Her highly conventional brand of being wildly unconventional is just what this picket fence town needs!

why can't I get over the fact that she uses a pen name that is, perhaps, one of the lamest that I've ever encountered in my entire life...(according to wikipedia: Diablo means Devil in Spanish!) - is she still 12? It's not nearly as awesome as [en.wikipedia.org]

she's just too clever for me, folks.

I loved Juno (minus the first ten minutes) but her EW column is terrible. Not quite Joel Stein terrible, but pretty terrible.

Note from the picket line... she's NOWHERE to be found. You're in the WGA now, Diable. Less talky, more walky.

man, what a bitter parade, y'alls.

I heard her speak at a Juno screening and she was pretty funny, all the right kinds of self-effacing and appreciative of her success, and savvy enough to expect the inevitable skewering she'd receive from some of the internet's bravest, dullest knives that post anonymously.

That said, I didn't think Juno was, like, hecka amazing or anything.

I have a sinking suspicion that one day we'll fire up the internets and discover that "Diablo Cody" is stripperese for "Riley Weston".

When can we stop referring to her as the ex-stripper? Is there some sort of waiting period, or does that stay with you forever?

Because I'm wondering if that might help out my resume.

I liked Juno, but...
That whole rich-girl-slums-it-as-a-stripper-so-she-can-blog-about-it thing strikes me as little more than an updated version of Black Like Me. Only, it's Poor White Trash Like Me, and instead of charges of racial insensitivity and a regular spot on students' summer reading lists, it got her an agent, a book deal and some serious Hollywood heat. Either way, it's social tourism, and when the class war finally arrives, she'll have lots to answer for.
(Unless, of course, the upper-class actually wins...*gulp*.)

@LIttle Mintz Sunshine: YES! Thank you! There was something familiarly annoying and off-putting about her and that's it. It's the whole much ado about a little, quirky writer girl who becomes more of a story than her material. I don't know if she'll be revealed as a hoax like Riley, but this whole thing smacks of something less than genuine, starting with her name.

"unlikely stripper" indeed...

Honey - enjoy the brief fame, for you are just a fart in a leopard spot mitten...

@Ju-osh: You mean like the book that came out a couple of years ago by the girl who tried a whole year of different jobs, including OMG A STRIPPER IN VEGAS, and then got a book deal?

Now I cannot even remember her name...

I'm not saying she's a fake or not talented (time will tell), and yeah, the whole "always mention the stripping" thing is getting really annoying...and offensive frankly...
I'm just so damn tired of hearing about her - I really don't like being told who is cool or "it" or "now"...

Yeah, there is something about her that smacks (okay, more than smacks) of Riley Westonishness. I mean, hey, it may be the truth, but it's still a little odd to see here getting so much attention. There have been plenty of good screenwriters in the past (yes, Juno was okay). If she wasn't been a female-former-stripper — or if people didn't think she'd been, whatever — she'd be sitting at home lying to her agent about how hard she's working on her next script like any other writer while watching Ivan Reitman Jr. and Michael Cera do the talk show circuit.

It's actually disappointing, on that score, to see her showing up in the press so much, just because under that ugly round table Guber and Bart have got themselves old-man stiffies.

Again, this is why I ask. Apparently the mistake I made all these years was leaving stripping OFF of my resume.

And going Rockabilly/punk/leopard with my look.

Eh whatever, she's not any more opportunistic than the rest of the "I spent a year saying yes to every date / eating locally/living as the Bible says/ eating fast food" asshats we've already had crammed down our throats. All this bile reeks of envy... and since according to the WGA, women constitute only 27 percent of television writers and 19 percent of feature film writers dont you think you may want to lay the %^#%&( off a young woman beating the odds whose only sin seems to be an overly eager publicist?

Please her name is Brooke Busey, let's all just stop with the 'Diablo Cody' bit.

Thats hiring an overly eager publicist. And if you think she's annoying, you weren't around for the wankfest that was Tarantino's machine before his ticket expired.

@jrhys: "women constitute only 27 percent of television writers and 19 percent of feature film writers"

Yes, which is why when a mediocre film is being lauded as the greatest thing ever largely because its author is a female sexual exhibitionist with a personal style that hasn't been "edgy" or "cool" since 1999, it's painfully insulting.

If only Sarah Polley flashed her tits more. Or had a hamburger phone.

If only Sarah Polley flashed her tits more. Or had a hamburger phone.

Genius.

Part of me wants to give her a pass. She wrote a competent, occaisionally inspired, yet thoroughly annoying film that ended up being 2007's entry for the all time quirk crown.

However, the other part of my just tried to read her "heroine chic" article and only made it 2/3 of the way through because I realized that finishing the article would only generate more haterade. Hopefully, she gets booed off the proverbial stage at EW, drops the infantile fake name, and writes a better script the second time out.

