David Shankbone , CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper tries not to be intimidated by the numbers that relate to age, but like legions of others, embraced a Betty White quotation released after her recent death at the age of 99—just days short of 100. “Best …
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Month:January 2022
Kickass and Dog Behavior
Internet Archive Book Images, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass , the doorstop dog, listens in as Phyllis pauses in her current read to pass along to the keeper an occasional passage from John Grogan’s “Marley & Me”, which inevitably reminds the keeper of the behavior of outrageous dogs from his past; like …
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Kickass Watches Cold Football
Midwest Communications, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper had not watched a football game for many years but tuned into the Packer’s-Vikings Sunday spectacle to reassure himself that sports fans were just as hopeless as they were many years ago when he did a cover story about sports …
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The Couch Potato’s Guide to the New Hollywood: The Legacy of Robert DeNiro
John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter Like Meryl Streep, his name is synonymous with excellence in the craft of acting. He has appeared in films like Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and The Godfather II that have become (due in no small part to his involvement in them) cultural …
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Polar Bear Diary
Photo by Mark Mamerow Article by Mark Mamerow Mara and I arrived at Wahl Avenue and parked at about 11:30 am—X minus 30 minutes to the January 1st Polar Bear plunge at Milwaukee’s Bradford Beach. People were getting out of their cars. You could identify the Polar Bears. They carried cloth shopping bags of towels and shoes, and …
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Kickass 1/2/22
Photo by Isabela Kronemberger on Unsplash Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, being painfully aware of the ravages of aging on the memory capacities of members of his age group, points to a positive: yesterday he adopted a number of serious News Year’s resolutions, and today he can only remember the one having to do with …
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Kickass Adjusts to New Year
Rob Wall, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that the keeper and Phyllis, celebrated the arrival of the new year by finally wrestling the cork out of a long-stored bottle of champagne to find that its contents had gone bad and had to be dumped down the drain—perhaps …
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