Attribution: Phoenix7777, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis as they anticipate the weather forecast for the season’s first snow which has been predicted to be “sporadic, temporarily covering the colorful fall landscape and then melting into a slushy mess as an unpleasant harbinger of …
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Category:Social Commentary
Kickass Looks to Relocate
Attribution: Wilfred Thesiger, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along an update of the keeper and Phyllis’s efforts to relocate given their discomfort with the US’s incoming flat-earth leadership. While Phyllis’s Canada relatives did not issue a flat “no,” there was not what could be called untethered enthusiasm …
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It’s a Long Time Coming
The Pen in Hand Blog featuring Mark Mamerow
Illustration by Michael DiMilo
Kickass Gets Dream Help
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the keeper’s appreciation to Larry W and DuWayne G for their responses in helping interpret the keeper’s recent puzzling dream of getting lost on Chicago streets while chasing two dogs that had upcoming theatre obligations. In the AI sources they cited, the …
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The Pen in Hand Guide to the Movies: The A24 Way
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Out of all the countless screenplays and treatments wending their way through producers’ and investors’ offices each year, only about five hundred make it to the silver screen. These are mostly traditional studio-produced pictures. Add in independents, the cornucopia of syrupy Hallmark productions, Disney made-for-TV films, and other …
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Dialogues on the Worst of Times: Getting Up Off the Mat
Illustration by Michael DiMilo Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., and Geoff Carter November 6, 2024 Good morning bots, What so good about it?….. F! Have to type…to vent. Randoms: The one specific I wish the Dems would’ve jumped on was the economy whining. Someone, Obama…Bill Clinton, maybe some …
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Kickass Misses Photo Op
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper’s inability to run with the pack in the area of bird photography as evidenced by his latest attempt to use the super moon as a backdrop for Canada goose photos. (Please take note Phyllis and friend Harry, both skilled photog freaks!) …
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Dialogues on Gone in Sixty Seconds: Deportation Desperation
Attribution: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Department of Homeland Security), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., and Geoff Carter Trump sign o’ the times. Just got back from changing a flat tire on my daughter’s car. She was stranded on 24th and Pierce (across …
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Kickass and Animal Messages
Attribution: Scot Campbell, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, exercising his unique abilities to intercept communications of all kinds, passes along the following: To the sheep: “New dogs—with long legs and sharp teeth, will be replacing the border collies and will herd you with a …
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Kickass and Civilization History
Attribution: Thomas Shahan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in wondering if it will be something like the great pyramids, a buried terracotta army, giant Easter Island type stone figures or something else that future anthropologists find to prove that the present “civilization” did indeed exist …
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Suckers and Losers
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Seventy-five million and counting. This is the number of citizens who just voted to elect Donald Trump as our 47thpresident. Like P.T. Barnum once said, I guess there is a sucker born every minute. These guys gobbled up Trump’s bombastic rhetoric, hate speech, racist dogma, and false promises …
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Kickass and Old Love
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper is celebrating the 6th anniversary of his traveling to Arizona to kidnap Phyllis in her own car to come and live with him in Wisconsin at a time in their lives when falling can be a hazard unless it is falling in …
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