Friday, April 30, 2004

JFDR

A list of FITK references to Jófríður Ákadóttir, the Icelandic musician.

With Pascal Pinon:

Airwaves 2009 Day One
Airwaves 2009 Day Four
Sounds Like a Whisper in Your Ear
Icelandic Invasion
KFJC Interview
On Parade
Quiet Revolution
Do Not Underestimate
Sugar Mountain
Sundur
Mondays in Iceland #75 
Airwaves 2017
Ást

With Samaris:

Góða tungl
Promise and Problems
Most Dangerous?
Chanteuse

As JFDR:

New Dreams
JFDR
Mondays in Iceland #100
With Strings
Iceland Airwaves 2018
The Orchid
Iceland Airwaves 2023
Search for a Dancer
Museum

Collaborations:

Gangly
Mondays in Iceland #61
portal 2 xtacy
Airwaves and Gender

By Professor Batty


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Saturday, April 24, 2004

The Reader Index

This is the chapter index to the serial novella The Reader:

 1   Mashed Potatoes
 2   Boogie-Woogie Country Girl
 3   Reading After Midnight
 4   Londa and the Gang
 5   Coffee Shop Tryst
 6   Party at Grandmother’s
 7   The Swansong of Larry Lovejoy
 8   Freedom Radio
 9   Beautiful Dream
10  Sunday School
11  Breakfast Epiphany
12  Andy’s Awakening
13  Alone Again, Naturally
14  Another Saturday Night 
15  Trouble in River City
16  Aftermath
17  Faded Love
18  Roommate 
19  Moving Day
20  Deception 
21  Johnny Walker Black 
22  Disappearing Act 
23  Jazz Hands 
24  Holding 
25  Release 
26  Behind Closed Doors
27  Möbius 

The Reader ©2017 by Stephen Charles Cowdery

All rights reserved

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

By Professor Batty


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Friday, April 23, 2004

Icelandic Book Reviews

Links to FITK reviews of various Icelandic authors:

Arnaldur Indriðasson

Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir

Hallgrímur Helgasson

Halldór Laxness

Kristín Eriksdóttir

Ragnar Jónasson

Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir

Sjón

Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

By Professor Batty


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Wednesday, April 21, 2004

Short Fiction

Friday Fiction

House Party - Part I
House Party - Part II
House Party - Part III
House Party - Part IV
House Party - Part V
House Party - Part VI
House Party - Part VII (end)

House Party ©2021, Stephen Charles Cowdery



Down By the River
Simple Meals Are Best
Faded Love
Fade to Black
Astronauts: A Love Story
Speed Skater
Blair Witch Project
SRO

Misc. short fiction ©2016-2022 by Stephen Charles Cowdery




Desperately Seeking Sharon
A mini-serial about an existential quest for Sharon Spotbottom:

Part 1Sharon is Missing!
Part 2 An Enigmatic Clue…
Part 3Stranded in the Jungle…
Part 4Visions of Sharon…
Part 5Meeting with Madam Tara
Part 6 At Last!
Part 7 Epilogue

Desperately Seeking Sharon ©2008 by Stephen Charles Cowdery.

Sharon Spotbottom character ©2006 by Karen Heathwood, used by permission.

All rights reserved.

Long Fiction On FITK

These stories are works of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

By Professor Batty


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Tuesday, April 20, 2004

The Explodo Boys…

… were a musical group that the Professor worked with (and recorded) nearly a half-century ago. Here are some music videos, CDs, LPs and stories of this great Minneapolis band:

Explodo Boys “Videos”:

Cha-Dooky-Doo
Twine Time
Get Your Hat
I Want to Take You Home
Bluff City Cookin'
Doobah
Pass the Peas
Midnight Mover
Hidden Charms
Darling, Darling, Darling
She’s So Good
Crazy Mama
Sure Feels Good
Can I Change My Mind?
You Got All The Aces
I'm Ready
Tramp on the Street
Ain’t Nothing You Can Do
I'm Ready
Happy Song

Oh So Soul “Videos”:

Waiting at the Station
Saturday Night Fish Fry
The Babywalk

Commercially Released CDs:

