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Al Batt: Waiting into a river of proliferating procrastinators
“The Foolish Almanak For Anuthur Year” by Theodor Rosyfelt published in 1906, said, “It is said that nothing is impossible; but there are lots of ...
“The Foolish Almanak For Anuthur Year” by Theodor Rosyfelt published in 1906, said, “It is said that nothing is impossible; but there are lots of ...
I’m not against gambling. I’ve purchased raffle tickets for good causes, entered a couple of March Madness pools and eaten my cooking. I was in ...
Tales from Exit 22 by Al Batt A cow chip is no chocolate chip. I don’t see many cow chip cookies where I hang out. ...
“You can’t always get what you want. But if you try sometime you’ll find. You get what you need.”
My name is Batt. I’m a private investigator.
I’m trapped between two oceans. I often travel by automobile and when I do, I’m partial to roads. There is public transportation here, but only so ...
It was the time of the screen door slams. I was trying to spell Czechoslovakia. I’d found a lucky rock and put it in my pocket ...
I can summarize the book in a single sentence. Get rid of things that no longer have a purpose or spark joy and keep only ...
Tales from Exit 22 by Al Batt Why are the cardinals the last birds to leave the bird feeders at the end of the day? ...
I knew it was coming. It was an after-school special.
“Which is better, one or two?” I wasn’t a jam judge at the county fair. I was having an eye exam. The optometrist asked me repeatedly ...
I live near a phone. Just as most everyone does.
It’s too hot, too humid, too rainy, too cramped. Too bad. Like moths to a lightbulb, we are drawn to it. It’s the local equivalent of ...
They discovered the dried remains of a long-dead bird in a keepsake box.
Fortunately, there is an improvisation exercise using fortunately/unfortunately stories. Participants take turns articulating one sentence at a time in a build-upon story chain. Each sentence ...