Hey, remember Russell T. Davies? Of course you do. He put Doctor Who back on the map in 2005, spun off Torchwood in 2006, and started up The Sarah Jane Adventures in 2007. And we certainly wouldn’t forget about him just because there’s a new team on Doctor Who doing awesome things four a couple of years…

Right. Glad we got that out of the way up front. The last we heard of Russell T. Davies’ newest show, Wizards vs. Aliens, it was undergoing a fundamental name change due to the request of various lawyers.

I hope the sharing of my thoughts can generate a new conversation: Why was a puffy face cause for such a conversation in the first place? How, and why, did people participate? If not in the conversation about me, in parallel ones about women in your sphere? What is the gloating about? What is the condemnation about? What is the self-righteous alleged “all knowing” stance of the media about? How does this symbolize constraints on girls and women, and encroach on our right to be simply as we are, at any given moment? How can we as individuals in our private lives make adjustments that support us in shedding unconscious actions, internalized beliefs, and fears about our worthiness, that perpetuate such meanness? What can we do as families, as groups of friends? Is what girls and women can do different from what boys and men can do? What does this have to do with how women are treated in the workplace? – Ashley Judd, talking about the recent media storm over her appearance, which naturally included accusations of plastic surgery, implications of her needing plastic surgery, implications that she could not look like she does (i.e., good) without plastic surgery, implications that her (hypothetical) plastic surgery had ruined her looks, implications that her husband would now cheat on her because of her looks (i.e., bad), and that her looks were terrible in a acting role in which her character would, logically, have looked terrible.

Read the entire, incredible article at The Daily Beast.

The cherry blossoms are a-blooming, and that means it’s time for a Washington, D.C.-related post, following the inner workings of the sausage factory we call the government. And in this case, it finally doesn’t involve transvaginal probing! No, this is an update to a story we brought you yesterday, concerning the issue of employers asking potential hires for their Facebook usernames and passwords. We briefly mentioned that one U.S. senator was introducing federal legislation to stop that, and now another has joined him. Which leads us to ask: “So, what do you think Chuck Schumer is really trying to hide on his Facebook profile, you guys?”

A bunch of fraternity brothers from Western Kentucky University donned red high heel shoes recently, and yes, walked in them, to raise money and create awareness for sexual abuse and violence against women. Hit the jump to check out the CNN report on the event and hear what they had to say.

Well, now that I’ve crafted a sufficiently apparently nonsensical title for you, you should know that in the Castle episode “Punked,” involved a Deloran, suspicions of time traveling, suspicions of old-timey duels to the death, suspicions of old-timey duels to the accidental death, and a Steampunk society murder.

Also, during the episode, Nathan Fillion’s titular character dons a Steampunk styled outfit complete with pneumatic arm, to get in the swing of things. And now you can buy that arm, to put your arm where Fillion put his arm.

Some people argue over who’s going to win the Republican Primary. Some people argue over who would win in a fight between the Avengers and the X-Men. Some people just want to know whether Han shot first. Here’s a thing that totally makes sense, as far as cryptozoology is concerned, but that you might not have thought of:

A lot of big foot enthusiasts disagree as to whether, if they ever encountered the rare-to-nonexistant creature in the wild, it would be alright to murder it.

Do you have one of these unfortunate people as your friend? That girl/guy who just cannot shake the fact that Steve Jobs is no longer around to innovate and transform the face of technology and junk anymore? Our friends at Comediva have a new installment of “Geek Therapy” that tackles this very problem. Show it to someone you love/feel incredibly sorry for.

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It’s hard to deny that Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark‘s long and frequently disastrous production seemed to improve precipitously after the departure of original director Julie Taymor, and the musical just raked in the biggest single-week box office in Broadway history. That week was the days between Christmas and New Years, quite the popular time to go see a show… also a pretty popular time to visit New York if you’re not generally just hanging around the Tri-State area.

Taymor is in the process of suing the current showrunners for making “unauthorised and unlawful use” of her work, and the producers are suing her right back. Broadly they’re suing her for breach of contract by not listening to producer concerns, but specifically for, wait for it, insisting on “on developing a dark, disjointed and hallucinogenic musical involving suicide, sex and death.”

Entertainment Weekly will be sporting Batman on their cover this week as well as a few more pictures from Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises. Read on for the full cover reveal, more pictures and what Nolan had to say about that Bane speaking issue. 

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