Hmph. I’m kind of a stressball lately. Writing-wise, here’s a smattering of what I’ve been up to:

My Q&A with Donald Faison from Scrubs goes up this morning. A-listers will appreciate how I managed to work the assertion “I’m cool” into the interview. Premiere is tonight. DVR that shiz.

Ha. I feel like that’s less pushy then telling you to “watch” it. The concept of watching something on time or becuase you’re supposed to has become overbearing lately, at least for me. You’re committed. You’re, like, watching something. Just record it! Then forget, ignore, gape at, and revisit the left-behind list at will. It’s a beautiful thing. My life is pathetic.

I launched a PopWatch thread that may or may not take off: One of the Best and Worst Things Ever. Up first: the video for Alanis Morissette’s 1991 “Walk Away.” Yes, that’s Joey. He was even worse back then.

Something I never thought I’d even begin to care about: People’s 2006 Sexiest Man Alive. I did an OMG Who Should It Be? list. Who am I? I have no idea.

Gladly returning back to typical DR Mode…. I became unnaturally obsessed with the promos for ABC’s Show Me the Money, wherein William Shatner wiggles his alarmingly sturdy body across a stage and that’s supposed to make us want to watch a game show. First, ABC tried to make shat-as-a-verb happen. No. Then, after the Dancing With the Stars finale, they decided The Shat could be a dance. STOP.
– Things That Make Me Die Inside (Vol. 4) (I took the photo! Big loser!)
– Will someone please get William Shatner a toilet? (Again!)

This one’s a fave: I co-wrote Tom and Katie’s fictional wedding vows with my ab-fab fellow blogger, Michael Slezak. He’s Tom, I’m Katie. We fought over it.

You absolutely need to click on this nasty slash awesome but really just incredibly nasty pic of Rod Stewart. You’re welcome. For ruining your day.

My shorter, for some reason not as funny as last year’s O.C. writeups have also been on PopWatch every Friday afternoon. They’re hard work. The switching-one-word-of-a-lame-title headlines don’t write themselves, people.
4.1 “The Distance” — How Ryan got his groove back
4.2 “The Gringos” — Once upon a time in Mexico
4.3 “The Cold Turkey” — Everyone misses She Who Will Not Be Named
4.4 “The Avengers” — So Julie Cooper thinks she can dance?

I absolutely refuse to address the abomination that is Tyra Banks this cycle. This guy’s good at it. That is all.

I really am still blogging, I swear! Here’s a smattering of proof.

–‘The O.C.’: “Help us!” Love, the Cohens

–The Constantine: Everybody else is wearing it, so why can’t you?

–Dancin’ Dave Price may be the next Bob Barker. Who knew I’d ever have a chance to plug the only video I’ve ever made? No one! You idiots! NOTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON. Or is it everything happens for no reason? Not everything happens for a reason? Longer treatise on this to come.

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Center-aligned asterisks make me seem so prolific!

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This was 2006’s installment of the “Tangled Up in Blue” Halloween costume (founded in 2001 by DR correspondent “Mughan” Dunn). Definitely my worst effort to date. Blatant lack of feathers. Zero leg action. Tiny bit of yarn and a scarf. Pizza.

I realized three years into the costume that maybe 50% of the people I encounter on Halloween weekend have ever actively listened to Bob Dylan… and only 30% of those people recognize the title “Tangled Up in Blue.” My friend TG, who’s seen the costume three times now, had no idea I was ever supposed to be a song. “I thought you just liked that yarn,” he said. But he was right — that’s really the whole point of the outfit anyway. I cannot get enough of that ball of yarn. Next year, I won’t even bother with the explanation.

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IS THIS YOUR VAN?

I need it. We totally bonded.

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O.C. fans will want to check out this EW.com interview I did with series creator Josh Schwartz. I especially like my really lame but fitting caption. It contains the term “forest for the trees” — an idiom I really only started “getting” last year, despite having owned and read a book called “The Forest for the Trees” in 2002. I’m smart.