Blogger History - Julie and Julia

I joined Blogger about a year ago. It seems like I've been posting entries forever.

Watching the movie "Julie and Julia" last night, I wonder what I was doing seven years ago, when so many already were into Blogger. I had not heard of salon.com, but it's out there, and full of the latest content.

The setting for the movie script could have been yesterday. The dialogue about who writes and reads blogs hasn't changed. The terrorists, the targets, the grieving, and the frightened are the same as in 2002. The oppressors are the same as the Joseph McCarthy death squads of the 50's.

Food! What a contrast in movies, between "Julie and Julia", and "Cloudy, with a Chance of Meatballs", which we watched the night before. That one could give you nightmares. And then, there was the restaurant scene from Monty Python's "the Meaning of Life", which I vowed never to watch again, but there it was in the "Monty Python Documentary II" we watched last Tuesday.

Was there anything to watch on TV this month? We've gone through more Netflix movies this month than we had in the previous six months. There was no lack of in-person social networking with various family and community Christmas celebrations.