Happy 1st Birthday, Anchor Cove

[milowent]

Yes, milo has been M.I.A. lately.

But he has materialized to wish a very happy 1st birthday to Anchor Cove.

Kudos to Alissa for starting the board (aka "Alissa's LG15 Discussion Forum") at 11:12pm Eastern Time on September 4, 2006:



And thanks to John Green for championing the idea of the new board in the first place.

Hooray For the New Board Thread (Sept 4, 2006)



A very quick mention of some of the triumphs of Anchor Cove in the past year:

Sept 5: The cassie craziness starts here, when Virginia Heffernan asks for our help deciphering a weird message supposedly from Cassie. thread. A week later the first cassie video is posted and all hell breaks loose. We dub the bag the "head" of Cassie.

Sept 6: Lonelygirl15.com is pleading for us to come back to their new shiny board. The 1st registrations come from an email belonging to "Miles Beckett" - whoops! Terryfic is made admin of the new board. Alissa is made a mod, as is Hyemew, and later Noasinger.


Sept 7:: A Message From The "Creators" analyzed. OK, we KNOW its "fake" now.



Sept 12At 1:16am, poster ennovi is first to find jessica rose's cached myspace page. thread link. 24 crazy hours ensue.



later in SeptAlissa meets Virginia Heffernan of the NY Times



Sept 17:: Anchor Cove disavows cassieiswatching. A controversial time.


Oct 8, 2006: Bukanator enters the building. I.e., Grant Steinfeld, of the original LG15 team, and the original "Bukanator" joins the board.


Oct 19, 2006. The nohogirls are "exposed" by Smashing et al., and identities of numerous cast members are revealed.


Nov 8. Anchor Cove takes arms to save Yousef, and succeeds!




Mid Dec. Cara Brimley is revealed as actress Mary Newman

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZvxNEIGT8E


Jan 25, 2007. Alli Danziger is identified as the actress playing Nikki Bower -- with a very close connection to the Creators.
Terry's Expose Video


Jan-Sept 2007 We bitch and moan and still have a great time doing it. Many new friends join us, and old ones who depart are missed.

Add your memories.

ETA: Hey Flwright, you made it, didn't you?

[Alissa Brooke]

That is certainly a terrible picture of me. I didn't realize I was still working at that godawful place last September. Hahaha.

[elixir]

Milo! So great to see you again.

You know up until I had my computer fixed a couple of weeks ago, my bookmark was still called "Alissa's LG15 Discussion Forum."

Thank you for setting up this wonderful community Alissa. The past year has been rich and interesting. And no, that is not a bad picture of you at all!

It was funny reading through those dates, Milo, and comparing them to what I was doing myself. My only regret is that I didn't just start posting here more often sooner. My obsession with LG and my disdain for it was just as strong. To think of all that bitching I missed out on doing. For shame! Hehe. And I missed out on getting to know you guys sooner.

I guess for me, pre-reveal I was reading posts here and at the first LG forum without registering, and then post-reveal I was forced to register here if I wanted to keep reading and so I did. Very glad I did. I made a few early posts, and then got intimidated by you guys when CiW was disavowed. So I guess I just went back into lurker mode till about November/December here and occasionally at the phorum. By January I was losing interest. All the Op stuff was irritating me, and I thought LG couldn't get any worse. Ha!

For some reason I was drawn back to LG and the Cove in February, and by March I was posting again. Now I'm posting way too much... when I should be doing other things in my life, lol.

Anyway, the best part has been meeting everyone here. You guys are great, and I hope we can keep our Cove going for a very long time.

[Alissa Brooke]

Elixir: Look what I did to my beautiful long hair, though! Of course it is a terrible picture It's still not even as long as it used to be, but, it did grow long in a year!! It's almost to my shoulders now, wow.

[flwright]

milowent said:

Hey Flwright, you made it, didn't you?

365 posts in 365 days. This has been a wonderful ride. See you at the New Anchor Cove!

A special thank you to Riana who gave birth to this gifted child of Anchor Cove. She raised it with a firm and loving hand and was wise enough to let it go.

PS There's the latest edition of the New Cove Times waiting for you there!

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