Photo by Geoff Carter By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, confesses to snooping in the keeper’s out-basket and finding the following: “Dear Mr Darwin: “I write to you with respect and with the hope that you will see fit to examine some of your early findings to explain why I feel like a dog …
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Month:April 2022
Kickass and Chicken Memories
Otuo-Akyampong Boakye, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports no official progress on the keeper’s request to keep a small flock of chickens on the balcony of the 5th floor Vista West apartment, where he and Phyllis live; but the word about potential chicken dinners may be out with avian …
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Dialogue on Crime and Punishment: Letters to Quantico
Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Dave S., Mark M., Mark O., Dennis Curley, and Geoff Carter ABC Television-ABC Photo, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The New York Times: “Two Men Acquitted of Plotting to Kidnap Michigan Governor in High Profile Case” (April 8.2022) My Take: This ain’t your Efrem Zimbalist Jr.’s FBI anymore. Acquittal sounds valid. FBI hired loose …
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Kickass and Prosser Choking
Royalbroil, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, fresh from blaming the lousy spring weather on the cats, now sees the upside-down condition of the justice system, the prevalence of legislative gerrymandered minority rule, and the resulting paralysis of the executive branch, all due to application …
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Cinema Today: The New Wave 2.0
Dziga Vertov, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter In his seminal work “A Certain Tendency in French Cinema” from Cahiers du Cinema, Truffaut coined the term “auteur” as he thought it should apply to the art of filmmaking. Cinema, he maintained, should consist of personal autobiographical chronicles, and be the product of one mind …
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Kickass and Howling Cats
Alvesgaspar, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper is in serious need of therapy in this winter that refuses to end, and he—the keeper places much of the blame on cats. In the prolonged winters of his northern childhood, romantically inclined tomcats gathered near the window …
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Memories of Easters Past
Photos by Geoff Carter
Kickass and Balcony Chickens
Photo by cottonbro: https://www.pexels.com/photo/white-chicken-in-cage-4911706/ By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, on this egg-dominated Easter morning, is not sure just where he stands on the request the keeper made to Vista West director Jeanne to keep a small flock of chickens on the 5th floor balcony where he and Phyllis live. Despite having …
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Kickass and Jan’s Death
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper’s sad news from his sister Norma that her daughter Jan died unexpectedly in her sleep, leaving behind a devastated mother and family, and uncle, who experienced the loss of a daughter several years ago. JAN Death dances in life’s conga line …
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Easter in Chicago
Barhopping Bunnies Photos by Geoff Carter
Kickass and the Easter Bunny
Photo by Geoff Carter By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper decided to replace his worn-out electric razor rather than let his moth-eaten beard grow for the rest of his days, which would have him looking like an over-worked waiter at the last supper; and so he—the keeper, visited Walmart and …
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Kickass and the Wind
www.Pixel.la Free Stock Photos, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, in his relentless efforts to be helpful, lists a few tips for surviving the high winds predicted for today and tomorrow: One. Stay inside with the cats and look out at people walking …
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