Photo provided by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper will be retiring from his very brief TV career following his appearance on the Channel 15 evening news with his presence built around the question of just why he was there in the first place. Young TV reporter Kayla gathered enough …
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Kickass and the Ice Age Trail
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, takes his hiking advice from Phyllis who has hiked in every national park in the continental US and has a hiking stick covered with park medals to prove it. She has also hiked portions of Wisconsin’s Ice Age Trail, as has the keeper, who …
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Kickass and Scissors Sharpeners
Attribution: National Archives and Records Administration, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, acknowledges Phyllis and turns it all over to the keeper on this day of Aug. 18, 2026. The scissors sharpener came ambling down the country road with his little bundle of worldly goods and a blank expression …
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Kickass and the Wolf River
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, listens to the keeper’s message that in these days of calamitous and contrary events some really good things still happen. One of those good things was last week’s meeting of the DNR board at which the generosity and environmental conscience of the citizenry was …
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Kickass Visits Kid Brother
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, as one who misses his littermates, envied the keeper as he and Phyllis checked in with the keeper’s “little” brother Orville with lunch at Elizabeth and Hucks, Orv’s daughter and son-in-law. Reminiscence ran as deep as it gets, and just when an older brother’s …
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Kickass and Stay-Home Plan
Attribution: File:Keep Calm and Carry On Poster.svg by User:Mononomic / derivative work by Atirador, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, has never chased cars and will not be doing so in the foreseeable future as the keeper informs him that the price of gas in Wisconsin is at an all-time …
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Kickass and Wisconsin-Minnesota Trade
Attribution: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, suggests that there are days when it is best to ignore the Keeper’s activities and this may be one of those days as he tries to bring together the elements of a trade …
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Kickass and Elective Office
Attribution: Photo by Dmytro Koplyk on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, woke from his nap late Tuesday to hear the keeper comment to Phyllis that the primary election results again showed no votes for dog catcher. History shows that this was not always the case: from settlement days, a “dog catcher” was a common elective …
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Kickass and Ted Lasso Appearance
Attribution: Excerpt from https://youtu.be/E5idMLhGAO8?si=sqmfAkQ3lFsIp9oC By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is trying to assist the keeper with the fallout from his very brief appearance in an episode of the Ted Lasso show as it dealt with baseball memorabilia. And there was the keeper when he was a 21-year-old uniformed soldier standing next to Satchel …
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Kickass Works with Granddaughter
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, agrees with the keeper that he is a “lucky dog” to be launching another project with granddaughter Sarah in which they explore the world of podcasts. Once a long time ago the two of them, with other family members’ help, wrote and produced “Naked …
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Kickass and the EPIC Grounds
Attribution: Ylem, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, was not with the keeper and Phyllis as they were guest passengers with Jack and Marsha W in a fascinating windshield tour of the sprawling Epic grounds near Verona. That such a gigantic blend of real estate and reality and fantasy …
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Kickass and the Family at the River
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, stayed on door duty as the keeper and Phyllis joined some of the keeper’s crew to send Rick and Becky from their riverside summer digs back to Colorado and their prairie dog battle. An afternoon rain shower briefly threatened to join the festivities but …
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