Get Your Lionsgate Nail Polish For the Hunger Games Opening Ceremonies! Stylist Endorsed, It’s To Die For, Capitol-ites!

March 8, 2012 by 7 Comments

You couldn’t make this stuff up, right? China Glaze: The Hunger Games Specialty Colour ‘Hook and Line’

For the first time ever, China Glaze has partnered with Lionsgate Films to create a specialty promotion for their movie adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ gripping trilogy, The Hunger Games, premiering in theaters March 2012. The polish shades are inspired by the Capitol of the nation of Panem!

The Hunger Games Specialty Colour Collection includes 12 amazing full coverage shades: Dress Me Up, Foie Gras, Fast Track, Hook and Line, Stone Cold, Smoke and Ashes, Agro, Mahogany Magic, Harvest Moon, Riveting, Electrify, Luxe and Lash.

The best part, though, is that the email sent out by Sally Beauty came with this provocative question: ‘Deborah, What Will You Be Wearing to the Opening Ceremonies?’ (Hat tip to Deborah for this!)

Aren’t we supposed to be sympathizing with the Tributes and despising the Capitol viewers? Has Lionsgate decided to cast us in the role of those viewers and to despise us with a story we pay to see, a film featuring themselves as the Gamesmaker Shadow-Casters? Give me the clunky coal miners outfit and keep the nail polish, please. [There are Reaping Clothes available, too, if you’re dying to look nice! What’s next, Life is Beautiful tank tops?]

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J. Robert Barth: ‘Romanticism and the Religious Tradition’

March 8, 2012 by 1 Comment

Okay, okay, it is ‘Hunger Games Month’ at Hogwarts Professor, so we’re spending some time every day with the best selling books and the ironies woven into ironies of the Big Sale from the Capitol Gamesmakers making a Giant Hollywood Media Spectacular from books largely about the soul corrosive qualities of those Giant Hollywood Movie Spectaculars. But there’s time still to talk about the substance, the ‘inside bigger than the outside,’ of literature and the spirituality implicit to fantasy fiction that, per Eliade, drives its popularity.

For a wonderfully generous helping of that main course and dessert, please watch the late J. Robert Barth’s (SJ) talk on ‘Romanticism and the Religious Tradition.’ You’ll understand Katniss and Kompany, I’m guessing, as well as our love for her and our experience within her story, better for this time in the ‘Front Row’ at Barth’s Boston College talk.

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Shared Text: Does This Product Exist Except for Harry Potter?

March 7, 2012 by 6 Comments

If you have to have a ‘Kymera Magic Wand Remote Control,’ I’m told they’re only $75.95 during today’s “flash” sale. Enter this under “You know you’re an Adult Fan of the Hogwarts Saga, when… you turn on your toaster with a wand from across the room.”

I suppose it’s possible that the inventor could have pursued this idea in a world without Harry Potter fans with disposable income (or friends of fans trying to find the magic gift). But I’m confident whoever has the patent on this beautie was able to sell it to investors for production and marketing money on the strength of Harry’s popularity and over-sized space in our imaginations. Your thoughts?

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Hunger Games Premium Trading Cards: Well, Why not?

March 7, 2012 by 1 Comment

Pretty neat, no?

The story (Muttations)

By the Box — $55 (24 packs)

By the Pack – $3.50 (6 cards)

Potter Premium Cardboards and Twilight packs are now invaluable, so it’s best to get yourself a box or two of these Hunger Games Capitol Collectors Items as soon as possible. Before they’re all gone, that is, and you have regrets about passing on this investment opportunity.

And did you know that The Hunger Games was an invitation to Libertarian politics? Are we verging in on ‘Shared Text’ territory? Or not? Your thoughts, please, on the growth industry in Hunger Games imagery, merchandise, and media referencing! (Hat Tip to George on the Lew Rockwell link)

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Why Wait for the Lions Gate ‘Hunger Games’ Movie?

March 6, 2012 by 1 Comment

When you can watch the adventures of ‘Finnick and Annie,’ Fan Film Fiction, on YouTube today?

Please share in the comment boxes below any other Hunger Games fan efforts, written or filmed, that you think worthy of our attention in the HogwartsProfessor Month of Panem Pandemonium!

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