Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in the cold sunshine of Mar. 12, 2022 to shuffle through possible subjects for his—the keeper’s daily rant—Putin’s incomprehensible war, the price of gasoline, Wisconsin’s gerrymandered legislature spitting in the face of the citizenry, incredibly arrogant Prehn forcing the continuation of …
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Category:Humor
Kickass and Phyllis’ Art
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, will join the keeper today in assisting Phyllis as she turns Apt 523 into an art gallery to display some of the outstanding examples of her photo-art for fellow Vista West residents. It promises to be a gala event, and the keeper is wondering …
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Kickass and Ornery Silver
ABC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, in this era of “to-mask-or-not-to-mask,” passes along the keeper’s account of a sad unmasking when he–the keeper was unmasked by the cruel passage of time as not the Lone Ranger but a skinny farm kid astride the world’s orneriest Shetland pony, …
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Kickass and Woman War Screams
Julien Bryan , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, endorses the keeper’s lament that when it comes to the slaughter of women and children, war is messier than school shootings since it splinters up so much real estate. Both, however, require cultures that have permitted conditioning by the likes of …
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Kickass and Full Service
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper renews his membership in the club of old guys who once worked in a “filling” station, by joining the chorus of “five—or was it six, gallons of gas for a dollar;” and asking for the gas order only after having washed …
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Kickass and Bird Photos
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, has pretty much given up on assisting the keeper with his “bird” issues, including, of course, his place in the unstated sandhill crane photo competition that is ongoing as the big birds return to the state in droves. Prior to the most recent snow …
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Kickass and Defending Mothers
Mvs.gov.ua, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper will drive Phyllis to a covid testing site today as part of her preparation for a medical procedure, and it is but a short leap to imagine that he is driving her to pick up …
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Kickass and a Happy Birthday
Selena N. B. H. from Fayetteville, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that today the keeper and Phyllis will host a birthday celebration for Phyllis’s grandson Geordan with a German menu favored by his father Kevin and mother Colleen. It will be a happy occasion, and the keeper will …
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Kickass and the Crossing Guard
Gillfoto, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper’s long-range view of the crossing guard down on the corner gives him—the keeper, an opportunity to witness one of countless examples of the Human race devising and using a means to blend conflicting interests to the benefit of …
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Kickass and the Dead Beaver
Photo by Francesco Ungaro on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, assists the keeper in making something of his—the keeper’s memory of the March afternoon when most of the student body of the country school trudged across the deep melting snow of Becker’s woods to see the bloated body of the beaver that had been trapped …
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Kickass and the State of….
The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, pauses with the keeper as he—the keeper, assesses “the state of stupidity” as manifested by the following examples: *The red dressed idiot woman narcissist who shouted insults as the POTUS spoke about losing his son to a …
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Kickass and Driftless Tour
Dietmar Rabich / Wikimedia Commons / “Dülmen, Hausdülmen, Sonnenaufgang — 2015 — 4952” / CC BY-SA 4.0 By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, stayed home and rested as the keeper and Phyllis had an afternoon windshield lunch with the eagles and the crows in the snow-frosted Driftless hills of southwest Wisconsin. Aged venison was on the menu for the birds as they …
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