Attribution: AZ Auto Detailing Scottsdale, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, celebrates with the keeper in his ability to “fix things”, seen perhaps by others as “cheapness.” There were two spots of minor surface scratches on their vehicle, one put there by the keeper and one by Phyllis. No …
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Kickass and Prom Election
Attribution: See page for author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, allows the keeper to use a personal example of the importance of a single vote in determining election outcomes. The year was 1948 and the election was for junior prom king at Barron High School. It pitted Eddie …
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Kickass and Word Worship
Attribution: Corey Coyle, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper has an answer to the question of “What kind of religion do you get if you put a half dozen writers in a converted church and pass around a mic?” The Black Earth Library set it …
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Kickass and the Author Fair
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper will be joining five others tonight for the Black Earth Public Library “Local Author Fair” 1022 Blue Mounds St., beginning at 6 p.m. and featuring Andy Giesler, Peggy Prilamen Marxen, Patricia McConnell, Kathy Stoltz, Jeff Nania and the keeper, who …
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Kickass Rides the Elevator
Attribution: Photo by Derrick Treadwell on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in lamenting that among the annoying ups and downs foisted on a considerable portion of their “Independent Living” age group is the elevator. Perhaps not as insidious as the so called “smart phone” that assumes a brain take-over for …
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Kickass Goes to the Wizard
Attribution: Author Lyman Frank Baum Illustrator William Wallace Denslow, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis, on recently driving Wisconsin roads, were forced to conclude that based on the many political signs promoting a demented “wizard,” they had somehow entered the Land of Oz …
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Kickass and Hooked-up Dogs
Attribution: Hhoefling, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is on another recycled, long-ago grouse hunt with the keeper, this one up in the northwest where the keeper and the other hunters, all carrying shotguns, stood in the farmyard with their new farmer friend who planned to join the hunt. The …
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Kickass and Phyllis’s Family
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis are freshly returned from a weekend get-together with Phyllis’s family at a weekend rental on the shore of Lake Sinissippi near Hustisford where good food was feast-like, the conversation was punctuated by frequent laughter and a good time was …
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Kickass and Grouse Hunting
Attribution: Henry Thomas Alken , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper using this bright Oct. 18, 2024, to jerk his memory machinery back 50 years or so to the days when he and John Lawton wallowed in the glory years of ruffed grouse populations across the state. …
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Kickass and Helping Kamala
Attribution: Jessie Willcox Smith (1863 – 1935), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, ever anxious to be relevant, is volunteering to assist Kamala as she does her best to refute the outrageous fairy tale claims that will obviously be forth coming from the Orange leader …
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Kickass Visits the Chickens
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis stopped for a drop-in visit with old friends Mary and Jerry at their wonderful place on the edge of Mazomanie with its big garden, repair shed, chicken yard, lush flowers, big trees and friendly dogs. For many years, …
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Kickass and the Irate Trumper
Attribution: Erik Ogan, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, hands off to the keeper for the report of an “eating-out-with-a-Trumper” adventure as reported to him by son Rick and daughter-in-law Becky. The scene is a popular area night club with booths separated by partitions. The conversation in Rick and …
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