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September 14, 2015 /

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Animator Andy Smetanka remembers seeing it back in his hometown of Billings.

The classic Rockin Rudy’s T-shirt design featuring a funny-looking amphibian and the slogan, "Missoula Montana: A Place. Sort Of."

"The flying platypus is one of the first artifacts of Missoula that I remember seeing when I was growing up," he said.

"There certainly wasn’t any hint of humor in any civic T-shirts for the Billings Centennial. It wasn’t jokey at all. And then I see this T-shirt from this semi-distant weird place I’d heard of called Missoula," he said in an interview at his Northside home studio.

Smetanka is using that slogan, "A Place Sort Of," as the name and starting point for a documentary about his adopted home of 25 years, where he transferred for college and has stayed almost entirely since.

Kickstarter Campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1486916197/a-place-sort-of?ref=5qydpe

By Cory Walsh

Full Story: http://missoulian.com/news/local/filmmaker-raising-money-for-missoula-documentary-a-place-sort-of/article_a47c4a5a-2fc4-5449-8f13-6dc50d950c7c.html