Month:August 2021

The Couch Potato’s Guide to Old Hollywood: The Legacy of Audrey Hepburn

Posted on Updated on by Geoff CarterCategories:Couch Potato, Michael DiMilo, Movies

Paramount-photo by Bud Fraker, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter Only a few actresses had the ability to exude the easy elegance, charm, and vulnerability of Audrey Hepburn. Grace Kelly could at times, but she didn’t quite match Hepburn’s otherworldly onscreen presence. Hepburn radiated natural uncontrived beauty and flawless grace, and she seemed …
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Kickass and the Beaver Flood

Posted on Updated on by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Kickass

Mount Rainier National Park from Ashford, WA, United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis are more or less lost in the wilds of Central Wisconsin where their back road travel was most recently obstructed by beaver. The toothy rodents had clogged a …
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Kickass and Covid Deaths

Posted on Updated on by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Kickass, Pandemic

Prefeitura de Itapevi, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in noting the reappearance of the “Wear a mask” signs; and in their lamenting that the new masking is due to the daily Covid19 death toll climbing to 350, mostly among the unvaccinated, which makes …
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That Sinking Feeling

Posted on Updated on by Geoff CarterCategories:Media, Michael DiMilo, Politics

Artwork by Michael DiMilo Article by Geoff Carter “The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.” — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote de La Mancha (Modern Library (Hardcover)) Shit floats. —Popular adage We’re treading water in a cesspool of information. Flooded with theories, …
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Kickass and Walking and Chewing Gum

Posted on Updated on by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Kickass, Pandemic, Wisconsin

Annalyn Gallego/Province of Camarines Sur, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Kickass, the doorstop dog, motivated by the fact that only slightly over 50 percent of Wisconsin residents have had both Covid19 shots, is assisting the keeper in formulating a Covid vaccine mandate based on stupidity as measured by the ability or inability to simultaneously walk …
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Kickass and Missing Children

Posted on Updated on by Bill StokesCategories:Culture, Humor, Kickass, Social Commentary, Wisconsin

Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in wondering what happened to the children: In one of their meandering forays on a recent flawless summer afternoon across many miles of those wonderful winding driftless-area roads, past hundreds of interesting farms, and through dozens of communities of …
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Kickass and Senior Olympics

Posted on Updated on by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Kickass, Sports

English: U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is assisting the keeper in reporting on little-known age-related news from the Toyko Olympics: ……First place in the competition to open a new bubble-wrapped kitchen utensil was won by an obscene-spouting 80-year-old using an …
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The Couch Potato’s Guide to Old Hollywood: The Legacy of Paul Newman

Posted on Updated on by Geoff CarterCategories:Couch Potato, Movies

Warner Bros., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter Paul Newman was a master of cool—right up there with his peers Brando and James Dean—except he also had a certain down-to-earth quality the others lacked. Like Dean or Brando, he excelled at portraying characters that were typically a mixture of charm, intelligence, and sometimes …
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