The Early Years 1975-1976 (remastered from vinyl LP)
The Later Years 1977 - 1980 (remastered from vinyl LP)

History of The Explodo Boys CD series:

I      Country: Country and folk songs 1974- 1975
II     Covers: Rock and blues tunes 1975-1976
IIb   Harold’s Blues: Recorded rehearsal 1977
III   The Explosion Brothers: Highlights 1977-1978
IV   Doobah: Highlights 1978-1979
V    No Turkeys: Highlights 1979-1980
VII  John Beach with The Explodo Boys: 1979-1980
VI   Oh So Soul: Jimmy’s farewell, 1980
VIII Lost and Found: Rarities 1978-1979
IX   Improvisations: Instrumentals 1978-1979
X   Odds and Ends: 1978-1979

Gig tapes:

Tracy’s Inn - 1975: Raucous roadhouse gig (2 CDs)
Tempo Bar - 1976: Excerpts from a typical gig
Bootlegger Sam’s - 1977: w/ Max and Audie
Reunion - 1982 (2 CDs): Danny’s return from Alaska

Jimmy Derbis:

Solo 1971
Demos 1987

For specific information on The Explodo Boys or obtaining these CDs email: stephencowdery@gmail.com

The vinyl LPs are sold out but can sometimes be found at Discogs or eBay.

True stories (mostly):

Memorial Day
The Listening Room
B.P.
Half-True Story
The Explodo Girls
Adventures With the Green Van

Other Mentions:

Dogpatch: Sound of True North Podcast (31:00)

By Professor Batty


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Midwest

Impressions from the nation’s heartland:

Colorado

This Bud’s for You (Colorado Springs (2014) 
Miniskirts and Ibsen (Colorado Springs 2014)
Florrisant and Cripple Creek (2014)
Cripple Creek

Iowa

Decorah (2011)
Dubuque (2011)

Kansas

Rockets in the Heartland (Hutchinson, 2013) 
Salt Mine (Hutchinson, 2013) 
Waitress in a Greasy Spoon (Scott City, 2013) 
The Other Minneapolis (2013)
Postcards from the Road (Minneapolis, 2013)
In a Fiat 124 (1971)
The Day After (1971)

Nebraska

Terra Incomprehendia (Farwell, 2013)
Barnanew (Scottsbluff, 2013)

South Dakota

Mulder’s Farm Mulder’s Farm Again
Sorum (c. 1920)

Wisconsin:

2022
Nick Englebert’s Grandview (Hollandale)
Postcards from Mineral Point
Concrete Sculpture
Shake Rag Street

2017 - 2018
Return to Mount Horeb
Blood Cookies (Mount Horeb)
How Much…  (Madison)
Pastoral (Mount Horeb)
Your Next Home (Vermont)

2016
Gonstead Guest Cottage (Mount Horeb) 
Searching for Shoshanah (Mount Horeb)
More from Mount Horeb
Madison
Carnival (Madison)
Is Anybody Home? (Mineral Point)
Walking with Ms. Lee (Mount Horeb)
Friday Road Trip (Mount Horeb)

Older:
Visions of Shoshanah (Mount Horeb - 2015)
Last Day of Summer (Mount Horeb - 2014)
Meat Cheese Beer (Milwaukee - 2014)
Milwaukee (2014)
Road Trip (Sparta - 2014)
Taliesin (Spring Green - 2011)
The Concrete Park (Phillips - 2004)
Eight Pounds of Beads (Couderay - 2004)
John-John Slept Here (Bayfield - 2004)
Mama Gets Folk (Bayfield - 2004)
Bayfield (1984)
Hippies Redux (Iola - 1970)
Hippies (Iola - 1970)
Luella Busch (Algoma - 1910-1915 )

By Professor Batty


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Monday, April 19, 2004

Tónlist

Here is the list of the various Icelandic and other Nordic/Arctic musical groups I’ve mentioned in FITK over the years (*=music actually purchased by me):

Agent Fresco
Áki Ásgeirsson
Amiina *
Andy Schauf
Apparat Organ Quartet *
Árný
Árný Margrét
Ásthildur Ákadóttir *
Ateria
Áuslaug Magnusdóttir
Æla

