There’s something hilarious about the idea of the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Juno being housebound due to the care of a newborn. But such has been the case in recent months for Diablo Cody (pictured), albeit from the relative comfort of her well-appointed Hollywood Hills abode.

As any parent who has gone through that drill knows, the first real trip out of the house is one to both look forward to and savor. In Cody’s case, it will be when she heads to the east coast at the beginning of February to attend the third annual edition at Barnard College of the female-centric Athena Film Festival (February 7-10), for which she is one of the co-chairs.

“I have a toddler and an infant right now,” Cody tells FishbowlLA via telephone. “I don’t get out to the movies, I don’t get out to have dinner, I don’t get out to my friend’s Live Reads [Jason Reitman, LACMA]. I am so home-bound right now. That’s why I’m so excited about the Athena Film Festival and getting to go to New York for a couple of days. I’m going alone, so I don’t know what I’m going to do with all that “thinking” time.”

Cody will also have the opportunity to finally meet a fellow female Hollywood trailblazer, Gale Anne Hurd, who is receiving the event’s Laura Ziskin Lifetime Achievement Award. “I’m really excited about that,” Cody confirms. “I think it’s so cool that she’s getting this award. I’m really interested to hear the Q&A with her and hear about the experiences that she’s had. Especially making these films that I think a lot of people would consider not to be in a woman’s wheelhouse. She’s probably got a lot to say.”

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Before and after the Golden Globes, one of the best sources of inside info about the 70th annual awards telecast remains, not surprisingly, the chairman of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

Ruben Nepales and his wife Janet (also an HFPA voting member) beamed in very early PT time this past Saturday to chat on Canadian cable channel CBC News Network’s program News Now about the next day’s big awards show. And today, in his latest Inquirer column, Ruben shares this fascinating tidbit:

Now it can be told — the original plan was for Alec Baldwin and Tina Fey to co-host the show but that did not pan out (he reportedly declined). That’s when the Tina Fey-Amy Poehler combination was suggested. The idea was immediately met with excitement. The duo lived up to expectations and more.

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The media blitz for this weekend’s Golden Globes BFF tandem has included exclusive chats with THR and EW as well as a Wednesday afternoon conference call. From each, we’ve gleaned a suitably cheesy highlight.

Best Sports Analogy: If the Oscars are Hollywood’s version of the Super Bowl, then the Golden Globes logically correspond to the NCAA Football championship game. When asked by EW‘s Dan Snierson about their kudos M.O., Fey suggested that she and Poehler are “going to be the first people ever to do a man-to-man hosting strategy. We’re going to tell a joke to every single person in the audience. Most people do a zone — we’re going man-to-man.”

Best Q&A Glitch: During the bi-coastal telephone interview with THR news editor Matthew Belloni (Fey dialed in from New York, Poehler via LA), the Parks and Recreation star fell off the call halfway through. What’s funny is that the Q&A fully transcribes the details, right down to Poehler’s joke that she had stopped for a “quick facial.”

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Late this afternoon, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association tweeted out a spectacular bit of news:

Media reaction is pouring in and so far it’s unanimously ecstatic. Anne Thompson cheers “Good call, HFPA!”; CELEBUZZ senior TV editor Jethro Nededog suggests that Dick Clark Productions, the HFPA and NBC all “deserve a standing ovation;” and TVLine’s Michael Ausiello and Kimberly Roots enthusiastically declare “we want to go there.”

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Southern California’s oldest bookstore is going to guest star on NBC’s hit series this fall. Blogger Lindsay of I Am Not a Stalker stumbled upon film crews last week at her beloved Vroman’s, and was able to snap some photos of the set. She learned that in the upcoming season, Amy Poehler‘s character Leslie Knope publishes a book, “Pawnee: The Greatest Town in America,” which will also be published IRL on October 4 by Hyperion.

Sadly, Lindsay did not take any sneak peek photos of the books contents. So we’ll just have to be patient.

Vroman’s will serve as the setting for a book signing by the plucky Knope. Crews had midwesternized the bookstore down to a palm tree outside, which was dressed with fake bark and leaves to resemble a variety native to the area.

Tip o’ the hat to Jacket Copy

If you wanted more proof to add to your suspicion that after all this time anonymous schlongs still rule Internet content – here it is: ChatRoulette is being honored with a Webby.

Press release in full:

ChatRoulette, the video chat sensation that became a pop culture phenomenon almost overnight, will be honored with the Webby Breakout of the Year Award at the 14th Annual Webby Awards ceremony in New York City on June 14th, organizers announced today.

Founder Andrey Ternovskiy, a Russian teenager who created the site for his friends, will be on hand to accept the honor.

By combining video-chatting technology and randomization, ChatRoulette pairs users from all over the world in arbitrary video conversations, creating an new type of online experience that can be both thrilling and exhausting. Described by New York magazine as “one of those gloriously simple ideas that manages to harness the crazy power of the Internet in a potentially revolutionary way,” Chatroulette.com now boasts tens of thousands of users online at any given moment.

“ChatRoulette’s success offers a refreshing reminder that the Internet still offers a level playing field where anyone with a great idea or product can flourish,” said David-Michel Davies, executive director of The Webby Awards. “The product of a simple yet utterly original idea, launched without any concern for profit or growth, ChatRoulette embodies the sort of accidental innovation that only the Internet can produce.”

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Just in case you missed it. This is the first of two sketches Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin was in at SNL. Alec Baldwin also made a cameo. Palin says that Stephen Baldwin is her favorite Baldwin brother. Stephen Baldwin has been saying he’ll move to Canada if Barack Obama is elected. He thinks Canada is a refuge for anti-intellectual, neo-conservative zealots…like he’s confusing it with Alaska.

Anyway, there’s also the Sarah Palin Rap by Amy Poehler. It’s what she’ll be noted for 50 years from now. Amy…not Sarah.

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NBC has successfully (at least for now) taken all the clips of this off YouTube. It’s available at NBC.com but there’s not code to embed it. So we improvised. Link is here.

This is Tina Fey doing a brilliant Sarah Palin impression. Amy Poehler does Hillary Clinton.

Poehler says, “I invited the media to grow a pair and if not I will lend you mine.”