Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, would see the keeper’s memory bank in the form of a landfill, except that it predates such garbage-handling progress and goes back to the days of rat-infested dumps where anything could be deposited to …
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Category:Wisconsin
Kickass and Getting Home
Kevin Halstead from Chicago, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, awaiting his lifetime award for hanging with the keeper through thick and thin—thinner and thinnest, reports that he—the keeper, and Phyllis are using some of Wisconsin’s natural attributes to assist them through the Covid isolation that followed their …
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Kickass and Great Day in Madison
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the door stop dog, notes that Saturday was one of those days in Madison when the keeper and his ilk celebrated the sheer joy of being alive: proms, graduations, photo sessions beneath blossoming trees, strolls down State Street, uncles in wrinkled shirts, beautiful young women in long …
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Old Guard
Photo by Geoff Carter By Geoff Carter My family is lucky enough to own lakefront property in Northern Wisconsin. We’ve been going there for over fifty years, ever since my brothers and I were children. My mother would pile us into our red VW bug on the first day of summer vacation, drive for five hours, …
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Kickass and the Trees
Maud Newton, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in noting the trees, huddled now in late April on the hills in skeletal nudity, but beginning to offer tender buds to buy the leafy/lace green gowns to take them dancing extravagantly through the long …
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Kickass and Disney Characters
Photo by Guillermo GR on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, in his eagerness to be helpful, is pointing out Wisconsin job opportunities to the Disney characters who are losing their Florida jobs for saying certain words, like “stupid, dumb, outrageous, unbelievable, racist, homophobic and constipated.” GOOFY: You are …
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Kickass and Chicken Memories
Otuo-Akyampong Boakye, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports no official progress on the keeper’s request to keep a small flock of chickens on the balcony of the 5th floor Vista West apartment, where he and Phyllis live; but the word about potential chicken dinners may be out with avian …
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Kickass and Prosser Choking
Royalbroil, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, fresh from blaming the lousy spring weather on the cats, now sees the upside-down condition of the justice system, the prevalence of legislative gerrymandered minority rule, and the resulting paralysis of the executive branch, all due to application …
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Kickass Tackles the Weather
Liz Sales, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper has decided to defy the old saw that everyone complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. His plan of “doing something,” has its base in the human capacity for enduring outright, wholesale stupidity as it …
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Kickass and Perfect Spring Day
Photo by Phyllis Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis, wondered, with rest of the populace, what they did to deserve Mar. 20, 2022 with its first-day-of-spring perfection. In the warm hours of its sunny brilliance, there was an invitation to do something as participatory and extraneous as the …
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Kickass and Robin Vos
Jongsun Lee, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that once again it has fallen to the keeper to intercept some of the communications from unusual sources, most recently the petition from the robins, now flocking back into the state by the thousands from southern environs, which demands that …
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Kickass and Special Communication Powers
Photo: Myrabella / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, has lent his special communications powers to the keeper as he—the keeper intercepts messages from the Russian oligarch who is buying Wisconsin as a location for his “up-nort” retreat. Obviously heavily influenced by the recent “60-Minutes” portrayal of Wisconsin as helplessly under the control …
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