Nerdville: Hungry, Hungry, Hunger Games

As today is the world wide launch of the new Hunger Games movie as well as being the launch of my new blog, I thought it only appropriate to do a post dedicated to the film. Well, actually, less to the film than to the absolutely phenomenal book series behind it.

I waited in line last night for far too many hours than I am proud to admit to attend the 12:01am showing of the film this morning. Froze my butt off, ate tons of junk food, and got absolutely zero sleep (I had to start work at 6:30 this morning, so really, what was the point of going to bed?) all in order to watch a movie that from the beginning never really had a hope of measuring up to a) the book, and b) my expectations. Was it worth it? Absolutely! Although internally I am still of course compiling a list of all the ways the book and movie differed (i.e., all the reasons the book is better than the movie), I did quite enjoy it. Which, for those of you who know me, is really saying something when it comes to movies based on my favourite books. For most of the Harry Potter movies it took me 2 or 3 times before I could admit that they were tolerable adaptations of the books. Because, really, how could you even hope to transpose the genius that is J.K. Rowling into film?

Anyways, all that to say that I love love love The Hunger Games. And since this blog is also meant to be partially dedicated to food, it seemed an appropriate place to start. Oooh and also, I found this shirt today online and it took me all of 3 milliseconds to decide that I had to have it! It will go so well with my already (gulp) very large collection of nerdy t-shirts!

Happy Hunger Games everyone!

http://www.snorgtees.com/t-shirts/hungry-hungry-games

Oh, and while I'm talking about The Hunger Games and food, check out this delightfully nerdy post on one of my favourite food blogs:
http://www.confessionsofacookbookqueen.com/2012/03/hunger-games-party-food-ideas