Attribution: Photo by Adam Gritco on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis enjoying a usual great breakfast at the Pancake Café near Gammon and Watts–interesting menu, lots of room, excellent service and a low noise level that encourages conversation. So, there was a warm visit with the very efficient waitress who …
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Kickass and Grandpa’s Long Underwear
Attribution: Photo by Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper making the switch from winter to summer shirts, which means short sleeves and bare arms for the next four months or so. The move equates to the critters shedding their winter coats and the birds showing …
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Kickass and Old Friend Roger
Photo courtesy of Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper received a 95th birthday notice from OLD friend Roger Locke, a fellow member of the Barron WI. High School class of 1949. The class was close to 100 in 1949 and may now be represented only by Roger and the …
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Kickass and the Chinese Screw
Attribution: Movidi, FAL, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports on the keeper’s efforts to establish an international relationship with the Chinese individual who put the wrong size screw in an unassembled drink holder package. Since package labeling showed that a California company was involved with a warning that too much …
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Kickass and Ultimate Fighting
Attribution: Bad intentionz, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis barely able to contain their excitement over the POTUS plans to spend millions celebrating his birthday with people beating the living hell out of each other on the White House lawn. Great stretches of that …
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Kickass Remembers Michigan Platoon Mates
Photo courtesy of Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis participating with everyone in painful remembering on this day set aside just for that purpose with special ceremonies, followed by picnics in the parks, brats and beer, and baseball games. The keeper, as usual, remembers the two Michigan …
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Kickass and Part of Nature
Attribution: Photo by Skyler Smith on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, napped at home as the keeper and Phyllis joined the multitudes in paying allegiance to the remnant genes that define humans as creatures of the land as much as any other living thing. This genetic signal of acknowledging nature has become convoluted to emerge …
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Kickass and Window Gazing
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, shares his between-naps job with the keeper in observing the daily flow of vehicular and pedestrian traffic as it plays out around the busy intersection of Gammon Road and Tree Lane in the neighborhood mix of schools, businesses and housing. Unable to resist frequent …
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Kickass and Reporter Dressing Style
Attribution: U. A. Saarinen, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, has now lived for a day with the photo discovered by granddaughter Jessy showing him at a sanity hearing for Ed Gein at which Ed was the best dressed of all those in the courtroom, …
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Kickass and Ed Gein
Photo courtesy of Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, celebrates with the keeper as he adds another photo to the collection from his newspaper days thanks to granddaughter Jessy, who was poking around on the net, and stumbled onto a courtroom scene of a1974 Ed Gein sanity hearing in Wautoma which the …
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Kickass and Sarah’s Morels
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper has never been on the first team of morel mushroom hunters, and now in his retirement status he hears the reports from granddaughter Sarah that this would not be a good year to try to come out of retirement. Sarah, who …
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Kickass and the Bad Kennel
Attribution: Photo by Sasha Sashina on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, agrees with the keeper that he and Phyllis and their friends are living in a once-beautiful planetary adoption “kennel” that has suddenly made euthanasia a major operational policy, has fired the clean-up crew and the high-quality employees, and now accepts only the very tallest dogs …
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