Hurry the hell up, write the thing and send in your best effort…no one will laugh! I personally guarantee it.1
So look around the house this morning, if there are no apostles or deities sitting at your breakfast table, then why don’t you just send the kids out to play…do whatever you need to do to the Spouse/Significant Other2 and then get yourself some SABD3 and pick a fight with your blog4
Really, the thing about the Wakefield Doctrine (in general) and this blog (specifically), is that we are all here for the adventure, the entertainment, the challenge and even the self-development that has been a result of our efforts over the last 2 or 3 years that this blog has been on line. Granted the style of presentation is a bit…eclectic, eccentric and otherwise hard to figure out, but isn’t that the way it always goes?
When you look back on your life at the things you have done, all of the varied activities that fill your hours, weren’t most difficult to learn the basic skills? And only after getting past the ‘I don’t get how to do this! It’s not worth the trouble!” moment and committing to learning, then you found the real enjoyment that comes with practice. Hell, think about your friends, your wife/husband, girl/boy friends! I would be comfortable betting that if you remember the time before they became what they are, there were moments that you thought, ‘why the hell am I bothering? this person is a pain-in-ass, demanding and doesn’t make sense way too much‘.
So, yes we are saying that the Wakefield Doctrine is exactly like falling in love with your wife or your husband. lol
But you’re here! So have some fun and enter the damn Contest!!
Rules Redux:
- write a Post with the phrase ‘a dead balloon is a dead balloon’ in the Title
- you can write about anything you want, you do not have to mention balloons or death or any possible qualities that they share in common
- (if you are entering a Post-writing contest), then you probably have your own blog-like place, send us a link to where your Post is published
- write us an email or message us at ‘the FaceBook’ hell, you could even put it all in a Comment!
- try to include something/anything about yourself that you want to see in the little ‘author blurb’ next to your Post
- on Friday the 13th, we will do write a Post and it will List the Titles and Authors (the Titles linked back to your site)
- we will ask Readers to Comment and even vote!
- the Winner will be announced on April 17th
- the Winner will be picked based on the Comments of Readers (on April 13th) and be selected by the (secret) judge.5
All of us here at the Wakefield Doctrine extend to all of you there ( in the “real” world), best/appropriate wishes that the re-birth process that you choose to commemorate at this time of year comes true, at least one more time. However, we suggest that you make this the last year that you decide the symbolic re-birth of your favorite deity is the highest form of spiritual expression. Contrary to what many say, you are not immortal and you should not live your life as if you are, this will only lead to self-centeredness, short-sightedness and a lack of commitment to your acts as you go through your day.
And seeing that this is a time of celebration of re-birth and triumph over death, write us a Comment so that next Easter’s bonnet will have Wakefield Doctrine written on it! How cool will that be!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mcq9lHlpoqc
1) I can say that because I am not only a clark, but I am also the Moderator of Comments here, so don’t worry…there will be no laughing at Contest Entries…
2) yes, including that look do you want to win this thing or not?
3) ask the Progenitor roger
4) totally love (that statement) attributed to Jack White when asked about his approach to song writing, “I just get a guitar and pick a fight with it”
5) the (secret) judge, may or may not be a Friend of the Doctrine but two things will be true: a) they will not be me and 2) they will not be a Contestant in the Contest. (hell, we might even have more than one of them)
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Love the lead pic on the home page. And of course, Jimi. Love Jimi. Totally sucks he’s dead….but then we’ve all tried to picture an old Jimi. I could never do it….
But that is not the purpose of my comment. I should like to express my hope that there are lots and lots of posts to read come April 13th! Hurray for creative writing! Right? Right, guys? Um…..any-body o-u-t there?
Gonna be fun!!
Hey, I’m gonna run over to Alex C’s house and tell him he’d better enter the contest. I mean, writing is his thing! And Seven and Claire, and everybody. I told this guy Seani Mac about it but…..
Mine’s already done, dammit. I just have to figure out the WordPress shortlink thing.
nooo, mf you still have work to do
I will be happy to help you find the link (and as today’s Post states quite clearly):
a) early entries will be held in draft form for the big day but!! will be entered in the order of arrival
2) the Title? binyon, you (apparently) didn’t even read a thing, you go no ears on your cheeks at all…just a hole like….
will call and tell you which part of your Blog to right click on…
The highly sophisticated scientific formula actually is the title. But scientists be way higher up over you.
Oh dang, I’m late I’m late. Well, anyway, here’s an article I wrote concerning the band I traveled the country with, a group of research scientists from Duke, UTSW Dallas, we are called The Microbes, all scientists/researchers, with me the drummer, being the ‘ringer’ or non-scientist (sidenote: I AM a scientist in my own lab) They are DNA, diabetes experts, distinguished chairs, we played in DC and the human genome guy was their for the award ceremony for diabetes research. Here is a little diddy I wrote about, well, you’ll get it – or won’t, interesting, maybe, if your not too much a Clark or Scott. From a solid ROGER.
ANCIENT MICROBES REVIVED!
THE ANCIENT MICROBES were in a state of suspended
metabolism, similar to dormancy, said study team
member John Priscu of Montana State University.
“They’re in a frozen state,” Priscu said in a
telephone interview. “They’ll come back to life if you
add alcohol.”
Priscu and his colleagues camped out on the ice
above 2.5-mile-long (5-kilometer) Lake Vida for about
two weeks back in 1996. They drilled down about 50
feet (15 meters) to collect the aged Microbes.
“It was hard drilling,” Priscu said. “It was 40 below.
It was a real tough job. The next step was to get to
the ancient members.”
However, to prevent contaminating the pristine lake,
the drilling system was back-pressured with
de-ionized scotch & water. Reeds & voices began to
fail and the system started to leak. The researchers
were forced to stop making requests.
Priscu thinks the lake holds live organisms of the
Microbe kind, complete with clams. Members have been
found in similar salty conditions, such as Lake Belo
and the Dead Sea (earlier members).
Lab work shows organisms like these Microbes can
thrive in the frigid temperatures presumed for Lake
Vida. His team has frozen blocks of scotch and vodka
to -15 Celsius and this has kept the Microbes alive.
Critters called “hacks, whips, and lizards” dominate
life at these extremes. Another Antarctic lake, Lake
Vodka, has been under similar study and the Microbes
have been found in the ice above it (and, more often
than not, in it). Several research teams have found
these Microbes in easier-to-reach pockets of polar
ice, such as bars at the poles.
The Lake Vida creatures are unique for their age,
determined by the amount of alcohol in which they were
embedded. Other similar studies have involved ice &
vodka that is frequently replenished and sometimes
embellished with fungi or natural herbs.
JUST THAW THEM OUT
He said data his team has collected suggest The
Microbes and their band can remain viable for up to a
million years. Alcohol is a good preservative, he
said. Add a little water — which even in a deep freeze
can occur in layers where frictional energy melts ice
for brief periods — and The Microbes might maintain
and repair their set list for many millions of years.
“If they’re frozen or stiff and younger than 1 million
years,” Priscu said, “give them some martinis, vodka,
and scotch and they probably would come back to life
(and maybe the next set).”