The Strobridge Lithographing Co., Cincinnati & New York, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that in the clutter of the keeper’s cranial closet is a version of the nonsense song, “My name is Yon Yonson, I come from Wisconsin….” as it was long ago recited by boyhood pal …
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Kickass and January 9th Birthday
Selena N. B. H. from Fayetteville, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that there was a time in the keeper’s life when Jan. 9 marked the birthdays of his late wife Betty, his dog Doc, and the president of the United States—Richard Nixon. It was his custom in …
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Kickass and Compression Helmets
Fred Kissel, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is working with the keeper in developing the “Compression helmet,” which will work like compression socks to improve cranial blood circulation, particularly in the brains of those Republicans who suffer from the varicose big lie. Republican mandates to wear the compression …
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Kickass Remembers Pearl Harbor
National Archives at College Park , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper recalls the widely used “Remember Pearl Harbor,” catch phrase from WWII days, and suggests its revival along with some editing: “Forget Pearl Harbor and Remember Jan. 6.” If ever there was a day that …
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Kickass and January 6th
TapTheForwardAssist, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis will socialize later today with their blind friend Michael Christopher, a fellow resident at Vista West and a former Madison alderman. Mike deals with his circumstance amazingly, and with the occasional help of friends, doesn’t miss a …
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Kickass and Being 91
David Shankbone , CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper tries not to be intimidated by the numbers that relate to age, but like legions of others, embraced a Betty White quotation released after her recent death at the age of 99—just days short of 100. “Best …
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Kickass and Dog Behavior
Internet Archive Book Images, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass , the doorstop dog, listens in as Phyllis pauses in her current read to pass along to the keeper an occasional passage from John Grogan’s “Marley & Me”, which inevitably reminds the keeper of the behavior of outrageous dogs from his past; like …
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Kickass Watches Cold Football
Midwest Communications, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper had not watched a football game for many years but tuned into the Packer’s-Vikings Sunday spectacle to reassure himself that sports fans were just as hopeless as they were many years ago when he did a cover story about sports …
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Polar Bear Diary
Photo by Mark Mamerow Article by Mark Mamerow Mara and I arrived at Wahl Avenue and parked at about 11:30 am—X minus 30 minutes to the January 1st Polar Bear plunge at Milwaukee’s Bradford Beach. People were getting out of their cars. You could identify the Polar Bears. They carried cloth shopping bags of towels and shoes, and …
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Kickass 1/2/22
Photo by Isabela Kronemberger on Unsplash Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, being painfully aware of the ravages of aging on the memory capacities of members of his age group, points to a positive: yesterday he adopted a number of serious News Year’s resolutions, and today he can only remember the one having to do with …
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Kickass Adjusts to New Year
Rob Wall, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that the keeper and Phyllis, celebrated the arrival of the new year by finally wrestling the cork out of a long-stored bottle of champagne to find that its contents had gone bad and had to be dumped down the drain—perhaps …
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Kickass and Colorado Fire
(Photograph used by permission of the USDA Forest Service.), CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, like everyone else with family or loved ones in Colorado, made a phone call—to his son Rick and wife Becky who live in a Denver suburb, to be reassured that …
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