Baggalútur *
Bára Gísladóttir
Bárujárn
Bedroom Community
Benni Hemm Hemm
Between Mountains
Biggi Hilmars
Björk *
Björt
Bláskjár
Borko
Brimheim
Buff

Cosmic Call
Daníel Bjarnarson
Ditka
DJ Margeir
Dr. Spock
Egill Sæbjörnsson
Eivør *
Elisapie
Evil Madness
Fókus
Fufanu

Gabriel Ólafs
Ghostigital
GKR
Greyskies
Gróa *
Grúska Babúska
Guðmundur Óskar Guðmundsson
Guðni Thorlacius Jóhannesson
Guðrið Hansdóttir
GusGus
Gyða

Hafdís Huld
Halli Guðmundsson
Ham
Hekla
Hekla Magnúsdóttir *
Hellvar/Heiða
Hildur Gunðadóttir
Hildur
Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson *
Hjaltalín
Hjörvar
Högni *
Hraun
Hudson Wayne
Hugar


Jakobínarína
JFDR *
Jófríður Ákadóttir *
Jóhann Jóhannsson *
Jóhanna Elísa
Jonathan
Jonfri
Joshua Wilkinson
Júniús Meyvant *
Kaktus Einarsson
Kalli
Kevin Cole
Kimono
Kira Kira
Kiriyama Family
Kitchen Motors
Kónguló
Kristín Sessala
Kvikindi

Langi Seli Og Skuggarnir
Larus Halldór Grimsson
Liva Mo
Ljáðu Okkur Eyra
Magnús Jóhann
Marius DC
Marta Ákadóttir
Mikado
Mezzoforté
Mugison
Múgsefjun
Múm *
My Summer as a Salvation Soldier
Mysterious Marta
Neonme
Nini Julia Bang
Nóra

Oculus
Ojba Rasta
Ólafur Arnalds
Ólöf Arnalds *
Orphix Oxtra
Osmé
Óttarr Proppé
Pale Moon
Páll Óskar *
Pellegrina
Pascal Pinon *
Pellegrina
Peter Evans
Petúr Ben
Red Barnett
Retro Stefson
Reykjavíkurdætur
Rokkurró *

Salka Valsdóttir
Samaris *
Screaming Masterpiece *
Shadow Parade
Shahzad Ismaily*
Sigrún
Sigrún Stella
Sin Fang Bous
Sindrí
Siggi Ármann
Sigur Rós *
Ske
Skúli Severrisson
Sóley *
Sólstafir
Sprengjuhöllin
Stórsveit Nix Noltes *
Sunna Margrét
Svavar Knútur
Sycamore Tree
Systur

Tappi Tíkarrass
Team Dreams
Tilbury
Toggi
Úlfur Eldjárn
Ultra Mega Technobandið Stefán
Una Torfa
Uni
Unun *
Útidúr
Valgeir Sigurðsson *
Vicky
Wim Van Hooste

With a few other fellow travelers (†)

By Professor Batty


Sunday, April 18, 2004

Arnaldur Indriðason

FITK reviews of novels by the noted Icelandic mystery/thriller writer:

In English publication order:

Jar City (aka Tainted Blood) (2004)
Silence of the Grave (2005)
Arctic Chill (2005)
Voices (2006)
The Draining Lake (2007)
Hypothermia (2009)
Operation Napoleon (2010)
Outrage (2011)
Black Skies (2012)
Strange Shores (2013)
Reykjavík Nights (2014)
Into Oblivion (2015)
The Shadow District (2016)
The Shadow Killer (2018)

A guide to the Inspector Erlendur Series in continutity order here.

