So, the end of another week here at the Doctrine. (If you measure the week, a 5 day week with Saturday and Sunday as buffer/days off). But who has experienced a 5 day work week recently? They are vestiges of a time gone by, never to been seen again. (No, no nostalgia Post here.)
Ok, week in review Post? nah…if you want to review the week, then click backwards or or go to the Archive pulldown.
So, then what will the Post for Friday, May 21st in the year 2010 be about?
Nah…(god I love living in a pre-Ridley Scott world)…so what do we “discuss”* today.
Actually “we” do not “discuss” anything. I write. You read. Unless you are a scott or a roger who is bored at the moment of encountering this Post, then you will Comment.
Still, that is hardly a topic worthy of a such an impressive forum, which I say not with total sarcasm. Consider the fact that this Post (with attendant images and videos and music) is being published and made available to virtually the entire population of the planet. Really. Wherever there (hey grreat opp to clip some art)
I’ll be all around in the dark. I’ll be everywhere. Wherever you can look, wherever there’s a fight, so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever there’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there. I’ll be in the way guys yell when they’re mad. I’ll be in the way kids laugh when they’re hungry and they know supper’s ready, and when the people are eatin’ the stuff they raise and livin’ in the houses they build, I’ll be there, too
That was from the Grapes of Wrath, Steinbecks feel-good novel of that happy-go-lucky Joad clan and their wacky adventures in Post Depression America.
So…still Friday and still no coherence to this Post. So, why am I still typing? Not really sure. Mostly, just ’cause I been writing one of these each day for the last week or 2 and while there is no virtue to simply continuing to do what I have been doing, to ‘break the streak’ seems to be giving something up. (No ego over-investment here, huh?)
So, unless one of you has something to suggest…I might as well close with some entertainment…hey as much as I appreciate the Comments from our scotts (with the dependable contribution of the clarks) am I the only one getting the feeling that this thing is stagnating, getting into a rut? (To anticipate the Comment of our more vocal scotts, yeah I know this is wonderful and I will keep up the good work, but in terms of furthering the promulgation of the Wakefield Doctrine, this blog is in severe danger of devolving into a clever, personalized facebook page for bored scotts and frustrated clarks.)
Nah, no interest in that…so this weekend, all you Readers put on your thinking caps (on your damn heads) and decide where (or even if) you want this blog to go next. (Glenn and AKH are precluded from Commenting.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szlejykEhQ4(a little of a change up…cellant voice)
(…and which of the three is Ms Joni)
(this is too easy, people…)
* (by discuss, I mean I write shit you read** it)
**( by read I mean you enjoy it and get on with your day, unless you are a scott***)
***(by scott in this context I mean the Readers who will write to read themselves written with the associated vicarious getting off on knowing that others are being forced to recognise their existence****)
****(by existence I mean to infringe upon the consciousness of another person*****)
*****(by another person, I mean everyone but you)


Joni…such a clark. But as an aging hippy, it was nice to see and hear her again. Sweet song, too. The counter-culture turned out to be an illusion. But, it was such a good illusion. My formative intellectual and philosophical years found me immersed in it. It still serves as the deepest “taproot” for all my musings and opinions. I’m finding out just what a political anachronism I am. Am I “The Last Hippy”? If so, I’ll go down proudly with THAT ship.
scotts were not the hippy first, rogers looked and acted like what people, when responding to either media (Life Magazine, et. al.) or nostalgia, think were hippies….in terms of the philosphical/intellectual criteria clarks were the hippies…(fuckers still are…)
Anyone want to guess the source of the subtitle of today’s Post (without using the internet)?
Hint: Car 54
the TV show “It’s About Time”–Imogene Coca, Sid Ceasar, etc… One season wonder
Does anyone out there know of anyone else named Imogene? Is she the only one?
half right
Joe E Ross not Sid
(Officer Toody)
I think Sid was in it too. No?
No. No sign or mention, just Imogene (the obvious connection to Sid) and Joe E Ross
Now Joe E Ross worked with another quinessential sideman, Al Lewis in Car 54. Al you will recall went on to tear em’ up in the Munsters. Elia Kazan was totally proud of these products of NYC from the 40s and 50s
…but no Sid…(who did make an appearance in “When Things Were Rotten”