Michelle Shocked’s 1988 song ‘Anchorage’ tells of old friends whose lives diverged. One settled in Alaska with her husband and kids, the other remained a punk rocker in New York. “Anchored down in Anchorage”, as the housewife writes to her wild friend.

I could not shake this song while watching Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin meet in Alaska.

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