Photo by Laura College on Unsplash By Bil Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, indulges the keeper this “opening morning” as he–the keeper joins the multitudes out there in the woods watching the day come sneaking in on little gray feet. If the old hunters are there only figuratively, it is no less an emotional experience–this exercise of predatory …
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Kickass and the New Shelf
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, having flunked out of obedience school with the keeper, is trying to make a comeback and therefore supports the keeper’s compliance with requests that he display a photo of the shelving he claims to have recently constructed in the Vista West woodworking shop. While …
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Kickass and Women Shelf Movers
National Museum of American History , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports a happy ending to the account of the keeper retreating to the Vista West woodworking shop and allowing a shelf-building project to continue until the lumber supply was exhausted with the result that placing the weighty and …
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Kickass and Tracking Snow
Photo by Ricardo Gomez Angel on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper is the product of a northern community where a “tracking snow” is considered a good thing and has reference mainly to deer hunting; but he has a childhood memory of hearing the adults gossiping about how a …
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Kickass and Winter Dog Walk
Dan Bennett, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, hears the pitiful whimpering of all the pampered couch dogs on this first day of real winter–snow falling and ice covering everything, and the-go-for-a-walk leashes coming out: “What about the cat! She gets to do it in the house! How fair …
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Kickass and Mom’s Pants Alterations
Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, stays out of the way as the keeper stumbles around the Vista West woodworking shop in the process of making shelves to hold some of the treasures from his lengthy past, which, in …
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Kickass and the Great Filter
Luke Hancock, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is at a loss to help the keeper deal with the “Great Filter” theory which has it that the reason we have not detected intelligent life on other planets is that civilizations out there in space evolve to get so smart that …
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Kickass and Heights Vet Day
Noah Wulf, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports on behalf of the keeper that he–the keeper does not remember a Veterans Day when he felt so honored and privileged as the most recent one when he was invited to be a guest of the Wisconsin Heights School where …
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Kickass and Veterans Day
Bjarki Sigursveinsson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in noting that Veterans Day is when the country pauses to briefly consider all those mostly young people that it has either hired or drafted to go off to kill the mostly young people–but sometimes inadvertently the woman and …
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Kickass and Phyllis the Star
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, agrees with the keeper that living with a star–Phyllis, has its exciting moments, as when channel 3 showed up at the Vista West art show, and Phyllis was among the many talented people who had a few on-camera moments. The variety and depth of …
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Kickass and Titanic Course Change
CBS Television Network, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in noting that according to yesterday’s official Nov. 8 Auction results, the ship of state–otherwise known as the USS Political Titanic has altered course only slightly and now will not hit the iceberg, but instead crash into …
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Kickass on the Titanic
Willy Stöwer , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that he will be joining the keeper on this official Auction Day by imagining that they are on the Titanic, it is colder than hell out on the deck, the band is playing “Nearer my God to Thee,” and half …
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