Attribution: akial, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper resists reality at every aging moment, but must admit that it is unlikely he will have an opportunity to test his late fishing friend John Lawton’s theory of how to proceed when encountering an aggressive bull in a …
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Kickass and “The Assassins”
Attribution: Capitol Theater, Madison, Wisconsin: Warren LeMay from Covington, KY, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis joining neighbors Marsha and Jack to catch the last Madison Overture performance of “The Assassins,” the Sondheim-Weidman musical created 35 years ago and updated to include …
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Kickass and Recliner Experience
Attribution: DelmerViramontes, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis having weathered out of a drive to the middle of the state Saturday found themselves with a daylong opportunity to stay off the stormy roads and do something worthwhile. Phyllis did some organizational work with members …
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Kickass and Weather
Attribution:Mathias Krumbholz, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, asks the keeper and Phyllis to explain their decision to reschedule a planned drive across mid Wisconsin just because advance weather information tells them they would be in the middle of a band of possible severe thunderstorms most of the afternoon. …
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Kickass and Uncle Ralph
The Pen in Hand Blog featuring Bill Stokes
Attribution: Sheldon Dick, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lancaster_Co.,_PA._Enos_and_Herbert_Royer_and_farm_hands_eat_dinner,_Royer_farm,_1938_by_Sheldon_Dick.jpg
Kickass as a Hogan’s Hero
Attribution: CBS Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper waking up this morning remembering the day he shot one of Mrs. Hogan’s chickens. Walking past the Hogan farm on returning from the squirrel woods with no squirrels, Mrs. Hogan hailed the teenage keeper and asked him …
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Kickass and Numbers
Attribution: Lara Robinson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, using only those numbers approved for use by the current Washington cult-that-couldn’t-shoot-straight, changes his official birthdate from 9/11/31 to TBM which translates to “TRILLIONS/BILLIONS/ MILLIONS” the language most often used by the clueless cult crowd as …
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Kickass and Shot in the Eye
Attribution: Rhcastilhos. And Jmarchn., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper starting the day with the VA eye clinic deciding whether or not he needs yet another shot in the eye to protect him from the advance of the macular degeneration that was so generously handed off …
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Kickass and Bat in Store
Attribution: Source: Hasitha Tudugalle Derivative: User:MathKnight, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper has a message for the bat that was somewhere in the big barn type office supply store where the keeper and Phyllis were mortgaging their car to buy ink cartridges: “Listen up, Bat. …
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Kickass and Screens
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop, advises the keeper and Phyllis that their constant company of senior citizens can be enriched by an occasional exposure to members of a different age group as represented by the recent visit of Maverick and Holden who demonstrated how the meaning of life is in …
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Kickass and Good Neighbors
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis and friends Hester, Larry and Michael in a lunch visit with across-the-street neighbor “The Lussier Community Education Center” and came away well fed and greatly impressed with the broad scope of meaningful services the center’s staff and dedicated volunteers …
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Kickass and Visit of Boo
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, gives the floor to the keeper and Phyllis to pass on the verity that sandwiches climb into a rarefied culinary class when they are delivered and prepared by a son and granddaughter—Mike and Sarah who also brought along Boo the aging little schnauzer who …
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