Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
so my second thought was, ‘screw it, write until they stop reading’. The Plan now is to do all the things, I’ve been meaning to…. (no! no! I’ll get it! ) ‘blah, blah, blah’
you’re welcome.
the word today is ‘gestures’ (“…hey, man! I saw that…what the hell was that all about?” “why, what a nice gesture, we really appreciate it!” ” and then, the apparition began a series of frightening gestures, everyone stepped back”)
So what does this word have to do with the better understanding and more effective use of the Wakefield Doctrine?
wait! stop reading…. for just a second. just sit there, I’ll call you back when I have my mind right. False Start #1
Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine!! the personality theory that is:
unique: damn, no way I can say in less than 500 words what makes the Doctrine unique, so I’ll say it in a way that not only illustrates it’s uniqueness but will also illustrate it’s damn efficacy…. hey! did you see howuseful: if you want an insight into why the people around you act the way that they do, stay with us. the Wakefield Doctrine will make it possible for you to know more about the other person than they know about themselvesfun: seriously! it’s not just that using the Doctrine in your life is fun (find the nearest scott, tell them a few select things about one other person and watch the fun begin…Ed Sullivan had nothing on you!) but learning about the Wakefield Doctrine is fun in ways that we are just beginning to discover
False Start #2!!
This had better work:
hey Readers! ever have a Post that you knew you had in you, (for the day), but when you sat down to write it you find that you are two or three thoughts away from the ‘proper’ starting point? Sorry, that was a little confusing. Let’s try this: most of the time when I go to write a Post (not counting event-specific Posts), I set out typing in a direction that I hope will take me near the idea that will become the topic. I rarely have it in mind when I start…..
False Start # 3!!!
Screw it! Hey clarks!! clearly this blog has stopped trying to pander to/reach out to/make an effort to resonate with the scotts and rogers among the Readers. Totally given up on developing my writing skills, at least in hoping to be able to ‘write in a rogerian style’ or ‘write to the scotts‘. Too ambitious for the moment. Maybe next year.
Having said that, let me be clear on this one point: we want to bring in rogers and scotts to this here Doctrine here. While we have Michelle here to speak for the rogers. I am totally grateful to her for coming around and allowing us a direct insight into the rogerian worldview. We want more. Start thinking about who you know that is: a) a scott or a roger and 2) is comfortable with the whole blogging for fun and self-expression thing. It’s not that we need them to already be writing a blog, but take it from me, you don’t want to try to drag a scott or a roger to this blog, if they’ve never been to the blogosphere. Too much change. Neither worldview is overly big on the ‘change/novelty-for-it’s-own-sake thing. They would be of no use to us. (Why thank you for asking that, Lizzi! the ‘use to us’? that we have the opportunity to learn-by-association. Example? Sure. Let’s say you’re a classically trained musician, a guitarist. Someone comes up to you after a concert and says, ‘hey!! you better be at ‘The Gates‘ or the ‘Cafe Wha?‘ next Saturday night. You sit in for one set and you need to win them over’ (stay with me now, this little analogy is a bit bigger than I thought). So what would you, (Mr./Ms. classically-trained-musician) do? Buy all the sheet music you could get your hands on, bring it along, trust that you can sight read well enough to be convincing? ….or you could go to these bars and clubs and listen…and watch and absorb the music. ya know?
Awright. Time to get back to the ‘real’ world. Get out there today and spot your scotts and rogers. ( how can you tell if you have a roger or a scott? lolled you asked! damn! one will put on a show of doing you a favor that you don’t deserve and the other will barely be able to hid their…. enthusiasm.)
Not to worry! I’ll get back to the more normal enticing and intriguing Posts that are such a hallmark of our blog. After all, we don’t want Jean or beth or Kate to think that this is all brainiac-central …like that episode of Star Trek with those ass-headed aliens who took Capt. Pike and fixed him up with Susan Oliver and, so, like, he could totally get it on for their entire race’s anemic, asexual culture’s entertainment and all… yeah, I know all this Star-Trek geek-reference is a total turn on….
lol
jeez not nearly as naked as my memory says she was
annoying, smug, ass-headed alien fellas
you wanted to know why we call them ‘ass-headed aliens’?
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WOW~! Tough holiday Clark? LOL…I always hated that ass-headed alien episode… Have you been to Jean’s blog yet?
zoe
yeah smug little cerebrotonic bastards!
no!! not yet, do you have her address? (all I have (on her Comments) is the gravatar thingie, no link to her address)
HEY!! Jean jinnay what the hell is your blog address??!
*eyes crossed*
So many lines, buddy!
Also, to my shame, wrong Star Trek. I’m still not caught up properly. If you’d begun with “There’s coffee in that nebula…” I would’ve been on board…
Going to try to woo a roger or two.
Lizzi
yeah, it was that kind of morning, post-writing-istically speaking, of course!
It’s funny about this particular Episode (of Star Trek) it is one of the few storylines carried forward into the current batch of Trek movies. The episode, I forget what Season, gave us Spock taking over the Enterprise and being a mutinous Vulcan dog. But it had two distinguishing memes (the totally hot, and/or beautiful Susan Olvier being all kinds of TV-in-the-60s sexy… and at times, green) and it had those fuckin ass-headed evolved brain guys. (The more I think about it. the more pissed off I get… undoubtedly due, in no small part, to a projection of my own clarklike worldview).
be careful with them rogers! not that they are a direct threat, but they have that ‘lashing out’ thing that they do with remarkable effectiveness. …though usually associated with scotts, you might want to roll up a newspaper and take it with you when you go out ‘on safari’
Oh she VERY green! And I’ve only watched one of the new movies. And I don’t remember it.
Bah humbug on your pissed-offness though.
No dice today. Well. Small dice. No newspaper needed.
Lizzi
the women of 1960’s adolescent boy’s fantasies!… I’m having trouble pasting photos into the comments today, so given what a trainwreck today’s Post is, I’ll just go ahead and paste them right at the bottom of today’s Post*.
just in case we get someone who heard about ‘this really, unique and useful and insightful personality-type blog and how it will take the self-help world by storm…
“…oh! pictures of half-dressed alien females! how mature, certainly something the editorial board will be interested in”
hello my little crank-pot! Here is Jean’s address…she is pro beader so much of her blog is dedicated to such but much is not… She is just a fun gal…I only know her through blogging but she has been a ton of fun…
http://prettykittydogmoonjewelry.blogspot.com/
love the photo additions by the way and for those not in the know there was a cleft up the back of the ass-heads heads… as I recall…thus the term “ass head” and I thought she was more uncovered as well… that is one of the persistent star trek stories that has really followed through consistently…God she was a freak show nut job huh?
hahahhaahha God Im slow… I just noticed the addition in the back… did you do that?
zoe
why yes, yes I did! (actually your previous Comment prompted me to get a little more pictorial evidence of these guys…)
I wish you hadn’t confirmed that my memory is faulty…long deprived of the 13 yo imagination…here is a vid of our Miss Oliver
god help me, for some reason she makes me think of one of those old timer newsreels from the 1920s!
Uhmm…so…this is what people had before there was Seven of Nine?
Lizzi
lol… the weird(est) thing is, that my memory has it so much less tame/silly funny about chrono-cultural contexts!
yes Lizzi, in the olden days all we had were little ass headed men and green strumpets!
Im sorry didn’t mean to confirm your memory as faulty… is it? 13 then is not 13 now … that was pretty risqué then… you cant look at it with the same eye… I don’t see the newsreel reference… I did like your handy work on the other pic though! hee!