ANDRE THE GIANT LINEBACKER: Andre Tippett was just elected to the Football Hall of Fame! That makes me very happy.

IS JOE FRANKLIN JEALOUS? I am on the record here as not generally being a fan of Sarah Silverman -- calculated transgression, for transgression's sake, doesn't do it for me.

But her long-time boyfriend Jimmy Kimmel hosts a talk show, which apparently frequently concludes with him saying, "Our apologies to Matt Damon, we ran out of time." And, well, this segment she did for the show's fifth (?!) anniversary show on January 31 speaks for itself. NSFW, were it not bleeped.

EVERYONE WANTS TO BE PRETTY: OK, I'm only about 200 pages into Uglies, the first volume of Scott Westerfield's much acclaimed sci-fi series for young adults (seriously, most recent volume Extras warranted a full review in the NYT Book Review), and I'm already ready for the movie--I'm proposing Joss Whedon as writer/director (he knows how to stretch a dollar) and Ellen Page as Tally with Nicole Kidman as Dr. Cable. If you enjoy sci-fi, even though kids are the target audience, this is well-worth checking out.

ABC News: Stars Come Out for Obama Music Video

DR. ADDISON MONTGOMERY SHEPPARD IS THE NEW OBAMA GIRL? In one of the more bizarre assemblages of talent for a cause since SNL's Recurring Characters Benefit, Black-Eyed Pea will.i.am has gathered celebrities ranging from Scarlett Johansson to Common to Kareem Abdul Jabbar to the aforementioned Kate Walsh to shoot this music video tribute to Barack Obama's "Yes We Can" New Hampshire concession speech. (Also on YouTube.)

In the interests of equal time, McCain sings Streisand.

OKAY, CAMPERS, RISE AND SHINE, AND DON'T FORGET YOUR BOOTIES 'CAUSE IT'S COOOOOOLD OUT THERE TODAY: It's February 2, so it's time to talk about the movie again. Do you buy the whole Buddhist thing, or should we just quote lines for a while and generally discuss its awesomeness? Participate in this thread, or it's gonna be cold, it's gonna be grey, and it's gonna last you for the rest of your life.

This year: shadow. Six more weeks of ... well, for the Phila-NYC contingent, does this count as winter?

ALWAYS BET ON BLACK: Wesley Snipes, acquitted of tax fraud.

[N.B.: I've spent the last fifteen minutes trying to come up with a better, topical Wesley Snipes reference for a title (without cheating/googling/etc.) and nothing's come to me.]

I WONDER WHAT HER BEST FRIEND, LESLEY, HAS TO SAY ABOUT THIS: OK, I get that Hannah Montana is a phenomonon, and that this weekend's 3-D concert movie is a big thing, at least among the female age 4-12 set, but who exactly is going to the midnight show of the movie?