Attribution: Photo by Dave Hoefler on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in updating their relationship to trees as they rode across the state with Gina and Steve for a Phyllis family reunion, remarkable for its lack of fisticuffs and shouting and its surplus of food and drink. As much as …
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Kickass Updates Photo
Attribution: Peter Paul Rubens , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, understands the desire of the keeper and Phyllis to stay current with friends by updating their profile image, and therefore offers the attached as an update. It shows them on a recent visit to the Vilas Park Zoo, and though …
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Kickass Builds an Ark
Attribution: Simon de Myle , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, aware of the keeper’s frequent misguided missions, has some doubt about his current project of building an ark as being the only possible solution to world circumstances. While it is only in the planning stage, the keeper would use …
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Kickass and House on the Bus
Attribution: 3atbulletz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, accepts the keeper’s image of the House of Reps as passengers on a runaway bus careening through switchbacks as it hurtles down the side of a steep mountain. “Who’s driving?” “Nobody.” “What about the orange man, wasn’t he driving?” “He still …
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Kickass Interviews Gerry Mander
Artwork: “Money Badger” by Michael DiMilo By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in incredulity that no member of the press has interviewed GerryMander, considering that after he was put in place by big money, places like Wisconsin became brothels for narcissistic “Johns” with perverted ideas about how to have their way …
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Kickass and Sisters
Attribution: Dietmar Rabich / Wikimedia Commons / “Vancouver (BC, Canada), Canada Place, Kanadaflagge — 2022 — 1896” / CC BY-SA 4.0 By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is happy to report that the visit of Phyllis’s Canadian sister Joan and husband Bill, was judged by the keeper as a success in that all of the sister’s numerous family members were discussed and …
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Kickass on October 16, 2023
Attribution: Photo by zenad nabil on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis as they make the following observations on Monday morning Oct.16, 2023: *The sun came up at 7:13 in Madison, WI, though nobody saw it for the clouds. *The yellow-coated crossing guard at Gammon and Tree La took up his …
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Kickass and Speaker of the House
Attribution: Utah Reps, PDM-owner, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper is in such a state of high concern over the Repub’s inability to select a speaker of the house that he has been driven to barroom poetry: THE SPEAKER Me thinks that we will never see Speaker …
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Kickass and Pocketknives
Attribution: bergsten, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that the keeper is among those knife-carrying males who inherited the pocket-knife habit from his father when it was a societal-wide practice. There existed among some of the working-class knife carriers a curious “game” whereby you could not deny another …
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Kickass and Canada Guests
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper joins Phyllis in a cooperative effort to shore up relationships between the US and Canada by hosting Phyllis’s sister and brother-in-law Joan and Bill Rewuski who live in Warman, Saskatchewan where Phyllis was born and raised. With the global inclination …
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Kickass and Norwegian Dancers
Attribution: Torvild, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, hands it off to the keeper today as he and Phyllis watched the Stoughton High School dancers perform a morning show at Vista West. It was fantastic, and it made the keeper think of his dear old Norwegian mother, and to …
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Kickass and War Worry
Attribution: Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper simply does not have worry room for the latest war, and the participants will have to conduct it in all of its stupidity without him. One war at a time is about all he can handle in the …
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