The Beasties played at my 18th birthday party.

WHOA! Says I and my mister. One of my friends in SF worked for Jello's label for years actually. But never arranged for anyone cool to play at my bday celebrations.

sara, I don't think I'm fb friends with Hanne but I know her through Atomic. She's pretty awesome.

In other Smalltimore news, I don't want to talk about who I did vote for for City Council on my current fb post about the shitty turnout because I did NOT vote for my friend's husband. Ha! He currently has 30 votes...not 30%. 30 votes. The incumbent and front runner who we hate only has less than 300 votes. She's only 58 votes behind the guy I did vote for so I'm really hoping a couple dozen more people voted for him. The small turnout is depressing as eff.

I ended up talking to Hanne a LOT at the past 2 cookie-offs for some reason.

One problem with smalltownitude is when you know the politicals personally. I SO WANT the incumbent to lose, damnit.

I didn't vote for my friend's husband because he said something assholey in my presence years ago. Don't cross me, future politicos! (And I do like what the guy I did vote for is saying. He seems to be pro-locally owned businesses at least.)

Oooh, and tell me who you DID vote for. I won't spread around. Not my district, I'm lucky to have Mary Pat.

One of my teammates created a poster for our upcoming derby mixer and she used the image from a cover of a roller derby book. I'm not happy about it because I feel it infringes on the illustrator's copyright. She and her boyfriend claim people do it all the time but it still left a bad taste in my mouth.

What say you, buffistas?

Infringey.

And her attitude leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Oops, posted this in Bitches by mistake.

Javachik - T says "that's the FIRST thing she should tell a person. She's been holding out on me." He's WOUNDED.

Hee! That reminds me of a conversation I had with Javi at dinner a couple years ago when he came up here for Writers with Drinks. I was telling him about meeting Shirley Manson at WonderCon. He related an anecdote about Stephen Sowan, who played Wendy's boyfriend in the Middleman pilot. He was only in the pilot, but he ran into Javi later on and they caught up. One day Javi was just poking around on IMDb and saw that he'd been in the video for "Tell Me Where It Hurts." Where he had kissed Shirley Manson. How could he not have mentioned that?? "You lead with that!" he exclaimed. "'I made out with Shirley Manson!'"

Oooh, and tell me who you DID vote for. I won't spread around.

Nick Mosby. He's now up by 99 votes!!

Not my district, I'm lucky to have Mary Pat.

Lucky!!

One of my teammates created a poster for our upcoming derby mixer and she used the image from a cover of a roller derby book. I'm not happy about it because I feel it infringes on the illustrator's copyright. She and her boyfriend claim people do it all the time but it still left a bad taste in my mouth.

Yeah that is extremely bad form. And she probably will get called on it in a community as tight knit as Derby's. Just a couple of weeks ago an illustrator friend had to send a cease and desist order (or whatever you call it) to a league who were using a derby image she'd created on their website. I'd strongly argue against it.

I just read where someone was adamantly stating that heteroromantic people were NOT STRAIGHT. Am I missing something, or aren't they usually? Like not something you need to yell about?

There's a whole kerfluffle going on (primarily on Tumblr, IIRC) where some asexual people think asexuality falls under the umbrella of "queer." However, some queer people are saying OH HELL NO, that just the broad category of asexual doesn't fit under queer, that bi- and homoromantic people can claim queer, but heteroromantic people can't.

The gist I'm getting is that the heteroromatic/aromantic people who think they should be able to claim queer is that (1) asexuality is a non-standard sexuality, and (2) asexual people are oppressed.

The counter-argument from queer people opposed to that is that (1) "queer" = / = all "non-standard" sexuality, and (2) heteroromantic asexuals easily pass for plain old heterosexual and therefore benefit from straight privilege and are not oppressed.

That's my understanding of the kerfluffle. It may be not entirely accurate, as I've stopped following it, except for where it creeps into the LJ asexual community.

Yeah that is extremely bad form. And she probably will get called on it in a community as tight knit as Derby's. Just a couple of weeks ago an illustrator friend had to send a cease and desist order (or whatever you call it) to a league who were using a derby image she'd created on their website. I'd strongly argue against it.

I've been reading a lot of stuff online complaining about stolen images and artwork and it just blows that we have to deal with it. We took the image down off of the FB event page but it's almost too late to redo the event posters we've printed up already. She's a year or two more experience in derby and I would have thought she'd know better. Ugh.