Gary Ross gave an interview that said they will not be doing voice over to narrate Katniss' thoughts. Thank god.

Do you think she house she walks into is an actual District 12 house? It looks sort of like early set pictures.

They are on shows on CBS. I don't know about Kate Beckinsale though.

I live in jersey city now and it's basically yuppie moms and hilarious bums (including a man who regularly pushes his girlfriend in a shopping cart). I love it.

Amazing! I love the one about disney brides.

Oh yes! wedding blog forums are GREAT hate reads. When I was engaged I would waste hours snickering over other people's wedding drama. "My SISTER IN LAW wants to wear teal to my wedding, but that's totally one of my four accent colors, the bitch."

I used to hate-read childfree communities on Livejournal - not because I have anything against choosing to be childfree but because some of the complaints on there were so ridiculous. "I was in the PARK and this RUGRAT was crying cause he fell!" But then again, I also hate-read the mommy communities on LJ because of…

Got it, I thought by your use of "tried" that you didn't agree with the conversation. My fault!

I'm sure, but I have been catcalled in front of some construction sites (which I expand to include roadwork crews, etc - I know not technically a construction site) and now I cross the street, most of the time it's almost unconscious.

Well, yes I think my husband doesn't see street harassment* because he doesn't have to deal with it or change his normal behavior on regular basis - that's a type of privilege.

I don't find it that hard to believe that the last guy had never witnessed anyone catcall - it's just something you don't see if you're not the person that it's directed at. My husband is similarly oblivious. When I told him about a harmless (to me) incident when a man mumbled "girl, you cute" as he passed me on the…

This reminds of when I went to Sea World (ugh - this was a long time ago, I would not visit Sea World now) and we were going through the glass tunnel where the sharks swim around you. I was trying to tease my younger cousin (around 5?) and was like "aren't you scared? the glass could break and then all the sharks…

Taye! Extra fingers are considered super lucky in India - you shoulda kept them! (Although it seems like you're all set in the luck dept.)

I took my husband's name but when we were dating we went on a vacation to Mexico. I booked all the flights/hotels/excursions under my name alone (except for the flight) so for the whole trip people were calling him Mr. Myname. It was funny but it sort of squicked me out because Mr. Myname is my dad alone (I don't…

I think this is the song Katniss sings to Rue. I bet Jennifer Lawrence will sing a potion of it in the film (I read an interview where the director or someone said she had a nice singing voice) and Taylor Swift will be on the soundtrack. Taylor's voice make sense to me - in context of the song being sung to a very…

RE: Kal Penn getting his original name credited I believe in "The Namesake" he was credited twice - "Gogol Ganguli" (the character's original name) as Kalpen Modi and "Nikhil Ganguli" (what the character changes his name to) as Kal Penn. If you've seen the movie/read the book I thought it was a nice nod to the…

Interesting! Zoroastrian funerals also involve leaving the body out so that vultures can pick the body clean.

yea my girl friends and i call each other bro all the time. we even use it as a verb "bro-out" when we just want to get together and be comfortable and drink. i am bros with both males and females cuz we get together, have fun and don't fight or generally have any sort of weirdness that can sometimes crop up in…

It comes off a little odd that you used Hinduism as a counterpoint to show that Muslims are normal. I don't think you meant it - but it sounds like you're saying Hindus aren't normal.

My middle name is my father's first name (as is tradition in Indian households) so I took my husband's last name and kept my father's name as my middle. My mother and my sister both have that as their middle names so I still have *my* family name while also sharing my husband's last. Changing my last name wasn't a big…