Dimitri N. (DimiTalen, DimiCalifornia), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, assists the keeper in expressing his deep appreciation for the wonderful 90th birthday bash that his clan produced in Mazomanie Saturday. They all did an outstanding job, and they have plans for a repeat performance on 9/11/31 when the keeper hits …
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Kickass Marks 9/11 and 90
Selena N. B. H. from Fayetteville, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that on this date–9/11– forever marked by death, the keeper celebrates 90 years of life with an open house birthday party at the Promenade in downtown Mazomanie where he will give away books he has …
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Kickass and 90 Degree Party
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in his amazement at how the keeper’s family, in planning for his 90th birthday party Saturday afternoon outside on the Mazomanie Promenade, managed to arrange for a predicted, age-matching, 90-degree temperature! (EVERYONE–vaccinated–is invited starting about 2p.m. Free food, free books and “Naked …
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Kickass and Divestiture
Shadwwulf at English Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is really not much help to the keeper as he—the keeper, works at divesting himself of the items from his long “collector” life by passing off the treasures/junk to his heirs: Which one, for example, gets the skeleton deer …
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Kickass Gets a Sundial
Rama, CC BY-SA 3.0 FR, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper does his best to control the universal human urge to buy things just to have them, but is likely to succumb to advertisements for the Kala Pocket Sundial to replace his wrist watch. In fact, the prospect …
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Kickass and Smart Cars
FaceMePLS from The Hague, The Netherlands, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that repeated indignities heaped upon him by a vehicle that is light years ahead of him technologically and intellectually, has prompted the keeper to the diversionary tact of unearthing old vehicular information, such as the method …
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Kickass Remembers Labor and John
Royalbroil, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, indulges the keeper yet again in sorting through Labor Day memories of how the keeper’s old fishing pal John Lawton routinely put an early end to magical Wolf River trout weekends by returning to Madison’s Labor Temple to give a holiday speech …
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Kickass Unionizes Social Media
WisPolitics.com, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, will be assisting the keeper on this Labor Day weekend in unionizing those—including himself, who frequent social platforms, like this one; and as a first condition asks for the elimination of comments about the stupidity of others, which should reduce the platform …
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Kickass and Wisconsin News
Scochran4, CC BY 3.0 US, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, finding no restrictions against mixing fact and fiction, casts aside the journalistic demand for truth that prevailed during his long newspaper career, and offers the following Wisconsin news roundup: *Fred Prehn, the most painful dentist in Wisconsin, …
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Kickass Deep in the Heart of Texas
Lardyfatboy, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper remembers about a hundred years ago when he was the Lone Ranger riding an ornery little pony named Silver to bring in the small herd of family milk cows while singing cowboy songs, one of which was “Deep …
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Kickass Tells a Bar Room Story
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes on a story from the keeper: Johnson, Vos and Gableman walk into a bar, and the bartender asks for their order. Johnson requests an “old fashioned with muddled tax breaks for the rich.” Vos asks for “beer in a securely covered stein to …
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Kickass and Phyllis Back on the Trail
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the keeper’s report that, as everyone knew she would, Phyllis sailed through her Monday hip replacement surgery as if it were nothing more than a pedicure. As a woman who has hiked in every National Park in the US and has the …
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