Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is occasionally awed at the keeper’s refined dating technique and the smooth way he impresses Phyllis. Yesterday, for example, he agreed to drive her out to Four Winds Farm in Fitchburg where they could sit by the tall silo and eat wood-fired pizza while …
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Category:Aging
Kickass and Handsome Rescuers
Attribution: Gamze Yeşildoğan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper recognizes the unfortunate evolution of the word “fall” from to “fall” in love, or to “fall” for a fast-talking car sales pitch, to its current age-related dominance as to “fall” on your face or your ass …
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Kickass and the Gout
Attribution: James Gillray , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along information from the keeper that for sheer mind-cleansing, along with gaining the surprise ability to assume a laser-like concentration, nothing beats a nighttime attack of gout. With no warning whatsoever, in the middle of the night, a big …
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Kickass and 93rd Birthday
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that the keeper having laid claim in a pre-birthday post to being the world’s oldest sometimes-naked accordion player, takes the occasion of his actual 9/11 birthday to announce his retirement from further campfire performances—naked or otherwise, in part at the behest of Phyllis …
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Kickass and Birthday Numbers
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, noting the keeper’s concern with the approach of his 9/11 birthday suggests that when you are as old as he is you cannot be trusted to be accurate with age numbers, grocery lists or travel instructions. Fortunately, there is a cultural mechanism that kicks …
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Kickass and Going into Different Room
Attribution: Internet Archive Book Images, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes the keeper and Phyllis’s delight in learning that the issue of going into a room and then forgetting why you went there has a scientific basis relating to the human race evolving from one natural environment to …
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Kickass and Body Parts
Attribution: FE2656BA, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, will be working with the keeper to bring the business of human spare parts out of the medical shadows and into the strip malls with the auto parts dealers where it will be more accessible and perhaps even competitive. Based on …
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Kickass and New Right Hip
Attribution: Smith & Nephew, FAL, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in reporting that Phyllis’s hip joint replacement surgery went well and she will likely return home today. Not intending to make trouble, but the keeper is a bit concerned that Phillis has a new “right” hip and …
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Kickass Tours Westfield
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that as Phyllis was lunching with granddaughter Alexis in Westfield, the keeper did a patrol of nostalgia around the area that for 40 plus years starting in 1961 was where he most wanted to be. The A-frame cabin he and friends built along …
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Kickass and Old Men Talking
Attribution: National Archives at College Park , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes the keeper’s amazement at how his old friends age while he—the keeper maintains his “not-long-out-of-high-school” self-image. So it was with seeing Hal again after 15 or 20 years. Damn, Hal has aged! He is still up …
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Kickass and Doddering
Attribution: Sonny doe, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper does his best to deny his identity as a doddering old man, but occasionally the truth emerges as it did in a recent grocery check-out line when the keeper held things up as he fumbled with …
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Kickass and Chinook Camping
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in lamenting the undeniable verity that their camping days are in the past, but the memories prevail including those that involved the keeper’s wonderful little Chinook RV with its unique military-type appearance, diesel engine and “Lets go” character. One …
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