Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Towering White Pines—monarchs of the North. Beautiful cold and crystal-clear lakes. Deep, dark, peaceful woods. Silent, gold-tinged, magenta clouds scattered across the skies at sunset. Wisps of fog rising from the water at dawn. Red-eyed loons rising from the cool depths. These are the Northwoods of Wisconsin, better …
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Month:September 2023
Kickass and Lifetime of Cars
Attribution: Patrick from Merrimack, NH, United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes the keeper’s lifelong relationship with cars, beginning back when he talked his father into hooking up the horses and pulling home a Model T pickup that had been rusting away behind a neighbor’s shed. His …
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Kickass and Remembering or Forgetting
Attribution: Photo by Roman Kraft on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that the keeper has attained that age that by some standards makes him too old to vote, a nuisance on the roadways, cause for elevator delay, deaf to commands to “get out of the way” and unable to sort outrageous lies from the …
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Kickass and 92nd Birthday
Attribution: NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the keeper’s rules of conduct for having a 92nd birthday: *Do not start any fights of a physical nature. *Respect your elders. *If you think you have acquired any wisdom, volunteer for a clinical trial to detect “sawdust in the …
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The Pen in Hand Guide to the Movies: Film Review of “Don’t Worry, Darling”
Attribution: Photo by Jake Hills on Unsplash You Don’t Own Me: Film Review of Don’t Worry, Darling By Geoff Carter The suburban housewife archetype has been around forever, particularly on television sitcoms. From June Cleaver to Samantha Stephens to Lucy Ricardo to Alice Kramden to Donna Stone—and many, many others, the elegantly dressed, immaculately coiffed, and coolly efficient …
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Dialogues on Trans Continental: Taking a Hard Right
Attribution: Possibleuseful, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter Bots, We had a decent discussion on transgender controversies a while ago. Since then, the anti-trans movement has been ginned up to a fever pitch. This has mostly been expressed via a …
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Kickass and Conception Day
Attribution: http://www.pdimages.com/web9.htm, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that as the keeper, gets ready for an age milestone, he notes that nobody’s birthday is possible without their having been a conception day nine months previously. Just why conception day is not celebrated, and is even pretty much ignored, …
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Kickass and Reprimanding Republicans
Attribution: Channel 3000, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis and their ilk, recognizing that they are living in a gerrymandered state litterbox of the Repub’s design that denies them representative government, hereby serve notice that if the Voss Repub dictator group moves ahead …
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Kickass and Positive Pain
Attribution: Photo by Henry Fraczek on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the results from the keeper’s right shoulder MRI showed, in Dr. Warbasse’s assessment, that there are rips in his rotator cuff and frayed muscles and the joint is generally a mess, and it is unusual that the keeper is not writhing in …
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Something Rotten in the State of Wisconsin
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Something doesn’t smell right in Wisconsin, and it hasn’t for a long time. Something’s gone sour—rotten, and the odor seems to be emanating from the State Capitol Building. It’s the smell of greed, corruption, and mendacity, and it stems from the insatiable lust for power displayed by the …
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Kickass and the VA Ladies
Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper is freshly back from an occasion of being in a small room with three attractive young women who demanded earlier that he take his clothes off–all of them, even shoes and socks, which seemed extreme for doing an MRI of his …
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Kickass in the Womb
Attribution: Photo by Isaac Quesada on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, tries to find some value in the keeper’s thought process that puts him back in his mother’s womb as an awesome birthday is only days away. So, that’s where the keeper was on this date so many years ago and he has obviously never …
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