Kickass and Deer Hunt Changes

The U.S. National Archives, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper finds it increasingly difficult to identify with the excitement and anticipation of the annual deer season that dominated so much of his life. From the days of his youth in the north country when the …
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Kickass and Fantasy History

Gustave Doré , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, given his combined real-virtual status, is eminently qualified to assist the keeper with his project of applying the precepts of fantasy sports to history, thereby making it not only possible but entertaining to deny the slaughter of Native Americans, the existence …
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Kickass and Phyllis Treatment

Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis have begun an intense five session radiation treatment procedure at the UW Carbone Cancer Center for Phyllis that will see them traveling to various Madison locations and then in a virtual quarantine through Dec. 7. While this circumstance …
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Kickass and Seat Heater

Photo by Tim Samuel from Pexels By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the keeper’s observation that there was once a time when it was possible, even beneficial, to establish a relationship with a personal mode of transportation simply by talking to a horse. In the early iteration of the automobile age—when under-the-hood mechanicals could be understood …
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Kickass and First Snow

\Chris j wood, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the first swirling snowflakes of the season were immediately politicized when the Repubs said that they—the snowflakes, represented the Dems’ start of a six-month long snow job to sell snow, ice, freezing wind and blizzards as the charms …
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Kickass and Veterans Day

Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper on this Day to celebrate Veteran obsolescence; and to recognize the brutal truth that there is apparently no way to make heroes out of those who might somehow defend the country against internal ignorance and rampant misinformation. It is one thing …
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Kickass in the Zoo

Photo by Jorge Salvador on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis recently found themselves as virtually the only customers in a nearby JC Penny’s department store, and left finally when it became obvious that, not only were there no customers, there were no sales clerks either. The keeper compared it …
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Kickass Rolls Down Hill

Photo by Jordan Whitt on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, aware that the keeper’s old eyes are prone to mischief, witnessed him—the keeper, puzzling over a distant scene of hillside activity that he could not identify until he used binoculars to see a dozen or so small children rolling down a grassy slope under the …
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Kickass and the Lost Prop

W.carter, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in celebrating the good-news story about the 1200-year-old dugout canoe being found and retrieved from Lake Mendota, to become the oldest retrieved watercraft in local history. And, of course, news of the event triggered a Lake Mendota memory of …
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