Attribution: bergsten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that the keeper is among those knife-carrying males who inherited the pocket-knife habit from his father when it was a societal-wide practice. There existed among some of the working-class knife carriers a curious “game” whereby you could not deny another …
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Kickass and Canada Guests
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper joins Phyllis in a cooperative effort to shore up relationships between the US and Canada by hosting Phyllis’s sister and brother-in-law Joan and Bill Rewuski who live in Warman, Saskatchewan where Phyllis was born and raised. With the global inclination …
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Kickass and Norwegian Dancers
Attribution: Torvild, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, hands it off to the keeper today as he and Phyllis watched the Stoughton High School dancers perform a morning show at Vista West. It was fantastic, and it made the keeper think of his dear old Norwegian mother, and to …
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Kickass and War Worry
Attribution: Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper simply does not have worry room for the latest war, and the participants will have to conduct it in all of its stupidity without him. One war at a time is about all he can handle in the …
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Kickass and Phyllis Photo Art
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper was in the Vista West audience when Phyllis presented her debut “Phillis Phixes Photos” photo-artist show in which she used some of her prize-winning photos to demonstrate how the use of a wide variety of computer programs can not only improve …
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Kickass and Kyle’s Screening
Photo by Douglas Bagg on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis, having sat in on a screening of nephew Kyle Houseman-Stokes’s movie “My Dead Friend Chloe,” featuring Morgan Freeman and Ed Harris among others, passes along the word that Kyle has done himself proud in navigating the forbidding world of …
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Kickass and Sports Fans
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in observing sports fans as they absorb defeats and switch sports, which takes the keeper back to his Chicago Trib days in the 1980’s when he spent an autumn attending pro and college sporting events to look at the fans instead …
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Kickass Talks to a Sparrow
Attribution: Paul, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the Balcony Sparrow was back, perched on the cold steel edge just below the thermometer that showed a new low temperature for the year. The two of them talked: Kickass: “Cold, huh!” BS: “Yeah, and a lot more to …
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Kickass Drinks with Fruit flies
Attribution: Fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper is on his own in considering fruit flies as drinking companions and hence as a source of protein. In a recent non-clinical trial, the keeper inexplicably—and temporarily, abandoned his partially-filled brandy glass, and upon …
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Kickass Watches PBS
Attribution: NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joined the keeper and Phyllis in forsaking the MSNBC endless political haranguing for a series of PBS Wednesday night programs that were both reassuring and humbling: From unusual people enjoying nature to a portrait of the planet Earth in terms of …
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Kickass and Biting Dog
Attribution: The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is with the keeper in seeing that amid the prevailing political circus, the issue of Commander, the Biden dog, biting Secret Service members has been overlooked as a logical solution in myriad problem areas. If ever a biting dog …
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Kickass and Goodbye September
Attribution: Travellers1980, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, has been aware for some time that “time” frequently gets away from the keeper and he schedules so many things that some of them are not properly executed, such as his ceremonial goodbye to the September of 2023. So on the …
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