Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in the conviction that in Madison, adventure is just around the corner as is a certain amount of risk. Innocently having sought out a Sunday afternoon source of ice cream cones, the keeper took a random right turn onto …
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Month:June 2024
The Pen in Hand Guide to the Movies: Review of “Kim’s Video”
Illustration by Michael DiMilo Digital Killed the Video Store: Review of Kim’s Video By Geoff Carter The documentary is one of the few cinematic genres that consistently defies expectations. It covers a huge range of content from the journalistic to the sublime, reconstructing history, muckraking corruption, exposing social ills, documenting human experience, or—as in the …
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Kickass and Clint’s Birthday
Attribution: English: “© Universal Pictures”. Photographer unknown., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, pauses with the keeper to wish Clint Eastwood a happy 94th birthday and notes that Clint is still directing movies, cracking jokes and is totally “with it.” This is encouraging for the keeper who is in Clint’s …
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Kickass and Flying Geraniums
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, listened as the keeper commented to Phyllis that whatever flag she wanted to fly off their Vista West balcony would be okay with him so long as it did not symbolize that the residents of apt 523 were arrogant, narcissistic and altogether stupid. There …
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