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the Week in (pre)View: the Wakefield Doctrine …lots to do, only 5 non-shopping days left!

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory that makes sense to a clark, looks like fun to a scott and feels like something everyone will be doing soon …to a roger)

The week up-coming:

  • the Book: I need to write some scenaria that will end up being in the Wakefield Doctrine book. The sad fact of the matter is that I have a limited time each day to write, love to write these Posts, but need to get the Book finished, so lets combine the two!
  • the BlogTalkRadio Show: Episode 2!! Wednesday November 21 4:00 pm EST Please! Do not call in (lol no, not getting all Brer Rabbit on yer asses, I need to try to create the working structure and pacing…then learn to handle calls!)
  • the DocTees: we’re hearing back that they are arriving for domestic locales ( Steve, Michelle, Melanie? maybe by Christmas…lol) Hey, if any of the Prize Winners feel like taking a photo of their DocTee in front of a local Landmark, (body doubles are permitted), you will so end up on the Fashion Center page (with a link)!

In the process of searching the Doctrine archives to see if I used the ‘Pre-View’ Title recently, I came across the following Post (written on October 6 2009).  Some of our blog-writing Readers should be able to identify with the first time, when upon completing a Post, sitting back and having the feeling, “Hey that was fun!“. This is one of those…

time for another Post already?!  oh man, no f*ckin way can I keep this up

OK. I have it together now. No need to get excited. Just sit here, clear the mind, the content is in there. Just relax.

My compliments to any of you out there who have maintained an active blog for more than 3 months. Jesus, this coming up with Posts all the time is not as easy as it looks. And this from the perspective of  ‘as long as there is a new Post once a week’  blogholder. But no one is holding a gun to my head… (‘hey there’s an idea for a Post!’)

SOMEONE IS HOLDING A GUN TO MY….

Sorry, forget it. Surely one of the 103,000,000 blog authors in the world today has already done the definitive, ‘Someone is holding a gun to my head’ treatment. Maybe there are some studies that I can cut and paste and fill up some of this white space and then I can call it a day and get back to my real life!

Alright, seriously now. I do mean my compliment to those of you who have the ability and talent (acquired or learned) to write something new and different and sometimes even interesting, Post after Post after Post…blog after blog after blog. Not bad. But since I am not ready to give up on this little blog of mine, I had better to try to get it together and come up with a Post that will keep the crowdlette coming back for more.

Being that this is the Wakefield Doctrine (aka the theory of clarksscotts and rogers), I would do well to keep to the subject that I know best. (See? Right there! I don’t know much about grammar and good writing and all, but that last sentence had at least two tenses, and easily three pluperfects in it. Man, this is worse than the first time I recorded myself playing guitar along with Jimi Hendrix. Suffice it to say, if you were there you would not have had too much trouble telling us apart.)

This writing and grammar thing is really starting to annoy me. It’s bad enough that I regret now that I did not take a typing class when I was in high school. (At my current age, in my high school years, ‘Typing Class’ was strictly for people taking a Business curriculum, which meant you were going to be a secretary …which meant you were a girl. That simple, end of cultural subtext).
But with this damn blogging thing, I am being forced to confront the fact that I do not have mad writing skills.  I should have paid attention in my English classes. (Look, it was the 60s when I was in high school, how cool is that?) But the inescapable fact remains that the skill set I would value the most this October morning is not how to play the opening riff of ‘Sunshine of Your Love’. Its funny about how people, at least in the current (american) culture, seem to have an expectation to be able to do certain things well, just because we think we can do them at all. I mean, take singing and writing. Most of us know that we can sing our favorite song in the car, on the way to work, therefore we all equate that with being a singer. Writing, the same. I can, with the help of spellcheck and a lot of proof reading, write a report at work, so how hard can it be to be a writer?

(I have resisted the impulse to hit Preview to see if I’m down far enough on this page to call it a day.) But anyway, you are here because you want to know all about the Wakefield Doctrine. Right?

The Wakefield Doctrine will cause you to see the world in a slightly different manner. Nothing earth-shaking, no flashes of light; ‘oh my god I understand now’ will not be on your lips. What will happen, if you read most of this blog and the associated pages, will be that you might find yourself saying, ‘that person is such a roger‘, or you might find yourself thinking, ‘here comes so-an-so, what a scott he is’ or you could think, ‘shit, I’ll bet I’m one of those clarks the Doctrine is talking about.’

If this happens to you, I have succeeded. If it does not, then I have failed. If you have a question about the Doctrine, leave a Comment or email or whatever the hell people do around here. I will get back to you as soon as I finish my Adult Education class, “You too Can Write Like The Prose’, that I am taking at my little local high school.

(appeared in Wakefield Doctrine blog on October 6 2009)

 

 

 

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Well, what exactly do you want to know? Whether I am a clark or a scott or roger? If you have to ask, then you need to keep reading the Posts for two reasons: a)to get a clear enough understanding to be able to make the determination of which type I am and 2) to realize that by definition I am all three.* *which is true for you as well, all three...but mostly one

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  1. Is it bad that I read this and came out thinking that am much as I grumbled taking typing in high school, I am so very happy that I did, because I now type super fast, lol!! Seriously, this is what I am thinking on a Sunday morning, lol!!

    • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:

      @Janine

      …not at all! The thing about typing skills is that (for me) the words can be so ephemeral in my head, that if I can type faster I might not miss something… (they say that anyone who is comfortable writing their thoughts for the intended benefit of others has a monster ego…I say, ‘who me??!’ lol)
      …funny how things can change, if you met me at a club when I played in a band and said, ‘hey clark sounded good up there! …err don’t you think you should practice your typing a little more’ I might not have recognized good advice!

  2. Downspring#1 says:

    Oh man – Completion Backwards Principle – only the best Tubes album in the world.
    Give me an Amen! my scottian friend in W. Warwick. How was it we hung out and talked like regular folk with a coupla band members, you know, like it was our boyfriend’s band?
    Yeah, yeah, yeah, Doctrine stuff….. I was talking to Rick Anderson, the bass player and memory tells me you were talking to Fee. Haven’t decided if Fee is a clark or scott. Rick, to look at a picture of him could be either a clark or a scott. All I know is neither is a roger.

  3. Cyndi says:

    Well, there are typing programs where you can improve your typing skills in “minutes a day” lol.
    Grammar and writing? My specialties. :0) Something about learning other languages makes you dissect your own so you know how to formulate words in the proper order in the second language.
    Umm…your posts are always compelling. To be sure, they’re like “thought candy” for this clark. ;)

    • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:

      @Cyndi
      yeah… gram-R (you will have to provide your own audio this ’13 yo boy being told to spend more time in English class and less time with the guitar’) There is the thing about playing a musical instrument that I am finding applies to this blog writing thing, try to hang out with people who do it better than you do… it might be un-comfortable at times, but you will get better at what you are doing.

  4. Downspring#1 says:

    In light of last night’s Saturday Night Call In Show (and my previous comment), which was made extra special by Molly’s participation btw, in this setting/example who was attracted to who and why? For me it was because I liked Rick’s playing and enjoyed watching him play. I don’t recall having any trouble talking with him. As a clark, should I infer I was talking with another clark or with a scott?

  5. Terrye says:

    I have a confession to make…I stop by your blog at least once a week. I never comment because every time I read you, I leave with the same feeling I had the very first time I watched Monty Python and The Holy Grail. It was my first exposure to British humor and kinda made my head spin…a LOT.

    It took awhile, but I finally ‘got it’ with the Brit’s style and I’m sure I’ll eventually understand you too…with a little help from my friends and a nice, strong beverage. :)

    • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:

      @Terrye

      the one thing we have always said about the Doctrine: a) even though it is a unique and useful insight in human behavior, first and foremost it is meant to be fun! b) the feedback from anyone new to the Doctrine is way valued! it is what we are looking for, whether it is “hey guys! too weird” or …”oh man! that is so my husband/girlfriend/boss…how did you know that?!”

  6. Amy says:

    My kids have learned to type playing a SpongeBob game. It works! Much easier than sitting in a class and kinda fun. :)
    Anyway, I am starting to see Scotts very clearly, particularly among my daughter’s friends. I’m not noticing Rogers yet though. Maybe that will take some more time and reading here.
    And what exactly qualifies as a landmark? I received my shirt yesterday (thanks so much!) and would be happy to send in a pic…but there isn’t much exciting here. I could take a pic of myself with some cows? Out in front of Costco? On the edge of a lake?

    • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:

      @Amy
      rogers are tough to spot (unless you see a herd of bicyclists or a man, standing in his garage/basement workshop, carefully and meticulously tracing the outline of each tool in their proper place on the pegboard…do not, under any circumstances, interrupt with any amusing (to you) observation on the critical importance of the to-be-hung-up-after-use tool matching the outline!)
      and scotts are fun to watch… it’s mazing how the 3 types act more and more as they have been described. Even I catch myself thinking, wait a minute! you read the blog and are trying to trick me!

      ..the photos in front of landmarks is the optional fun part of the DocTees anything that is fun… see Fashion Center for some examples!

  7. Jennifer says:

    @DS#1
    Amen and Amen!!! How could I forget… It was amazing, back in the day, how easily one had an opportunity to talk to the band members.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgjfi1DU1mQ

  8. Jennifer says:

    I can recall many occasions interacting with members of various bands. There were a lot of mini-concerts performed in small venues (as opposed to a full-blown concert) where the band members would walk around the clubs during their breaks without pretense. Just like you and me.
    One memory I have is running into Bruce Springsteen at the now infamous club called “The Stone Pony” (which, by the way, managed to stay standing after Hurricane Sandy out in Jersey). At one point I went up to the bar to get another beer and there he was. Bruce just sitting at the bar like anyone else. And he wasn’t even playing that night! Just out like you and me on a Friday night in the club where he got his beginning. And this was after he became famous. It was pretty cool…