Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine ( the theory of clarks, scotts and roger)
The Wakefield Doctrine’s Internet Radio Program Sign-up Sheet
Positions Open:
Producer
Marketing
Regional Reporter/Correspondents
North America:
- Western Zone (the larger, blockier shaped States)
- Middle Section ( those flat ones with straight highways and news footage of cows on roofs during flooding)
- “Michigan” (reserving one of the “you wanna see a really great lake?” States for Friend of the Doctrine Mel)
- Texas and down there ( …them states what know how a man’s supposed to live and such)
- Southeast (hey, anyone who wants to live there, deserves to be the one who reports from there)
- Northeast (why, I would imagine they are referring to the area where one might find Wakefield! how charming!)
Those other countries:
- England (or the ‘UK’ as the natives seem to like to call it)
- Scandinavia ( is that a country or a state of mind?)
- Any other part of the world where someone will report from for the Wakefield Doctrine
So send us your Comments, resumes, curricula vitae, rap sheet, or any other expression of the desire to do this thing. It will be a good thing. We are thinking: Nell or Jenny for the UK and, of course our Ms Claire for Sweden (Claire sends her warmest regards and greetations to all her friends at the Doctrine… totally immersed in her work and her studies, she did find time to say “Huska du”!*)
The basic ‘plan’ is to figure out how to get one of those internet radio things… and the, just go on the ‘air’ with the Wakefield Doctrine. No real program designed yet, however, as you can see from the ‘positions’ above, I am thinking:
General News of the Day (through the lens of the Wakefield Doctrine) and then go to ‘the field’ and have individual Reporters give us the local/ Regional News and such.
Progenitor roger seems to find this idea exciting (he will, no doubt, insist on a contract and that (in that contract) he be allowed to broadcast wearing fuzzy slippers), I haven’t asked Mel yet… have hinted to Molly and DS and ‘KH but no firm commitments (I think their actual responses were something like “there, there, thats a great idea, there there“. And I was thinking that our man in havanna, Steve Crabtree that he be on-board for something like this, provided we can coax him out of his shell enough to talk to strangers and I totally think that Jasmine would get a kick out of reporting on the Corn Futures Index and the state of the Levees or what other items of local interest prevail in the middle part of the country. As far as our foreign correspondents (mentioned above?) … lets surprise them!
Still, no pressure… hell! all or most of you out there write blogs, you know that the memory span of most blog readers is ‘half past ‘what-were-you-saying?’ But seeing how the Doctrine is on a one-a-day Post kick this week, I thought I would get to (radio show) out there and start the conversation.
More to follow, will discuss tomorrow on the Drive. Don’t forget to call, yo.
* I did IM with Claire the other day and she does send her regards and best wishes to y’all. I made up the thing about saying “Huska du”
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Today being Fraterday* and all, let me put in for Producer and one those RR/C job things.
All I have at the moment. Oh yeah, will be taking the Doctrine to the Hilton in Daytona Beach today. (yes, it is directly beachfront. The view from the Cocquina Ballroom should be fantastic. Hm…hoping there will be windows. lol)
Details to follow.
*’swhat I name Friday down here in the other universe. folks here like to start the weekend early…I mean, who says you have to work a whole day when that day is the last day of the week, right?
don’t forget to take photos*, lots of damn photos (distant human face only) as we will eventually need to stop with the borrowationing of photos from ‘the internets’ and use our own on the Doctrine and such.
…please try to get one photo of someone (preferably of the female persuasion) wearing a turquoise tub top**
* kind of a interview requirement
**demographic less than ‘yeah I think I know what the initials AARP, stand for
How fun. Photos I shall take.
As to the turquoise tube tops, I have seen no less than 2 around my immediate environs in the last 2 weeks. Let me further add that AARP does not discriminate against the tube top. LOL
well, they should, lol in the wrong… hands, they are lethal (and in the right…) lol
Yes. I insist on a contract. I want my broadcast booth at WDAL ( Wakefield Doctrine At Large) stocked with Avian water, Peanut M+Ms, and Sam Adams Octoberfest. And I will certainly wear fuzzy slippers…the cat ones… but only the fuzzy slippers.
Now you can spend the rest of your life trying to erase that image from your mind.
P.S.- The thing about the tube top is just a little on the creepy/ stalkerish side, no?
P.S.- Also better keep a box of Cuban cigars around for you-know-who.
… what no Cheetos (done with a fine camembert)?
..sorry, this is no Today Show… this is hard hitting, incisive and cutting edge, in depth… what were we talking about again?
…good idea, you know we need a certain feline’s image for a intro icon of some sort
Like I said last night….
Ooh, Cheetos. Yes please. Actually, how about a nice cheese fondue, with a chilled Chardonnay? I’m sure that WDAL has an expense account?
Someone get that roger his bird water…tell him he’ll have to settle for slipper socks.
The peanut M&M’s are a go as is the Chardonnay. Cheese platter?! Fine.
Cheetos will be allowed on premises only if accompanied by an equal amount of Fritos. (regular ones, not those weird scooping ones.)
The cubanos – yes, I mean the cuban cigars. Have them personally delivered to my dressing room by Antonio Banderas. Yes, seriously.
Silly, no? But what about the very real possibility. Of a radio program. Who doesn’t have a radio show these days. Seems to make sense. At some point the Doctrine will be saturating the market. Why the hell not? I, for one, have already started using terminology on a more “day to day” basis. You know, getting comfortable with it. The theory of clarks, scotts and rogers….it is what it is.
agree…but this has to be a case of ‘if you have a message, you can speak and if you speak, they will listen’ I am still working on the (elaborated read:rogerian) form of the message.
we like people will do this thing this November because it will be enjoyable to us…even if we run out of things to say after the first show… it raises interesting questions about the level of discourse that we have attained… the ebb and flow of development, look at where we started (then) look at different points in the development and then look at us now…I suspect that clarks are more susceptible to ‘wondering if we have to prepare more’ at each step of (any) process.
In fact, I think it was Molly who said it last night (and/or concurred with) the point about clarks and goals and ambitions and self-limitations and such
No disagreement with you on any of those points.
Perhaps, since I missed the call last night, Molly would care to elaborate/restate her points with regards to clarks and goals, ambitions and self-limitations….here in this most appropriate of forums? Molly?
actually (was) not so much a statement of a point as much as it was an assent to my ‘characterization’ of the clarklike approach to ambitious goals, at least the aspect of this (subject) as represented by my describing my own reluctance to talk too much about the Wakefield Doctrine book project and or other aspects of the development of this thing of ours….
… I think it was a thing like… clarks don’t like to say too much (about what may seem to us as ambitious efforts) for fear of being judged overly…. something (not arrogant…not even prideful)… ‘too big for your britches’ seems to come to mind… it resonates with something akin to ‘unseemly ambition’ whatever the hell that means