Attribution: Photo by Ludovic Migneault on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is unable to assist the keeper and Phyllis as they wake to yet another day of grappling with the profoundly absurd questions of the day: *How the hell did we give a narcissistic sub-par lying golfer the clubs to drive the entire world into …
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Kickass and Adjustments
Attribution: Gene Daniels , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is not much help to the keeper as he grapples with changing eyesight conditions due to macular degeneration, which currently has him wearing an eye patch to deal with seeing double images. At this point in his nonagenarian existence, the …
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Kickass and the Deer
Attribution: Photo by Prazanthy Ramesh on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, assist the keeper in celebrating the keeper’s uncanny foresight in buying a pair of snowshoes on the hottest day of this erratic season. It happened when Phyllis left the keeper unattended at St. Vinny’s and he spotted these beautiful Iverson snowshoes, brand new and …
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The Fourth Wall
Attribution: Photo by Ilmi Amali Q.A on Unsplash By Geoff Carter I’m sick of politics. The last six weeks—four months—have been exhausting. We’ve gone from shock to disappointment to denial to acceptance (pretty much the stages of grief) to greater shock, disbelief, fear, and anger. Of course, to be fair, this is only one side of the argument. …
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Kickass and Two Phyllises
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper not only survived a long day with the VA eye clinic and the VA emergency unit’s MRI machine, but also gained surprising proof that he actually has a brain, and there appears to be nothing significantly wrong with it to …
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Kickass and Seeing Double
Attribution: Jonathan Trobe, M.D. – University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper’s latest vision issue is seeing double, which is one thing in seeing two images of Phyllis but quite another when it comes to watching the TV news showing multiple …
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The Pen in Hand Guide to the Movies: The Best of the Irish Cinema
Artwork by Michael DiMilo The Pen in Hand’s Top Ten St. Patrick’s Day Movies By Geoff Carter It’s that time of year again, that special day of days set aside to celebrate the joy of being Irish. Green beer, corned beef sandwiches, the wearing of the green, The Chieftains spinning on your turntable, and a …
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Kickass and Chicago Irish
Attribution: Natasha Jelezkina from Chicago, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that thanks to his father’s “Yankee” genetic handoff he can come up with identity to almost any given ethnicity even including Irish. It was not enough, however, to keep him out of trouble with the Chicago …
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The Pen in Hand Guide to the Movies: Review of “Josie and the Pussycats”
Illustration by Michael DiMilo ★★★★★ What’s New, Pussycat?: Review of Josie and the Pussycats By Geoff Carter Our favorite theater, The Oriental, is part of Milwaukee Film, a non-profit institution dedicated to (according to their mission statement) “entertaining, educating, and engaging our community through cinematic experiences… where we are committed to high-quality and accessible film programming.” (MKE …
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Kickass and Phyllis’s Birthday
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in wishing Phyllis a very happy birthday and will be doing everything possible to correct the transposition of numbers that assigns Phyllis an inappropriate ridiculous age. Phyllis IS 58! Do not forget that and know that in her 58th year which happened …
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Kickass and Coffee Spill
Attribution: Fabrizio Van Marciano, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper is not adverse to a bit of excitement to start off the day and such was provided when his alert level tanked as he sat in front of his computer with a cup of coffee …
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Kickass and Dream Job
Attribution: Photo by engin akyurt on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, sympathizes with the keeper in his disappointment over missing out on his dream job as advertised by a stable owner in Richford, WI, an area the keeper is very familiar with for its trout fishing and weekend escapades at his former weekend cabin. The …
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