By Professor Batty


Saturday, April 17, 2004

Minnesota

Selected FITK posts on the Professor’s sojourns in the Land of Lakes:

2021

Mysteries of Grand Marais
Wine Tour (Stillwater)

2020

Honky-Tonk Woman (Waverly)
The Last Gig (Northeast Minneapolis)
Jono’s Letter (Grand Marais)
Heroes and Villans (South Minneapolis)
Yard Concert (Robbinsdale)
Nature Preserve (Anoka) 
Prom Nights (Saint Paul)
State Fair Memories (Falcon Heights)
Adventures with the Green Van (Bemidji)
My Last Cigar (Cambridge)

2019

Take-out (Anoka)
Paradise Found and Lost (Minneapolis)
The End of Winter (Anoka)
Small Town Talk (Anoka)
Skaterdater (Minneapolis)
() (Minneapolis)
Halloween Terrors (Anoka)
Weekend in New Ulm

2018

Five From the Frigid Fair (Falcon Heights)
On the Town (Anoka)
Art-A-Whirl (NE Minneapolis)
I Live in a Magical World (Anoka)
I Dig the Nightlife (South Minneapolis)
Savoury Summer (Anoka)
Surreal Saturday (Downtown Minneapolis)
Waseca Wonders

2017

Grand Marais by Night
More Grand Marais
Farewell Grand Marais
Harriet and Desha (Saint Paul)
Food Truck Frenzy (Anoka)
Midnight Serenade (Chatfield)
Purcell-Cutts House (Minneapolis)

2016

Jack Clark’s Bar and Cafe (North Minneapolis)
Transition (North Minneapolis)
Green Lake (North Minneapolis)
Anoka Home Tour
Four More from the Fair (Falcon Heights)
Four from the Fair
Fair Friday Final Four
North (Cook County)

2015

Art-A-Whirl (Minneapolis)
Ergot Museum (Dassel)
Rivertown Ramble (Anoka)
Saturday in the Park (Waseca)
River Rats (Anoka)
Four From the Fair (Falcon Heights)
Four More From the Fair
Further Fair Foursome
Fair Final Four

2014

Trail Center (Cook County)
Young at Heart Records (Duluth)
Country Auction (1970-Upsala)
Art-A-Whirl (Minneapolis)
A Jolly Excursion (Minneapolis-Saint Paul)
From Paradise to Sunrise (Kanabec County)
The Crazy Lady’s House (Kanabec County)
Clambering in the Fog (Anoka)

2013

Street Street (Anoka)
Playing Hooky (Minneapolis)
Art-A-Whirl (Minneapolis)
More from Art-A-Whirl
Mr. Lucky (Minneapolis)
Family Values (Two Harbors)
Stale Pop (Minneapolis)
Mansion on the Hill (Anoka)
Loring Park Girls (Minneapolis)
I Love the Fair (Falcon Heights)
Pipestone

2012

Art-A-Whirl (NE Minneapolis)
Prairie Home Cemetery (Anoka)
Alice in Wonderland (Waverly)
William A. Porter (North Minneapolis)
Frank R. MacDonald (North Minneapolis)
Charles C. Webber (North Minneapolis)

2011

Sleepy Eye
Bands, Beer and Birds (New Ulm)
New Ulm
Hot Rods and Custom Dreams (Anoka)
Ye Old Mill (Falcon Heights)
Aprés-Ski (Morrison County)

2010 and older…

Postcards from the Fair (Falcon Heights)
Old Camden (Minneapolis)
Street Corner Philosopher (Minneapolis)
Twilight of the Goddesses (Minneapolis)
Luncheon on the Grass (Waverly)
Mysteries of the North Country
Curiosity Shop (Northfield)
The Interlopers (Lanesboro)
Beaver Flicks (Grand Marais)

By Professor Batty


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Friday, April 16, 2004

Hawaii

Posts covering the Professor’s reflections on his travels in the Aloha State:

Snarky Hula
The Tramp on the Street
The Vanishing Middle
Hula Girls Redux
Kim’s Rhinoceros
Sherwood Forest
The Glowing Icon
Hula Girls
Hau Tree Lanai

By Professor Batty


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West Coast

Hawaii 2006:
Snarky Hula
The Tramp on the Street
The Vanishing Middle
Hula Girls Redux
Kim’s Rhinoceros
Sherwood Forest
The Glowing Icon
Hula Girls
Hau Tree Lanai

