Paramount Pictures, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the information that as flood warnings prevail over the weekend, the keeper is offering to swap his spot on the ark for a bottle of Korbel brandy. A long life of boat miseries convinces him that he does not …
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Kickass and Ron and Bear
Photo by Rawan Yasser on Unsplash Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper happened to see parking lot action involving fellow Vista West resident Ron and two young women that he—the keeper did not understand at the time to be a final hand-off. Later he shared an elevator ride with Ron who commented matter-of-factly that …
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Kickass and News Dumpster
Justus Hayes from Vancouver, Canada, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, agrees with the keeper that the real negative aspect of someone like Alex Jones being thrown into the daily news dumpster is that it is already full of the denial/conspiracy crowd garbage, and it is really beginning to smell …
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A Patch of Blue
By Geoff Carter Artwork by Michael DiMilo These past few years have not been good for America. A deliberately planned insurrection at the Capitol Building on January 6th, 2021 nearly resulted in a successful coup. A million Americans died (a significant number of them needlessly) during the Covid pandemic—which is even now still lingering in …
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Kickass and Bigmouth
Gnashes30, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in replacing the ubiquitous “Bigfoot” stream of nonsense with one called “Bigmouth” which will be headquartered in Wisconsin with unlimited expansion possibilities to other states …
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Kickass and Rouge Tomato
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is on board as the keeper and Phyllis celebrate the UW Carbone Center’s confirmation of Phyllis’s cancer still being in remission, by sharing the rouge tomato from Phyllis’s garden at Vista West. Just why one tomato got way out ahead of the others is …
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Kickass Resigns as Manager
National Photo Company Collection, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis are apparently in that population dynamic—old with modest disposable income, that potential marketers view as prime territory judging by the avalanche of junk mail they send. Recently the keeper received a thick 850-page catalog …
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The Pen in Hand’s Fifty Best Films of All Time
Marianna Amill, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter This week, just for fun, I’ve decided to compile a ranked list of what I very subjectively consider to be the best fifty films of all time. After all, everyone likes a list, right? Now, because there’s only room for fifty films and these picks are …
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Kickass and Steel Pan Band
Photo: The original uploader was Andrewa at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis considered the history of it, and then did their own interpretation of the Toco Beach Steel Pan performance at the East Side Club grounds on the Lake Monona …
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Kickass at Atwood Fest
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis, and Phyllis’s granddaughter Taylor were among those who spent part of a perfect summer Saturday afternoon on the four-block stretch of “Atwood Fest.” It will be scored as time well spent: strolling past the weekend merchants of frivolity …
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Kickass and Packaging
User:Nino Barbieri, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along the keeper’s carefully researched conclusion that the end of the “civilized” world will not come from running out of water or food, or by crashing into another planet, or by burning up in wildfires, or by drowning in floods, …
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Kickass and the Recount
Photo by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, is not sure the keeper is in a good place as he—the keeper recalls, and then requests a re-do of the election for prom king of the class of ‘49 at Barron High School. It had been a two-way contest between the keeper and …
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