Sinister Hunger Stones Are Being Exposed in Europe 😬🙀

 

Sinster Hunger Stones with Dire Warnings are Surfacing in Europe

Atlas Obscura: Welcome Back Hunger Stones

Instapundit: European Climate Megadrought and Sea ice hits 12 year high

AoSHQ: Morning Report 08.15.22

True!

Asshats of the Day: Father and Son tag team hunter in Long Island

I guess the dad and kid prefer deer being killed by vehicles and starvation. Long Island's problem is too many deer. Hunting is a good thing. God--those two are just insufferable.

AoSHQ: Occasional Fishing and Hunting Thread

The White House Correspondent Dinner

Instapundit: Everything that is wrong with Washington

Instapundit: Obama let's his second term anger out and Life in Obama's America

Barack Obama, however, did have this joke:

• "For many Americans, this is still a time of deep uncertainty. For example, I have a friend — just last year, she was making millions of dollars. She's now living out of a van in Iowa."

Come back, Robespierre, all is forgiven #NerdProm pic.twitter.com/LqWDRtOD1F

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) April 26, 2015

The more tweets I read about #nerdprom, the more I understand the French Revolution.

— jon gabriel (@exjon) April 25, 2015

Hunger Games: Catching Fire

It is getting good reviews...

The Empire Strikes Back for 2013?

Never let a Rule 5 opportunity slip by, so for Jennifer Lawrence...

Girl, what would Cinna say? Not working. 

Much better, even without the fire

Update:
Wombat noted: Jennifer Lawrence missed the after party do to stomach flu. It was not an ulcer.
Catching Fire is hot at the box office...

I caught the movie this weekend.  Very well done.  I recommend it.  

Hunger Games: The Second Quarter Quell

A pretty well done fan video.
Ed Morrissey did not care for the film, but he also did not read the books.  This is not great literature.  It
Ed is right that it is derivative and I would not even call it science fiction (the "future" of that world, for all practical purposes, could be twenty years from now).  But it was also original enough to be good.   The work is a hell of a lot better than Twilight (although that is not saying much).

Prior EBLPost:
Clips, Reviews, and Countdown

The Hunger Games : Clips, Reviews and Countdown

Rotten Tomatoes Reviews  An 87% freshness average
The Countdown to the Movie
How big will Hunger Games be?
Hollywood Reporter on the film...
Hunger Games set to shatter box office records...

Katniss

This clip showing the meeting between Katniss and Cinna is a lot how I imagined the scene from the book...

I have not seen the movie yet, although the initial reviews look okay.  It opens tonight at midnight.  I read the books.  Author Suzanne Collins does a good job.  For a teenage dystopian series, The Hunger Games is not bad and it is a series you could let your kids read with no problems.  The violence is graphic, but also not trivialized or glorified.  The first book was the best of the series.  

The President announces his new exciting entertainment and fitness program for a new America!

I enjoyed the books, so I look forward to the movie.  There are also high speed trains involved so you know the political party in power sponsoring these games must be benevolent.   What political party seems to be obsessed with high speed trains?  
Update:  Jonah Goldberg sees the President's SOTU theme in a more classical light...  Andrew Sullivan may agree with him on this (just not in the way Jonah probably intended)