meme (mēm)
n. A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.
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The rest of this thing should be normal looking

…screw this…let’s go with the original premise from last night, the “hey I’m so sleepy and don’t want to write this Post, but another ‘person’ insists that I do and I maintain an implied dialogue with this ‘other person’ which is indicated by “dialogue in parentheses”.  Sure why the hell not?

(…Hey!, anyone around to help me with this?…Britney? you back yet?….(I know Janie is still on ‘Grand Tour’) (hey! watch that parenthesis within parenthesis…dude, you gonna fall into your monitor, this is now an aside to yourself, while pretending to be speaking to someone ‘off stage’ while doing a setup for a Post)  (rats!  lost track of the parenthesis) (((( you know you’ve done this trick before))))….italics!!! god! I’ll never get out of this!!!Cut it out!
(Who is that?…oh you Mr. B….fuck….yeah, why the hell not add a reference to personal emotional/psychological car wreck to the mix?….lol…sure I remember that time…alright ready?…)

What time is it? (…Oh I didn’t hear you come in….morning? already? damn!!…) (…No, you don’t get any lines…dude, you got the girl! are you rogers never fuckin satisfied?…shhh…)

Good Morning  (…no, they can’t see you…) Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) Monday Morning Marathon! (…hey sometimes a little alliteration helps…) Glad you could make it.  Yes, there is a lot of grammatical junk in this Post (…shh, they’re on to the device…) please disregard the implied character in parenthesis.  I assure you there is a reason for it and that it will all make sense before you finish reading this Post. (…yeah, they’re buying it…)

The subtitle?  No, there is no point to a contest; here can’t be anyone who does not recognise the work of the Monkees. (…no, they don’t care who the real writers were, “no quotation marks” “What?” damn you’re right! no, no time for that let’s just hope they go along with it…no, not another level of implied conversation…you speak to me and I’ll answer…). (… you’re sure? they wrote that too?…)(Sure lets use ellipseseses to imply the dialogue)(…oops…. forgot…)

As most of our Readers will recognise, today’s subtitle is a lyric frame from theme song to the 60’s show ‘The Monkees’.  What I did not know, until just recently was that the theme was written by Boyce & Hart, as was apparently everything else (musical) on the show. I knew that Boyce & Hart wrote most of the songs used on the show and were huge in the pop music scene.  By the way, you should go to the wikipedia page for Boyce & Hart, take a look at the picture (of them). Tell me that they are not a roger/clark team. (…What? hey I’m on a roll, should give glenn something to react to, you know how he likes the discography…no!  really? shit I bet I don’t  know much of anything…well, now that I know, I gotta…)

And while Boyce & Hart wrote most of the songs, did you know that Neil Diamond wrote  “I’m a Believer”?
Yes, yes he did.  That boy did get around, talk about ‘range’ in talent.  For that matter, Paul Anka also was no slouch.  The work that he accounts for creates a lot of  the musical landscape in the  1950s and 1960s.  But, that is a Post in and of itself, for today it is enough to use a line from a pop song to get the Post started.
Yes,  it is time for the Wakefield Doctrine  Lesson of the Day.  Monday edition.

The Lesson is this.  We know that clarks are the creative ones. (Continuing the music metaphor), that would make scotts the ‘front man’ and rogers the producers/arrangers/rhythm section.  In theory, all musical groups are comprised of all three types, but most songwriting teams consist of two people, usually a clark and a roger but nearly as often a  scott and a roger.  I suppose a roger/roger is possible, but does anyone out there believe it is possible for a scott/scott or a clark/clark team to exist? (…what? out of time? shit….gots to find a hook…get some music ready…)
Here is an odd thought (… lol, I agree, that is a relative term…) Can anyone out there think of a song/music writing team that is female based, i.e. excepting individual female song writers, ala Carole King, Alannis etc,  does anyone know of a counterpart to Boyce & Hart, Lennon & McCartney of the female persuasion?

(…Alright, while the Readers are scratching their heads, let’s put up a vid or two and get the hell out….oh, thanks for the “help”…no…no I mean it! we always did work together well…clark/roger before there were the terms…lol no this is no denouement…we don’t need no steekin denouement….promotion?…hey I’ll think about it… yeah maybe after a while…she’s a student for god’s sake!…you rogers…yeah I know…but there is a chance this thing will dry up and blow away before then…yes I have two lines written in the screenplay…not sure where…sure it was a significant episode in the story of the Doctrine,  but I don’t know that anyone will get anything from it…yeah, it is late)