Photo by Rawan Yasser on Unsplash Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper happened to see parking lot action involving fellow Vista West resident Ron and two young women that he—the keeper did not understand at the time to be a final hand-off. Later he shared an elevator ride with Ron who commented matter-of-factly that …
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Kickass and News Dumpster
Justus Hayes from Vancouver, Canada, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, agrees with the keeper that the real negative aspect of someone like Alex Jones being thrown into the daily news dumpster is that it is already full of the denial/conspiracy crowd garbage, and it is really beginning to smell …
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Kickass and Bigmouth
Gnashes30, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in replacing the ubiquitous “Bigfoot” stream of nonsense with one called “Bigmouth” which will be headquartered in Wisconsin with unlimited expansion possibilities to other states …
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Kickass and Rouge Tomato
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is on board as the keeper and Phyllis celebrate the UW Carbone Center’s confirmation of Phyllis’s cancer still being in remission, by sharing the rouge tomato from Phyllis’s garden at Vista West. Just why one tomato got way out ahead of the others is …
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Kickass Resigns as Manager
National Photo Company Collection, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis are apparently in that population dynamic—old with modest disposable income, that potential marketers view as prime territory judging by the avalanche of junk mail they send. Recently the keeper received a thick 850-page catalog …
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Kickass and Steel Pan Band
Photo: The original uploader was Andrewa at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis considered the history of it, and then did their own interpretation of the Toco Beach Steel Pan performance at the East Side Club grounds on the Lake Monona …
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Kickass at Atwood Fest
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis, and Phyllis’s granddaughter Taylor were among those who spent part of a perfect summer Saturday afternoon on the four-block stretch of “Atwood Fest.” It will be scored as time well spent: strolling past the weekend merchants of frivolity …
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Kickass and Packaging
User:Nino Barbieri, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the keeper’s carefully researched conclusion that the end of the “civilized” world will not come from running out of water or food, or by crashing into another planet, or by burning up in wildfires, or by drowning in floods, …
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Kickass and the Recount
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is not sure the keeper is in a good place as he—the keeper recalls, and then requests a re-do of the election for prom king of the class of ‘49 at Barron High School. It had been a two-way contest between the keeper and …
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Kickass and Phyllis at the Wheel
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that Phyllis is back behind the wheel, having taken a two-year break following the head-on collision in Cross Plains that fractured ten of her ribs and one vertebra and deeply slashed a finger. The keeper—four broken ribs, had been driving at the time and …
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Kickass and Faulkner
Cephas, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, cooperated with the keeper in researching William Faulkner’s “The Bear” short story, thinking that there might be some information helpful in pointing to the bear hound training travesty now occurring in the North woods of Wisconsin, and ONLY in Wisconsin, therefore attracting hounders …
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Kickass and the iPhone
Photo by Kostiantyn Li on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper will no longer be dominated and humiliated by his “GD” iPhone; and if you want to talk to him, come to where he lives. He is fed up with calls from people selling things, and he is tired …
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