Carmel-Big Sur 2020:
Carmel Capers
More From Carmel

San Francisco 2018:
Britex-Isaia-Sear’s
Museé Mechanique
Sutro Heights-Cliff House-DJ Cousin Mary
North Beach
Chinese New Year
Hopwater Distribution
Art Appreciation
Talk to Me!
Ferry-Sausalito-Alcatraz
Del Popolo, Tonga Room, Level III
Spaces
Painted Ladies
Baker’s Dozen
Recap
Mysterious San Francisco
Joy on Powell 
Travelogues of Hell
Ain’t Got No Home
Conquest
Sammy and the Cheese
Mysterious San Francisco Redux
Double Scoop of Sharon
Tim Maleeny

Palm Springs 2017:
Midwinter Getaway
La Quinta
Joshua Tree
Palm Springs Modern
Bombay Beach
Salvation Mountain
East Jesus
Slab City Library
Signs of the Times
Road Trips

Seattle and Washington State:

2019:
The Busker’s World
The 40 Bus to Ballard
Street Scenes
Beatlemania

2017:
Farmers Market
More From Seattle
Sleepless in Seattle 

2014:
More on the Emerald City
Roadhouse (Quilcene)
Face at the Window
If You Meet the Budda on the Road…
Whistling Vivaldi on the Quad
Abstract Thoughts

2013:
Market
Dive Bar
Doors
Agalmatophilia
Voodoo Child

2011:
Life of a House
Pike Place People
Connections
Reykjavík Calling I
Reykjavík Calling II
Nordic Fashion Bash

2007:
Scenes from a Seattle Sunday
Ichiro, Rem, and Arnauldur
Snow (Mount Baker)
Strange Moment of Time (Mount Baker)
Onward! (Bellingham)
Crabby

By Professor Batty


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Southwest

Arizona 2019

Tucson
Roughing It
Nature Trial
Tucson Snaps
Devolution
Farewell Warmth
Tucson By Night
OK Market

New Mexico 2015, 2020,2023

Another Frieda
Supermom in a Bagel Shop
Tales of Old Santa Fe #1
Tales of Old Santa Fe #2
Tales of Old Santa Fe #3
Greetings
O’Keeffe Country
Kiva
Ruins
Entryways I
Entryways II

Southern California 2017

Midwinter Getaway
La Quinta
Palm Springs Modern
Joshua Tree
Bombay Beach
Salvation Mountain
East Jesus
Slab City Library
Signs of the Times
Road Trips

By Professor Batty


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Wisconsin

The professor’s travels through Cheeselandia:

2017 - 2018

Return to Mount Horeb
Blood Cookies (Mount Horeb)
How Much…  (Madison)
Pastoral (Mount Horeb)
Your Next Home (Vermont)

2016

Gonstead Guest Cottage (Mount Horeb) 
Searching for Shoshanah (Mount Horeb)
More from Mount Horeb
Madison
Carnival (Madison)
Is Anybody Home? (Mineral Point)
Walking with Ms. Lee (Mount Horeb)
Friday Road Trip (Mount Horeb)

Older:

Visions of Shoshanah (Mount Horeb - 2015)
Last Day of Summer (Mount Horeb - 2014)
Meat Cheese Beer (Milwaukee - 2014)
Milwaukee (2014)
Road Trip (Sparta - 2014)
Taliesin (Spring Green - 2011)
The Concrete Park (Phillips - 2004)
Eight Pounds of Beads (Couderay - 2004)
John-John Slept Here (Bayfield - 2004)
Mama Gets Folk (Bayfield - 2004)
Bayfield (1984)
Hippies Redux (Iola - 1970)
Hippies (Iola - 1970)
Luella Busch (Algoma - 1910-1915 )

By Professor Batty


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SoCal

Southern California 2017

Midwinter Getaway
La Quinta
Joshua Tree
Palm Springs Modern
Bombay Beach
Salvation Mountain
East Jesus
Slab City Library
Signs of the Times
Road Trips

By Professor Batty


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Sunday, April 11, 2004

Poetry

Selected poems from the FITK archives by Professor Batty (except where noted):

2004
The Silence
4X4X4
I Want You
Cream, Any One?
Pink ‘N’ Black
away

2005
Be the Man
Snow (J. Derbis)
The Door (Comica and Batty)
sunrise. (RS)
Skinny Moon
Summer Like A Drug
The Beast Within
My Resistance is Futile
She’s Changed
I Know You

