Attribution: Photo by Omar Ramadan on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis were invited by Bonnie and Ed to visit with one of their granddaughters–Laila, who had expressed an interest in writing. Ever willing to talk about himself, the keeper told his story of how Ed Gein, the Plainfield grave-robbing …
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Kickass and Brain Protection
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes the keeper’s advice to not assume that simply because your brain is kicked around like a deflated soccer ball by out-of-bounds White House scrubs that it is ready to process the likes of the recent legislative hearing conducted by Senator Paul and his …
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Kickass Runs for Dogcatcher
Attribution: Morning Oregonian, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, napped as the keeper and Phyllis listened to the televised debate among the five candidates competing to represent the Democrats in the coming gubernatorial election. As he napped, Kickass dreamed that he was a candidate for dog catcher and was …
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Kickass and Surviving the Tornado
Attribution: Quincy Gordon, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Kickass and The Correspondents Dinner
Attribution: The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, wonders at the keeper’s insistence that if he had been at the recent Correspondent’s Dinner, he would have led a mid-speech walkout that would have left the orange POTUS spouting his garbage to an empty house. There is something …
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Kickass and the Band Tournament
Attribution: Photo by David Trinks on Unsplash By Bill Stokes
Kickass and the Sunrise
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper fell asleep during the Correspondents’ Dinner program just as awards were given to the reporters who wrote about the Epstein/POTUS connection. This prompting the keeper to dream about efforts to remove the wolf from grandma’s bed and caused him to …
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Kickass and Old Sunburn
Attribution: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team, E. Kraaikamp (ROB), CC BY-SA IGO 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, sympathized with the keeper as VA dermatologists probed at the keeper’s damage from the hot suns of his youth. Wrapped in his Norwegian mother’s handed-off onion-paper skin, the keeper …
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Kickass and the National Bird
Attribution: Photo by Pete Godfrey on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, noting the keeper’s reference to an old Kickass post, advises the bald eagle that its days as the national bird are as much as over and it should look for a new job, perhaps in recycling. The historical item is from July 24, 2018 …
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Kickass and the Britannicas
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, noting the keeper’s inclination to dig things up that might better remain buried, reviews the long saga of the Encyclopedia Britannica. As a symbol of knowing everything the Encyclopedia Britannica was “it”, in the keeper’s early adult years and when he scored a complete …
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Kickass and Cooking a Shore Lunch
Attribution: Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that the colorful air wafting down from Canada reminds the keeper of one of his more embarrassing–nay, “humiliating” moments, when on a Canadian fishing trip, he took it upon himself to cook the fish shore lunch for his father, Uncle Duffy and their …
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Kickass and Mom’s Coughing Genes
Attribution: Zephyris at the English-language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper having the low class to be critical of his mother for passing on to him a cough-trigger mechanism that has him barking “treed” until he is unfit company at weddings and funerals unless the ceremony …
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