The Pen in Hand Guide to the Movies: Review of “Logan Lucky”

Posted on Updated on by Geoff CarterCategories:Michael DiMilo, Movies

Illustration by Michael DiMilo Oceans 7 Eleven: Review of Logan Lucky ★★★☆☆ By Geoff Carter One of the benefits of streaming TV is access to lesser known independent, international, and obscure films. I like to try and keep up with the latest, but movies like A Ghost Story, Gueros, Problemista, El Conde, and Hit Man would have flown …
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Kickass and Corporate Labor Day

Posted on Updated on by Geoff CarterCategories:Holidays, Humor, Kickass, Labor

Attribution: Richard Hurd from Leland, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis wonder on this Labor Day weekend how corporations, having been judged by the Supine Court to be “people” for political purposes, will be celebrating? Will the corporations gather their loved ones …
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Dialogues on the Saga of KamaTim: Good Times at the DNC

Posted on Updated on by Geoff CarterCategories:Politics, Reproductive Rights, Social Commentary

Attribution: SecretName101, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Dave S., Mark M., Mark O., Dennis C., and Geoff Carter Dialogues on the Saga of KamaTim: Good Times at the DNC  The Harris campaign communications strategy is pretty simple, Orange Man Bad. Somebody counted (150) mentions of “Trump” in the campaign platform.People are rightly …
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Kickass and Ingle with One Arm

Posted on Updated on by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Kickass, Sports

Attribution: Gail Leenstra, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in acknowledging the Paralympic Games now underway in Paris, with remembering life- long friend Ingle who lost an arm as a result of a boyhood accident. As a fishing/golfing companion Ingle bested the keeper on a regular …
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Kickass and Life-Saving Bra

Posted on Updated on by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Kickass

Attribution: Saigon Soul, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper, prompted by another writer’s account of a dangerously stupid swimming decision, vividly remembers after all this time the night he jumped into the closed and dark Barron swimming pool with friends, apparently forgetting that as a …
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Family Values

Posted on Updated on by Geoff CarterCategories:Family, Michael DiMilo, Politics, Reproductive Rights

Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter During campaign season, the term “family values” is thrown around like confetti at a ticker-tape parade. Depending on who is using it, the term can encompass anything from banning books, condemning same-sex marriage, or reviling immigrants to lowering middle-class taxes, installing universal healthcare to extolling reproductive rights. In …
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Dialogues on Wretched Refuse: Fear and Loathing in the Old Country

Posted on Updated on by Geoff CarterCategories:Dadbots, Economy, Immigration, Social Commentary

Attribution: Photo by Ggia, dust spots/scratches removed by Kim Hansen. Edges cropped due to scan. Further restoration improvements using masks by Ggia., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Featuring the Fabulous Dadbots: Dave S., Mark M., Mark O., Dennis C., and Geoff Carter ICYMI: In the UK (3) kids were killed (stabbing), then an “SVB” bank …
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Kickass and Lost Watch

Posted on Updated on by Bill StokesCategories:Humor, Kickass

Attribution: Photo by Patrick Hawlik on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, notes that as the keeper works at doing his part on the exciting world stage he is often distracted by personal issues that tend to take precedent and detract from his otherwise valuable cultural contributions. Most recently the keeper lost his watch, and though …
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