Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper pretty much denying birthdays, especially his own, but also those of his children who have somehow gotten so old they creak and limp. Even the youngest—Mike, who reportedly is now 70 years old and does not have the decency to lie …
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Kickass and the Birthday Snowstorm
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reveals that the keeper is responsible for the big storm having ordered it as a birthday present for Phyllis. His thinking was that having been born in Canada, Phyllis must like snow, so he ordered lots of it for her birthday which, being the …
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Kickass and Phyllis’s Birthday
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, hands off to the keeper on this Friday the 13th, 2025, when it is compulsory to talk about bad luck and the weather, there being a foot of snow forecast for Sunday. The keeper may amp up his preparations for March 16, it being …
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Kickass and the Twenty-three Ounce Librarian
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the stop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis reviewing their grandchild business with a visit from Bud and his wife Jessica during which Bud’s record birth at 23 ounces was briefly reviewed as was his first two years of life when his parents Pat and Tim dealt …
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Kickass and the Extra Hour
Attribution: Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes the keeper and Phyllis accepting with gratitude the extra hour of March 7, 2025 and hanging it on a hook with all of the others—in the keeper’s case that would be about 34,467 hours and—hopefully, counting. Phyllis’s hour tally is impressive but not …
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Kickass and Trevor’s Eighth Birthday
Attribution: Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis heading out to Mazo for the 8th birthday party for Trevor one of the keeper’s great grandchildren, at which the keeper will bore Trevor and others by pointing out that he is old enough to have had eleven and …
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Kickass and Feeding the Young and Old
Attribution: Photo by Maria Lin Kim on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in acknowledging that as the only meaningful function for every species is reproduction which includes lots of obligatory activities among them feeding the young until they are adept enough to feed themselves. Thus, ingrained early as a vital …
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Kickass and Cigarettes
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper put in his time as a slave to the nicotine murderers with a cigarette addiction into his midlife when he managed to shake it just to show cigarette-smoking son Larry that it could be done. Larry quit cigarettes too at …
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Kickass and Growing Grandchildren
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis with a message for all grandchildren, great and otherwise: If you insist on emerging from your cuddly, cute stage to enter a growth cycle that would shame July corn, try to give your old grandparents—great and otherwise, some warning. …
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Kickass and Leftovers
Attribution: Photo by Gurth Bramall on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, will be joining the keeper and Phyllis in their efforts at improving relationships with some of the other pack species by viewing the consumption of leftovers as “returning to the kill” in the mode of lions, wolves or hyenas. While there is different terminology …
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Kickass and Fresh Dear Track
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that for many of his past Thanksgivings the keeper combined family feasting with the Wisconsin deer season. It was an emotional pairing that the keeper loved, and so he was delighted when a fresh dear track showed up on his 5th floor balcony deck. …
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Kickass and Mothers-in-Law
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in this season of pointing out special people to honor by suggesting that on top of the heroes’ list should be the mother-in-law. Being a successful mother-in-law has to be the most demanding role imposed on any of the tribal members, …
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