BISON, BISON. HAPPY 2013

Just a short entry here, wanted to say here's to a good, new year for you. May yours be over-filled with bison. Both the real kind, and the metal from Canada kind. And maybe some Zubrowka too. Not too much though.

Love,

Statriot

LATE 2012 NEW STUFF.

Yeah, so 2012 is almost over, and so is the world, right, that's maybe what the Mayans are saying? To commemorate that, and as a special deal for the Missoula MADE Fair, which is always a huge, fun, inspiring event for us, we decided we'd kick out a couple new designs! Both of these are currently available in our store, and we'll be getting 'em into our accounts soon too!

This one is called Montruckintana, and you know. It kind of needs no introduction. Car camping holds a special place in our hearts, and one day, we'd like a  dedicated rig like this one to load up and head out with. We like backpacking and non-car camping too, don't get us wrong, there's just a certain je ne sais quois that goes along with a camp-ready rig, all self contained like this. Throw a Thin Lizzy 8-Track in, shift through all three gears, scream a conversation over the road noise, etc.

Second shirt: New High, Wide: Osprey. We love an osprey. It's hard not to. They're so damn tactical and fierce. We could watch 'em work for hours. We know lots of folks who feel the same way. We decided to make a shirt honoring their excellence.

HEY-HO, WE'VE GOT A NEW STICKER DESIGN YO, SHIRT COMING! ALSO, SOME FINE IDAHO-WEAR, FINALLY!

NEW stickers, available via statriot.com

 

That's correct, our new sticker is simply called "Monfuckintana: High Wide" and there's a picture of it. We wanted it to be a little chaotic looking, and voila. We plan to do some variation of this as a new shirt design in time for the Holiday MADE Fair, which we're proud to participate in on December 9th, at the Holiday Inn downtown Missoula.

It's time we gave a big shout outs to our accounts that are currently carrying this, they are:
Betty's Divine in Missoula
Ernie November in Billings
Cactus Records in Bozeman
Frayed Sew in Helena
Rockin' Rudy's in Missoula    

These folks have also got shirts and hats, etc. so give 'em your business. They're locals! 

Speaking of which, we just launched a couple of new Idaho designs with our premier account in Moscow, Idaho. They're the Moscow Food Co-Op and they're proudly carrying three Idaho-themed Statriot designs. Three shirts and two totes. Stop on in, they too are committed to sustainable food, local culture and community health. All values we share!  

MOOSE, TURKEY SIDE OF STICKERS.

We're not sure what that means, but that's never stopped a blogger from bloggin', right? Well, we mean, actually we've got a couple of new designs you-all should have a look at, decide if you like 'em, and well, at some point if you do like, think about getting one. What exactly can one say? Ramma-lamma-fa-fa-fa, I guess.

Seriously, though: We launched ol' Moosy this year, thinking hey, how do we do something kind of thrashed looking, but kind of iconic, like the might moose. We came up with this here, and you can get it from statriot.com, which is our web store.

Then more recently, we talked to our friend Kari Workman and were all like, Kari: you wanna draw a hen turkey design for us? You know, because we've got turkeys here too. And why do eagles get all the cred when turkeys are pretty remarkable adaptations. They hang in packs (community), aren't what you'd outwardly call "beautiful" (normal) and have serious smarts. She got us this Wild Hentana design and we freakin' dig it.

Nuff said.

STRAIGHT KOURAGE, NO CHASER.

A few years ago, the folks at Statriot met Kitt Kourage, "Loose Cannon" of the west. We struck a deal to work on some "cross promotional" opportunities. Stay tuned for those. Meanwhile, we think Kitt's work speaks for itself.

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.