NEW STATRIOT DESIGNS A'POPPIN.
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?

Spring? Statriot? Springriot.

Bloggin' bloggin' bloggin', you know my ass is soggin'... head 'em up, roll 'em out, roll 'em in, BLOGHIDE. Ahem. What the do here, peoples?

Wheh-he-hell, we' figured we'd give you a little secret snapshot of some of the new designage we've been hunkered down with around here. We're excited about it, we think it's cool, we're blah blah back. Rumspringe.

What else is going on 'round here? Knife sharpening, extreme yoga, egg noodles, tai chi, Tang beverage, knife throwing, inner-self exploration, New Country listening, extreme reading, stir frying. It's spring, bro.

More real soon.

DEAL: CHOCOLATE + HOODIE

We, the thrift-minded stewards of the Statriot Mountain Cave outpost are fans of the deal. Whether it's the Little Big Lots end cap at the Orange Street Food Farm, or yard sale-purchased fleece garment. We've been known to eat leftovers.

We know a deal when we see one. And we act on those deals. All this talk of deals has us somewhat salivating on the keyboard. It's gross.

But seriously, speaking of deals: We'll rush out a combo pack featuring an alarmingly simple, but surprisingly thoughtful set of gifts. A milk-chocolate bar of.... milk chocolate, and a beautiful, Montana made Montanka pullover hoodie sweatshirt. These are the thick, heavy duty kind. This deal will end on Valentine's Day, 2011, and can be found only at statriot.com

Out of our gourds at Statriot HQ.

Folks we've gone plum loco over here at Statriot acres. As our way of giving back to the community we've shredded prices even more on one of our hottest items. The Montanka hoodie.

Now remember we're talking combo here. One cold enhancing koozie, two stickers, Hoodie and of course one Hersheys Chocolate bar sans almonds. Now this deal ain't gonna be around forever, so make your move. Forget the Barry Manilow and Mikes Hard Lemonade, this is all you'll need for your Valentine day wishes to come true. Heres the place: statriot.com

GET YOUR SWEETIE A HOODIE, MAN.

Just like Glenn Beck and others in the fast paced world of the internet taste making (huh?) we're gearing up to offer folks a heckuva deal for the upcoming Valentine's Day Holiday. That's right, we've got a deal for you. It's something real nice, we think:

We start with a fine, hooded Sweatshirt. We add a high quality foam coozie. We add two stickers. We also add a fine Hershey, Pennsylvania-produced bar of chocolate. We wrap it all in an old copy of the Missoula Independent, slap an utterly insane low, low, Lolo pricetag on the whole shooting match, and voila! You're covered. Think about it. And choose to act upon it, if it strikes you as a good idear. The place: statriot.com.

CLOSER TO WHAT?

Yeah, that´s a valid enough question we guess. Here´s the answer: So, while many know us from our expletive-laden work, turns out we´ve got stuff that´s 100% family-friendly up here in the hills outside Statriosburg.

Yep, and this design here, called Closer, is one of our absolute newest. We wanted it to be clean, simple and wordless and just kind of stark. Like if somehow the Mission range were weirdly, perfectly illuminated on a clear winter´s night. Say you stopped a little north of Ronan and gazed eastward? We figured, this, or something approaching it might be what you see. There are but a few places in the world that can boast the natural wall-hangings it´s pretty easy to walk past on an average day in MT.

Uh, yeah... so, yeah. So I always loved this image on Joy Division´s Unknown Pleasures album. We thought it was actually called "Closer," which is a whole separate album. Well, by the time we got the design out of the shop, Closer had stuck.... and hey, voila. If you want a good pre-Joy Division deal, check out the Warsaw LP in its entirety. Awesomely robotic punk.

If it all strikes your fancy, find your way over to statriot.com, which is our store site. We have shirts and coozies.