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A flippin’ man-made mud volcano has been erupting in Sidoarjo, Indonesia since 2006. “It appears that the flow will continue indefinitely and so far all efforts to stem the flow have failed”. I’ll come clean and say that I didn’t realize volcanoes were on the list of things we were making these days. Go us!

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Lots of big pictures here.

My first exposure to Fleet Foxes was when they opened for The Clientele late in the Summer of 2006. I remember feeling lucky to have discovered a new act that was very obviously destined for great success. Since then, a good friend and I have made it a point to see as many of their local Seattle shows as possible. We’ve probably missed two chances to see them perform - and felt really, really bad about it, let me tell you. In the mean time, they’ve released two EPs, changed their name from The Fleet Foxes to just Fleet Foxes, and finally (after almost two years of impatient waiting) pushed their first full length release over the wall.

The bottom line here is that they’ve really got no business being as talented as they are for their age (average band member age is probably around 22 years), there is no shortage of good press for their freshman release, and they’re on some sort of European / US tour at present.

In order to keep things simple, I am providing this list of suggested actions ordered from least to most expensive:

1. Listen
2. Buy
3. Watch

The Center For Public Integrity has published an exhaustive study of the Bush administration’s efforts to manipulate the United States into war with Iraq, arriving at a total of 935 lies.

–Via Talking Points Memo and Seattlest.

If pumpkin carving was an Olympic event, I have no doubt that Josh and Cam would bring home gold medals for their jack-o-lanterns. Amazing!