Category:Humor

Kickass and Christmas Memories

Posted on Updated on by Bill StokesCategories:Holidays, Humor, Kickass, Memories, Social Commentary, Wisconsin

Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, pauses on this Christmas Day to paw through a few memories with the keeper. The keeper goes first: A cold backseat ride in a rattling old Model A Ford through a brittle, star-lite night from Grandma and Grandma Helgeland’s farmhouse, after lutefisk and lefse …
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Christmas Card

Posted on Updated on by Bill StokesCategories:Holidays, Humor, Kickass

Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Phyllis and Bill pass along their Christmas list to aid family and friends in their gift selection: *TIME! Though they have accumulated generous individual supplies they would still like more. And if you can fill any of it with a visit, they are at Vista West on Madison’s …
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Kickass and Crooked Trees

Posted on Updated on by Bill StokesCategories:Holidays, Humor, Kickass

Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in this season of special trees by recalling their visit to the “Crooked Bush” in Saskatchewan some years ago near Phyllis birthplace. The Crooked Bush is a three-acre patch of trembling aspen with unique twisted growth patterns that have …
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Kickass and Elon’s XMas

Posted on Updated on by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Kickass, Money, Politics

Attribution: DonkeyHotey, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, through his seasonal powers of being bad in these pre-Christmas days in order to make other bad people feel good about themselves, has intercepted Elon Musk’s letter to Santa:             “Listen up, old man. Here’s the new Christmas …
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Kickass and Flying Saucers

Posted on Updated on by Geoff CarterCategories:Aliens, Conspiracy theory, Humor, Kickass

Attribution: Віщун, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, hopes, along with the keeper and Phyllis that the New Jersey drone mystery is soon put to rest in the manner of the mysterious cow killings and mutilations of the 1970’s. Some fifty years ago, long before drones, unexplained cattle deaths …
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Kickass and Cookies

Posted on Updated on by Bill StokesCategories:Holidays, Humor, Kickass

Attribution: Ruth Hartnup from Vancouver, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, will be sleeping in to avoid being stepped on by the keeper as he–the keeper steps on and off the bathroom scale following cookie day at the weekly Vista West social hour:     “Oh, Christmas cookie we love …
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Kickass and Finance

Posted on Updated on by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Kickass, Money

Attributiion: Photo by Alexander Grey on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper peaked out at understanding financial matters with the $2 bill, and thinks of bitcoin as loose change chewed by the dog. This leaves him standing on the corner as the financial parade becomes so outrageous that it takes up the entire …
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