Attribution: fredrik Andreasson from Sweden, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in instructions for making Super Tuesday personally “Super” in the only way that has any meaning: Look in a mirror and if you see a reflected image it means that you exist and …
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Month:March 2024
Kickass and the Seagulls
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, ever anxious to demonstrate that he is just another of the varied life forms cluttering up the planet, joined a thousand seagulls in Sauk City to “feed.” The gulls gathered up and down the Wisconsin River in sandbar reunions to …
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The Pen in Hand Guide to the Movies: Review of “The Zone of Interest”
Artwork by Michael DiMilo No Man’s Land: Film Review of The Zone of Interest By Geoff Carter The horrors of the Holocaust have been exhaustively documented and dramatized—and rightly so. That shameful and disgusting display of premeditated cruelty, inhumanity, and assembly-line slaughter should be forever on display as an example of exactly what human beings …
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Kickass Salutes Caregivers
Attribution: WaveLength Charity, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in a heartfelt salute to the caregivers on this day of Mar. 3, 2024. Caregivers, of course, are those who are called upon to go far beyond the bounds of being a considerate companion to …
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The Pen in Hand Blog Presents The Writer’s Corner
Artwork by Michael DiMilo Featuring the Latest Publications, News, and Commentary for Authors and Readers Manuals of Style By Geoff Carter New books are flooding the market like never before. Since self-publishing has become a viable alternative to traditional publishing, it seems everyone is writing that novel lurking inside of them—or learning how. The teaching …
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Kickass and Grandchildren
Attribution: Nikhil More, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis have documented that almost all age-related infirmities are vastly ameliorated by visits from grandchildren. Their irrefutable evidence has moved them to develop something they call the Generational Glue Treatment (GGT) based on the fact …
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Kickass and Migration
Attribution: U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that as the keeper absorbs all the constant hoopla about immigration and the borders, he and Phyllis look back a very few generations when their predecessors were getting off the ships in New York and heading …
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