UH Digital Library, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper watched great grandsons Taylor and Trevor use a freight cart as a make-shift vehicle for crashing each other into a garage door, and he—the keeper was immediately taken back to the time when he worked for …
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Month:November 2021
The Couch Potato’s Guide to Old Hollywood: The Legacy of Jack Nicholson
AP Wire press photo – from eBay auction ebay (auction archive), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter He is a Hollywood icon whose career stretches back to the early days of American International Pictures, where he appeared in the original version of Roger Corman’s Little Shop of Horrors. Cinematic milestones like Easy Rider, Tim Burton’s Batman, The …
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Dialogues on a Wake-Up Call: The Epiphany Letters
Photo by Raphael Schaller on Unsplash By Dave S., Mark Mamerow, Dennis Curley, and Geoff Carter To Mark, Dennis, and Geoff Remember that Sunday times column by William Safire? Well, the link below is all about the word woke…. thought for sure the author would indict Aaron Rodgers for his recent vacuous deployment of it. The New York Times: The War …
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Kickass and National Guard Justice
1st Lt. Michael Lovas, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper notes the presence of the National Guard in Kenosha in anticipation of a jury decision Monday in the case of the stupid Illinois teen who used HIS military assault weapon to kill and injure demonstrators. …
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Kickass and the Automatic Trashcan
Photo by Geoff Carter By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, never noted for restraint, has gone completely overboard in celebrating a tech advance that he can not only understand but operate without asking for Phyllis’s help: It is a trash can that has a motion-sensor lid that opens with the …
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Kickass and First Snow
\Chris j wood, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the first swirling snowflakes of the season were immediately politicized when the Repubs said that they—the snowflakes, represented the Dems’ start of a six-month long snow job to sell snow, ice, freezing wind and blizzards as the charms …
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Trial by Proxy
Artwork by Michael DiMIlo By Geoff Carter The trial of Kyle Rittenhouse is underway. He is charged with killing two men and wounding another during the violent protests that began in Kenosha after the police shooting of Jacob Blake, an unarmed Black man. Sound familiar? Where else have we seen this? Minneapolis, Philadelphia, New York …
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Kickass and Veterans Day
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper on this Day to celebrate Veteran obsolescence; and to recognize the brutal truth that there is apparently no way to make heroes out of those who might somehow defend the country against internal ignorance and rampant misinformation. It is one thing …
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Kickass in the Zoo
Photo by Jorge Salvador on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis recently found themselves as virtually the only customers in a nearby JC Penny’s department store, and left finally when it became obvious that, not only were there no customers, there were no sales clerks either. The keeper compared it …
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Kickass Rolls Down Hill
Photo by Jordan Whitt on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, aware that the keeper’s old eyes are prone to mischief, witnessed him—the keeper, puzzling over a distant scene of hillside activity that he could not identify until he used binoculars to see a dozen or so small children rolling down a grassy slope under the …
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The Couch Potato’s Guide to Old Hollywood: The Legacy of Steve McQueen
Ryangrigg, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter In the early 1960s, in the age of cool, he was the “King of Cool”. He was sexy, handsome, smart, fearless, bold, and unflappable. He played heroes and anti-heroes alike: gunfighters, soldiers, cops, criminals, convicts, and even the occasional sophisticate. Being a motorcycle and car enthusiast, …
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Kickass Looks at the Map
Photo by Dominika Roseclay from Pexels By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper did a strange thing recently in driving from a distant location to his home: he looked at an actual map, noted the roads he wanted to travel, then ignored the smug blabbing of passengers’ navigation devices, and made the drive as …
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