Attribution: Photo by Junior REIS on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper ready with an explanation as to why such an enlightened city as Madison has yet to provide its police force with body cameras. The keeper has learned that it is all due to an early misunderstanding regarding the true function of …
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Kickass and the Has-Beens
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper did a little turn-back-the-clock number with the kind help of friends Ken and Joel with a lunch gathering of current “has-beens,” a group that has been in existence since before Pat Lucy left Wisconsin to become ambassador to Mexico. The …
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Kickass and Moon Over Mazo
Photo provided by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis, noting the recent Sturgeon Moon machinations, thank the keeper’s grandson Andy for sending along a photo by “Lindsey’s cousin” of the moon’s performance over the Mazomanie house the keeper and his family members built 25 years ago and …
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Kickass and Canadian Toilet Paper
Attribution: Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that it was as inevitable as the sunrise that the keeper passed along critical information about the toilet paper issue, specifically how it might be influenced by what goes on between the US and Canada. Many Canadian trees are cut …
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His Natalie
Attribution: The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter Linus had his security blanket. Calvin had Hobbes. Radar had his teddy bear. Ernie had his rubber duckie. Milton had his red Swingline stapler. And the Dude had his living room rug (it tied the room together, man). Donald Trump has a blonde. …
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Kickass, Dolly, and the Dummy
Attribution: RCA Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, takes this official Dog Day to make the point with the keeper and Phyllis that with the sad passing of Dolly Parton and the constant insane blather by the orange squatter in the White House, a perfect example of contrasting …
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Kickass and Authentic Stupidity
Attribution: Johann Baptist Zimmermann, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that the keeper is finally making his move to join the innovating AI tech billionaires with his creation of “AS” a platform of “Authentic Stupidity” gathered, processed and offered to an eager public. In explaining “AS” to Phyllis, …
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Kickass and Awareness of Trouble
Attribution: Walter Crane, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that Phyllis boiled a dozen eggs in preparation of making potato salad, one of the keeper’s favorite dishes. Kickass warns the keeper and Phyllis about going on about their business as if they were not living like incarcerated strays …
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The Pen in Hand Guide to the Movies: Review of “The Last House”
★★★☆☆ A House Divided: Review of The Last House Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter There has been an abundance of movies about isolation, particularly pertaining surviving alone in the natural world. Castaway, Gravity, The Revenant, Into the Wild, All is Lost and 127 Hours exemplify this man (or woman) versus nature narrative. Another not uncommon subgenre is …
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Kickass and Other Species
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis still immersed in yesterday’s post about the cougar cut in half on the railroad tracks in Adams County. Kickass responders speculated that the reason the heart and lungs had been removed was to prevent the identification of bullet fragments, …
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Kickass and the Railroad Cougar
Attribution: Photo by Michael Jerrard on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, with a special feeling for cats, passes along to the keeper and Phyllis the news of a cougar found cut in half on the railroad tracks near Friendship in Adams County. The big cat was an adult male wearing a Michigan tracking collar from …
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Kickass and Norske Nook Pie
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, agrees with the keeper that there are not many occasions that cannot be improved by a piece of pie, and if it is baked and served at one of the three Norske Nook locations in Wisconsin there is a spiritual quality to the event. …
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