Gravesite marked with Silhouette of Edgar Lee MastersKenrossalex, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that buried deep in the keeper’s memory landfill is a layer that includes “Spoon River Anthology,” in which Edgar Lee Masters writes free verse epitaphs of those “sleeping on the hill” in his imaginary …
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Kickass and Kyle’s Movie
Photo by Lê Minh from Pexels By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis got a fascinating exposure to the complexity and difficult of movie making from nephew Kyle Hauseman-Stokes when Kyle and the keeper’s brother Orville visited; and Kyle showed a preliminary version of his movie about the heart-rending relationship between two …
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Burning Down the House
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Teachers are losing control of their classrooms, and it’s not because students have gone wild. No, the kids are not taking over the schools. They’re just fine. In fact, a student revolution wouldn’t be nearly as disturbing as what’s really going on. It’s the Republicans that are attacking …
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Kickass and Banning Books
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is trying to assist the keeper in getting his novel—Margaret’s War banned; and has only succeeded in getting Phyllis to toss it out of the kitchen when the keeper carelessly leaves his ever-present promotional copy too close to a stove burner. Nothing is …
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Kickass Does Book Promo
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper will be talking about his novel “Margaret’s War,” today before the residents of Vista West where he and Phyllis live. It promises to be a tough crowd, including such luminaries as Ted Tibbits who guided the UW project of growing potatoes …
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Kickass Sells “Margaret’s War”
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, identifies the keeper as lazy onto motionless when it comes to promoting his novel “Margaret’s War,” published in 2020. There being no room for modesty in the book business, the keeper announces his availability to talk to groups of three or more on writing about …
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Kickass Remembers Hemingway
By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that, of course, the keeper’s lifelong Hemingway adulation is stirred by the Ken Burns PBS series now playing, and, of course, he—the keeper, recalls a long ago visit to Key West and a talk with Captain Tony, proprietor of the former Sloppy Joe’s, where Hemingway liked to …
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