I should have been paying attention.

The album includes five characters created by Tori in which she sings the songs. Which would certainly go a long way to explain some of the lyrics I heard in samples.

Limited edition includes DVD with not-available-anywhere-else songs, booklet, postcards, the usual eBay in 15 years stuff.

She tours Australia in September according to Wikipedia. The current tour appears to be solo Tori.

I ache for band-Tori.

As you may have heard, bees in various countries are going AWOL at an alarming rate. For a while they blamed "cell phones" but that has been debunked. Others blame a virus or bee killing mite. Most blame over farming.

Which leads to this from BoingBoing:

Grapes, which self-pollinate, and olives, which are pollinated by the wind, will not be affected by the bees' disappearance; Christians pointed out that the Book of Revelation predicts that a famine sparing grapes and olives will precede the apocalypse.

And I thought everyone thought the Lebanon/Israel was the apocalypse.

This article, "Please Lord, not the bees" goes a long way to possibly explain the bee disappearances.