I want you to step back from the guacamole dip, put the chicken fingers down, and turn your television all the way up. And what I want to know is: is there anybody alive out there?

It's hard to find a YouTube clip of the Springsteen halftime performance that doesn't disappear immediately due to NFL takedown nastygrams, but here are two that are working as of right now.

Still more.

* Is Brandeis broke?

* Nobody kills themselves in New Jersey. Stat via the MetaFilter thread on secularity and the social good.

* Springsteen says Wal-Mart deal a mistake. Also: How to come to terms with Bruce playing the Super Bowl.

* The child stars of Slumdog Millionaire still live in 'grinding poverty.' That is absurd.

* And Fox and Warner Bros. have agreed there's enough Watchmen money for everyone.

Save the date: Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band will rock Super Bowl XLIII.

Giants win! Pundits to use a Patriots-Giants metaphor in their Super Tuesday analysis in 5...4...3...



UPDATE: Whoops.

Via Marc Ambinder, here's the thirty-second Obama ad that will air in 22 states tonight during the Super Bowl, including a dozen Super Tuesday states:



I've mentioned before, I think, how big I think these ads could be. What better way to start a conversation about Obama in every living room in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia and Washington?

Boston may be my spiritual homeland, and the Patriots the heavy favorites, but I never bet against Jersey. Go Giants!

Famous Authors Predict the Winner of Super Bowl XLII. At McSweeney's, naturally.