Walmart Corporate from Bentonville, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, operating under the arrangement that everyone is now an unpaid employee of Walmart, took it upon himself to seek out a uniformed supervisor to suggest that a befuddled elderly couple that he had been …
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Category:Aging
Kickass and 9/11/22
Photo by Richard Burlton on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in acknowledging the anniversary of the current cellular arrangement by which he–the keeper has marched in the evolutionary parade for an insignificant split second of time on an infinitesimal speck of planetary dirt and dust. Given just barely enough …
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Kickass and Birthday Rejection
Sophie Riches, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, will be napping through the keeper’s lament on the eve of yet another birthday in which he observes that one day you are sung and secure in your mother’s womb and the next day you are ejected in what might well …
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Winter is Coming
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter I went to a funeral service of an old friend last week. He was a few years older than me but only a few. We hung out and partied quite a bit when we were younger. His death was the latest in an increasing succession of old acquaintances …
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Kickass and Zip Line
Ryancampbellrpc, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, supports the keeper’s efforts to have a zip-line installed from the Vista West facility where he and Phyllis live, across Gammon Road to Memorial High School. (It would have to be walker friendly, of course.) It is the keeper’s thinking that there are …
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Kickass and Don’t Let the Old Man In
Andreas Bohnenstengel, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the keeper’s thought that it is always nice to be included in the start of a new week. As Clint—even older than the keeper, has it in the song Toby Keith wrote for him, “Look out your window and …
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Kickass Resists the Big End
U.S. Army Signal Corps, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, points out to the keeper that it is shortsighted, selfish and arrogant of him to look at old age as a positive that will spare him being around to witness just what kind of stupidity the human race uses …
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Kickass and Fire Drill
Mingotack, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that at the Vista West post-fire drill assembly yesterday, the keeper posed the question to director Jeanne as to procedure in the event of a fire alarm going off when you happen to be naked, as in showering or getting dressed. …
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Kickass and Ron and Bear
Photo by Rawan Yasser on Unsplash Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper happened to see parking lot action involving fellow Vista West resident Ron and two young women that he—the keeper did not understand at the time to be a final hand-off. Later he shared an elevator ride with Ron who commented matter-of-factly that …
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Kickass and the iPhone
Photo by Kostiantyn Li on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper will no longer be dominated and humiliated by his “GD” iPhone; and if you want to talk to him, come to where he lives. He is fed up with calls from people selling things, and he is tired …
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Kickass and Aging Gracefully
Nicolas Perriault, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis have totally rejected the concept of “aging gracefully,” and henceforth will be using balance devices such as hiking staffs and walking canes to whack over the head those who exhibit abject stupidity in such areas …
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Kickass and Dog Sitting Boo
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis will be dog sitting Boo this week as granddaughter Sarah and Jessy vacate their Chicago digs for some Wisconsin recreating. Boo, a miniature schnauzer with attitude, is 13 years old, and once lived in Mazomanie with the keeper and …
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