Bunrunner, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, agrees with the keeper that by now everyone, at least every fisherman, has heard about the two Ohio competitive fishing “champs” who were caught putting weights and other material inside their catches as they maintained their lead in the “Fisherman of the …
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Month:October 2022
Dialogues on The American Dream: How to Take Candy from a Baby
Photo by Giorgio Trovato on Unsplash Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Dave S., Mark M., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul Carter, and Geoff Carter Several things jumped out at me re this $240M scam our diligent FBI uncovered: Department of Justice Report on Feeding Our Families Scandal Watch out: This will be the poster child for Tucker and Fox …
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Kickass Updates Space Terminology
Oksdfjkllrwe, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Kickass, the doorstop dog, is helping the keeper with the “vintage terminology update project” aimed at removing some negative connotations and restoring relevance and dignity to the lives of those in the keeper’s age group, some of whom reflect previous diets on the front of their shirts, are prone …
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Kickass and Fired Coach
Maize & Blue Nation, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Kickass, the doorstop dog, is assisting the keeper in running down the rumor that, in keeping with the current trend of denying reality, particularly if it involves rejection by official means, Paul Chryst is refusing to accept his firing as UW football coach and will be …
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The Pen in Hand Guide to the Movies: The Legacy of Marlon Brando
Edward Cronenweth (1903-1990) [1], Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Marlon Brando has been almost universally hailed as being the greatest actor of all time, a genius who revolutionized the craft. Luminaries like James Dean, Paul Newman, and Steve McQueen modeled their acting styles after Brando’s brand of method acting—a term he detested—based on the Stanislavski …
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Kickass and October’s Bright Blue Weather
Warren’s — the firm, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper emerged from his morning stupor with a memory fragment from his country school days that went “October’s Bright Blue Weather,” which he knew to be the title of an old poem; but then he had …
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Kickass Reviews September
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, approves the keeper’s observation that September 2022 has escaped and is at large somewhere in the calendar jungle where it is attempting to elude bounty hunters determined to capture its essence of truth and consequences for selective preservation. A move to deny that September 2022 …
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