Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
There isn’t a lot of time. Writing my traditional warm-up, pre-edit material. This stuff here, is what I write in the hope that it leads into an actual Six Sentence Story, which is, of course, zoe’s challenge to us to go rummaging through the neural attics and emotional basements of our selfs and bring back something to entertain, amusing, horrify, puzzle, perplex and otherwise alter the life of the Reader, (in however a tiny, even minuscule, degree of change). Every Thursday, (and into Friday), there are stories of only, (and exactly), six sentences. They are stories that range from provocative to sweetly sentimental, funny to horrifying (sometimes horrifyingly funny).
You know what you won’t find here? Abused language elements. (no, not really certain if that, ‘language elements’ is a real thing or not, but, as Frank Dreben would say, ‘but thats not important right now’)
So last night, (or the night before), I was surfing through the channels as I ate my dinner and a commercial came on. Forget what it was selling, actually, I do remember, it was selling people on the idea of watching some TV series by visiting ‘On Demand’ or some such thing. (I haven’t kept up with the developments in the popular culture in more ways than I can list, but I especially missed the bus on the opportunity to watch every episode of almost any series, even those that are no longer on running. That’s not what caught (‘took hostage’ is a more accurate phrase), my attention. It was the tag line:
“Mark your Calendar!! June 30 – June 31 (something-something) Binge-athon!!!”
They said ‘Binge-athon‘. Seriously, someone tell me that I’m being way, way over-sensitive on the matter of the use of language.
Long.
Johnny saw Janie running down the road.
He was puzzled because he could not see what she was running from, so he decided to chase after her.
“What are you running from”, Johnny yelled as he ran.
Janie ran faster and did not say a thing, although she did glance back.
‘There must be something wrong’, thought Johnnie, running faster now, than ever he ran, his heart was almost bursting when finally he managed to catch up, but not having a breath to spare with which to speak, threw himself on the girl, knocking her to the ground.
Turning over and looking at the hypoxiated* boy, Janie said, “Well, it took you long enough!’
*take that, language-mangling tv commercial writing hacks!
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bring back something to entertain, amusing, horrify, puzzle, perplex and otherwise alter the life of the Reader,…” omg if this is truly the purpose of the six sentence story then I am failing miserably. However your story this week quite adorable. Do people use that word with you very often? How about this one? Frist.
oh hell, I get ‘adorable’ all the time!! “oh clark, your flat affect and neurasthenia is adorable on you!”
Hahaha (robotic tone)
affirmative… (click)
HA! HA! ….so that’s how it’s done in real motion! Girl lets boy chase her until she catches him!
And, a good part of the time it spells….m a r r i a g e ….somewhere further down the road…maybe even a long ways down the road. :)
the fun’s in the run?
I may not know many a reference to literary figures but ha! I feel fortunate to know who Frank Dreben “is” :D ‘but thats not important right now’
(makes me smile every time)
Nice 6 today.
Shakespeare ain’t got nothin on Airplane (for effect (and affect) on the American lexicon)
Heeheehee! That’s how that race is won, isn’t it?
“never have so many given so much.…”
lol
Hilarious. My first thought was “the sky is falling, the sky is falling.” My favorite part was the intro where you call for the search of our neural attics and emotional basements. You do have a way with words.
thankee, but they did say that something was a Binge-athon! (sort of what the amazing Firesign Theatre suggested, so many years ago, when they referred to the ‘Department of Redundancy Department’ (and the Natural Guard!)
lol
Cue the soft music, run the credits!
My Six Sentences
…showtime!
Well that’s a great way to attract a boy by running away from him so that the quest is even more alluring and thus important. However that never happened in my day!
yeah, so the question is: does our individual recollections of (our individual past) reflect our acquired experience or do we just edit?
Hypoxiated; now you’re just showing off! Good one.
Haha! I wonder if that would happen today… I can just imagine a boy running alongside the girl as if something terrifying were chasing them both. I missed your storytelling – glad I popped over here today :D
alas!* your observation is all too accurate, but fortunately is as positive (an observation) as it might be than negative. It’s not just that time changes, or people change, that it way inevitable. The positive message I get from what you say is a reminder that reality is personal, it is ‘context’ and it is changeable (for better or for worse).
Good to ‘see’ you again. (and speaking of the never-ending coolth of the virtual world, it’s going into autumn in your geo-world this time of year, correct? how cool is this internet!)
*why, yes, as a matter of fact, I did just use the term ‘alas’, quite deliberately, I might add… no, make that ‘quite happy to find myself comfortable using a word as dusty and storage-stale as ‘egads’ or ‘my stars and garters!’