Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper shares a common experience with Dem Veep candidate Tim Walz in that both were arrested for DUI earlier in life, were fined and temporarily lost driving privileges. Tim, as a 30-year-old teacher at the time, responded by doing a life-time …
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Kickass at the VA Eye Clinic
Attribution: Gabriel Vanslette, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, accepts the keeper’s excuse for this late offering as being a routine checkup at the VA Eye Clinic where all was found to be in order, thanks to long term monitoring and maintenance by a series of young optometrists from …
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Kickass Visits Old Places
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the following on behalf of the keeper and Phyllis on this Sunday morning of Aug. 18, 2024. Revisiting “We have walked thousands of parks and places, “In the beauty and peace of nature’s magnificent chaos. “We think of the hidden valleys and …
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Kickass and Show Biz
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is assisting the keeper in his show biz debut with “At the Bath,” an illustrated production of just what a bath can be. The subtitles as arranged in the keeper’s script are as follows: 1. Oh, I think I will take a bath. 2. …
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Kickass and Spilled Berries
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, sometimes puzzles over the keeper’s technique for getting the day started, such as his scattering blueberries all over the kitchen floor as he pulls out the bacon and eggs. It turns out that spilling the berries—as opposed to “spilling the beans” has no hidden …
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Kickass and School Opening
The Pen in Hand Blog featuring Bill Stokes
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Kickass and Body Parts
Attribution: FE2656BA, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, will be working with the keeper to bring the business of human spare parts out of the medical shadows and into the strip malls with the auto parts dealers where it will be more accessible and perhaps even competitive. Based on …
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Kickass and Blueberry Pie
Attribution: Jessica Spengler, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, listens as the keeper announces the gold medalist of blueberry pie makers as Cyndy A, who also medaled in the soup-making competition as she generously responded to Phyllis’s temporary culinary sidelining due to hip replacement surgery. Lots of people reacted …
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Kickass and Loud Mufflers
Attribution: National Archives at College Park , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper is on yet one more of his “do good” efforts, this one being the control of those young idiots who modify their vehicle exhaust systems to make them sound like WWII bombing raids complete …
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Kickass and Dreams
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, listens as the keeper lists a new area of complaint, that being the mysterious process by which dream subjects are selected and then produced. One might think with all the raw material the keeper has amassed he would not be plagued with a repeated …
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Kickass and UW Health
Attribution: Av9, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, fresh from exposure to the sprawling UW health care system as he retrieves Phyllis from her hip replacement surgery, concludes that the modern hospital may be both the ultimate point of civilization’s advance and the most complex …
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Kickass and Political Animals
Attribution: Guido Gerding, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in noting that there has been a flurry of internet photos of Dem. veep candidate Tim Walz holding various animals—dogs, a cat and even a pig, all the while smiling and appearing comfortable in animal company. …
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