Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that as a photo-artist, Phyllis works at performing visual miracles with her photos, as well as with those of the keeper, who operates with the photo philosophy that if he takes enough shots of the same subject, one of them may turn out …
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Kickass and Indecent Senators
Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, would see the keeper’s memory bank in the form of a landfill, except that it predates such garbage-handling progress and goes back to the days of rat-infested dumps where anything could be deposited to …
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Kickass and Naked Gardening
Tainted Fruit, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, having successfully assisted Phyllis in negotiating “Naked Gardening Day” back in May, is offering his help as “Naked Bike Riding Day” is followed by “Naked Hiking Day,” marking activities that Phyllis once participated in—fully clothed, of course. …
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Kickass and Father’s Day Leftovers
Koburg, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in a Father’s Day leftover that cites the area of useless things fathers taught their offspring; in the keeper’s case that would be harnessing a team of work horses, which was, of course not useless at the time, the keeper …
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Kickass and Father’s Day
Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that if the book of fathers is ever written, its title should be something like “Flying on Empty” or maybe “Brain Surgery Using Chopsticks,” pointing to the verity that no father in history has ever had a complete grasp of just …
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Kickass and POOF
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, having something of an ancestral history with packs, understands the keeper’s desire to form a pack to counter the inane “Proud Boys” pack now emerging as the lead hyenas in the Jan. 6 democracy herd take-down attempt. Recently freed from the burden of feeling …
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Kickass and Fruit Fly Travel
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper’s Covid timeout has enhanced his efforts to see his recent mountains/glacier travels with Phyllis in a more natural context, perhaps like that of a couple of fruit flies emerging from nowhere to seek some of life’s vague sweetness. If there …
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Kickass and Covid Quarantine
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the Covid isolation for the keeper and Phyllis is going as well as that sort of thing can go: the keeper defines it as waiting for “green” at one of life’s arbitrary traffic lights; Phyllis fills the waiting time with soup-making and …
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Kickass and Getting Home
Kevin Halstead from Chicago, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, awaiting his lifetime award for hanging with the keeper through thick and thin—thinner and thinnest, reports that he—the keeper, and Phyllis are using some of Wisconsin’s natural attributes to assist them through the Covid isolation that followed their …
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Kickass and Travel Escapades
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, apologizes for tardiness in reporting the latest in the travel escapades of the keeper and Phyllis, but there were unforeseen developments that threw everything off kilter: They are finally back home after a harrowing escape from Canada during which border officials confiscated yet one …
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Kickass and Canadian Friends
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports a pause in the mountain-glacier chase of the Keeper and Phyllis to visit Phyllis’s friend Sheila and her husband Patrick, and brother Albert, who is in Calgary for a wedding. That Canadian-born Phyllis has friends and family here is not surprising of course, nor …
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Kickass and Lake Louise Redo
Wilson Hui from Calgary, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that there is no doubt that the genius of the Keeper and Phyllis’ mountain and glacier chase has been reached as they settle into a luxurious room at Chateau Lake Louise overlooking the spectacular lake nestled in …
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