Recently I have been telling this story to a lot of people and then I realized that it was not even mentioned in our blog. I am of course talking about one of the major inspirations or starting our blog.
The story is set in the summer before the start of sophomore year. Shari had come to visit me in San Jose and we were out on the town that night with Emoinacloset. Somehow, we decide to go watch the movie Julie and Julia. On the surface, it might seem like a strange choice for two teenage males but the truth was that we had been anticipating this film since seeing the trailer months before it came out.
Julie and Julia is this wonderful movie about two women. One of them is Julia Child, the legendary American chef who became famous for bringing French cooking to the average American home. She also had a long running cooking show on TV. Despite her legendary status, I am always surprised to hear from so many people that they have never heard of her before. The second women is simply a woman named Julie, an average woman living an average life. One day she decides to cook through Julia Child's first cookbook in one year and blog about the experience. The original blog is still accessible, and if you read it and watch the movie you will find that the movie is a lot more family friendly.
After, the movie there was no doubt in my mind that I wanted to start blogging immediately. Emoinacloset seemed to have the same thought in his head and a week later we pitched the idea to the rest of the coffee group. Dreams of getting a book and movie deal ran through our heads. Sometimes I think that if Dontscuffmyshoes and Robocop had watched Julie and Julia, they would be more inclined to contribute to the blog. Though it is too late now, it looks like it will be me and Emoinacloset who will be laughing all the way to the bank since as a group we decided that any money resulting from selling our story would be split by the percentage of posts each person writes.
The bottom line is that I am admitting that one of the inspirations for our blog is a chick flick and there is nothing wrong with that!
-muffinman
