I heart Diablo Cody.

From stripper dreams to mayor league winnings. A hot exhibitionist with a brain?  Sounds like my kinda gal!  What a weekend for Diablo Cody!  This young talent has finally earned the recognition she deserves!  Kudos to you, Cody!Former stripper and peep show model (and my newest hero), 30 year old Brook Busey-Hunt, best known by her pen name, Diablo Cody, definitely had the time of her life this year!  During the month of August, her debut film, Juno, directed by Jason Reitman, was a complete success at the Toronto International Film Festival, after which interest in all things Juno skyrocketed and became increasingly widespread.  During this past weekend, the “Juno buzz” reached its maximum high, as both the film’s screenplay and lead actress, Ellen Page, became the recepients of several prestigious, highly-respected awards.Busey-Hunt was on cloud nine this weekend, happily accepting the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay on Saturday night, and on Sunday evening, amidst shaky nerves and grateful tears of joy and shock, Cody accepted the prestigious Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay, taking home the gold for her debut mainstream project.  Cody thanked her family for loving her “just the way I am,” tearfully smiled, and walked away.  And, with such seemingly small actions, Brook Busey-Hunt served as an inspiration to hundreds of young women everywhere who have ever felt like screw-ups or have ever dared to dream unconventionally.  However, this is not the story of an extremely lucky bright young stripper who sat down one day, closed her eyes, and laid a book… Diablo Cody has actually been writing great stuff for years, both blogging and publishing.Wikipedia.com’s brief biography on Busey-Hunt reports:

Cody, who took the pen name Diablo Cody (Diablo is Spanish for “devil”) during a trip to Cody, Wyoming,^[3] attended Benet Academy, a Roman Catholic school in Lisle, Illinois. She graduated from the University of Iowa with a media studies degree.^[4] While at the University of Iowa, Cody was a DJ at KRUI 89.7 FM. Her first jobs were doing secretarial work at a Chicago law firm and later proofreading copy for advertisements that played on Twin Cities radio stations. Cody began a parody of a weblog called Blue Secretary, detailing the (fictional) exploits of a secretary living in Belarus.^[5] The events were thinly-veiled allegories for events that happened in Cody’s real life, but told from the perspective of a disgruntled, English-idiom-challenged Eastern Bloc girl. Cody’s first bona fide blog appeared under the nickname Darling Girl after Cody had moved to Minneapolis from Chicago to “live in sin” with Jon (Jonny) Hunt, a musician she had met over the Internet.^[5] They married in October 2004, but separated in late 2007. On December 5, 2007, Cody announced in her “Pussy Ranch” blog that they are now divorced; Hunt wrote that they nonetheless remain friends.On a whim, Cody signed up for amateur night at a Minneapolis strip club called the Skyway Lounge.^[4] Enjoying the novelty of the experience, she eventually quit her day job and took up stripping full-time.^[6] Cody also spent time working peep shows at Sex World, a Minneapolis adult novelty and DVD store. Eventually she became disillusioned with stripping and switched to phone sex before eventually returning to stripping. Cody soon made a retreat to more traditional employment in journalism, and a budding writing career stimulated by her skin trade days.While still stripping, Cody began writing for City Pages, an alternative Twin Cities weekly newspaper.^[4] She left City Pages just before it changed editorial hands. Cody has since written for the now-defunct Jane magazine. In December 2007, Cody debuted as Entertainment Weekly magazine’s newest Backpage columnist, joining regular contributors Dalton Ross and the iconic pop horror author Stephen King on a rotational basis.At the age of 24, Cody wrote her memoir Candy Girl: A Year in The Life of an Unlikely Stripper. The memoir began after Mason Novick, a manager, showed interest in Cody’s acerbic wit and the popularity Pussy Ranch had received. Novick, who would soon become Cody’s manager, secured a publisher and the memoir became a critical success. After completion of her book, Cody was encouraged by Novick to write her first screenplay.^[3] Within months she wrote Juno, a coming-of-age story about a teenager’s unplanned pregnancy. The Jason Reitman-directed comedy stars Ellen Page and Michael Cera and was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Original Screenplay for Cody, which she won. In July 2007, Showtime announced that it would be producing a pilot of Cody’s Dreamworks television series, The United States of Tara. Based on an idea by Steven Spielberg, Tara, a comedy about a mother with dissociative identity disorder, stars Toni Collette^[7] and will begin filming in Spring 2008. In October 2007, Cody sold a script titled Girly Style to Universal Studios, and a horror script called Jennifer’s Body, starring Megan Fox, to Fox Atomic.^[8] She also partially wrote the script for Burlesque, a musical film by director/screenwriter Steven Antin.^[9]