Trailer screenshot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, considering all the blah-blah about suspending the Constitution, is working with the keeper to have the Ten Commandments suspended in the interest of cleaning up his–the keeper’s record enough so that, if he should ever be so inclined, he could apply …
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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 Pen in Hand Guide to the Movies: The Hidden Worlds of Amy Adams
Attribution: Gordon Correll, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter Amy Adams can be as brilliant and transparent as a freshly polished glass figurine or as dark and unknowable as a forest pool. She is an actress of startling range who can switch from the exuberant innocence of Giselle, the cartoon princess of Enchanted, to …
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Kickass and Sunday Morning Thoughts
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along a few of the keeper’s random Sunday morning thoughts: *Driving out to Mazo for Mary Beth’s coffee and fresh beignets at “Basecamp”will get you doused in powdered sugar and save you a trip to New Orleans. *Listening to a recent Hillary interview …
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The Pen in Hand Guide to Spinning Classic Christmas Vinyl
Photo by The Retro Store on Unsplash By Geoff Carter (Originally posted in December 2019) While the Couch Potato will always be slavishly devoted to his TV home entertainment center, this week he will be putting down the universal remote in order to turn his focus solely on another entertainment form—music. Part of the reason for this departure …
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Kickass and The Christmas Poem
Kelvin Kay, en:user:kkmd, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, naps through the following: As a man of quiet and reason, The keeper sees this season Fraught with troubles and woes, Total dumbness wherever he goes. People buying things they don’t need, If it isn’t essential, it must be greed. …
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Kickass and Dining at Otto’s
Willis Lam, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, tries to make the point with the keeper that all things are relative, and if he persists with his “back in my day” ranting, even more of the populace will dismiss him as hopelessly lost in the fog of the past. …
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Dialogues on Waking Up: Can You See the Real Me?
Photo by HH58, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Mark M., Dave S., Mark O., Dennis C., Paul C., and Geoff Carter Speaking of “canceling” and “wokeness”. It’s my observation that the most sensitive social group and the one most prone to outrage & condemnation of anyone who even remotely disagrees with …
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Kickass and Staying Inside
Attribution: Camera Eye Photography, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, having ventured out yesterday in the wind that was so biting cold it ripped his clothes off and left him shivering naked, is announcing that he will not be going outside again until May of …
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What’s It Going to Take?
Artwork by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter What’s it Going to Take? On November 19th, a 22-year-old gunman killed five and wounded seventeen at Club Q, an LGBTQ in Colorado Springs using a semi-automatic rifle and a handgun, both so-called “ghost guns” with no serial numbers. What’s it going to take? How many more must …
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Kickass and the “Talker”
Joshua Sherurcij, Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is supporting the keeper in his efforts to introduce the “talker,” a device designed to do for talking what the “walker” does for walking for members of his age group. As the “walker” prevents users from falling, the “talker” would prevent them …
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Kickass and No Money Sense
Katrina.Tuliao, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper appreciates the extreme act of kindness displayed by Phyllis’s financial advisor in not laughing at the keeper’s abject money ignorance until the keeper had left the room. Lacking the good judgement to keep his mouth shut, the keeper …
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