foreign candy and music

Thunder, Lightning, Strike - the Go Team's first CD - is finally out in the US, months and months after their big UK hit that I love love love. And it's on Columbia, which is to say... Sony. To wit: fuck. Now I'm going to have to pay the extra expense and order the UK version.

Oh well.

Also probably on the buy list: Tallahassee, by the Mountain Goats, now that I finally know who the hell does the "I hope you die! I hope we both die!" song I've heard a few times on KEXP, and which Best Boy Electric covered last night. Maybe I'll just get that one song, though. I dunno. I was thinking of getting the whole CD, but I'm not at all sure about it.

ravyngyngvar brought as a housegift some candy, most of which was chocolate. Kjekssjokolade Kvikk Lunsj is made by Freia (which is, in turn, owned by Kraft) in Norway. (Yes, it looks like I just mooshed my fingers onto the keyboard. I didn't.) Basically, it's Norwegian version of Kit-Kat, but with much better chocolate. I'm now wondering if it's available locally. Perhaps in Ballard. ^_^ Alternatively, anyone wishing to gain too much weight or simply taste what may be the Platonic form of the Kit-Kat can in fact apparently order it here. I've never heard of this place before, I just mooshed the keyboard until I got a URL found it through Google, so if anybody tries it and has candy show up (or not show up), please let me know!

Politics later.

Friday's miles: 1.1
Miles out of Hobbiton: 511.2
Miles out of Rivendell: 51.4
Miles to Lothlórien: 415

Today's Cultural Warfare Update

Pat Robertson to Dover, PA: You have rejected god by rejecting Creationism, prepare for natural disasters;

Focus on the Family; pr0n is destroying America;

FotF and other "pro-family" groups meet with FCC to discuss new regulation of pr0n;

FotF thinks new condom labeling requirements don't go far enough, should be changed to state they haven't been shown to block passage of HPV - the same virus various "pro-family" groups have been lobbying against generally vaccinating against;

FotF applauds Sen. Brownback (R-Kansas) and other Republican senators in 5-4 vote moving anti-marriage-rights Federal amendment out of the markup committee to the rules committee;

FotF applauds nomination of Michael Copps to Federal Communications Commission, calling him a "strong champion for removing indecency from the airwaves";

Michael Copps encourages fundamentalists to organise to flood the FCC with indecency complaints;

FCC sees rise in indecency complaints;

FotF supports "Workplace Religious Freedom Act" about which I know nothing; ACLU says it will result in anti-abortion and anti-gay discrimination at workplaces; FotF tags it with a paragraph promoting evangelism of other employees in the workplace, as well as customers and clients of the company;

Minnesota Family Council organises ministers to support anti-marriage amendment; meeting is met with protests;

Kentucky to take 10 Commandments displays back to the Supreme Court again, following the Texas ruling; theirs had been previously found to be explicitly religious and so not Constitutional, but they're going to give it another go with new justices, apparently;

Concerned Women for America policy wonks Robert Knight and Benjamin Fricht report on Catholic Action League of Massachusetts's complaints that giving children to ‘gay’ couples is child abuse; the League also condemns "Catholic Charities of Boston’s recent admission that it has placed children with homosexual couples";

Business Week reports large anti-indecency campaign being launched by Bush administration, at all levels; Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) wants to give the FCC more regulatory authority to revoke station licenses.

Focus on the Family plugs Rick Santorum's book.

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