Low Budget Superhero

Julie Powell is annoying. I know, I know, I'm jealous. I should really give myself some more time to get over my jealousy before I write about her first book, Jule & Julia, now a major motion blah blah blah blah blah.

This chick is living the dream. Her stupid blog got her a book deal, and now a fucking movie. I would normally applaud a fellow diarist's success. But Julie Powell writes that she had never even heard of a blog when she started to cook from Mastering The Art of French Cooking and write about the prior night's cooking every morning. It wasn't even her idea, but that of her husband. "Of course I didn't know what a blog was. It was August of 2002. Nobody knew about blogs..."

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