Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Film Review of The Offer The script of Paramount’s limited series The Offer, the behind-the-scenes story of the making of the film classic The Godfather, must have looked like the goose that laid the golden egg to any film producer worth her salt. It has everything. The Offer tells …
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Month:September 2022
Kickass and 9/11/22
Photo by Richard Burlton on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in acknowledging the anniversary of the current cellular arrangement by which he–the keeper has marched in the evolutionary parade for an insignificant split second of time on an infinitesimal speck of planetary dirt and dust. Given just barely enough …
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Kickass and Birthday Rejection
Sophie Riches, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, will be napping through the keeper’s lament on the eve of yet another birthday in which he observes that one day you are sung and secure in your mother’s womb and the next day you are ejected in what might well …
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Kickass and Queen’s Procession
Queen Elizabeth II by Oast House Archive, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper joins the crowd in pulling out the remotest Queen-related incident to join in marking her passing: it was at a Caribbean vacation location sometime in the 1980’s, when Queen Elizabeth’s visit coincided with …
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Kickass and Presidential Portraits
United States Department of Justice, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, acknowledges the keeper’s discovery that the reason the Obama official portraits were only recently unveiled at the White House is that they have just been found by DOJ among all the secret stuff strewn around Mar-a-lago. Just why …
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Winter is Coming
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter I went to a funeral service of an old friend last week. He was a few years older than me but only a few. We hung out and partied quite a bit when we were younger. His death was the latest in an increasing succession of old acquaintances …
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Kickass and Companion Chickens
Dominoe3045, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is doing his best to assist the keeper in his campaign to bring chickens into a more respectable role in the scheme of things by promoting the concept of “companion chickens” as in the companion dog mode. Having so far been denied …
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Kickass and Dumb Dog
Attribution: Phil Williams / Dog and duck By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, has engaged the keeper in defending the verity that dogs witness people doing far more dumb things than the other way around, which made the dumb-dog incident at a recent river-side family gathering at Mike’s particularly noteworthy. As food, drink and frivolity were …
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The Pen in Hand Guide to the Movies: The Legacy of Willem Dafoe
Siebbi, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter He is a paragon of extremes, portraying characters that range the spectrum from Jesus Christ in The Last Temptation of Christ and the heroically righteous Eli in Platoon to devilish arch-villain Green Goblin in the original Spiderman and the deliciously demented Max Schreck in Shadow of the Vampire. These extremes of good …
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Kickass and Coyote Mange
nature80020, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper’s son Rick, visiting from his Denver suburb home, casually tells of his success in treating a local coyote family for mange. After observing the nearly hairless mother, Rick sent away for some sulfodene, the standard mange treatment drug, inserted …
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Kickass and Lawton Labor Day
Anthony Stewart, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in saluting the labor unions for what they once meant to the dignity and power of working people like the keeper’s crane-operator father. For a long time, Labor Day meant a fishing weekend with John Lawton, Madison labor …
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Kickass and First Day of School
Airman 1st Class Jensen Stidham, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in congratulating all those young troopers who made it through the first week of school; and he warns against student loans, at least until second grade, despite what the kids might hear from the Republican …
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