Channel 3000, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the keeper’s reading suggestion–Kathy Cramer’s 2016 book “The Politics of Resentment,” as a means of understanding why the Wisconsin country kids hate the city kids to the extent that they deny truth and vote against their own interests. How …
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Kickass and Cheap Seats
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, often curious as to the keeper’s decision making, was impressed with his agreeing with Phyllis’s last-minute suggestion to go see the musical “Chicago” in the big Overture barn. The only remaining available tickets meant an Everest like climb into the rarefied air of the …
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Kickass Hangs Up Hammer
Acabashi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper is resigning his position as Mr. Fixit having been humbled by the seemingly simple task of installing drawer slides in the kitchen he shares with Phyllis. The project that should have taken a few hours extended into days, …
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Kickass and Baby Bump Photo
Image by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, fresh from updating the photo showing him in the latest version of baby-bump comparisons with three granddaughter in-laws, announces that he will be selling advertising space on his “baby-bump,” on a square-inch basis and with the guarantee that ads will …
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Kickass and Baby Bump Photo
Image by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper recruited the photo artistry of Phyllis in updating the “baby bump” photo of five years ago when he posed with “expecting” granddaughter in-laws Lindsey, Ari and Becky; with the keeper’s “bump” indicating at the time that he might be pregnant …
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Kickass Has Been Hacked
בר, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the information that the keeper has apparently been “hacked” on Facebook, and since he is not sure what that means, he is appealing to Phyllis to save him from whatever nastiness is to follow. It is the keeper’s unsophisticated assumption that …
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Kickass and Winterscat Glaciers
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, supports the keeper in pointing out that Wisconsin’s glaciation era has returned, as it does every winter, and there are now great dirty glaciers at the edges of parking areas and cul-de-sacs everywhere. These annual glaciers–known as “winterscat” to the scientific community, carry the …
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Kickass Remembers Roundy
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes the keeper’s observation that it is not too far past St. Pat’s Day to remember Roundy Coughlin, the one-of-a-kind newspaper columnist who was with the State Journal when the keeper came on board there sixty-plus years ago. Roundy, with the help of his …
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Kickass and Putting on Shoes
Andreas Bohnenstengel, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, tries to assist the keeper in his campaign to make it as easy as possible for people of all ages to accept the reality of getting old no matter what their age might be, and to look in unusual corners …
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Kickass at the Chazen
David from Washington, DC, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, listens to reports from the keeper and Phyllis on their visit to the Chazen Museum of Art “reexamination” exhibit that is built around the Boston statue of Lincoln and a kneeling slave that was removed last year as part …
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Kickass and Phyllis’ Birthday
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper this morning in wishing Phyllis a very happy birthday, noting that she is much younger than the keeper, but then so is everybody. Phyllis’s young-at-heart spirit makes her chronological age meaningless. This is a woman who has hiked in every national park …
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Kickass and Caesar’s Demise
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, in doing his morning check to see if the State Capitol is still in place as a pimple on the far horizon, notes that on this ides of March day of 2023 it is indeed in place and briefly outlined …
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