Attribution: Frank Kovalchek from USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, allows the keeper to revisit good memories under the heading of why not? It is mid-December 1987 and southern Wis is getting a 17-inch snowfall. But the keeper, on the Chicago Tribune payroll at the time, is not …
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Kickass and New Watch Band
Attribution: hypo.physe, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the keeper’s experience of applying his peasant mentality to shopping for a band for the wristwatch somebody gave him years ago. First he was conditioned by ads in the NYT that neighbor Jim hands off on a daily basis, …
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Kickass says, “No, Virginia”
Attribution: Virginia O’Hanlon , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper is aware of the discomfort that bad news brings, but in the interest of truth and honesty must pass along the results of extensive traditional journalistic research and announce: “No, Virginia, there is no Santa Claus!” …
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Kickass Ships a Book
Attribution: © Nevit Dilmen, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, admires the keeper’s inclination to confess incompetence bordering on stupidity, his thinking being that such reports are found comforting by those who can say to themselves, “Well, I’ve never done anything that dumb!” It was the keeper’s simple task …
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Kickass and Old Friend
Attribution: Wil Stewart wilstewart3, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, having recently renewed contact with lifelong friend Roger Locke who lives in Michigan near a daughter, is astounded at the fact that the two of them, to the best of their knowledge, are the only survivors …
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Kickass and Bar Hamburgers
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper has forever had a weakness for tavern hamburgers—with a slice of raw, a little mustard, fries and served with cold beer, of course. He was thus indulged when he and Phyllis met Phyllis’s son Todd and granddaughter Alexis at the …
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Kickass and the Heimlich Maneuver
Attribution: Evolution and evolvability, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the frightening experience of the keeper and Phyllis as dinner companion Dorothy suddenly choked and was immediately successfully rescued by the skillful administration of the Heimlich maneuver by her daughter Sigrid. That Sigrid is an experienced nurse …
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Kickass at Lunch
Attribution: Prayitno / Thank you for (12 millions +) view from Los Angeles, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper had lunch with four others where 83-year-old Harry was considered “the kid” and except for “the kid” the keeper at 92 was the youngest at the …
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Kickass Sells Books
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis will be participating in the Vista West Author and Art sale tomorrow afternoon—Wednesday 4-6 pm in the community room where Christmas shoppers will be encouraged to wrap up their season with copies of the keeper’s Margaret’s War; Treeson, an APOLOGIA …
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Kickass at the Cider Farm Cidery
Attribution: Hubertl, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, having refused to accept Dec. 3, 2023 as unfit for human consumption, hastens to amend his rejection to exempt the afternoon’s repast by the keeper and Phyllis at the Cider Farm Cidery next to Brennen’s on Mineral …
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Kickass Refuses December 3rd, 2023
Attribution: Helgi Halldórsson from Reykjavík, Iceland, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, without discussing it with Phyllis, has taken executive action to bank Dec. 3, 2023 for possible later use, maybe in 2024. The keeper’s decision to decline immediate delivery of Dec. 3, 2023 was …
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Kickass and Hummingbirds
Attribution: Paul Harrison, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the information that it was apparently not enough to up the alcoholic content of the nectar in the balcony hummingbird feeder to the degree that some hummingbirds might opt to winter in Wisconsin. It might have helped keep …
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