Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
what the hell! I was all set to write a TToT blog Post and then remembered that we are on Christmas break! Well, never let it be said that I am not habit ridden… so I will write this Post and send it out there if only because, as regular participants in ‘the bloghop that Lizzi created’, know we have a Secret Book of Rules! And what kind of Book of Secret Rules would it be if it didn’t have a rule that provided for just this situation. ya know? it’ll be fun… sort of a combination of ‘Risky Business’, ‘Home Alone’ and ‘Animal House’ Now at this point I should spend some time making a show of secret Rules and writing some ‘rule-like sounding stuff’ but if you’re reading this, you’re already familiar with the Secret Book of Rules ( aka the Book of Secret Rules), so I won’t bother other than to make a reference to the Seven GuardVirgins, in case any of you need a jump start for the Comments that I know you will be leaving here. (To reinforce the ‘home alone’ metaphor, this is the weekend you can say anything and be as un-restrained as you like, it being the, ‘Weekend without Supervision’ (or massive readership…lol).
On to our List!
1) I am grateful for whatever quality it is that made me me stop what I was doing (reading the newspaper) while eating my lunchtoast, I came across a story about the owner of a bar getting stabbed the previous night at the cheery hour of 1:30 am. Now that, unfortunately, is not that uncommon an occurrence and certainly not overly demanding of my attention; the police of account of the assault was pretty mundane, i.e. the bar owner insisted that a patron pay up his bar tab, $187.51 I believe was the amount that the paper reported, the customer took offense at the request and gave the bar owner $120.00, (according the police report) and ‘spat in his face’…. (ok, action is picking up, but still pretty run-of-the-mill). The article went on to say that, ‘the outraged bar keep followed the offended customer out the door only to be met by a woman, (‘a companion of the cutover… not a cool Companion like in the TV series ‘Serenity’, more like a drunk female who may or may not know anyone’s name), brandishing a large knife . Alright!! now we’re getting somewhere. (btw), who, besides writers, use the word brandish? ( from the free dictionary.com brandish:.” To wave or flourish (a weapon, for example) menacingly.” ) Any way, this story now has me hooked. Keep in mind that this story is in one of those…’police blotter’ sections of the newspaper, no bylines, maybe a paragraph of ‘a collision at the intersection’ ‘body found in woods’ that sort of thing, nothing warranting even it’s own headline. But they had me with the next line, “…the owner came running back into the bar, pursued by a woman waving a large knife”. Damn! Action, plot twists, drunken violent women…what more can a person ask for in lunchtime entertainment? Now all this is a fun and exciting little story-ette, I normally would have smiled after finishing my reading and resolved to remember to tell someone later in the day. If not for the very last line, (the 10 words comprising the subtitle of today’s Post), “…and then drove off in an old red Plymouth sedan” I sat and stared at that line… so powerful an image. I am very grateful that I have that twist to my brain that allows me to appreciate it;
2) shit! I’m at 587 words and only on Number Two… but this is Freestyle-homealone bloghop weekend… the inmates run the asylum so, lets say I am grateful for the next 2 weeks off and being left with the keys to the house
3) speaking of movies, specifically movies seen in movie theaters… the last time I actually went to a movie theater was to see the afore-referenced, ‘Risky Business’ at the Campus Cinema in Wakefield (of Wakefield Doctrine fame). That was like 1984 or something… I’m glad I went, I enjoyed the movie and now, a lifetime later, Rebecca is doubling my pleasure by providing me with Item #3 (who can forget the train scene with Tangerine Dream in the background).
4) To say that I’m grateful for being invited to be a host I would be doing this special Post a disservice (SPECIAL WEEKEND POST!!! THE TToT IS ON HIATUS AND clark DOESN”T SEEM TO CARE!!! FILM AT 11). Sort of like the house party that you let happen when your parents are away, no one is wrecking the house and the girl you were afraid to talk to in school is there and doesn’t seem to want to leave and actually appears to be having fun and none of the real fun kids are even there… that is not the time to talk about how much your parents trust you.
5) speaking of the Wakefield Doctrine lol (you didn’t think I was going to not mention everyone’s favorite personality theory…well, my favorite personality theory)… since this is a Secret TT I can do anything I want, doctrinistically-speaking
6) vid chat!!!
7-9) zoe, Michelle, Jak, Kate, Lizzi, Denise, Kristi
10)… Secret Rule 1.3
Alright, gotta Post this thing. On the vidchat last night, Lizzi mentioned that she too wrote a post this weekend. I suspect that I will not be alone in this weekend posts and so I will include (in block quotes, off course!) links to those who would be home alone this week.
