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Geoff Carter
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I am a novelist, blogger, and retired educator.
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The Pen in Hand Guide to the Movies

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The Pen in Hand Guide to the Movies: Going Above and Beyond « The Pen in Hand Blog
As a rebuttal to a man who will never understand what it is to be an American and how it feels to truly love this country, the Pen in Hand would like recognize films recognizing the courage, integrity...
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November 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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The Pen in Hand Blog featuring Bill Stokes

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Kickass and Boy Soldier by Bill Stokes « The Pen in Hand Blog
Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in noting the long history of the young of one tribe being set off to do battle with the young of the tribe on the other side of the hill at the behest of c...
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November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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The Pen in Hand Blog featuring Bill Stokes

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Kickass and Evers Saying NO! by Bill Stokes « The Pen in Hand Blog
Kickass, the doorstop dog, endorses the keeper and Phyllis’s nomination of Wisconsin governor Tony Ever’s for a Pulitzer for his response to the narcissistic POTUS demanding that state efforts to keep...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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The Pen in Hand Guide to the Movies

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The Pen in Hand Guide to the Movies: Review of "A House of Dynamite" « The Pen in Hand Blog
"A Houseful of Dynamite" is a fine film, well-directed, well-conceived, and brilliantly performed. If for no other reason, it should be viewed as a cautionary tale, the Sword of Damocles hanging over ...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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The Pen in Hand Blog featuring Bill Stokes

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Kickass and First Snow by Bill Stokes « The Pen in Hand Blog
Kickass, the doorstop dog, noting the keeper’s long experience in dealing with seasonal rotations, consulted with him on the appropriate reaction to the first “dusting” of snow on portions of the loca...
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November 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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The Pen in Hand Blog featuring Bill Stokes

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Kickass Writes a Note by Bill Stokes « The Pen in Hand Blog
Kickass, the doorstop dog, intercepted the following note written by the keeper and Phyllis as they attempt to survive life as it becomes ever more absurd and impossible.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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The Pen in Hand Blog featuring Bill Stokes

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Kickass and Thrown Sandwich by Bill Stokes « The Pen in Hand Blog
Kickass, the doorstop dog, reminds the keeper and Phyllis that the most important thing to remember about throwing a sandwich is to throw it in the direction of the dog.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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The Pen in Hand Blog featuring The Fabulous Dadbots

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Dialogues on the Devils We Know: Tripping in the Twilight Zone « The Pen in Hand Blog
I don’t think a true unknown unknown can be defined until we experience it–just like pornography. We know it when we see it. Of course, then it’s no longer an unknown. Was Trump’s second presidency a ...
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November 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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The Pen in Hand Blog featuring Bill Stokes

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Kickass and ICE Undercover by Bill Stokes « The Pen in Hand Blog
Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper has returned from his under-cover assignment at the ICE training center and will be back in his usual haunts as soon as the delousing medication kick...
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November 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Princes of Darkness by Geoff Carter « The Pen in Hand Blog
And, like the vampires in Let Me In, From Dusk till Dawn, or The Lost Boys, Republicans seduce their followers into their realm of hate and fear with open hands and smiling faces. Dracula seduced youn...
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November 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Kickass and Women Winners by Bill Stokes « The Pen in Hand Blog
Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in celebrating the recent election results, particularly those in which women emerged victorious.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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The Pen in Hand Blog featuring Bill Stokes

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Kickass and Louie's Ghost by Bill Stokes « The Pen in Hand Blog
Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper growing up in the company of bachelor farm hand Louie Lancaster, he of the crooked leg and the tumbleweed mind that never lacked for novelty and curiosity...
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November 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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The Pen in Hand Blog featuring Bill Stokes

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Kickass Retires as Hunter by Bill Stokes « The Pen in Hand Blog
Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports the keeper submitting his formal resignation as a natural predator, which means, of course, that he is no longer a member of the hunting crowd that now swarms over t...
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November 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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The Pen in Hand Guide to the Movies: Review of "HIghest to Lowest" « The Pen in Hand Blog
"Highest 2 Lowest" is an engaging thriller, has tantalizing pieces of cinematic genius, is beautifully made, but is somehow wanting. David King seems closed off and inaccessible, and even in his most ...
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November 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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The Pen in Hand Blog featuring Bill Stokes

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Kickass and DST Poem by Bill Stokes « The Pen in Hand Blog
Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper and Phyllis in offering the following...
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November 2, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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The Pen in Hand Blog featuring Bill Stokes

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Kickass and Depression Food by Bill Stokes « The Pen in Hand Blog
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...
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November 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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The Pen in Hand Blog featuring Bill Stokes

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Kickass Saves Decency by Bill Stokes « The Pen in Hand Blog
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...
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October 31, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Yesterday is Here: Celebrating Dia de Los Muertos « The Pen in Hand Blog
It is a holiday of remembrance and joy. In this culture, this mash-up of Catholicism and ancient Aztec beliefs, the dead do not seem to be truly dead, but instead live on in the memories of those they...
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October 30, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Kickass and Halloween Witches by Blll Stokes « The Pen in Hand Blog
A noteworthy local Halloween event this year was the group of Madison women who dressed up as witches, mounted stand-up paddle boards and cavorted up and down the Yahara River in the middle of town.
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October 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Eve of Destruction? by Geoff Carter « The Pen in Hand Blog
He believes he is a king; he tore down the East Wing to prove it. This, of course, begs the question of what might be next. The White House itself? The Capitol Building? Will he install a golden statu...
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October 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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The Pen in Hand Blog featuring Bill Stokes

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Kickass and Depression Baby by Bill Stokes « The Pen in Hand Blog
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 fa...
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October 29, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Whistlng in the Graveyard by Geoff Carter « The Pen in Hand Blog
But, I wondered aloud, who knows what it’s really like inside the city of the dead? Is there a social structure at work underground? If so, is it based on how much money you made while alive?
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October 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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The Pen in Hand Blog featuring Bill Stokes

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Kickass and Killing Walleye Fishermen by Bill Stokes « The Pen in Hand Blog
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 dr...
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October 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Kickass and Building a House by Bill Stokes « The Pen in Hand Blog
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 ...
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October 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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The Pen in Hand Guide to the Movies: Review of "Weapons" « The Pen in Hand Blog
I wholeheartedly recommend this movie. Zach Cregger is not only an eminently talented screenwriter and director, but his razor-sharp wit and eye for broad satire enables his films to transcend the gen...
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October 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM