JIP, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the keeper’s assessment that the rampant decay of Western civilization has been short-stopped at the door of the Dorfhaus supper club in the crossroad community of Roxbury, where you can start with tasty Old-fashioneds and then enjoy a fine German …
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Month:February 2022
Kickass and Gators
Photo by Geoff Carter By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, indulges the keeper as he—the keeper remembers a February when he was waist-deep in a Florida river in the middle of the night to exercise his perverse passion of night-time fly fishing; and a woman’s voice shouted from the darkened riverbank, “There’s gators out …
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Kickass and TGIF
Jatayou, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes the keeper’s observation of the changing impact of cultural fixtures as they relate to age, such as “TGIF” now being something quite different than it once was for the keeper’s crowd of vintage has-beens. Once the keeper and his ilk joined …
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Kickass and Phyllis Watching Hockey
Phwayne, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is not impressed as the keeper tries to make something out of Canada’s women’s hockey team beating the US team 3-2 to win Olympic gold by using former UW players in a game that the keeper’s Canadian-born wife Phyllis stayed up past …
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Spin Party
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter I went to a little get-together at my in-laws the other night. Since we’ve all been suffering from post-Covid burnout (although I guess it’s technically not post-Covid—not yet), they decided to invite a few friends over for drinks, and—since my brother-in-law Michael is an avowed Abraham Lincoln aficionado, …
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Dialogues on Nature Gone Wild/Letters from the Killing Fields
Photo by Francesco Ungaro from Pexels Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots Mark Mamerow, Dave. S., Mark O., Dennis Curley, and Geoff Carter Hello Bots, I found this article fascinating in an almost schadenfreude sort of way… (taking pleasure in other’s woes…usually an enemy or excessively privileged one…but not always—no one in our respective purviews is immune from schadenfreude). So many animals…and …
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Kickass and Guv’s Speech
Lisacheese, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the keeper’s note to Gov. Tony Evers following the Guv’s state of the state speech as carried on PBS Tuesday night: “Good job, Tony, honoring EMTs and Vets, and distributing some of the state surplus to the citizenry; but not …
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Kickass Goes to the Dance
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper far from being any Fred Astaire on the dance floor, really lucked out at the Vista West Valentine’s Day dance and talked a star dancer named Phyllis in going home with him. He hasn’t been that lucky since he survived the …
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Kickass and Vintage Valentines
National Library of Norway, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, will assist the keeper on this St. Valentine’s Day by napping through his efforts to adapt the day’s sentiment and frivolity to those vintage citizens who share the Vista West independent-living life-style with the keeper and Phyllis: *Roses …
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The Couch Potato’s Guide to the New Hollywood: The Legacy of Johnny Depp
nicogenin, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter Most of us first saw Johnny Depp as a fresh-faced recruit in Platoon or as the geeky lovelorn teenager in Nightmare on Elm Street. At that time, he seemed to be just another Hollywood pretty boy, but since then, he’s created unique iconic performances as the soft-spoken and kindly …
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Kickass and UW Madison Tour
Vonbloompasha at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, in giving Phyllis’s visiting daughter Gina and husband Steve a windshield tour of the UW campus, came away with a renewed appreciation for the vibrancy and variety of the town where he has spent most of …
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Kickass and the Baby Bump
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper is determined to do something—yet again—about his long-term baby-bump which once more is indicating the likelihood of twins. As was documented years ago in a photo with three pregnant granddaughter in-laws—Lindsey, Ari and Becky , the keeper is obviously long …
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