Posted on 08/15/2013 8:48:48 PM PDT by SeminoleCounty
I wanted to act since I was six years old, after seeing “Star Wars,” but my goals were more “wear a sweet costume and pretend to be cool” than “be famous.” So the fact that I was cast in the Nickelodeon sitcom “iCarly” at age 14 and catapulted into tween stardom was both an exciting and unexpected journey. When “iCarly” first started growing in popularity back in 2007, my castmates and I quickly felt the swell in attention. I started getting invited to movie premieres, designers were sending me clothes, old friends were reaching out, and I could no longer go to a public place without getting asked for a picture or an autograph. It was all pretty cool. At the time I didn’t realize I was losing myself, but I was....
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.wsj.com ...
Wow...not the first time she has written something for Wall St Journal. Located this article:
Jennette McCurdy wrote a piece for the WSJ a couple of years ago regarding her mother’s fight with breast cancer. Really moving. What a great kid
(having prob linking...so I will post URL for cut and paste)
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/06/11/off-camera-my-moms-fight-with-cancer/
Hashtag
If you have been on Twitter, you may have seen a "hashtag." To put it simply, a hash tag is simply a way for people to search for tweets that have a common topic and to begin a conversation. For example, if you search on #LOST (or #Lost or #lost, because it's not case-sensitive), you'll get a list of tweets related to the TV show. What you won't get are tweets that say "I lost my wallet yesterday" because "lost" isn't preceded by the hash tag. Hashtags believed to have originated on Twitter but, interestingly enough, it is not a Twitter function. Some believe it began when the broken plane luckily landed in the Hudson River in early 2009, some Twitter user wrote a post and added #flight1549 to it. I have no idea who this person was, but somebody else would have read it and when he posted something about the incident, added #flight1549 to HIS tweet. For something like this, where tweets would have been flying fast and furiously, it wouldn't have taken long for this hash tag to go viral and suddenly thousands of people posting about it would have added it to their tweets as well. Then, if you wanted info on the situation, you could do a search on "#flight1549" and see everything that people had written about it. Take this ashtag for example: #worstjobeverhad. This Hash tag would compel many others to share the worst jobs they've ever had, thus contributing to a fun conversation. It can be used for specific searches or individual twitters that begin them for their followers.
My comment: yaaawwwwnnn....
Where were her parents?
probably spending her money, who knows... maybe hey liked it
With parents like that the kid was doomed from the get-go.
She was the funny one on ICarly IMO.
You must be referring to a scene where she’s in a dressing room/cubicle and fighting over a dress with the person in the next one? This was a doctored clip to make it look like she was actually topless and showed her nipple at one point. If you checked this out more, you would see that she actually had a strapless top on covering her chest completely. The “nipple slip” was a perverted act of photo/video editing to make a juvenile look like she was naked.
As for the article, I thought she did a very good job. My kids loved her show and I’m happy to see that it looks like she is growing up to be a wonderful young lady.
I call it “the number sign,” as in “#1.” I use “lb.” for pound, or that funny L thing if it’s the British currency.
I called it pound for the phone button and for the symbol alone. I’m not sure where/when I learned it, but I use the same terms as you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign
That’s probably why I never bothered to become a twit.
I’d never heard of the “pound sign” until I started hearing it on automated phone systems. Maybe it’s European.
You’re probably right.
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