Kickass and River Birthday Party

Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the family did a bang-up job with a pre birthday celebration for the keeper’s  93rd birthday which occurs 9/11/31. Hosted by Rick and Becky and Mike at their river side digs, the event featured limitless stories from the keeper’s four sons about their growing-up …
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Kickass and Minnesota Grudge

Attribution: Lorie Shaull, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, who grew up in the shadow of Minnesota, was going for the record in grudge holding against the gopher state over the Minneapolis student nurse who threw him over for a medical intern as the keeper …
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Kickass Takes Day Off

Attribution: VOA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper in pawing through possible subject matter on this day of Sept. 5, 2024 noted the following:             Two teachers and two students dead in Georgia school shooting.             Four shot to death while sleeping on the Chicago El.             Fresh …
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Kickass and Walking to School

Attribution: Don O’Brien from Piketon, Ohio, United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, accompanies the keeper as he walks the mile and a half to the country school.             Up Swans hill and past the fields where big-eared jackrabbits sometimes leaped from hiding and loped off like dancers.             Feeling …
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Kickass and Windshield Survey

Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis are on deck this post Labor Day weekend with the results of a state-of-the-state report based on an extensive central Wisconsin windshield survey.             *Rain needed–Corn and bean fields showing distress with pointed and discolored leaves.             *Trees peaking out …
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Kickass and Corporate Labor Day

Attribution: Richard Hurd from Leland, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis wonder on this Labor Day weekend how corporations, having been judged by the Supine Court to be “people” for political purposes, will be celebrating? Will the corporations gather their loved ones …
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Kickass and Ingle with One Arm

Attribution: Gail Leenstra, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in acknowledging the Paralympic Games now underway in Paris, with remembering life- long friend Ingle who lost an arm as a result of a boyhood accident. As a fishing/golfing companion Ingle bested the keeper on a regular …
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Kickass and Life-Saving Bra

Attribution: Saigon Soul, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, prompted by another writer’s account of a dangerously stupid swimming decision, vividly remembers after all this time the night he jumped into the closed and dark Barron swimming pool with friends, apparently forgetting that as a …
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Kickass and Lost Watch

Attribution: Photo by Patrick Hawlik on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that as the keeper works at doing his part on the exciting world stage he is often distracted by personal issues that tend to take precedent and detract from his otherwise valuable cultural contributions. Most recently the keeper lost his watch, and though …
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