WeaponizingArchitecture, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, laments, along with the keeper, that of the countless issues thar require lamenting, near the top of the list has to be the renaming of the Oscar Mayer advertising vehicle from “Weinermobile” to “Frankmobile.” Is nothing sacred!!! This uncalled-for corporate move obviously …
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Kickass and Memorial Day 2023
Photo by Brittany Colette on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog and the keeper, on this 2023 Memorial Day, salutes all of those who dodged bullets in the cause of preserving respectability at home and abroad through the years. As usual in the keeper’s experience he is moved to remember the two platoon members from Michigan …
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Kickass and Farm Stench
Attribution: Julian P Guffogg / Manure Heaps in field; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Manure_Heaps_in_field_-geograph.org.uk-_1217127.jpg By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, with a keener sense of smell than the keeper, agrees that there are sensory shocks to be had now in traveling across the glory of spring in Wisconsin. All can be sweetness and beauty when all of a sudden the …
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Kickass Writes Ode to Trees
Attribution: Joshua Ganderson from Austin, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, steps back from his efforts to promote the keeper’s book “Treeson: an APOLOGIA to Trees,” and offers the following: ODE FROM A DOG TO THE TREES Now that you are all leafed out, You’re glorious things, no …
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Kickass and Dumbing it Forward
Shakib khan, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in suggesting that the U.S. as a leader in global dumbing-down, needs to share some of its more successful dumbing-down techniques: 1. Give unlimited media attention to performing idiots spouting sheer inanity. 2. Stick with malfunctioning governmental structures until they …
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Kickass and Older Drivers
Mick Tinbergen tintels, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along information that the keeper’s campaign to have a driver’s age shown in big numbers on the side of his or her vehicle is not finding a lot of traction, perhaps due to resistance from his own age group. The …
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Kickass Talks to Doug re: Treeson
Graphic by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis are on the road again as the keeper joins Doug Moe at “Mystery to Me” book store on Monroe street tonight at 6 p.m to discuss the international implications of the keeper’s recent book “Treeson: an APOLOGIA to …
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Kickass and John Muir
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in sending a brief message to John Muir, wherever he might be: “John: “It is a glorious Sunday–May 21, 2023, and we are here at the lake on your old farmstead in Marquette county; and it is so blissfully …
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Kickass and Sharing the Trail
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the information from the keeper that when he and Phyllis hiked the trail around Middleton’s Tiedeman Pond it included a blackbird lesson on territorial claims as an irritated male redwing rode on the back of a sandhill crane on the trail just …
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Kickass and Phyllis’s Cancer
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis today in celebrating the “No Evidence of Disease” report regarding Phyllis’ cancer condition. Is this is a great day or what!!!!! Photo by Bill Stokes See more at… The Bill Stokes Author Page
Kickass and Doug Moe
Graphic by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes “Treeson” is an apology to all the trees that went into making the newsprint to carry the author’s “drivel” to readers of The Chicago Tribune, Milwaukee Journal, Wisconsin State Journal and Stevens Point Daily Journal over a 35-year newspaper career back when newspapers mattered. It uses some of …
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Kickass and Swimsuit Issue
Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that as a co-editor of the “Breeze” the Vista West residents’ newsletter, he is promoting a “swimsuit” issue, inspired, of course, by Martha Stewart’s appearance, at 81 years old, in the “Sports Illustrated” …
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