Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the keeper’s observations after he and Phyllis did one of their aimless meanders along the Rock River in the area where Chief Blackhawk first struggled and subsequently failed to preserve his native people from the ravishing of narcissistic invaders. *The afternoon whispering …
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Kickass Remembers Pat
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper today in remembering his daughter Pat who died suddenly four years ago after a routine heart pacer installation. Nobody loved life more and did more to wring the fun and adventure out of it than Pat. Nobody was more creative, and …
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Kickass and Life Advice
Photo by redcharlie | @redcharlie1 on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, indulges the keeper as he inventories some of the annoying clutter in life and suggests means of tolerating them. Current domination of the media by the former orange POTUS is like having a former in-law from a previously failed marriage–one who does not bathe …
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Kickass and Packaging
Attribution: Photo by Nico Smit on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, noting the keeper’s never-ending efforts to make the world a better place and to remain relevant in that world, continues to ignore global conflagration, multiple wars, mass shootings and the political clown show while trying to be helpful with such critical things as retaining …
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Kickass and the Spoonbill
Attribution: gary_leavens, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, as a very amateurish bird watcher–his “lifelist” being shorter than most grocery lists, is tempted to drive to Green Bay to see the roseate spoonbill, a species that has not been seen in the state for 178 …
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Kickass and Dumb Legislators
Attribution: U.S. House of Representatives – Office of the Clerk, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in acknowledging the latest product of Wisconsin’s grand tradition of sending stupid jerks to Washington and Madison to do “minority representation” and make the state look like a …
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Kickass and Newspaper Columnists
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, asks what could be more dominating at a lunch table than a former Wis. State Journal columnist? And the answer is two of them! So it was as Susan Lambert Smith joined the keeper and Phyllis and Ian and Karen Smith at a Vista …
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Kickass Cruising the River
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis were “Cruising down the river on a Sunday afternoon,” with the keeper recalling some of the lyrics from the 1946 hit song that includes “With one you love, the sun above, waiting for the moon.” Along the river …
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Kickass and Uncle Ralph
Attribution: National Archives and Records Administration , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, accompanies the keeper on a memory jaunt back to recall one of his wonderful uncles and the magic of the threshing crew. The tradition of farm women preparing noontime feasts for the neighboring farmers who had assembled …
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Kickass and Visiting Granddaughters
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, labels the keeper a “lucky dog” in that he was on hand when Phyllis’s granddaughters–Alexis and Taylor paid her an overnight visit. Alexis brought along her dog Kai so the keeper would have a conversation companion as Phyllis and Alexis and Taylor reminisced about …
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Kickass and UFOs
Attribution:derivative work: thumperward (talk) File:Supposed UFO, Passaic, New Jersey.jpg: –, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in asking what it says about the state of bipartisanship when both Dems and Repubs cooperated in holding a recent hearing on whether or not entities from outer space are …
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Kickass and No Air Conditioning
Attribution: Reinhold Möller, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in welcoming this hot, hot day of July 27, 2023, and allows him to reminisce about a childhood when the only air conditioning was riding in the back seat of a Model A Ford going 45 mph …
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