Diablo Cody is our new geek crush. The 29-year-old stripper-turned-writer (a phrase that’s rapidly becoming her actual first name) got spotted when her soon-to-be manager found her blog online while looking for porn. She wrote indie future-classic Juno in her local Starbucks and is becoming famous for actually doing something, which is lovely. It’s likely that you’ll chatter about her or Juno or both in the next couple of months, so here are a few pub-nuggets to make you appear informed. And suave. If you deliver them in the right way.

1. Diablo Cody is a pen name, replacing the slightly more St Trinians-ey “Brook Busey-Hunt”. She picked it as a tough-broad handle to give her sex-industry blogging/writing a harder front, and churned out Candy Girl, a memoir of her time as a stripper, in 2006.

2. She’s totally down with the internet, where her talents were first spotted, and she now blogs regularly on The Pussy Ranch, MySpace and even entertainment bible EW. And she’s funny! ROFL!

3. She’s smashing the traditional screenwriter mould. Not only did Juno’s producers avoid the typical rewrites-from-multiple-writers route, but she was on-set almost every day and got involved in every aspect of the movie. Hence the canny deployment of Diablo Cody as a marketing weapon, and cute-and-quirky YouTube virals like this:

4. She’s of sound sonic mind. Juno got the Moldy Peaches back together, the soundtrack mixes Kimya Dawson, Cat Power, Belle & Sebastian and Mott The Hoople, and she’s a big Weezer fan. See her latest MySpace blog entry: “I'm playing "Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo." Rather, the album is playing me. It is ear-fucking the shit out of me. If I listen to "Blast Off" one more time, my neighbors might call the fuzz.”

5. She’s written a horror/comedy movie called Jennifer’s Body. This Jennifer’s Body? Oooh.

Juno comes out in the UK on February 8.