A few links to start off your week:

• You may well be sick of the late-night wars at this point. Still, it's important not to let the statements made by Jay Leno in his recent Oprah interview go unchallenged. Here, Kansas City Star critic Aaron Barnhart goes through the Jay-Oprah interview point by point and takes apart Leno's self-justifications, omissions and disingenuous statements. Aaron's piece a must-read. "I think the facts speak for themselves, and they tell a very different story than what I heard" Thursday, he writes.
• I still don't know what Leno hoped to gain by that interview. The people who thought he got a raw deal still apparently think that, based on comments to this site, and those who dislike him now dislike him more intensely. And if the goal was to begin the spin campaign to rehabilitate Jay and his nice-guy image, well, good luck with that.
• "Parks and Recreation" has already gotten an order for a third season. Woohoo!
• I'm sorry to say I never got around to writing up my thoughts on the series finale of "Dollhouse," which I found moving and engaging and thought-provoking — all the things that the show was at its best (and even if it didn't always get there, it always tried to be its best). Some other folks wrote up nice goodbyes to the show, however. I found myself agreeing most with Scott Tobias' AV Club review ("I’m newly surprised by how much I’ve come to care for these characters
  and where they wind up in the end. And that’s a small miracle, given
  how the main complaint many have had with the show is how the
  ever-shifting identities of the characters made it impossible to glean
  who they really were," Tobias wrote). Here are write-ups worth reading from Alan Sepinwall, Myles McNutt and James Poniewozik.
• One thing I'd recommend is the song "Backwards Walk" by Frightened Rabbit. I first heard it on "Chuck" but since seeing the "Dollhouse" finale, it always makes me think of the Whedon show.
• Some "Lost" non-spoilery recap and interview clips — as well as first four minutes of Tuesday's Season 6 premiere — are in the video player on the right side of this page.
• It's finally February and that show we've all been dying to see again is back! I refer, of course, to "RuPaul's Drag Race." Season 2 begins at 8 p.m. Central on Logo. Tom and Lorenzo at Project Rungay have info on the contestants, and kittens, guess who the guest judges will be this season? Kathy Griffin, Cloris Leachman, Debbie Reynolds, Tatum O'Neal, Jackie Collins, Henry Rollins, Kathy Najimy and Terri Nunn. Hey, any show that features appearances from both Henry Rollins and Debbie Reynolds has my full attention. 
• Did you catch Jon Hamm on "Saturday Night Live" over the weekend? It may not have been as great as his appearance on the show last year, but Hamm was terrific, not surprisingly, and there were a few good chuckles (the high point was, of course, "Hamm and Buble"). Via the great fashion site Go Fug Yourself, I discovered something even funnier than his most recent "SNL" appearance — a while back, Hamm's friend Paul Rudd chatted with him for Interview magazine and the results are pretty hilarious. Check it out. 
• Part of the reason I didn't get around to the "Dollhouse" review was that I spent a lot of time on the Watch Us Care charity project last week (and you all have blown me away with your generosity — saying "thank you" seems inadequate). You can still donate via this Partners in Health page (and get a nice bit of "Lost" swag if you give $25).
• If I do say so myself, Week 2 of the eBay auction is going to be even better than the pretty nifty Week 1 (and you can still bid on Week 1 items for a couple more days). Make sure you come back here Tuesday night or Wednesday morning to get more info on the choice memorabilia we'll be auctioning for charity; we'll have cool things from "Battlestar Galactica," "Friday Night Lights," "Dollhouse," "Lost," "Sons of Anarchy" and other shows. 
• Just to whet your appetite, I'll reveal the lead item in Week 2 of the Watch Us Care auction to benefit Partners in Health (it's pictured at right). How about a complete Season 2 DVD set for Emmy voters signed by Ronald D. Moore, David Eick, Jamie Bamber, Mary McDonnell and Edward James Olmos? Is that something you might be interested in?

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