Becca and Becca

          Turns out there aren't a lot of names that sound like mine....well...point is I have seen the movie Julie&Julia many times. I really liked like the movie to be perfectly honest. So if you haven't seen the movie, I would recommend it, for the most part. I guess it depends on the type of movies you like, if you are like me and really go for most of everything BUT horror, because no. No thank you, a million times over NO. But if you aren't and you like more specific movies then maybe not. Anyways this movie is about Julia Child the chef. And Julie something or another, I don't remember her last name and quite frankly I am feeling a bit too lazy to look it up. So Julie is going through a woman's version of a mid-life crisis comes much sooner in our lives as woman stereo-typically mature faster then men. So point is Julie is going through hers and decides to start a blog about doing a cooking challenge. 500 or so recipes within a year. So there is the main idea of the plot, but there is so much more going on. 

           I think in the movie Julie who is doing the blog the food becomes a crutch for her, a reason to get to hide behind all the other stuff that is happening in her life. I mean for some people isn't that what a blog is for? Take the show Awkward for an example, in the show she writes a private blog to vent about her life, to be become a faceless person in the world wide web. The food in Julie's life becomes the all important theme because its easier to fix a messed up meal than it is to fix the problems we have in life. 

          So these problems are going to be appearing in her life even if she tries to avoid them. Is there such a thing though as having a personal blog about our lives, and then not including certain parts? I made a mention before of MTV's show Awkward.

          Well her personal "private" blog went live. oh oops, spoiler alert. Anyways it was a complete mess. So I wonder now, when people post certain things how they don't think it won't come back and bite them in the butt. Yet in the movie Julie writes about her husband, and how he is a saint, that is her thing, what she calls him. And then mentions in a blog post how she burnt some of her food for an important event and decided to call into work "sick". Problem here though is what if you told someone that you work with that you a) have a blog, b) twitter account c) facebook or i guess some people actually use Google+? I didn't know that but okay. 

        Point is though its dangerous if you are friends, followers, or in circles? - is that what Google+ does? Anyways its dangerous game when you are connected with people at work ESPECIALLY your boss. I mean come on... you are just asking for trouble. So in the movie when Julie starts to write blog post that start involving her personal life things get a little rocky. But then I guess keeping blog life separate from personal life is next to impossible sometimes. As a seasoned blogger long before this class, I can honesty say that lone thing a blog does, it becomes part of your life. If you are passionate about it, it really does. So when Julie starts to involve her personal life is it that shocking? Not really, should have wrote a blog post telling the whole world that she called into work sick but really was at home cooking? Hell no. Should she have talked about her fight with her husband, again, no! This is about her cooking and trust me sometimes its hard to keep things separate but somethings really need to be kept separate. 

          Julia talks about her readers a lot. Like a lot, a lot. My readers want me to do this, or that. But I wonder how do people get interested in blogs like that. The other blog I run is a reviewing blog for indie books I know why people would stop by there. Very specific. So  with Julie's blog it makes me wonder, why? I suppose though it comes right down to the target audience, people might have looked up how to make this type of food, but in a different way. And I mean wasn't that Julia's idea in the first place. To make French cooking accessible to every woman in the States? So in different times they are trying to do the same thing in a way. Unfortunately for Julie when Julia Child found out about this is was kinda rude about it and wanted nothing to do with it. In all honesty I don't really know why Julia Child didn't care for Julie's blog maybe she thought Julie was a bored house-wife trying to make money off of her legacy. 

          When it comes right down to it. Bloggers, real, true bloggers, tend to let their lives intermingle with their blog. It make take some coaxing, but it happens. When that happens the blogger needs to be very careful. Julie should have been more careful at times. In the end the blog for her I think was very helpful, she finally faced certain problems. So

Just kidding.