Er, okay, Amazon.

[elaby]

I'm looking for a 10.5" x 16" plastic or glass clip frame for a poster at work, and I searched "10.5"x16" clip frame" on Amazon.com. What came up when I hit enter?

Player's Handbook: Core Rulebook I (Dungeons & Dragons, Edition 3.5)

Well, yes, I'd love one of those, but that's not a clip frame, is it, Amazon?

Doing a "Ctrl+F" on the page didn't yield "clip", "frame", "10.5", or "16". Just numbers with 10 and 16 in them. How weird is THAT.

Anyway, onto more interesting things: I just read about an awesome way that two women who are getting married beat the system at its own game.

The artist of Venus Envy just proposed to her girlfriend of two years, and they're going to be getting legally married. They live in Washington, where the Supreme Court just denied gay people the right to get married. How are they doing this?

Well, the Venus Envy artist was born male, and the state has a law that forbids transsexuals from changing their birth certificate to align to their "new" gender. Because of this, the artist is still legally male, and so can marry a woman. On the one hand, all of the discriminatory laws that say that gay people aren't denied the right to marry because they're free to marry a member of the opposite sex, and that prevent transsexuals from legally being the gender they actually are, are awful and depressing - but that two people who love each other could beat the system is awesome :)

You can read the story in her own words at the bottom of the page I linked up there, under "Rant du Jour".

In other news, I bought a couple CDs from BMG and they came in the mail while we were away. I got the the new Matchbox 20 and Goo Goo Dolls CDs, Natalie Merchant, Daniel Powter for caitirin, and the Dresden Dolls, which has to be my favorite so far. Would that I could play piano like that O.o The CD has a "Parental Warning: Explicit Content" label on the front, and I wonder if BMG is obligated to put those on, or if the group put it on in order to seem more badass or something. Not that they NEED to seem more badass. I can see why the label would be there, I guess; their language isn't too bad, one or two instances of "fuck" usage, but I guess their subject matter could definitely be described as disturbing. I wouldn't call it explicit, though.

It's funny to think of them in connection with Evanescence, which I was listening to on the plane. The Dresden Dolls are kind of like what Evanescence wishes it was. While Evenescence is all "I'm tortured and tormented and in so much pain! Oh, the regret, it bleeds from me in crimson waves! Has no one told you she's not breathing?" The Dresden Dolls say, "You think you're disturbed? Check this shit out, mofo."

Which isn't to say I don't thoroughly enjoy Evanescence. It's just that the badass factor can't even be compared.

I drew some stuff in my sketchbook while I was on the plane, so I'm going to try to scan that sometime. I've got a whole pile of drawings to be scanned... mostly old ones, but I want to put them up anyway.

This is the post of random direction switching!

Comments

[merrick42.livejournal.com]

I believe the parental advisory stickers are generally put on by the distributors or publishers, not the artists. Most likely BMG, in this case, as it covers their ass for parents. I need to see them again...

[elaby.livejournal.com]

I figured it was probably them. Have you seen The Dresden Dolls in concert? I've heard their shows are really impressive.

[merrick42.livejournal.com]

Yup, Bridget, John, Kat and I went to their show in Exeter at the Ioka back in March. It was much with the awesomeness.

[elaby.livejournal.com]

Oh, neat! I bet it was! I wonder if that's where one of the guys I go to school with saw them.

[merrick42.livejournal.com]

Possibly, but their a Boston band, so it could've been anywhere/anytime.

[elaby.livejournal.com]

Aaaah. That would explain the references to Boston in their songs, wouldn't it?

[merrick42.livejournal.com]

*chuckles* Yep. I know shortly after I saw them, they played in one of the larger Boston venues and they held a vaudeville film & live stage act show at the Brattle last month, what they call a F*ck the Back Row! show.

[elaby.livejournal.com]

Interesting! I'd like to see them onstage.

[merrick42.livejournal.com]

I can keep you informed on the next time they play in Boston or NH.

[elaby.livejournal.com]

Thanks :) That would rule!

[elaby.livejournal.com]

I dunno! That's weird. I wouldn't put it past them to think that being on iTunes was "selling out," but I'm not sure whether it's them or their record company or something that lets iTunes sell their music. If they wanted to get lots of people to buy and listen to them, they'd put themselves on iTunes, though O.o

[caitirin.livejournal.com]

*giggles* You are SO right about Evanescence wanting to be the Dresden Dolls.

Funny that they aren't on iTunes o.O freyjakj I imagine we could arrange to get some music to you if you'd like.

[elaby.livejournal.com]

Yah :) Definitely!

[kniblet.livejournal.com]

That's an awesome story about using the marriage laws for good instead of evil. :)

[elaby.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was pleased when I read it ^_^

[coastal-spirit.livejournal.com]

Well, the Venus Envy artist was born male, and the state has a law that forbids transsexuals from changing their birth certificate to align to their "new" gender. Because of this, the artist is still legally male, and so can marry a woman.

*just ...laughs* Kind of beat them at their own game, didn't they?

Justice can prevail in strange ways sometimes. I enjoyed that.

[elaby.livejournal.com]

I know! At first, I was all outraged, and then I went "Hey... they really beat them good!"

[coastal-spirit.livejournal.com]

The CD has a "Parental Warning: Explicit Content" label on the front, and I wonder if BMG is obligated to put those on, or if the group put it on in order to seem more badass or something.

I would say that BMG is obligated to put it on so parents don't freak, because some parents freak at everything.

*remembers freaking at some very stupid things, myself. That seems like another life now, before Bear Brook and my "fuck them all; we're both going in our own directions from now on" attitude took hold and steadily grew.*

[elaby.livejournal.com]

Hee :) I don't remember you ever freaking out about my music. You were suprised by some things, like Alanis Morrissette lyrics *giggles* but you never, like... took anything away from me.

[coastal-spirit.livejournal.com]

No, but I wouldn't let you have the Interview With the Vampire poster. I suppose I somewhat made up for it later by searching for it, however in vain; you know, after I went over to the Dark Side and became a reprobate. *giggles*

[elaby.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha, OH YEAH! I forgot about that! You totally made up for it by searching for it. You were just concerned for my youthful sensibilities, or something like that :) You figured out that they wouldn't be altered by things like posters soon enough ^_^

Reprobates unite! Stealing Dad's rum again, are we?

[coastal-spirit.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't really like rum that much. (What kind of a pirate am I, anyway?) However, I have discovered that vodka doesn't make me as loopy as wine, and so I've been drinking a little of that in with cranberry lime seltzer and it makes me pretty mellow. ;)

[elaby.livejournal.com]

Vodka doesn't make you as loopy as wine? You must have a very interesting holding-your-liquor mechanism ^_^ That sounds nice, though, with the seltzer.

[coastal-spirit.livejournal.com]

You must have a very interesting holding-your-liquor mechanism ^_^

*snicker* That's a nice way to put it. I think it's because I tend to drink a bigger glass of wine, or more than one, whereas I put about a half a shot of vodka in and fill the rest up with whatever else, and I usually only drink one. It's just a different feeling. I can't really explain it. ;)