Art Vs. Commerce, Hunger Games Edition

Over at Retail Me Not, Lizz Westman has written a Capitol-endorsed guide to throwing a Hunger Games theme party. Having guys dress up as cows and girls dress up as milkmaids is a good enough idea on its own--and if anyone wants to drop by my apartment this weekend we can celebrate the people of District 10 all night long if you know what I mean--but there's some other good stuff over there too.

Meanwhile, i09 has collected the weirdest Hunger Games merch so far invented. But we've got years for this shit to get WAY WEIRDER. Personally I'm not going to bat an eye until someone markets a Gale Hawthorne sex whip. Shit, that's a damn good idea.

Elsewhere, my friend Hugo sent me this link today: If Famous Authors Had Written Twilight. It's pretty great.

Also, I continue to blog at a startling pace on Tumblr, if you are at all interested.