2006
The Aging Diva
lines. (RS)
Unravel (Batty and Björk)
Where Will My Eden Be? (RS)
twilight
puzzle pieces (RS)
a child, a woman
You Smell so Good
pohm about wine (RS)
Empty House
Hope Never Dies
just.call.me. (RS)

2007
Morning Poems of Love
Mona Lisa Smile
The Seduction
Beautiful Kisses
Twinned
I Really Don’t Want to Know

2008
Love in a Balloon
Party Animals
Linger
Live bookmark feed failed to load…
Every Child’s Mother
BC Girls
Ruin
I Remember You…
Sad Songs of Love and Desire
Highway 41 Revisted
The Door
Road Trip

2009
Parallel Reality
Don’t Change Your Hair For Me
Adrift
Waitress
The Dawn Chorus
Dairy Queen
L’Opera dei Dannati
Take Our Picture
can you hear it?

2010
January Thaw 
epiphany
Luncheon on the Grass
In an English Country Garden
Yellow Dog Contract
Whispering Pines

2011
Basement Arousal
Best Friends Forever
Antiquing Aftermath
The Letter

2012
Sweet Dreams…
Two Girls
Sunday Night Shopper

2013
Archetype
Wasted Days…
Phone Call
Golden Boy

2014
Imagination

2015
Endless Summer
It’s All Too Beautiful
Found Lyrics
Girls’ Night Out

2016
Street Candy
The Love of an Adolescent (Wanda Gág)
The Bill Dale Story (J. Derbis)
Miracle on 36th
The Grandmama who sees everything (Little Miss Loopy)
Batty’s Icelandic Night Before Christmas

2018
Party Animals
a is for arbus
Summer Love (J. Derbis)
Red Sun
Sunday Night Fervor

2019
Dreams on a Winter Afternoon
Faded Love





By Professor Batty


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Search For a Dancer Index

This is the Chapter Index for the FITK serial memoir:

01 Red Eye to Keflavík
02 Terminal Velocity
03 Ég held að við séum öll trúðar í þessum strætó
04 Vatnsmyri
05 Vesturbær
06 Reykjavíkurtjörn
07 Castle House Tuesday Morning
08 Sandholt Summit
09 Be the Wolf
10 Back to School
11 Adventures in Never-Never-Land
12 Grund
13 Móðir,kona, meyja
14 Touched
15 Norræna Húsið
16 Into the Night
17 Making the Scene
18 Forskot á heimavelli
19 Nightwatch
20 Hot Fun in Vesturbær
21 High Concept in Hafnartorg
22 Dance Party
23 Terra Incognita
24 Midnight Snacks
25 Cirrus-ly Soaking
26 Djs
27 Dinner Theatre
28 The Dancer
29 Last Call
30 The Trip Home
31 Epilog

By Professor Batty


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Saturday, April 10, 2004

Dogma

A collection of memorable FITK posts, sorted by year:

2024

The Best Day
Happy New Year

2023

Puzzling Perspective
Iceland 2023 Recap
RLBQ
Mothers and Daughters
Food Truck Frenzy
Clouds Over Grand Marais
Snookies Malt Shop
Finely Drawn
Retro Dance Party!
Móðir, kona, meyja
Love Has No Pride
Soggy Sharon

2022

Day One
Lifting the Shroud
Flu Shot Saga
Simple Meals Are Best
3 Thousand Miles and 12 Billion Years
Bubble World Revisited
Job Opportunity
The Eagle Has Landed
Suicide Tourist
Another Invitation
French Connections
An Invitation

2021

Time Traveling With Bob
Fun with Dick and Joan and Bob and Mimi
Sandhill Cranes
Adventures in Linguistics
Return to Bubble World
Peggy and Her Pals
Matchbook Masterpieces
Ghost Neighborhood
Arty Party
Audio Artifacts…
Fan Dancer’s Horse
Puzzled

2020

My Last Cigar
Tony Glover Auction
Road Trip
State Fair Memories
Marlene Mania
God in the Garden
Hat Trick
Viral Sharon
Jono’s Letter
The Last Gig
My First Date Redux
Honky-Tonk Woman

