Attribution: NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the keeper’s rules of conduct for having a 92nd birthday: *Do not start any fights of a physical nature. *Respect your elders. *If you think you have acquired any wisdom, volunteer for a clinical trial to detect “sawdust in the …
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Kickass and Conception Day
Attribution: http://www.pdimages.com/web9.htm, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that as the keeper, gets ready for an age milestone, he notes that nobody’s birthday is possible without their having been a conception day nine months previously. Just why conception day is not celebrated, and is even pretty much ignored, …
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Kickass and Reprimanding Republicans
Attribution: Channel 3000, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis and their ilk, recognizing that they are living in a gerrymandered state litterbox of the Repub’s design that denies them representative government, hereby serve notice that if the Voss Repub dictator group moves ahead …
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Kickass and Positive Pain
Attribution: Photo by Henry Fraczek on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the results from the keeper’s right shoulder MRI showed, in Dr. Warbasse’s assessment, that there are rips in his rotator cuff and frayed muscles and the joint is generally a mess, and it is unusual that the keeper is not writhing in …
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Kickass and the VA Ladies
Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper is freshly back from an occasion of being in a small room with three attractive young women who demanded earlier that he take his clothes off–all of them, even shoes and socks, which seemed extreme for doing an MRI of his …
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Kickass in the Womb
Attribution: Photo by Isaac Quesada on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, tries to find some value in the keeper’s thought process that puts him back in his mother’s womb as an awesome birthday is only days away. So, that’s where the keeper was on this date so many years ago and he has obviously never …
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Kickass and Collapsing Pier
Attribution: Richard Hurd, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in rejoicing at a human-involved, weather-related event that is not only understandable but worthy of cheers: that, of course, being the afternoon collapse of the overloaded pier at the UW Lake Mendota Memorial Union Terrace whereby a …
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Kickass and Tree Dancing
Attribution: Leonhard Lenz, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, may see trees in a different light than the keeper and Phyllis, but on a recent day it was a universal requirement to appreciate and marvel at the big plants as they did what seemed to be a last summer dance …
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Kickass Has a Good Day
Attribution: Photo by frank mckenna on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes along with the keeper, the measure of a good day when you are almost as old as the wheel: *Getting out of bed and standing up. *Showering, shaving, dressing and putting on shoes, especially putting on shoes. *Turning on the coffee maker that …
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Kickass and The Black Hawk War
Attribution: Billwhittaker at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper has finally finished his bedtime book: “Blackhawk–The Battle for the Heart of America” by Kerry Trask, history prof emeritus at UW Manitowoc. The book is an incredible work and leaves him–the keeper uniquely conditioned …
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Kickass and Reminiscing Excess
Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that in a marathon reminiscing session with Jack and Bonnie Lawton, the keeper may have strained something by trying to be in too many places at the same time: *The Wolf River cabin with the muted roar of Slough Gundy rapids just upstream and the bloody handprints …
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Kickass and Blue Moon
Attribution: gailhampshire from Cradley, Malvern, U.K, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joined the keeper and Phyllis in opting to ignore last night’s 2023 blue moon and wait for the one in 2037, when the keeper will be 106 and hopes to be less distracted in attending to the …
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