So! which character will your blog post be? Joel Goodsen or Lana John Blutarsky or Kevin McAllister
(Hey!!! those pictures below here?? in the block quotes?? the links are in the photos themselves!! really, I know!! how cool is that! so click them things!!)
our fearless leaderette
the parents call in, you get everyone to quiet down long enough to get through the conversation…”no! everything is fine, yes I did do my homework, no Rebecca is not…..”
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skip….yo
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from our scottian friend in the land-of-roads-with-90-degree-turns-only
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she says she be joining us tomorrow! tune in and find out!
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HA! I’m with you on the imagery. And do as you will, this weekend. AND THIS WEEK! We’re here for 5 days! UNPRECEDENTED.
Yo!
thanks for the vote of confidence!!
(place your ‘the old person/bloghop running for extra days/done-in-good-tase sexual innuendo’ … >here<) lol of course, if I invoke my scottian aspect, I wouldn't feel the need for a 'safe setup' hey… see you tomorrow vidchat! remind me, if we have the time, to tell you about the latest insight into the rogerian worldview! (hey..do I know how have a good time, or what?)
Commenting from somewhere in Missouri. Fun read of course and listening to car talk. Lol
Cyndi
hey if you drive all night (though I can’t imagine you guys would want to)…I’ll have the Saturday Night Drive call-in line open tonight @ 8
have good trip when you get to your destination, remember what we say, “take notes!!!”
I intended to do a post anyways too and then Lizzi decided to go renegade so it all worked out. And I am SO grateful that I only have to work here and there over the next two weeks :)
…. I for one, for purposes understood when taking the whole blogging thing into consideration, am running all the ‘home alone/parents away for the weekend’ movie scenes through my mind as I read and comment.
fun
I would like to be Ferris Beuller during the Twist and Shout scene… Hey I hope( I haven’t checked yet ..).but I hope I didn’t steer you wrong on the outline book… its not the one for fiction right? Oh I hope not… I just thought of it as I was reading your comment on my site. Im sorry I had to leave early, I really enjoy those vids. I was afraid of becoming blog fodder for everyone for today if I stayed as I was very few steps away from drooling and incoherent speech.
zoe
lol well, I did get the outline book it is for fiction (I think, just started), but I have a fiction book idea in my head (and another 60,000 words of horrible prose) so that might be helpful with that…but the Doctrine Book, nonfiction and that is my priority to get it into a form that a non-follower of the Doctrine could read and, after reading use the Doctrine as intended.
they are one omy favorite time of the week….after you left (I think Jak had joined us), then Michelle and Lizzi and Denise and finally Kristi turned up later… ayiiee I don’t know how our Lizzi does it!* but she put us all to bed… though Kirsti stayed strong as did Jak and Kate… Michelle well, she was calling from the future so that doesn’t count!
will be doing the Saturday Night Drive tonight at 8 pm number is somewhere on the blog… nd then tomorrow am for a bit o brunch
* actually I do! she is hypo-aged
dammit …sorry about that , Clark… I will find the name of the other one… either way an outline is an outstanding start… well that is one Clark’s opinion…and a few of her editors…It sounds like I missed some good stuff… next time. I will have to sleep first… being hyper-aged and all… verging on progeria I suspect…
Newspapers can indeed be the source of early morning (or just before noon) breakfast entertainment :-)
Stephanie
I don’t read them for information or ‘news’ anymore, but we don’t get too many magazines in the house so it’s something to do with my eyes when I have lunch. this (cited story) was exceptional in my experience with a medium normally inclined to just past words in the air
I was over at Mrs Always Random’s and she had the group ‘the Civil War’ as one of her selections of Christmas music… I’m not so into the Xmas beat, but I love this vid, so I promised her that I would post it here…
LOVE this video…best videos actually GO WITH the song…TY so much, Clark! Love The Civil Wars…so sad that they broke up. Have you ever watched them on Jools Holland? They are so great live. Well, it’s still a recording, but you understand what I mean…
Mrs. Always
yeah… this is one of those videos that complement, enhance or something the music
how did you leave a music video in your comment? I am so tech inept. I loved Home Alone and guess what I am home alone too. You have to read my post to see. I didn’t pick up the theme, however. Maybe I should go edit. Nah. Anyway, Merry Christmas. ;)
M.
When you go to ‘the youtube’ and where they have ‘share’ and the link comes up, if you look closely you will see (above the link window) ’embed’ when you click on that you will see code that will include 2 numbers which are the size of the player that will display…know 100 off each and copy the whole thing and paste into a comment window. You have to do if from the dash board (like when you’re replying) save and it should show up.
Risky Business, Home Alone, AND Animal House? Now THAT is a house party! I’m with Zoe – that Ferris Beuller scene is great. Guess TToT folks are just a wild bunch of hellions this weekend!
Yo, thanks for the shout out, Clark! No sword or stick to brandish because I’m too happy to do that. Thanks for sharing, yo!