Alaska Ear

• Ear didn't personally see one but is told that some Alaska lawmakers who attended the National Conference of State Legislators in Philadelphia last week wore specially made buttons that said: "I'm from Alaska. Please don't ask me about Her."

• An unusually reliable earwig who got a marriage license recently at the Anchorage Vital Statistics office reports a posted sign warning people who wanted Sarah Palin's signature on their Heirloom marriage certificates to get their paperwork in by July 13. (Turns out, if you get married in Alaska, you can pay extra for a fancy certificate personally [allegedly] signed by whoever happens to be governor at the time.)

Ear called Phillip Mitchell at the Bureau of Vital Statistic, who said maybe 50 to 100 last-minute requests made the deadline. There probably would have been more, he said, but Sarah didn't give much notice that she was leaving.

There was a similar rush for the personally signed certificates back in September-October, Mitchell said. That's when people thought she might end up vice president.

• Finally, a question: Will Sarah actually move Outside, or just spend so much time out there that she's not eligible for next year's PFD? Citing a "very reliable" real estate dealer, a NYC blog is reporting she and Todd have been looking at houses around Hampton Bays on Long Island. "It seems that she started looking at smaller houses and has now graduated to looking at larger homes. Her husband is said to like the good fishing on Long Island. Perhaps the speculation about her planning a position with right wing Fox news is correct too," writes Lily Loring on www.Gothamgirl.info.

Loring adds: "Just a friendly note ... In New York State, we do not hunt animals from airplanes."

OUT AND ABOUT . . . Spotted coming out of the venerable Pioneer Bar Thursday about 1 p.m., GOP boss Randy Ruedrich. Looks like someone started celebrating early.

ON THE MOVE . . . Stephanie Komarnitsky, supervising editor in the Mat-Su valley area, is leaving Your Favorite Good Morning Newspaper tomorrow. She's taken a job as communications director at Renewable Energy Alaska.

• Paul Jenkins, formerly of the Voice of the Times, has a new Alaska Web site up, with Kelly McLain, a reporter who actually leaves the keyboard and then comes back and writes news stories. What a concept!

It's called The Daily Planet, and isn't that a great name. Earwigs report advertising mogul Mike Porcaro is bankrolling it. You can check it out at anchoragedailyplanet.com.

KUDOS . . . In his first session in the Big House, The Boy Senator has risen to the top of the class, winning the Golden Gavel award, given to the first freshman who racks up 100 hours presiding over the Senate. Begich was also named Senate Rookie of the Year by Politico in a special edition of the newspaper entitled "Top 50 Politicos to Watch."

Can you spell workaholic?

SOUTHERN COMFORT . . . Darlings, you really should be following the love-her, lost-it saga of former Seward and Cordova city manager Scott Janke, who was fired from his town manager job in Fort Myers Beach, Fla., last week after the town council learned his wife is a porn star -- professional name Jazella Moore.

In a 5-0 vote, the council canned Scott, despite having no noticeable complaint about his job performance, for what one member called "the good of (the) constituency." But it turns out the constituency doesn't feel that good about the firing and, according to the local newspaper, most people who turned up at a meeting Wednesday sided with Scott and Jazella.

Inquiring Ear wondered why Scott was willing to risk a $100,000+ job, so checked out Jazella's Web site (the only one allowed by the ADN porn censor). Here's an excerpt:

"I discovered that by approaching sexual pleasure resolved of guilt and fear and with need distilled to shared, creative adventure, the paradox of the Madonna/Whore was broken and with that the power of ecstatic joy could triumph. ... So I became a priestess of the erotic arts."

Hmmm. City manager of Fort Myers on one hand. Erotic priestess on the other. Tough choice? Ear thinks not.

There was a story in Friday's ADN, but for the whole saga, see Alaska Newsreader at adn.com.

IMPERFECT CRIME . . . Here's an excerpt from Ear's favorite police blotter, documenting life in Unalaska/Dutch Harbor:

"07/18/09--Sat--0207--Trespass -- An agitated, drunken patron who had groped a cocktail waitress was asked to leave the bar but did not wish to do so. (M.M.), 24 yoa, of Washington, was arrested for Criminal Trespass II after he cursed at an officer and refused to leave the area. (MM) was uncooperative at the jail and, among other things, attempted to drown himself, twice, by placing his head in a toilet in his cell but was unsuccessful due to the fact that he had to keep coming up for air."

Compiled by Sheila Toomey. E-mail ear@adn.com. Find Ear online at adn.com/ear.