Bowman Gum, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in celebrating yet one more All-Star game day by remembering the one 70 years ago in Cincinnati when he and a friend, both just back from Korea, became impromptu members of an RKO Movie News crew with pre-game …
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Kickass Takes on Football
B, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, agrees with the keeper that the saturation of football in American culture is little improvement over the collective coliseum days of Rome, and in some respects is justifiably compared to dog and cock fighting as organized spectator sports. Structured by billionaire overlord …
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Kickass is Not a Coach
Apyanac, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, waits while the keeper recalculates what his life might have been had he chose to go into coaching and then had the good fortune to rise to the top collegiate and professional ranks: As per recent UW news, he would have a …
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The Hall of Shame
MN National Guard, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons I grew up in Wisconsin. One of my first childhood memories is sitting in the living room in front of an eighteen-inch television set watching the 1967 NFL Championship Game, better known as the Ice Bowl. I saw the final play of the game, Bart Starr’s winning …
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Kickass and Fired Coach
Maize & Blue Nation, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Kickass, the doorstop dog, is assisting the keeper in running down the rumor that, in keeping with the current trend of denying reality, particularly if it involves rejection by official means, Paul Chryst is refusing to accept his firing as UW football coach and will be …
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Kickass and Feeling Sorry for Self
David Marranis; LBJ Library, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Kickass, the doorstop dog, cannot control the keeper’s inclination to feel sorry for himself which was on prominent display recently when he was prevented by health circumstances from attending the Madison Library event that offered three of the major “must-attend” ingredients: Something free—a book, invigorating discussion, …
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Dialogues on Victory Dancing: Letters from the End Zone
Tennessee Titans, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Dave S., Mark M., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter ‘bots: A break from the heavy things our conscious requires us to report on. Probably not on your radar, but I’ve been following the US team—Rose Lavelle continues to excel (UW grad)—a …
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Kickass and All-Star Pitchers
SD Dirk on Flickr, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper was impressed with the interaction of star pitcher Clayton Kershaw and the boy who visited him yesterday at the Allstar game press conference on behalf of a deceased grandfather who, the boy said, was a …
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Kickass and Cemetery Golf Course
Attribution: kevin higgins / Graveyard and golf course Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, in skirting some area golf courses to entertain Phyllis’s visiting golfer brother-in-law Bill, did not push his-the keeper’s plan for converting tomb-stone covered cemeteries into golf courses in the interest of updating the …
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Kickass and Phyllis Watching Hockey
Phwayne, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is not impressed as the keeper tries to make something out of Canada’s women’s hockey team beating the US team 3-2 to win Olympic gold by using former UW players in a game that the keeper’s Canadian-born wife Phyllis stayed up past …
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Kickass and Iditarod Sleigh Ride
Alaska Region U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, assists the keeper in accepting the reality of a postponed sleigh ride—not enough snow–that he and Phyllis were scheduled to enjoy, by comparing it to the experience of Alaskan Bridgett Watkins who was attacked by a moose …
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Kickass and Eating Sandhill Cranes
Dori, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in passing along word that the Wisconsin legislature sets a sterling example of how to relax in the face of extreme duress as it responds to Sen. Mary Felzkowski’s recent invitation to gather in her office to enjoy sandhill …
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