Amanda Palmer banned in the UK!

Outside of filming a 6-year-old doing Kittens Inspired By Kittens, what's the fastest way to get 100,000 views on YouTube? Have Britain ban your video, of course!

That's the recent good furtune of half-Dresden Doll Amanda Palmer, as the UK has banned her "Oasis" video for "mak(ing) light of rape, religion and abortion." Surely writing to Oasis in 2009 is reason enough for banishment! I mean, did you hear the second half of "Dig Out Your Soul"? Made "Little James" seem like Def Maybe era!

Palmer, who I confess to being a huge fan of from the moment I saw the Dolls' second or third show ever at the Lizard Lounge around 2002, defended her autographical lyrics about a teen girl in denial/distress by saying: "When you cannot joke about the darkness of life, that's when the darkness takes over." Frealz, yo! (Even the Huffington Post jumped onthis schizz)

Here's the vid: