Kickass and the Log-Walk to School

Attribution: Joshua Mayer from Madison, WI, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper coming late to the competition for the toughest walk to school–uphill and into the wind both ways, amends his entry to include the log walk into time. This did not involve just …
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Kickass and the Cherry Trees

Attribution: Андрей Романенко, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, in utilizing trees for territorial marking purposes, recognizes their importance in meaningful communication. It is therefore easy for him to understand just how upset the keeper and Phyllis are over the news of a hundred or so 60-year-old cherry trees …
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Kickass and Phyllis’s Dancing School

Photo provided by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper announces the tentative opening of the Phyllis School of Impromptu Dance and Acrobatics after her recent spectacular demonstration.  It began as Phyllis was pivoting with a handful of books, whereupon she executed a partial reverse rotation, stepped off-balance past the …
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Kickass and the Body Camera Fiasco

Attribution: Photo by Junior REIS on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper ready with an explanation as to why such an enlightened city as Madison has yet to provide its police force with body cameras. The keeper has learned that it is all due to an early misunderstanding regarding the true function of …
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Kickass and the Has-Beens

Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper did a little turn-back-the-clock number with the kind help of friends Ken and Joel with a lunch gathering of current “has-beens,” a group that has been in existence since before Pat Lucy left Wisconsin to become ambassador to Mexico. The …
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Kickass and Moon Over Mazo

Photo provided by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis, noting the recent Sturgeon Moon machinations, thank the keeper’s grandson Andy for sending along a photo by “Lindsey’s cousin” of the moon’s performance over the Mazomanie house the keeper and his family members built 25 years ago and …
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Kickass and Canadian Toilet Paper

Attribution: Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that it was as inevitable as the sunrise that the keeper passed along critical information about the toilet paper issue, specifically how it might be influenced by what goes on between the US and Canada. Many Canadian trees are cut …
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Kickass, Dolly, and the Dummy

Attribution: RCA Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, takes this official Dog Day to make the point with the keeper and Phyllis that with the sad passing of Dolly Parton and the constant insane blather by the orange squatter in the White House, a perfect example of contrasting …
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Kickass and Authentic Stupidity

Attribution: Johann Baptist Zimmermann, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that the keeper is finally making his move to join the innovating AI tech billionaires with his creation of “AS” a platform of “Authentic Stupidity” gathered, processed and offered to an eager public. In explaining “AS” to Phyllis, …
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Kickass and Other Species

Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis still immersed in yesterday’s post about the cougar cut in half on the railroad tracks in Adams County. Kickass responders speculated that the reason the heart and lungs had been removed was to prevent the identification of bullet fragments, …
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Kickass and the Railroad Cougar

Attribution: Photo by Michael Jerrard on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, with a special feeling for cats, passes along to the keeper and Phyllis the news of a cougar found cut in half on the railroad tracks near Friendship in Adams County.  The big cat was an adult male wearing a Michigan tracking collar from …
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