Category:Wisconsin

Kickass and More Going Home Again

Posted on Updated on by Bill StokesCategories:Aging, Humor, Kickass, Memories, Wisconsin

Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper continuing to wallow in the “going home” experience of revisiting his boyhood haunts in Wisconsin’s Barron County, of standing in the exact spots where he experienced the wonderful ups and downs of pre-fledging days—getting bucked off his pony, cranking at a …
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Kickass and Old Haunts

Posted on Updated on by Bill StokesCategories:Aging, Humor, Kickass, Wisconsin

Attribution: Photo by Peter Werkman on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the word that the keeper and Phyllis will be joining son Mike and granddaughter Sarah to travel north to some of the keeper’s old haunts just to see if they have recovered from the damage incurred by his youthful excesses. A full report will …
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The Pen in Hand Guide to the Movies: Lost in the Library

Posted on Updated on by Geoff CarterCategories:Michael DiMilo, Movies, Social Commentary, Wisconsin

Photo by Geoff Carter By Geoff Carter In the present-day wonderland of streaming movies and videos available on dozens of cable channels like HBO or Apple TV, old television programs on retro TV stations like MeTV or Cozi, and platforms with huge libraries like Amazon Prime or the Criterion Channel, it seems as if every …
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Kickass and Bat in Store

Posted on Updated on by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Kickass, Nature, Wisconsin

Attribution: Source: Hasitha Tudugalle Derivative: User:MathKnight, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper has a message for the bat that was somewhere in the big barn type office supply store where the keeper and Phyllis were mortgaging their car to buy ink cartridges: “Listen up, Bat. …
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Kickass and Bear Hound Letter

Posted on Updated on by Bill StokesCategories:Animal Rights, Hunting, Kickass, Wisconsin

Attribution: California Department of Fish and Wildlife from Sacramento, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis offer the following sample letter for sending to legislators from those who are upset at learning that Wisconsin is the ONLY state allowing the outrageous “sport” …
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Kickass and the Family Tree

Posted on Updated on by Bill StokesCategories:Family, Humor, Kickass, Wisconsin

Attribution: Popular Graphic Arts, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper and Phyllis listening with interest to comments from the keeper’s granddaughter Sarah regarding some of her casual climbing around in her family tree.  The branches on her late mother Dora’s side— “Durst” show an illustrious history …
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Kickass and Farmer Fishing Days

Posted on Updated on by Bill StokesCategories:Family, Fishing, Humor, Kickass, Wisconsin

Attribution: USFWS Mountain Prairie, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is unable to restrain leakage from the keeper’s memory bag:             “On rainy summer days when the haymows were full and the corn was nearly at its knee-high-by-the 4th goal, the farmers went fishing.             “They tied cane poles to the sides …
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Kickass and ICE

Posted on Updated on by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Immigration, Kickass, Politics, Wisconsin

Attribution: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, says the keeper would like to inform the ICE gestapo goons that as a descendent of Norwegian immigrants on his mother’s side he will not be going peacefully when the loony- tune squads arrive all masked up …
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