their debuts.

Enough with the foreplay, let's get to the diary...

9:00 -- Previously on "Lost" is very Others-centric. Obviously the theme for season three is the Others and I couldn't be more excited. Right now if I had to rank the best characters on TV, Henry Gale would be top 5. Charlie would be somewhere around 10,451.

9:01 -- The opening scene mirrors the opening scene from last season. A character we don't know doing seemingly normal things. Except this time, there are other people involved. And then Oceanic Flight 815 crashes and the Others spring to action. This scene actually goes with my idea for a Henry Gale spin-off show. I picture Gale as a modern day Archie Bunker in an updated version "All in the Family." Except instead of Edith, he lives with his partner, Mr. Friendly.

In Hollywood, big guys love their sidekicks. Costello had Abbott, Farley had Spade and Jorge Garcia has his teeny tiny puppy dog.
The robust actor was spotted with his pint-sized pooch on Saturday strolling around near his island home in Honolulu, Hawaii. Being the dog of a major TV star, the miniature pup was of course dressed to the nines, sporting a pink jacket and matching leash.

Unfortunately, when season three premiere of "Lost" hits television screens tomorrow night, viewers will have to settle for Garcia by himself, sans his adorable peanut-sized pal.

According to the mag, you can visit tons of different locations from the show in one fell swoop on the island of Oahu. Want to see where Sayid was imprisoned? The Sydney police station? Where the raft sailed off from? Or how about where the plane crashed? All those spots and more are right there in Oahu.

Personally, we want to visit the hatch. But since it blew up in the season two finale, and it's probably not that romantic to begin with, we're guessing it's not included. (Editor's note: The author of this article is (obviously) not married.)

For all those locations and more, check out the October/November issue of Modern Bride on newsstands now.

If you're anything like us, you hate spoilers. If we want to know what happens on a show, we'll watch the damn show! Anyway, since "Lost" is premiering this week (can't wait!!!!), the Internet is going to be crawling with little tidbits about the Others, Jack and whoever else. But not here.

Here you get a (kinda) funny picture of Dominic Monaghan playing soccer in Hawaii during his downtime from shooting "Lost."

OK, maybe it's a little weak but we REALLY can't wait for "Lost" to premiere.

At one of the show's Hawaiian shooting locations, Dominic Monaghan was spotted carrying a seemingly injured Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje into some kind of shelter, along with another unidentifiable character. Does this mean that Mr. Eko survived the mysterious hatch explosion at the end of season two? Guess we'll just have to watch and find out!

Meanwhile, resident island doc Matthew Fox is still finding ways to improve his famous physique. The athletic actor was spotted taking a pretty intense run in a slim fit outfit near the Oahu set. Don't miss the castaway's long-awaited return to primetime when Matt and his pals get "Lost" again this Wednesday on ABC.

That's right, not even a parking ticket can keep Evangeline and Dominic from showing their love. The "Lost" stars got the ticket at a Honolulu shopping center last week, but that didn't stop the couple from kissing with the ticket still sitting on the windshield -- an obvious act of defiance to the forces of society that wish to keep them apart.

The third season premiere of "Lost" airs October 4 at 9PM ET on ABC.