Our Friends Portugal. The Man (who actually played one of our Live at Ryan’s acoustic sets are from Wasilla, Alaska which as everyone in America knows is also the hometown of John McCain’s Vice Presidential pick Sarah Palin. A recent (and really well written) blog post by John Gourley chimes in on the Palin situation:

Palin, Because We Don’t Need It

Here is a story from the younger pages of John Gourley (going by Johnny at the time)…

My first hunting trip.

All through my smaller years, from a boy through to a man, I have known true Alaskans. People who hunted for a living. By “a living” I should be sure to mean “for survival” or “as a necessity… Something along those lines… It was just a part of life growing up here in Alaska. People hunt, people work, people live, and fish and sleep and work and work and work and so on.
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