THEY MOVED THE WHOLE HOUSE: I don't know when or how this happened, but the dependably brilliant The House Next Door -- which I read obsessively for weeks at a time, then completely and utterly forget about, only to remember a month or so later that I've forgotten about it, repeat ad infinitum -- is now "the online blog of Slant Magazine." And Todd VanDerWerff (an occasional commenter here), who generates episodic television reviews as rich and insightful as anything you can find on the Internet, has moved his Lost column from THND over to the LA Times.

Maybe there isn't overlap in their coverage areas, but really, what unit of measurement would you pick to calculate the upgrade from Richard Rushfield to Todd VanDerWerff?

NUDGED: So Philadelphia has started enforcing its new strictest-in-the-nation food labeling laws, and indeed when I walked into my local Dunkin' Donuts this morning (as I occasionally do) I initially ordered my regular sour cream donut, then recognized that it was almost twice the calories of some of the other donuts and did in fact choose a different one instead. And my question is -- for the New Yorkers among us familiar with its city's similar law and others with such experience -- is this going to last? Do you start ignoring the information at a certain point?

[And, seriously, check out that second link and underlying study, comparing the calories-per-transaction for Starbucks in NYC under the labeling law with Philadelphia and Boston. Neat stuff.]

HE GIVES HIS LIFE FOR HIS PREDICTION: Closing the loop from yesterday's news, I can confirm that Nantucket's Quentin the Quahog squirted to the left upon his opening at noon yesterday, confirming Punxsutawney Phil's prediction of six more weeks of winter. “Unfortunately, he agreed with the groundhog, but you can’t possibly trust a groundhog,” said Nantucket harbormaster Dave Franzuto, who proceed to eat Quentin raw.

TWO OF US RIDING NOWHERE: Before I say word one about Lost, I have to warn you: We're at a point in this show where you can't write about it or discuss it without spoilers. If good television unfolds like a novel, this show is more Harry Potter than All the King's Men -- a series of novels intended to be treated as separate units with their own beginnings, middles, and ends while spanning a greater unified arc. To the series so far -- The Island; The Hatch; The Others; The Wrinkle in Time; we add -- here's where the spoilers start, since giving this volume a name will reveal its premise --

IF DAUGHTRY ISN'T BROUGHT IN TO RECORD HUEY LEWIS' LINES, THIS EVENT IS FAIL: I have my doubts about the "We Are The World" remake, but asking Lil Wayne to do Bob Dylan's lines is genius. Justin Bieber to take on Michael Jackson's opening lines, though?

Full list of performers here, including Barbra Streisand, Freda Payne, Brian Wilson, Gladys Knight, Natalie Cole and also a bevvy of one-named artists under the age of 60 including Akon, Brandy, Mya, Will.i.am, Pink, Usher and holy crap is there really a rapper named "Nipsey Hussle"? Because that's awesome.

Among the absent: Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake and Ra-Ra-Ah-Ah-Ah, Roma, Ro-Ma-Ma, Gaga, Ooh La La.

THE BOSS ISN'T ALWAYS RIGHT, BUT HE'S ALWAYS THE BOSS: Your 2010 Academy Award nominees have been announced.

Surprises? Films getting the "bonus slots" for Best Picture include The Blind Side, A Serious Man, District 9 and Up, but not Invictus or Crazy Heart; Maggie Gyllenhaal gets her first nomination in best supporting for Crazy Heart, a slot most figured would go to Julianne Moore (A Single Man) or one of the women from Inglorious Basterds. No screenplay nom for Avatar. More commentary to follow.

OKAY, CAMPERS, RISE AND SHINE, AND DON'T FORGET YOUR BOOTIES, 'CAUSE ... NAH, FORGET IT, HERE'S THE DEAL -- ALL THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE: While we're on the topic of events repeating themselves, it's no coincidence (it's never a coincidence, or at least it hasn't been since Season 2) that Lost is premiering on Groundhog Day. Since we're scant hours from the final act of that often thrilling, often confounding show, I wanted to bump up something I posted over a year ago, about how last season's finale essentially re-staged versions of scenes from the first four season finales.

As I said to Adam, I'm out of the Lost prediction business, which does nothing but distract me from giving in to the show. It's up to you to decide (or, more accurately, to speculate recklessly) whether the characters' unknowing repetition of prior events was a clue or just a stylistic parlor trick. As if that makes it any different from the numbers, the polar bears, the sickness, or anything else.