Sgt. Charlie Helmholt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that as the keeper and Phyllis gathered with family on a sandy Wisconsin River beach to celebrate the 4th, a highlight of the kid-saturated event was a meeting between the keeper and the clan’s newest member—two-month-old Blaize Betty Russell …
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Month:July 2022
New Wave Cinema 2.0: The Films of Wes Anderson
Diana Ringo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter In The New Wave 2.0 series, The Pen in Hand Blog will be examining the work of today’s most provocative and influential filmmakers, artists whose filmic stylings and compelling narratives have stretched the boundaries of modern cinema. Referencing Francois Truffaut’s definition of an auteur, these …
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Kickass and EDNAs
Judgefloro, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, supports the keeper’s efforts to help dedicate this 4th of July to the women of the country by adding another gender designation to those already existing; that being “EDNAS” or “Erectile Disfunction in the Narcissistic Application of Stupidity.” With the Supreme Court promoting the …
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Kickass and Wisconsin Absurdity
Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, helps the keeper note that in the tsunami of ignorance and absurdity prevailing as of July 1, 2022 in Wisconsin, count the following: *Roe-betraying men make it legal—even honorable in their view, for men …
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Kickass and Train Wrecks
National Transportation Safety Board, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, warns the keeper not to get carried away in his reassessment of the recent traveling that he and Phyllis experienced: an Amtrak train, like the one they rode, recently derailed, killing and injuring riders; one of the special glacier-mounting …
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