The global crunchy

A reader in Singapore sends this cool video clip of a Bjork-like singer named Feist, who sounds like a non-insane Bjork (did you see Bjork on SNL over the weekend? Banshee time, have mercy!). It reminds me of an obscure Norwegian pop trio, Tre Sma Kinesere, I fell for 13 years ago, on a trip to the Land of Seven-Dollar Beers. Anyway, I heard this morning about a leading Swedish journalist who reads this blog (big shout-out to the Swedish Catholics in the house!).

Which makes me wonder: this blog has readers in Russia, in Germany and England -- that we know from the comments boxes. I'm wondering where else outside the United States this blog has readers. I'm also wondering how this crunchy-con sensibility applies in other countries, and how much of it is specific to the United States. My friend Fred Gion, who lives in Paris, read the book and tells me that so much of its concerns are quite congenial to traditional conservatism as it's understood in France. That's not the case in the US. How about where you live? And where do you live?