Attribution: Mario Purisic mariopurisic, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is with the keeper in sensing that dwelling on the downside of getting old is a boring subject and tends to be overdone by anyone over the age of 60. In the extreme upper levels of aging, dwelling on it …
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Kickass and the Book Promo
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, having chewed the covers off several copies of the keeper’s recent novel Ah, the Women! finds the book palatable in that it made the point that if a woman instead of a man is on the other end of your leash you are one lucky …
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Kickass and THE Birthday Party
Photo courtesy of Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper surviving the assembly of his clan to mark his 95th birthday. By all measures it was a rousing success and the keeper thanks all those who had a role in it. And that is it for Kickass today as he tiptoes …
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Kickass and Old Age Demonstrations
Attribution: NASA/Carla Thomas, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, will be attending the family gathering today to mark the keeper’s 95th birthday, and suggests that maybe too much is being made of one number in a series that the keeper plans to keep going until decency returns to the White …
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Kickass and the Keeper’s Birthday
Photo courtesy of Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, accepts the fact that 95 years ago the keeper weighed 8 ½ pounds and had a very limited vocabulary. Seventy years later on 9/11 2001 he had gained a lot of weight and his vocabulary had grown to the point that he could …
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Kickass Watches the Sunrise
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, watched from his napping position as the keeper crept out of bed sometime before 6:33 am with the inexplicable uneasy feeling that the sun may not rise as usual. As he watched the dark eastern horizon there was the gradual emergence of a red …
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Kickass Shares the 9/11 Date
Attribution: Yolanl, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, has not received a personal invitation to sit at the Legacy Table with the keeper and Phyllis today as Vista West celebrates its 5th birthday, but he might show up anyway. This upcoming weekend of marking special dates is a bit overwhelming …
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Kickass and Student Jobs
Attribution: Hmcarreiro, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, allows the keeper yet one more opportunity to use a personal experience to make a Labor Day related point: the occasion was when the keeper quit his student dish-washing job after the proprietor of a small Madison eatery chased the chef …
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Kickass Marks Labor Day
Attribution: Roadside Wildflowers, Droveway Lane by Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, aware that the keeper and Phyllis descend from the laboring class, will honor them today with extra napping on this Labor Day Monday. He suggests the same for everyone. Since 1894, Labor Day has marked a …
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Kickass Kicks the Hornet’s Nest
Attribution: Lucio Eastman, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, just gave the keeper a demonstration of what it means to “kick the hornet nest” as yesterday’s “Kickass” used an across-the-street shooting incident to comment on the sad state of cultural gun affairs. The sadness is in the tenacious hold of …
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Kickass and Gloria Steinem
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in honoring another great woman–Gloria Steinem who died earlier this week at 92 after a lifetime of helping lead her collective gender out of the male dominate historical weeds. Among the many things Gloria said was that there would …
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Kickass Goes Beyond Howling
Attribution: Henry Edward Knobel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, still working to teach the keeper how to howl effectively, tries to ignore the brutal truth that the required reaction to the POTUS narcissistic cruelty has progressed beyond howling to demand snarling, mad-dog attacks complete with abject resistance and …
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