Does a writer need a publicist? I'm not against her getting press based on the heat of the film, it's the convoluted story of a wannabe Suicide Girl who wrote the movie that I have a problem with in the first place. Let your film speak for itself.

And Sarah Polley - exactly!

Michael Arndt's first script was made into an indie-favorite quirky box office hit that won awards, too, but because he never showed his hooters to anyone, he didn't get anywhere near the kind of press Cody's getting. It's not the success people begrudge her - it's the unwarranted attention because of the Whole Goddamn Stripping Thing.

@goldfarb: I just figured it was her porn name (you know, name of first pet + name of street you grew up on = comedy gold when you're stoned at 3 a.m.), and she lost a bet that if she ever made the big time that's the name she'd use. Or won the bet, who knows? My porn name is Cootie Third, and I'd use that over my real name any day.

@Ju-osh: So blogging experience is the new single motherhood?

@I_Blame_Global_Warming: I think the formula was actually Sounds Vaguely Badass + Visited Wyoming.

@Sweet Panda Love: Based on that logic, I suppose her first pass was Diablo Devil's Tower before she realized that was sort of redundant.

I'm not sure why you're confused about the 'tattoo drama,' as she announced right on her own blog (around the time Juno came out) that she and her husband were getting divorced. She made a "Wino Forever" joke about it.

Hey Haters!

Stop writing so many blog comments and go write a script!

@independentthinkerdude: You sound just like my agent.

@ComicDork:
Wow. Brooke Busey? That actually sounds even more stripper-riffic than Diablo Cody.

@independentthinkerdude: For a supposedly independent thinker and supposedly a dude, you sure got the Jezebel playbook down. Psst...I hear someone said something mean about Salma's baby over on Perez. Go get 'em, princess.

@TheStarterWife: see, the stripping never hurt Courtney Love either. There's your problem. Can't hurt to say you slept with Kurt; who's to say you didn't?

right back @ ya little mintz

i don't read jezebel (i'm a wonkette person) so i don't know what you mean but i'm guessing that questioning your judgment and using exclamation points makes me feminine and gossipy?

didn't mean to spoil your fun; i'll move out of the way so you have a clearer shot at the fish. in the barrel.

That blog is just weird...because of the boringness. I sense some sort of JT Leroy fakeout here. They'll find out she wasn't really a stripper and then everyone will realize that Juno is really, really not what we need right now.

@independentthinkerdude: um - Diablo put herself in the barrel, and handed everyone a gun...

As for writing scripts - sure, right on game there - but I'll now have to make up some crap about being a stripper or something to make me appear 'cool' and 'current' - as I hear being a bar keep for 12 years is old hat... BUT it is excellent for my pitch...

@independentthinkerdude: The point you are missing is that Hollywood is already filled with people with sordid and/or damaged pasts. Her story is nothing new.

If this was an actress, the reaction would be different.

@TheStarterWife: Aww. Thanks, Wifey!

And Little Mintz Sunshine: If only this were Jezebel, where Ms. Cody posts under her own name because no amount of attention is too much (and/or until her publicist stops her), I'm sure we'd get a lovely window into fishes, barrels, and the voices of Teens of 2008 Who Love Thundercats within ...

@Sweet Panda Love: I'd like to have seen her go with Big Pussy Cheyenne.

@I_Blame_Global_Warming:
hmmm...no pets, grew up mostly on 17th street...
sheesh...I'll new get into 'show biz'

Was@goldfarb: Diablo Cody is "more now" than all of us, I'm afraid.

They should really make a show about that.

I love strippers, I have many stripper friends and was a go go dancer (but a good girl). I have this sixth sense and I don't like the smell of this one from two days away.

@TheStarterWife: Take it off!

/commenting for weekend, I swear

The last straw for me was when the ubiquitous Ms. Cody showed up in my mailbox, on the cover of the WGA "magazine" Written By... It's a crap publication to be sure, but it was somehow especially demoralizing to see a woman screenwriter finally getting some recognition, and it turns out to be a twenty-something with one produced film credit whose claim to fame is that she has a pen name worthy of a Bratz doll and used to take her clothes off for money.

p.s. Maybe they should have called that particular issue "Overwritten By"...

I can almost get with the kitchiness of "Diablo" - but "Cody" just makes me think of Kathie Lee Gifford's kid, and I don't know why you'd pick TWO names that are trying too hard.

That column reads like the work of the 78th wittiest commenter in the Gawker universe on a particularly off day. She really is just like us.

@Creepmouse: speak for yourself! I've been trying to become Dave Eggers for ten years.

Alas, I may have succeeded!