Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joined the keeper in pretty much staying out of the way as Phyllis went into her annual fruit cake making mode, combining a most interesting collection of colorful elements and beginning the procedure that concludes with long-term soaking in a tasty alcoholic beverage, something …
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Category:Holidays
Kickass and Playing Scrabble
thebarrowboy, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, was an innocent spectator as the scrabble game see-sawed back and forth with first the keeper in the lead only to fall behind as Phyllis used six tiles in a word that required rule-book justification. The game went down to the very …
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Kickass and the Dumb Turkey
Photo by Claudio Schwarz on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, assists the keeper with the following: Don’t know if you’ve heard That being a bird Can go lots of ways With honors and days. Some are here for the eggs they lay Others to make Col. Sander’s day. One bird is the …
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Hospitality
Jean Leon Gerome Ferris , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter Originally published Thanksgiving Day, 2018 Thanksgiving 2019 (addendum) Even though the events in this original blog–the caravan to the U.S. border–are past, the effects of them are still with us today. The U.S. is presently holding thousands of refugees in camps and in …
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Kickass and Phyllis Remission
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in celebrating a pre-Thanksgiving checkup visit Monday with Dr. Rose at the UW Carbone Cancer Center with continuation of the “REMISSION” report for Phyllis. So what else matters? Eat lots of turkey and have a great day! See more …
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Kickass and Heights Vet Day
Noah Wulf, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports on behalf of the keeper that he–the keeper does not remember a Veterans Day when he felt so honored and privileged as the most recent one when he was invited to be a guest of the Wisconsin Heights School where …
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Kickass and Veterans Day
Bjarki Sigursveinsson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in noting that Veterans Day is when the country pauses to briefly consider all those mostly young people that it has either hired or drafted to go off to kill the mostly young people–but sometimes inadvertently the woman and …
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Kickass and Halloween Costume
Toby Ord, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper’s inability to remove his tricks-or-treat costume which consists of a wet blanket topped by a grinning mask of liberal bias. Since the costume seems to be stuck to him like glue, the keeper will continue to accost people …
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Kickass and Haunted House
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis were thrilled to learn that their former Mazo house–now occupied by grandson Andy, his wife Ari and their three young ones, has been seriously haunted and may have to be condemned until after Halloween. While it is a …
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Kickass and Ignorance Day
Photo by Infrogmation, Mardi Gras morning, 1998, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is supportive of the keeper’s creation of “Ignorance Day” to be celebrated following “Independence Day,” when the masses beat themselves about the head with explosive sticks provided by narcissistic, money-driven dictators. “Ignorance Day” is yesterday and …
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Kickass and Highland Park Shooting
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, follows the keeper as he recalls his days with the Chicago Tribune when Highland Park was one of the many locations he roamed for column writing material; and where relatives now live in the nearby community of Fox Lake; all of which is apropos …
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Kickass and Meeting Blaize
Sgt. Charlie Helmholt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that as the keeper and Phyllis gathered with family on a sandy Wisconsin River beach to celebrate the 4th, a highlight of the kid-saturated event was a meeting between the keeper and the clan’s newest member—two-month-old Blaize Betty Russell …
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