All will burn!

I second your thoughts. The guy works so hard he deserves his shot at mainstream fame.

I totally forgot about James Howlett! "Logan" was his made up Dave-name all along!

Melissa Clark has a recipe for a pecan pie made with maple syrup which we love. Here's a link.

I have to stem and chop about 2 lbs of winter greens for braising tomorrow. Would it be a problem if I did all that prep work tonight, and just stored them in an airtight container? Would they need to be refrigerated? Refrigerator space is at a premium since I'm air-drying the turkey.

I know! I know! Let's remake Godzilla but set it in New York instead of Tokyo and it can star Ferris Buller!

I would agree if it was a movie in the mainstream culture, but this is different. If you were to reference the end of Seven or the reveal of Luke's paternity, for instance, then I would have no issue as those were cultural moments that are now spread throughout the general pop culture we find ourselves steeped in.

Well. Evangelion without all the disturbing elements taken out. No Oedipal implications, no daddy issues, no sexual confusion, no existential horror (not so much in comparison). Is Evangelion without ick really Evangelion though?

Why is it odd? The purpose of the games is to humiliate the districts, and the President is quite clear about that.

That's correct for multiple victors, isn't it? If the village belonged to Victor it would be Victor's Village.

Yes to this! I didn't like the end of Mockingjay not because it was a sad ending, but because it made the story of Kat saving her sis pointless to me. In fact, while reading that actual chapter, I didn't even realize what had happened to you know who. It wasn't until a few pages later that I realized, "Wait, she's…

I, for one, would love a switch with Prim and Miss Snow. I always thought Prim's fate was overkill. Kind of makes the whole original sister-swap sort of pointless. Which, I guess, may have been Collins' point, but it doesn't really work as an arc.

They call them the Hunger Games in the book, like the the official name of the show. I think it's more tied to the starvation in the arena.

I've always, always felt that the love plot is by far the weakest thread of the entire trilogy. Katniss is far too smart and disaffected, Gale far too strong and independent, and Peeta far too honest and stoic for the idea of a long-standing love triangle to be plausible. I honestly think the only reason it's in there…

No. The Battle Royale films (note: films, not books; I haven't read the books) were much closer to the present day and thematically closer to something like a twisted version of The Truman Show than to something like the Hunger Games.

Winter is Coming.

My Harry Potter story is very similar. I avoided the books through high school, even though a teacher I really liked insisted they were surprisingly good. I went to see the first movie over a Thanksgiving break my freshman year of college and the idea that Alan Rickman wasn't the evil bad guy was enough to hook me. …

So is this philosophy? Because it isn't science.

This show is like a steampunk telenovela with vampires, but I cannot stop watching it.