Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along a few of the keeper’s random Sunday morning thoughts: *Driving out to Mazo for Mary Beth’s coffee and fresh beignets at “Basecamp”will get you doused in powdered sugar and save you a trip to New Orleans. *Listening to a recent Hillary interview …
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Kickass and The Christmas Poem
Kelvin Kay, en:user:kkmd, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, naps through the following: As a man of quiet and reason, The keeper sees this season Fraught with troubles and woes, Total dumbness wherever he goes. People buying things they don’t need, If it isn’t essential, it must be greed. …
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Kickass and Dining at Otto’s
Willis Lam, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, tries to make the point with the keeper that all things are relative, and if he persists with his “back in my day” ranting, even more of the populace will dismiss him as hopelessly lost in the fog of the past. …
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Kickass and Staying Inside
Attribution: Camera Eye Photography, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, having ventured out yesterday in the wind that was so biting cold it ripped his clothes off and left him shivering naked, is announcing that he will not be going outside again until May of …
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Kickass and the “Talker”
Joshua Sherurcij, Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is supporting the keeper in his efforts to introduce the “talker,” a device designed to do for talking what the “walker” does for walking for members of his age group. As the “walker” prevents users from falling, the “talker” would prevent them …
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Kickass and No Money Sense
Katrina.Tuliao, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper appreciates the extreme act of kindness displayed by Phyllis’s financial advisor in not laughing at the keeper’s abject money ignorance until the keeper had left the room. Lacking the good judgement to keep his mouth shut, the keeper …
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Kickass and “Treeson”
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, tries to be helpful as the keeper and Phyllis go about proofing “Treeson,” the keepers “Apologia to the trees” that went to make the paper for printing his 35 or so years of newspaper drivel. The 275-page book, with a striking cover design by Phyllis, …
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Kickass and the Canadian Fruitcake
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joined the keeper in pretty much staying out of the way as Phyllis went into her annual fruit cake making mode, combining a most interesting collection of colorful elements and beginning the procedure that concludes with long-term soaking in a tasty alcoholic beverage, something …
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Kickass and Playing Scrabble
thebarrowboy, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, was an innocent spectator as the scrabble game see-sawed back and forth with first the keeper in the lead only to fall behind as Phyllis used six tiles in a word that required rule-book justification. The game went down to the very …
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Kickass and the Dumb Turkey
Photo by Claudio Schwarz on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, assists the keeper with the following: Don’t know if you’ve heard That being a bird Can go lots of ways With honors and days. Some are here for the eggs they lay Others to make Col. Sander’s day. One bird is the …
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Kickass and Phyllis Remission
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in celebrating a pre-Thanksgiving checkup visit Monday with Dr. Rose at the UW Carbone Cancer Center with continuation of the “REMISSION” report for Phyllis. So what else matters? Eat lots of turkey and have a great day! See more …
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Kickass and Old Siblings
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, shares the residual pleasure of a recent meeting of the keeper’s siblings and others in a display of defying the odds and getting old, really old in the keeper’s case. Hosted by niece Elizabeth and Huck, the event brought the keeper, his sister Norma …
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