Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, endorses the keeper’s observation that the gathering at the riverside cookout on a recent hot afternoon had a lot to do with Woodington sisters and Stokes brothers with histories dating back to the early days of Madison’s near westside communities. The sisters and brothers …
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Kickass Tours Westfield
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that as Phyllis was lunching with granddaughter Alexis in Westfield, the keeper did a patrol of nostalgia around the area that for 40 plus years starting in 1961 was where he most wanted to be. The A-frame cabin he and friends built along …
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Kickass and Old Men Talking
Attribution: National Archives at College Park , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes the keeper’s amazement at how his old friends age while he—the keeper maintains his “not-long-out-of-high-school” self-image. So it was with seeing Hal again after 15 or 20 years. Damn, Hal has aged! He is still up …
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Kickass and Doddering
Attribution: Sonny doe, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper does his best to deny his identity as a doddering old man, but occasionally the truth emerges as it did in a recent grocery check-out line when the keeper held things up as he fumbled with …
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Kickass and Olde Olympics
Attribution: Vusi vilanculos, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis watched from their recliners as the worlds most accomplished young people floated down the Seine in the opening ceremonies of the Paris Olympics. While the Olympics must necessarily focus on youth at the top of …
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Kickass and the Cellular Cycle
Attribution: Photo by Gabriel Jimenez on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis were both impressed by information posted by Scott Marrese-Wheeler that each human is composed of 84 minerals, 23 elements, 8 gallons of water divided among 38 billion cells, and these cells will inevitably be recycled in some other …
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Kickass and Phyllis’s Garden
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along word that the keeper is declaring war on the rabbit that is invading Phyllis’s raised garden and eating the tomatoes that the keeper had plans for. The keeper remembers asking his aged father on one of dad’s later birthdays what he had …
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Kickass Accepts Aging
Attribution: Andreas Bohnenstengel, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in suggesting one way to experience empathy for Joe as he decides to do a POTUS hand off is to compare it to the decision to sell the house and move to an independent living facility …
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Kickass and The Wombers
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that there is no stopping the keeper this morning as he and Phyllis celebrate the coincidental occasion of the national political trend toward sensible matriarchy and the keeper completing the first draft of “The Wombers” a 79,000 word novel that does some off …
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Kickass Visits Jerry and Mary Davis
Attribution: Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that in the tradition of “country copy” reporting whereby visits and personal events are duly noted and commented on, “The keeper and Phyllis were drop-in guests at the magnificent prairie and natural gardens of Jerry and Mary Davis near Barneveld where a …
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Kickass and the GOP Convo
Attribution: DonkeyHotey, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that even as old as he is—Phyllis is much younger but still old enough to know better, anyway, the two of them watched the TV end of the Repub circus Thursday night as the head clown droned on with his …
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Kickass and Republican Milwaukee Convo
Attribution: Department of Defense. Department of the Navy. Naval Photographic Center, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper’s fond memories of the decade or so that he spent roaming Wisconsin as a columnist/reporter for the Milwaukee Journal back in the days—1970s– when it was still one helluva …
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