That Time I Thought I'd Be Pissing Bones for a Week by Michael Bama Katt I'll have to wait till I total it all up at the end, but I've got a pretty good idea of what The Dumbest Thing I've Ever Agreed To Do is gonna turn out to be. Fighting in the precursor to the UFC. We had traveling tough guy competitions in the 80s. Literally. They'd come through town two or three … [Read more...]
Barroom Psy-Ops Redirect Violent Energy, Transforming Enemies to Allies by “Hiding All the Strings”
Barroom Psy-Ops Redirect Violent Energy, Transforming Enemies to Allies by "Hiding All the Strings" by Michael Bama Katt I've been working the doors and the floors of bars in the Deep South and the west since the first term of the Reagan administration. And I've come up with some mighty abstract ways to cull the bad element out from the herd over those 38 years. I like … [Read more...]
That Time I Disarmed a Would-Be Attacker with a Cootie Catcher
That Time I Disarmed a Would-Be Attacker with a Cootie Catcher by Michael Bama Katt I met this guy when I was working the door on a very slow evening back in '91. He was one of those guys who will get your Spidey Sense flashing on sight; he looks like everybody in the pictures of home that my Cajun buddies show me, he wasn't big but rawboned as hell, scars all across his … [Read more...]
How a Professional Bouncer Took Out Four Assailants Without Lifting a Finger
How a Professional Bouncer Took Out Four Assailants Without Lifting a Finger by Michael Bama Katt I always preach that for your average everyday citizen - men and women- the martial art you should master first is confidence. You should know how to defend yourself, absolutely, but if you pay attention to your surroundings and don't hang around sketchy people in dicey bars, … [Read more...]
The Beautiful Tragedy That Became #MeToo
The Beautiful Tragedy That Became #MeToo by Michael Bama Katt There's a particular segment of the entertainment/political community that had it set deep in most people's minds that they were open, accepting, and charitable people, that even when they're wrong about something, their heart's in the right place. Social media and current events have blown that all to hell; some … [Read more...]
The Day I Learned about Snake Handlers…the Religious Kind
The Day I Learned about Snake Handlers...the Religious Kind by Michael Bama Katt Oh the things you'll find on Facebook that will tear the scab clean off a deeply repressed memory. When I was a warehouse foreman/traffic manager at the sawmill back in Tuscaloosa, I'd borrow people from the plant sometimes when too much had to get out in one day. One of them was usually … [Read more...]
I Needed a COVID-19 Test after Watching the “Imagine” Video, Just to Rule Out Coronavirus
I Needed a COVID-19 Test after Watching the "Imagine" Video, Just to Rule Out Coronavirus by Michael Bama Katt Spouting your no better or more well-informed than anyone else's opinion while accepting an award that's going to be worth millions to you for playing the grown-up version of cops & robbers and cowboys & Indians is one thing. You can watch that if you enjoy … [Read more...]
“Duty to Retreat” Laws Turn the Victim into the Criminal
"Duty to Retreat" Laws Turn the Victim into the Criminal by Michael Bama Katt America's future can look a little bleak sometimes, like we've got some grubby days comin' up, tough times we'll have to pull hard to get through. But every once in awhile I'll catch a small but significant sign that maybe that's not true at all. Maybe we're already completely and irretrievably … [Read more...]
Biological Warfare: Media’s Transformation of Politics into Hysterics
Biological Warfare: Media's Transformation of Politics into Hysterics by Michael Bama Katt You better fear politicians and the media a hell of a lot more than you fear that goddam flu. It amazes the hell out of me they've managed to convince some of the smartest people I know that Republicans can't grasp the danger of the virus spreading here AND that they're using the … [Read more...]
Bring Back Civil Discourse, the Alternative Sucks
Bring Back Civil Discourse, the Alternative Sucks by Michael Bama Katt I've got a pretty atavistic moral compass. Maybe I see the deep past through rose-colored hindsight, but that's the interpretation I bring with me. Maybe it wasn't as fair as I remember, but I use it to be as fair as I can. On any big issue of the day - any Us vs Them thing - I'm not going to get into … [Read more...]
