Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, explains on behalf of the keeper that the daily post has been delayed as both Kickass and the keeper get personal instruction from a visiting beagle named Ava on how to spend the entire day napping on the softest surfaces available. Ava, who is …
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Month:January 2023
Dialogues on the Human Touch: I am not a Robot
Attribution: Prompt by JPxG, model by Boris Dayma, upscaler by Xintao Wang, Liangbin Xie et al. (Apache License 2.0 or BSD), via Wikimedia Commons By the Fabulous Dadbots: Dave S., Mark M., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter Something appealing about that ‘60s imperative—Question Authority—in a proletariat way (to me)… I have a boatload of …
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Kickass and Phyllis as Movie Maker
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, observes that it was not enough that Phyllis became the publishing gears responsible for “Treeson: an APOLOGIA to trees,” the keeper’s look back at his 35 years of newspaper column writing, she has now assumed the role of “movie maker” and authoritatively directed the …
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Kickass and Cold Recovery
Hoyabird8 at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that indications are the keeper will survive the common cold that he has been suffering from, and he would therefore like to retract the instructions he gave Phyllis to have his body bronzed and placed on a pedestal …
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House of Trumpenstein
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter In Mary Woolstencraft Shelley’s class horror novel Frankenstein, a demented mad scientist seeks to kindle life in a body assembled from body parts of the recent dead. In the film Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, the nefarious Dr. Evil created an exact miniature duplicate of himself, his Mini-Me. Both …
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Kickass and Being a Beagle
Mariano Szklanny, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper was intrigued by the report of a Japanese man who paid $23,000 to have a costume made so he could realize his dream of being a wolf. In asking Phyllis what creature the keeper might costume-up as, …
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Kickass and the Uncommon Cold
NIAID, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is avoiding the keeper‘s pitiful ploy for sympathy due to his having a cold. It has been a life-long, firmly held conviction of the keeper’s that for reasons that defy scientific evaluation, the common cold causes him more misery than it does …
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Kickass and Ducking the Bullet
John Warwick Brooke , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis tried to watch the latest movie version of “All Quiet on the Western Front,” but were put off by the movie maker’s skill in portraying the gore of ground combat; to the point that …
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The Pen in Hand Guide to the Movies: Review of The Menu
Photo by Justin Campbell on Unsplash Food for Thought: Review of The Menu By Geoff Carter “You’ll get less than you desire, and more than you deserve”. This little nugget of wisdom is whispered to an arrogant dinner guest by Elsa, the maître d’hôtel at the Hawthorne, an ultra-exclusive gourmet restaurant set on a remote island in The Menu, …
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Kickass and Van Gogh
heptc, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that Phyllis took two of her grandchildren–Geordan and Luka to see the Van Gogh immersive show, and all pronounced it a pleasurable outing. There may be no connection, but at a lunch gathering following the show, Phyllis peered into one of …
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Early Bird
Dialogues on the Big Bully Pulpit: Playground Politics
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Devotee-DeBusherre Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Dave S., Mark M., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter This got wordy, I’ll try and distill it first. Though I don’t like the term for the campaign—bullying—(I think many scoff at it saying…”Well (male, gravel pitched, voice),…it’s a tough world out …
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