[master hakai is our Piper]

We did some math together so now he's our Pi'd Piper

[Hunger Games Test Rules Announced!]

Yes I hope to see the return of Nikolai Volkoff and the Iron Sheik. King-Kong Bundy will gladden hearts when he insists on the ref counting to five.

And was it...Jessica who was always crestfallen after harsh words from the Macho Man? Yum.

[Hunger Games Test Rules Announced!]

To explain...

No, there is too much.

To sum up:

24-person cage match, winner is the last one living. Losers are...everybody else.

In the books, the contestants are chosen in boy/girl pairs by lot (although some will volunteer) from each of 12 Districts.

Alliances and perfidy ensue.

Plus Jennifer Lawrence is hawt.

[Hunger Games Test Rules Announced!]

I am shocked, SHOCKED to learn that there is a better version in the offing.

[Hunger Games Test Rules Announced!]

Congrats on your honorary guest-dom, Cuba

Break a leg Lux, can't wait to hear the anthem right from my very own computer. That'll be swell!

[FIRST MINOR HUNGER GAMES! Strengths 0-500]

I imagine that many are interested, if only for the sake of the spectacle that we trust will ensue

[A thought experiment and your bookshelf.]

I'm pretending the weapon is inbound RIGHT NOW and I have to pick the books really quickly. Otherwise this would take a while...

Once I got my five I kind of arranged them as a curriculum, intending that reading each book set you up for the next one. Torn about LoTR and Jane Austen, but the damned weapon is coming, so...

Complete works of HG Wells

LoTR

Complete works of Jane Austen

Complete works of Shakespeare

Satan: His Psychotherapy and Cure (by Jeremy Leven)