Kyiv City State Administration, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes the keeper’s observation that it is impossible to imagine what it is like when an artillery shell lands in your living quarters and kills members of your family. Likewise, even for the keeper’s fellow residents of Vista West, most …
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Kickass and Robin Vos
Jongsun Lee, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that once again it has fallen to the keeper to intercept some of the communications from unusual sources, most recently the petition from the robins, now flocking back into the state by the thousands from southern environs, which demands that …
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Kickass and St. Pat’s Commentary
Tasha Carl, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, cautions the keeper to be careful with St. Patrick’s Day comments, considering the trouble he once caused by writing in a Chicago Tribune column that he and many others were tired of stumbling over drunken Irishmen passed out on the sidewalks …
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Kickass and Phyllis’ Birthday
Selena N. B. H. from Fayetteville, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, will be assisting the keeper in helping Phyllis celebrate her birthday today, having already—a day early, served her breakfast in bed and having made a grand speech about an expensive gift that he claims to be …
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Kickass and Special Communication Powers
Photo: Myrabella / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, has lent his special communications powers to the keeper as he—the keeper intercepts messages from the Russian oligarch who is buying Wisconsin as a location for his “up-nort” retreat. Obviously heavily influenced by the recent “60-Minutes” portrayal of Wisconsin as helplessly under the control …
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Dialogues on Tripping the Lie Fantastic: Letters from Paris
Elvis L., CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots Mark Mamerow, Dave S., Mark O., Dennis Curley, and Geoff Carter Hey Bots, Check this out: Singing Putin: Blueberry Hill Strong and attractive… Mark M. Martial law!! Karaoke!! We must take Blueberry Hill!! –Geoff The Daily Kos: Back in 1982 I was dealing acid at …
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Kickass and Kyle’s Movie
Photo by LĂŞ Minh from Pexels By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis got a fascinating exposure to the complexity and difficult of movie making from nephew Kyle Hauseman-Stokes when Kyle and the keeper’s brother Orville visited; and Kyle showed a preliminary version of his movie about the heart-rending relationship between two …
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Kickass and DST
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, was assisting the keeper in storing the extra hour that results from the current Daylight Saving Time scheme when it was discovered that the storage space for his previous “extra” DST hours was at capacity, indicating a terrible inclination to waste time and to …
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Kickass Chooses Phyllis Rant
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in the cold sunshine of Mar. 12, 2022 to shuffle through possible subjects for his—the keeper’s daily rant—Putin’s incomprehensible war, the price of gasoline, Wisconsin’s gerrymandered legislature spitting in the face of the citizenry, incredibly arrogant Prehn forcing the continuation of …
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Kickass and Phyllis’ Art
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, will join the keeper today in assisting Phyllis as she turns Apt 523 into an art gallery to display some of the outstanding examples of her photo-art for fellow Vista West residents. It promises to be a gala event, and the keeper is wondering …
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Kickass and Ornery Silver
ABC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, in this era of “to-mask-or-not-to-mask,” passes along the keeper’s account of a sad unmasking when he–the keeper was unmasked by the cruel passage of time as not the Lone Ranger but a skinny farm kid astride the world’s orneriest Shetland pony, …
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Kickass and Woman War Screams
Julien Bryan , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, endorses the keeper’s lament that when it comes to the slaughter of women and children, war is messier than school shootings since it splinters up so much real estate. Both, however, require cultures that have permitted conditioning by the likes of …
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