2019

Waiting, Wishing, Hoping
Weekend in New Ulm
Dylan Double Down
Four More From the Fair
Bubbleworld
Beat Travel Guide
Arty Afternoon on Willy Street
Authority Figure
Golden Boy Redux
JC Revisited
Dreams on a Winter Afternoon
First Avenue

2018

Ceramic Culture
Airwaves and Gender
Anorexic
Light Birds
Red Sun
Savoury Summer
Hot Fun in the Summertime
Art-A-Whirl
Fade to Black
Godzilla Valentine
Pulp Flippist

2017

Porcelain Queen
Farmers Market
Wednesday Night…
Betra Líf
Twinned
Food Truck Frenzy
Art vs. Nature
Pastoral
Livestock
East Jesus
Baffled by Benchley
Harriet and Desha

2016

Walking with Ms. Lee
Great Minds Think Alike
How Does it Feel?
Through a Glass, Darkly
Missives from the Jazz Age
Learning to Fly
Astronauts: A Love Story
Searching for Shoshanah
Green Lake
Depth of Focus
February Thaw
All those moments…

2015

Proustian Dilemma
The Situation Girls
Fimm Konur
Four From the Fair
Girls’ Night Out
Saturday in the Park
Rivertown Ramble
Flaming Youth
Visions of Shoshanah
Woman Lake - 1980
It’s All Too Beautiful
Endless Summer

2014

Old Friends
Wanda in Art School
The Last Day of Summer
Bayfield 1984
Trail Center
From Paradise to Sunrise
Origami Litter
Art in Bloom
Face at the Window
Wanda Gág Day
Creative Writing
Germanium

2013

The Artist and the Collector
The Divine Mrs. M
45th Parallel
Blooms
I Love the Fair
The Mansion on the Hill
Iceland for Night Owls
Two Tickets to Paradise
Missed Connections
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Playing Hooky
Chanteuse

2012

Cindy Sherman
Sunday Night Shopper
Silent Movie
Last Days of Summer
Alice in Wonderland
Night at the Improv
Love Letters Straight from Your Heart
Howie’s
The Maestro's Farewell
Fathers and Daughters
Oral
The Wallflower

2011

Convergence
Book Review
Batty Visits Development Hell
Bill
Best Friends Forever
When Cars Had Tits
Batty’s World Tour
Patina
The Mystery of Ye Old Mill
Rituals of Courtship
Joni Mitchell’s Coyote
Walking on Thin Ice

2010

The Music of Failure
Postcards from Chennai
Sharon as Salome
Cosmic Call
Summer Hiatus
Camping With Sharon
Not Jim
Archie
Loss of a Pet
Pascal Pinon
January Thaw

2009

Mál og menning
Bill Holm's Last Reading
The Pastels
L'Opera dei Dannati
Sod
The iPad™
Haunted Castle
Ensculptic
Sex Dreams
Invader
Black Forest
Iceland at the Crossroads

2008

Saturday Matinee
Cold Comfort Farm
Richmond
Elizabeth the Great
Oh! Those BC Girls
Desperately Seeking Sharon
Milestones in haberdashery
Summer Love
Soliloquy
Door
The Visitor
Soft-core

2007

Cold Night
Single Mother
Amiina Now
Beautiful Kisses
Comica's Temptation
Green Lake
P.A.F
Twinned
Sweet Rolls and Silence
A Familial Misunderstanding
Found Object

2006

700 Year Old Disclaimer

The Boat of Longing
Hippies in the Heartland
Fine, I won’t walk around at night...
lines.
Smoking Lessons - The Pipe
Family Values
Hau Tree Lanai
Seasonal Equipoise
Water
Garden Party
More Postcards From Calcutta

2005

The bigger picture
My Funny Valentine
A day in my life
Sex-Ed 101
The Door
Button Jar
Dondi and the Waitress
Dance Party
The Accidental Traveling Companion
Ghost Blog
River Reverie
Red Zinger Tea

2004

Salome’s Dance
Mel Jass and Me
Coconut Oil
Gym Class
Flippist Industries, Inc.
José Loves Betty
Pink ‘n’ Black
Lesbians taking over the world?

By Professor Batty


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