It's been longer than a sow grizzly's winter nap since we pumped out new shirts. Must be uh, the weather, or the rapture, I mean recession that's had us all tied up with other activities. Wellsirs, that stops NOW! All this is available from our webstore, Statriot.com and in actual physical
stores like Betty's! We'll have stickers shortly. Keep tuned.What've we got here: well, #1's called Hecho En Montana or, just "Hecho" for short. That means "made in Montana" to us anglophones, and it's a design we got from the nation of Mexico, and added a little of our own Montana flair to. That's an osprey now, not an eagle, or condor or whatever. You see this logo (or the Mexican one) on everything from tortilla presses to .. uh, citrus presses, and Jarritos brand soda pop. We liked it's bold simplicity so damn much, we decided, "hey! let's do one of those for Montana." And voila, as the say south of the border.
#2's called Montana Letters or ... maybe, "letters" for short, I guess. It's just kind of a bizarre
tribute to all the concrete letters sitting on hillsides across the Treasure State. Everybody's got an M, and L, a whatever sitting on their town-facing hillside. As though you need to be reminded of the town's first letter regularly. On a positive note, the M in Missoula's probably responsible for getting more woulda-been-sittin'-on-their-asses tourists out of a car and onto a trail, even if for only a portion of the climb. Good on you, big M. Good on you.Before we go, let me just point one thing that Kitt Kourage laid on us recently to you: it's this new Bombino record from this insane guitar player from Niger, Omara Moctar. It's ferocious. And by ferocious, I mean mellow, and beautiful, and like perfectly executed un-cheeseball classic rock minus Joe Walsh and Don Henley fuckin' it all up. Huh?
