Attribution: dave_7 from Lethbridge, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes with the keeper and Phyllis that occasionally there will be a Facebook post that sends one or the other of them hurtling back through the decades. Such was the case for the keeper when the Model T …
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Kickass Welcomes April 13th
Attribution: Photo by Daiga Ellaby on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in welcoming the day: “Hello April 13, 2025! “It is great to have you whatever you are–at the moment a bit hazy and overcast. “We know the feeling and assure you that burning off the haze and getting to …
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Kickass Asks Questions
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, has never eaten anyone’s homework nor chewed the cover off a banned book, but he is volunteering to assist the keeper and Phyllis in dealing with their current list of outrageous questions which includes the following: *Is there no stopping the utter madness of …
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Kickass and Sixth Anniversary
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, cheers on the keeper and Phyllis as they celebrate their 6th wedding anniversary with a Vietnamese dinner at Pho Nam where Phyllis drank from a coconut and the keeper demonstrated anew that he will never master eating noodles using chopsticks. In their Vista West crowd, …
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Kickass and Two Phyllises
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, tries to be helpful as the keeper continues to struggle with a double vision condition as a result of his macular degeneration. In trying to put a positive spin on it, the keeper notes the benefit of seeing two images of Phyllis. While he …
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Kickass and Mallard Invader
Attribution: Commonists, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that as the keeper and Phyllis and a roomful of other Vista West residents were gathered for a “Happy hour” meeting Tuesday afternoon there was an attempt by an outsider to invade the premises via a backdoor. Approaching through the …
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Kickass and Ambulance Call
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that the keeper and Phyllis live five floors over the entrance of Vista West where they look down at the parking circle used by the frequent emergency vehicles. There is one there now, an ambulance that came howling off Gilbert Road with red …
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Kickass and POTUS Eviction
Photo by Geoff Carter By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes, along with the keeper, Phyllis and thousands of Sunday’s “Hands Off” demonstrators, that having made their feelings known they will now demand that the most recent POTUS election be declared null and void on the grounds of illegal vote buying, easily proven by …
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Kickass and No First Dog
Attribution: Photo by charlesdeluvio on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis and the entire citizenry on this April 5, 2025 to message the demented chief herding mutt that he is not qualified to take the herd down the road to greener pastures and he needs to turn himself in to the …
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Kickass and Bill Veeck
Attribution: US Marine Corps, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reminds the keeper that the baseball season is off and running and it is time for his annual lament about the editor who, to the keeper’s consternation, cut Bill Veeck’s wooden leg out of one of the keeper’s Tribune …
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Kickass and Tariffs
Attribution: Michael Coghlan from Adelaide, Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, bypasses the keeper and Phyllis in offering his own canine explanation of just how the orange poodle’s tariff system works: “First, consider the world to be a big tree which all of the male dogs have been …
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Kickass Thanks Elon
Attribution: DonkeyHotey, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, having forever marked Wisconsin as his territory, joins the keeper and Phyllis in sending a thank-you note to Elon for his generous participation in the recent state supreme court election won by Susan Crawford: “Elon: “Thank you so much for helping …
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