Like everyone who doesn’t outright hate her, I have mixed feelings about the young lady who calls herself Diablo Cody. On the one hand, she’s an odd story: a woman who has become famous ostensibly for being a smart writer, both of screenplays and of a mythical high-concept cinderella back story. There’s a vicarious Gatsby thrill to be had in watching the former Brook Busey become a media darling without being a starlet, and if Cody does win an Oscar on Sunday, even the biggest haters will be glued to the screen for her acceptance speech, if only to groan at the next “honest to blog.” On the other, we’re all a little sick of that personal legend being shoved down our throats, and Cody could cause fatal injury to her career if she, say, thanks her old stripper buddies (or worse: Spielberg) in that acceptance speech.

But no matter your feelings on the Diablo Cody Industrial Complex, it’s about time she got the parody treatment (even though, in the real world, Cody is hardly famous.) Comedian Jackie Clarke does her best (breast) Cody impersonation in this SuperDeluxe video by the comedy team Olde English:

It’s (Consumer Electronics) Show time in Vegas, and last night’s keynote address came packing a pop culture-savvy video designed to give some morale back to the John Hodgmanized ranks of the Microsoft fanboys, by putting their fearless leader in cute situations with lots of people that probably use Macs in real life (or, at least in the case of Bono, have iPods made in their honor). It’s like a who’s who of notable people! Excluding conservative politicians.

We tried to reach Steve Jobs for comment but were told he was busy being jealous.

At the end of the speech, Bill brought in a ringer to defeat Robert Bach’s ringer in Guitar Hero III…

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Take our ink-stained hands and join us at the OldStand, where Jon McMillan goes to remind everyone what an honest-to-goodness music magazine is supposed to look like.

We got such a positive response to our post about a recently-excavated back issue of Rolling Stone, that we thought we’d dig a little deeper in the nostalgia pile, all the way down to October 24th, 1985.

RS No. 459 features Billy Crystal, an environmental disaster, a long interview with cover-mogul Steven Spielberg, and a glowing writeup of a RHCP album (debut full-length Freaky Styley), making this strictly a déjà vu affair. There’s also a snarky takedown/recap of the second annual MTV Video Awards, which reads suspiciously like a blog (“Someone performed fellatio on someone else in the hall, but nobody cared — they weren’t famous”). Ouch.

After the jump: portable turntables are all the rage, E.T. blanches Spielberg’s netherparts, and Ray Charles ends a sentence with a preposition. Unknown vandals swiped the Table of Contents and the charts (along with pictures of the Eurythmics), so you’ll have to settle for a context-free graphic that details a big-money showdown between The Boss, Luther Vandross, Wham!, and anyone lucky enough to be on tour with the Scorpions. May the best band win!

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