Category:Culture

Dialogues on Working the Culture: Bloody Dreams on the Silver Screen

Posted on March 10, 2023Updated on March 10, 2023by Geoff CarterCategories:Culture, Movies, Social Commentary

Photo by Maxim Hopman on Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/PEJHULxUHZs Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S. Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter Hey bots, I wrote this a couple weeks ago and thought it might be a good jumping-off point for a new thread. -G Justice For All? Violence at the Movies Movies are by far …
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Kickass and Unusual Music

Posted on March 1, 2023Updated on March 1, 2023by Bill StokesCategories:Culture, Humor, Kickass, Music

Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis, having recently been shown the way to the Overture Center, returned last night to hear the big concert-hall organ do its thing with a trombone and a set of drums. While that might seem like an odd musical line …
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Kickass and Chinese Balloon

Posted on February 4, 2023Updated on February 4, 2023by Bill StokesCategories:Culture, Humor, Kickass, Politics

Attribution: Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, US Forest Service, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is often unable to do anything about the keeper’s excesses. This is one of those mornings: Oh, big Chinese balloon up in the sky Please come to earth before I die. I want to see what …
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Kickass and High School Students

Posted on January 25, 2023Updated on January 25, 2023by Bill StokesCategories:Culture, Humor, Kickass, Social Commentary

Internet Archive Book Images, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper each weekday morning in watching the kids stroll across the parking lot on their way over to Memorial High School. They seem taller and more purposeful than the high school crowd the keeper remembers being a part …
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Kickass Takes on Football

Posted on January 3, 2023Updated on January 3, 2023by Bill StokesCategories:Culture, Kickass, Social Commentary, Sports

B, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, agrees with the keeper that the saturation of football in American culture is little improvement over the collective coliseum days of Rome, and in some respects is justifiably compared to dog and cock fighting as organized spectator sports. Structured by billionaire overlord …
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Whistling In the Graveyard

Posted on October 28, 2022Updated on October 28, 2022by Geoff CarterCategories:Culture, Humor

(Originally posted on October 31, 2019) Photos by Geoff Carter By Geoff Carter While driving around running errands this last Sunday, my wife and I found ourselves in the somewhat unusual position of having some time to kill, a strange situation for us. It was a beautiful October afternoon, sunny and seasonably mild. The leaves …
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Dialogues on Lying Like a Rug: Tartuffe Goes to Washington

Posted on October 21, 2022Updated on October 21, 2022by Mark MamerowCategories:Culture, Michael DiMilo, Politics, Social Commentary

Artwork by Michael DiMilo Featuring the Fabulous Dadots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter We should not be surprised by some level of hypocrisy from politicians. But the Herschel Walker abortion story is playing out at a higher level. Football hero & Trump devotee Walker is running in …
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Dialogues on The American Dream: How to Take Candy from a Baby

Posted on October 4, 2022Updated on October 4, 2022by Mark MamerowCategories:Culture, Social Commentary

Photo by Giorgio Trovato on Unsplash Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Dave S., Mark M., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul Carter, and Geoff Carter Several things jumped out at me re this $240M scam our diligent FBI uncovered: Department of Justice Report on Feeding Our Families Scandal Watch out: This will be the poster child for Tucker and Fox …
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Kickass Revisits Drink, Drank, Drunk

Posted on September 26, 2022Updated on September 26, 2022by Bill StokesCategories:Alcohol, Culture, Humor, Kickass

Photo by Vasil Korzh on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper’s misfortune in finding yet another box of clippings and letters from his dim, dark journalistic past that covered the time he wrote “Drink, Drank, Drunk” for the Milwaukee Journal, a series of six articles exploring the detrimental choke hold …
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The Queen is Dead

Posted on September 15, 2022Updated on September 15, 2022by Geoff CarterCategories:Culture, Michael DiMilo, Politics, Social Commentary

Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Last Thursday, at the ripe old age of ninety-six, after a reign of seventy years, Queen Elizabeth II passed away. The news of her passing has (in a gross understatement) dominated the news. She had been the queen since her coronation in 1952, the same year that The Jackie …
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Winter is Coming

Posted on September 8, 2022Updated on September 8, 2022by Geoff CarterCategories:Aging, Culture, Social Commentary

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 Walmart Funeral

Posted on May 19, 2022Updated on May 19, 2022by Bill StokesCategories:Culture, Economy, Humor, Kickass, Social Commentary

Walmart Corporate from Bentonville, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the keeper’s observation that Walmart is apparently having difficulty recruiting pallbearers for its own retail funeral, judging from the lack of staffing at a store where the keeper stood in a long line to buy some …
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