Cheat To Win

Not even joking when I say that I scream this at people on the regular.

I’m in a weight loss competition at work and our team is named The Hungah Games.

I made this to mark the start of the contest.  Yet again: get in line, dudes.

By suggesting that Katniss occupied feminine and masculine positions (and is therefore not locked into either), I was inching toward the idea that gender absolutes are less confusing than inapt. I mean, is killing masculine? Is nurturing feminine? Katniss nurtures and she kills, and she does both extremely well. Katniss is a fantasy figure, but partly what makes her powerful — and, I suspect, what makes her so important to a lot of girls and women — is that she’s one of the truest feeling, most complex female characters to hit American movies in a while. She isn’t passive, she isn’t weak, and she isn’t some random girl. She’s active, she’s strong and she’s the girl who motivates the story.

Boom goes the dynamite (at the food supply near the Cornucopia).

Everybody know (I’m a motherfucking monster)

I made this at work and then sent it to my brother just now.

Ok, I can only IMAGINE how amazing this would be…

Just a few more weeks…

Found a colored version of the Mockingjay pin photo.  Still want it.

Is it March 23rd yet?

New photo and article about Lenny Kravitz and his role in The Hunger Games as Cinna.  He has this to say about the book and his character: 

Kravitz took the role after meeting with director Gary Ross (Pleasantville) and reading the first book of the best-selling trilogy by Suzanne Collins. “I thought it was really good storytelling,“ Kravitz says. “I’m very much into stories. The character was interesting. I like Gary’s previous work. And I said, Yeah, let’s go.”

In The Hunger Games, his character creates a series of striking outfits for the young warrior, which isn’t exactly a stretch for the stylish rocker. “He’s very streamlined, he’s very quiet,” Kravitz says of Cinna. “He knows what he’s doing. He’s confident. He’s got a big heart. I just liked the way he moved – very smooth.”