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.

THE FUN NEVER ENDS: It could well be, as this video suggests, that there's a pattern to Andy Samberg's digital shorts.

WILL THE MEDUSA SPIDER CLAIM ANOTHER VICTIM? I've crafted a Lost final season predictions pool for your entertainment and submissions. Twelve questions; closest responses to Darlton's revelations receive fame and glory for as long as we remember that this happened. Good luck, and namaste.

added: 22 entrants as of 9am Tuesday. Still plenty of time.

AMERICA'S FAVORITE LIVING LITERARY RECLUSE: Doubtfully inspired by the death of J.D. Salinger last week, Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson granted what is believed to be his first interview in 21 years to the Cleveland Plain Dealer. In the far reaching discussion, he reveals his plans for a C&H comeback, a massive new marketing deal with Pepsi, and the much rumored C&H movie (James Cameron is said to be in talks to direct). Watterson also confirms what us comic fans have long suspected: He never retired at all, but instead has been helming The Lockhorns since 1995.

PREVIOUSLY ON LOST:

Welcome to the Hanso Island Resort and Adventure Spa! Our staff is on call to facilitate your comfort 24 hours a day, but especially when you’re sleeping and defenseless. If you’d prefer to explore our facilities on your own, we hope this guidebook will be helpful.

You’re on island time now! Your watch won't work here. Relax and let the island set your schedule. You’ll get up when the sun rises. You’ll eat when the airdrop gets here. You’ll sleep when you’ve been clubbed with a blunt object.

Visitors of all ages will love our deviously complicated hatch maze. If you lose your bearings, you can always check the secret black-light map. Just look for the spot on the ceiling where our caretaker blew his brains out, then turn on the black light by waiting 107 minutes before keying in the disaster-aversion sequence.

Feeling amorous? Upgrade to our Honeymoon Cage, where an intimate night under the stars is followed by a fine bear-cracker meal from an electro-shock machine and a beating from the staff. Amenities include a closed-circuit video feed directly to your other boyfriend.

Did you know our whole island is a living zoo? You never know when you’ll run into a hungry polar bear or branded shark or smoke monster. The first two can and will feed themselves, but if you’d like to feed the smoke monster, it eats human frailty.

We have hundreds of exotic hiking trails. Beginners especially love Murder Valley, Abduction Ridge, Unstable Explosive Loop, and Earbleed Perambulation. More experienced hikers may wish to try Attrition Deathpath and Tormenting Whisper Dead Girlfriend Incline.

Parents: You’ll love our Kids Club! Our counselors will lead your children in crafts, hikes, and insurrection. Underattended children will be enrolled in the Kids’ Club.

If a crazed physicist, apparition, smoke monster, paramilitarist, or future incarnation of yourself tells you to leave, please proceed in an orderly fashion to the nearest submarine, tanker, or wormhole. We’re sure you’ll come back. We mean it: we’re sure you’ll come back.

Our resort is as legendary for its natural healing properties as for its unnatural killing efficiency. In the unlikely event that you both need and are allowed access to first-aid, our sterile facilities are located in a hole in the ground, where we coerce reluctant bystanders into impromptu surgery.

Feel like exploring the area? A smaller equally deadly island is a short blindfolded boat ride away. Or you can sail into the wide blue ocean, domain of sniper fire, marauding child-stealers, and brain-exploding nosebleeds.

If you just can’t get enough of the Hanso Island Resort, try one of our package deals!

• Loyalty Rewards Program: We know that it’s hard to go back to the real world once you’ve been here. If you manage to leave, you’ll understand what we mean. So we’ll throw in the return flight for free! Come back to remember why you left in the first place!


• The Family Package: Mom and dad worked here. Your secret brother and sister spent time here. You were born here. You gave birth in one of our state-of-the-art holes in the ground. You misplaced your father’s corpse here. Come home -- you're family.


• In-Kind Discounts: Feeling kidnapped? We want you to feel wanted.

This week’s schedule of activities:

Exercise:

• Yoga on the beach: sunrise


• One-way swimming: noon


• High-impact torturing: check weekly schedule


• Running from flaming arrows: sunset to sunrise

Superficial book club: Tuesdays at lunch. Wikpedia the great works by Locke, Hume, Rousseau, Kelvin, and Burke.

Underground scavenger hunt every Wednesday! Find: A salty sea captain’s costume; a nuclear bomb; an Egyptian temple; your own dessicated time-traveled corpses; a donkey wheel; Juliet.

Thursday is date night!

• Singles Mixer: Small Conference Room A. We remind you to use caution when hooking up, since you are probably related.


• Widowed Lovers Mixer: Ballroom C.

Saturday, 6:00 – 11:00 a.m.: Jack will tell everybody the story of his dumb tattoo.

Sunday: Nondenominational services and ritual sacrifice at the three-toed foot of Anubis.

ABSOLUTELY NO "WE ALL EVERYBODY!"

Enjoy your stay -- or else!

THINK I GIVE A DAMN ABOUT A ... : Our second annual Grammys livecast is underway over, and archived below the fold; winners here.

VERILY, IT TIED THE ROOM TOGETHER: Act 1, scene 2, as performed by Brandon Hardesty: