This article link dsnt work details the celebration being thrown in honor of my hometown, Bethany, WV. It's a great little town, and I mean it no disrespect, but it's hilarious to me that it mentions that they are closing Main Street for the festivities. Main Street has no traffic lights. It will probably affect, oh, no one, since anyone who is ever in town will know about the celebration. I love that they're only fixing enough food for 200 people--that's pretty much the actual in-town population. My hometown is adorable. lucky. actual small town like th fantasy? Elkins, WV seemed nice that weekend that Clare and Maurisa and I got stranded there. but of course it wld seem nice, being snowed in, sledding, sleeping in a hostel we had to ourselves, above a bikeshop, and with a woodstove. those nice b&w photos (whose camera?) of us drinking tea and laughing...
and fr -about- page: In 1989 we moved to Bethany, WV, a small town of under a thousand people in the northern panhandle of West Virginia, in the Ohio Valley. Bethany is a college town, home to Bethany College, and growing up in a tiny college town exposed me to marvelous, eccentric, and intelligent people. John Irving wrote in A Prayer for Owen Meany, ". . . I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar--you live next to the strange and the unlikely for so long that everything and everyone becomes common place." Growing up in Bethany was an enriching and remarkable experience.
also noticed:After watching copies and copies of it being bought during my three-month tenure as a bookstore clerk in 2001, I was resistent been there - oft disint in th books that are all round me selling - and yes White Teeth among them to Zadie Smith's White Teeth. She wrote it when she was younger than I am now, and that sort of youthful success causes the jealousy that deters me from reading such successes. So, I waited. Then, I finally bought the novel. I loved it! I absolutely enjoyed it from start to finish.I was surprised. I do prefer nonfiction in general, and I had my doubts about White Teeth, but the characters were dynamic (I think Irie was my favorite character--or maybe Archie. Or Neena. Neena was cool), and the plot, while not necessarily perfectly tight, was certainly interesting. I dont expect I will read & like White Teeth ever but of course I enjoy the parenthetical thought-writing here.
ggl took me to this pg bcs of this post:
Mini Fame Audit -Fametracker, a fabulous site, has a feature called '2 Stars 1 Slot' where they compare two stars who could be exchanged for one another. They have another feature called 'Fame Audit' where they evaluate where a celebrity is in their career. I was recently inspired to totally steal their excellent ideas and do a mini Fame Audit of my own. Sorry, Fametracker. - Erika Christensen and Thora Birch.
These two young women both had their big breaks in Oscar nominated films. Christensen was in Traffic, Birch in American Beauty. Both turned in very good performances in those films, in my opinion. They then were in other films, doing other things (Christensen in Swimfan, for example, and Birch in Ghost World, where she was pretty darn good). Imagine my horror recently upon stumbling both of them in separate MTV debacles.
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