Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in congratulating Phyllis on the occasion of her “new” desk, which compliments her promotion to Supreme Commander of all matters having to do with the keeper’s life, including the current book project of “Treeson: an APOLOGIA to trees,” that looks at the …
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Kickass and the Nothing Post
darwin Bell from San Francisco, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper has nothing to say this morning, and so having said it, he ends this post and goes out for breakfast with Phyllis. Later they plan to drop over to the Cider Farm Eatery …
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Kickass and Use of Gravity
English: Staff Sgt. Clinton Firstbrook, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, aids the keeper in spreading the word that, contrary to the cliché that gravity is not a friend to the keeper’s age group, the opposite is true: it is very friendly if used properly. Now with the return …
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Kickass Resigns as a Human
Dsns.gov.ua, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is unable to help the keeper with the dilemma of continuing to accept identity as a member of the species that has the intelligence to build the most powerful weapons of destruction imaginable and then using those weapons to kill innocents in …
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Kickass and Secret Info
United States Department of Justice, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Kickass, the doorstop dog, is assisting the keeper in clearing up the matter of possibly having classified documents in his files. At some point during his three-year Army stint in Infantry intelligence units, 70 or so years ago, the Army deemed it necessary to clear …
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Kickass and January Rain
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper sipping from his first cup of coffee on a rainy January morning, sniffing with the dregs of a stubborn cold, but generally feeling smug about his good fortune in having accidentally migrated far enough south from his northern Wisconsin birthplace to …
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Kickass and MLK Bob Shephard
John Brighenti from Rockville, MD, United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper on this MLK weekend in the traditional salute to the memory of the keeper’s old Army friend Bob Shephard, from the wintery command integration on a Korean hill side to the life-long sharing …
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Kickass and Learning the Beagle Way
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, explains on behalf of the keeper that the daily post has been delayed as both Kickass and the keeper get personal instruction from a visiting beagle named Ava on how to spend the entire day napping on the softest surfaces available. Ava, who is …
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Kickass and Phyllis as Movie Maker
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, observes that it was not enough that Phyllis became the publishing gears responsible for “Treeson: an APOLOGIA to trees,” the keeper’s look back at his 35 years of newspaper column writing, she has now assumed the role of “movie maker” and authoritatively directed the …
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Kickass and Cold Recovery
Hoyabird8 at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that indications are the keeper will survive the common cold that he has been suffering from, and he would therefore like to retract the instructions he gave Phyllis to have his body bronzed and placed on a pedestal …
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Kickass and Being a Beagle
Mariano Szklanny, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper was intrigued by the report of a Japanese man who paid $23,000 to have a costume made so he could realize his dream of being a wolf. In asking Phyllis what creature the keeper might costume-up as, …
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Kickass and the Uncommon Cold
NIAID, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is avoiding the keeper‘s pitiful ploy for sympathy due to his having a cold. It has been a life-long, firmly held conviction of the keeper’s that for reasons that defy scientific evaluation, the common cold causes him more misery than it does …
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