Attribution: USMC Archives from Quantico, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in offering the following: THE MISSING HOUR Goodbye, Hour, So sour, so dour. Take your lies and git! We’re tired of your —t! You promised wealth And great good health. You gave …
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Kickass and Depression Food
Attribution: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis, in keeping with their previous plan to turn the calendar instead of the clock back to comply with the daylight savings time scheme, will see the keeper going back to the early 1930’s when …
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Kickass Saves Decency
Attribution: U.S. Department of Justice, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper and Phyllis will be doing their best to abide by this weekend’s time saving adjustment as defined by the MAGA maggots in which, not the clock but the calendar is turned back 60 years …
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Yesterday is Here: Celebrating Dia de Los Muertos
Photo by Geoff Carter By Geoff Carter We visited the beautiful resort town of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, not so long ago. Our trip happened to coincide with Dia de Los Muertos, or Day of the Dead. This holiday, celebrated on the evening of November 1st and the day of the 2nd,, is an offshoot of (but …
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Kickass and Halloween Witches
Attribution: Photo provided by Bill Stokes By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper favors Halloween as his favorite holiday for its encouragement to do totally stupid things. It can’t get any stupider than to tip over the outhouse, which was a feature of the keeper’s youthful Halloweens. The advent of modern …
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Eve of Destruction?
Illustration by Michael DiMilo By Geoff Carter Last Saturday, two days after participating in our local rendition of the No Kings March, which drew over 15,000 people in Milwaukee, I—like most Americans—was appalled and disgusted to see a backhoe tearing down the East Wing of the White House the following Monday morning. It was as …
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Kickass and Depression Baby
Attribution: Franklin D Roosevelt Library Website, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper suffering a serious case of sticker shock when he carelessly checked out of a big store with a new pair of jeans which were priced at close to what his father once paid for …
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Whistling In the Graveyard
Photo by Geoff Carter Por Dia de Los Muertos and Halloween (Originally posted on October 31, 2019) Photos by Geoff Carter By Geoff Carter While driving around running errands this last Sunday, my wife and I found ourselves in the somewhat unusual position of having some time to kill, a strange situation for us. It …
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Kickass and Killing Walleye Fishermen
Attribution: Ted Rozumalski, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, agrees with the keeper in recognizing the popularity of Wisconsin people riding around in small boats; and the apparent enjoyment the demented Trump dynasty gets by using drone weaponry to blow such boats out of the water, killing all aboard …
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Kickass and Building a House
Photo by Geoff Carter By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, passes along word that a number of the keeper and Phyllis’s family members are up to their eyeballs in various home improvement and construction projects. And while none of them have sought the keeper’s advice he offers it here along with examples showing how …
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The Pen in Hand Guide to the Movies: Review of “Weapons”
Illustration by Michael DiMilo Wicked Smart: Film Review of Weapons ★★★★1/2 By Geoff Carter Last year, after I watched the “X” series of horror films including X, Pearl, and XXX, I was pleasantly surprised to discover filmmakers are still pushing the envelope to redefine the tropes of the horror genre, a trend I’d been following for some …
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Kickass Sleeps In
Attribution: Photo by Rehina Sultanova on Unsplash By Bill Stokes Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that when he was a young man it was almost impossible to get the keeper out of bed in the morning. An account of that as it handicapped things at a deer hunting camp once appeared in a tattletale article by a fellow …
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