edmondo gnerre, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, shares the keeper’s respect for science, and also his disappointment when science leaves so many questions unanswered. The recent discovery in Italy of the 350,000-year-old human footprints is a case in point. The scientists reported the footprints were made by someone …
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Month:March 2023
Kickass and St. Pat’s Reminders
Photo by Yan Ming on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper dives into St. Patrick’s week with the following reminders: 1. It is the week of Phyllis’s birthday. 2. It will snow on Thursday. 3. Wisconsin’s minority rep. gov. is solidly in place. 4. Rare sunshine is not a health hazard. 5. The friendly black cat at …
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The Pen in Hand Guide to the Movies: Review of “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
Photo by Liam McGarry on Unsplash All Over the Place: Film Review of Everything Everywhere All at Once By Geoff Carter Everything Everywhere All at Once is a film that does more than live up to its name. It is a frantic roller coaster ride to the ends of the universe—and back, a sci-fi thriller (sort of a Matrix redux involving …
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Kickass and Captain Kirk
Attribution: NBC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in acknowledging that Bill Shatner–or Captain Kirk to everyone, who happens to have been born the same year as the keeper, recently elicited misplaced fan despair by noting that he did not have long to live. Shatner, …
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Kickass Accepts a Compliment
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, noting that the keeper is too old for anything like modesty or embarrassment over self-serving activities, hereby shares the recent article by the Cap Times Dave Zwiefel in which Dave said some laudatory things about the keeper’s long-ago slog in the newspaper world and …
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Dialogues on Working the Culture: Bloody Dreams on the Silver Screen
Photo by Maxim Hopman on Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/PEJHULxUHZs Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S. Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter Hey bots, I wrote this a couple weeks ago and thought it might be a good jumping-off point for a new thread. -G Justice For All? Violence at the Movies Movies are by far …
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Kickass Braves Weather for Book
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, will be staying home this morning as the keeper and Phyllis travel to the Drumlin Ridge Independent Living facility in Cottage Grove to do a book reading for “Treeson: an APOLOGIA to Trees” the keeper’s recent attempt at the Nobel. While the regular Thursday …
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Kickass is in the Market
bfishadow on Flickr, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, comments that the keeper checking on the stock market is akin to a bug checking out windshields on the Interstate. The fact that his piddly pennies are in the market in any form is an absurdity promoted by the big …
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Disenchantment
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Disney World, the mother of all family theme parks, is based just outside of Orlando, Florida. Its component pieces, EPCOT, The Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, and Disney’s Hollywood Studios, span over 27,000 acres—about 43 square miles—and rake in huge profits—over twenty-seven billion dollars in 2022 alone. It is …
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Kickass and Monster Cats
Internet Archive Book Images, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, indulges the keeper as he once again, in this time of year when barred owls and cats fall in love, reviews the damage done to him as a child when love-sick tom cats gathered beneath a window where he …
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Kickass Marks March 7, 2023
Balkhovitin, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, allows the keeper to set the pace of this day–Tuesday, Mar. 7, 2023 as just that and nothing more–Tuesday, Mar. 7, 2023, and isn’t it nice to be a part of it with the sunshine and Phyllis. See more at… The Bill …
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Kickass and Awful Ignorance
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 Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper’s struggle to maintain a shred of relevance has him finally understanding that all the talk about “AI” has nothing to do with “Intelligence,” but is …
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