Panem

Someone has way too much time on their hands, and I love them for it.  Behold, a functional map of Panem!

Explanation from the creator here.  It's pretty spot-on.

Hm

Does anyone else see the irony in a line of Hunger Games-branded nail polishes?  Ie beauty products inspired by a book that spends several chapters excoriating the vanity of the villains as a symbol of their shallowness, excess, and sponsorship of youth-on-youth murder as a form of entertainment?

Although that gold one does look pretty sweet.  I hope they use it on Cinna.

It's Here! It's Here!

This trailer looks great.  I am so excited for the movie.  It honestly gave me chills, and it didn't even show any of the Games itself!  Eeeeeeeeeeee!

Katniss!

Not to brag or anything, but I read The Hunger Games ages ago and have been shoving people onto the bandwagon ever since (go buy it right now if you haven't.  It's a YA novel; they cost like nine bucks and take ninety minutes to read.  DO IT).  And now it's going to be a movie!  With Jennifer Lawrence!  And this picture is pretty spot-on, yes it is!

Yes, it is totes Photoshopped to the point of looking animated, but the hair!  the eyes!  the pin!  Suck it, teenagers who felt Jennifer Lawrence was "too blonde" for the role - I watched Winter's Bone recently, and if anyone's going to play a tough teenager willing to kill or be killed for her family, it's her.