Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
(slipping into the queue at Janine and Stephanie and Kate and Kristi’s blgohop… trying not to be noticed, it having been, like, what, a year since the Doctrine has participated? always liked the FTSF. A hell of a gang of writerinae and even a couple of guys from Y Chromeville, not counting the male rogers, of course)
This Friday’s non-completed sentence appears to be…. The Best Decade is… (wait, that’s not right) The 10 Things that make the 80’s (shit! there’s a couple of Posts that seem to be) “My Favorite Decad……” er maybe it’s The Best Ten Years that did not involve having my’…. (no! that can’t be it!)
shit, totally out of practice on these FTSFs!! lets combine the main elements:
- Decades
- Kristi
- Colorado singers and womenly blog conventions
- embarrassing bodily functions… (yeah, that should cover all the bases!)
My Fondest Memories (that cover 10 years of life) and the Songs that Made them Famous…
That would have to be the 1970’s. Because within that 10 year decade, I:
- dropped out of graduate school 1 semester shy of graduating
- played in a ‘wedding band’ (complete with the polyester flowered shirts) and a song list that included: ‘On Green Dolphin Street’, ‘Misty’, ‘the Hully Gully’ and for reasons lost in the distant past, the theme song from ‘the Rockford Files’
- had my first relationship with a scottian woman (“…and you enjoy doing that too?!?!”)
- had 6 different jobs and 2 periods of collecting unemployment
- thought about going out West, but never actually left the state
- the first half of the decade were totally superior, musicistically-speaking than the second half, but then again, the memory is a little blurry from ’76 to ’79
- started in the real estate business, which, with a number of interruptions, would remain my work of choice
…. hey! er, Kristi? you get what I was trying for here, right? tell Stephanie…. Kate, Janine? guys? I haven’t really lost my touch with the bloghop, have I?
I might need to ease back into the bloghop scene. I do totally enjoy the camaraderie-ette here and it’s a good way to start the weekend while ending the workweek.
Speaking of ending the Working, you all (those of you reading this) are invited to our very cool weekly video chat that we do on Friday nights (using google+ hangouts)
the Wakefield Doctrine
presents
the Fabulous Bloggers Vidchat (with Lizzi and Michelle and them)
Friday evening 8:00 pm (check with ‘the Facebook if you have trouble signing in)
it’s fun and interesting and such
finally some music from the 70’s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StcJVOIxLdo
About clarkscottroger
You made my morning that you joined us again and seriously have missed you. Fridays haven’t been the same with your witty humor for this blog hop. As for the 70s, I was only born in 1977, so I technically didn’t feel I could share enough from it having not remembered much at all in those first 3 years of my life, but still sounds the 70s were good to you and glad to hear that. Happy Friday now and we almost made it to the weekend now :)
Janine
yeah same here, unless I’m mistaken (as if that ever happens) your FTSF was my first bloghop and so will always have a special place here at the Doctrine.
hey! you know…that vidchat thing we do on Friday nights… a lot of people just spot by and say ‘hi’ literally so, if you happened by your computer tonight, say around 8 to 9 stop by (or check in at ‘the Facebook’ which we use a lot ’cause the first time getting on the hangout can be a little clunky for a lot of us…be glad to walk you through it)
have a good weekend!
what a great entry. I am totally inspired by this and I cannot wait to read it to Jim too as he was in a band only slightly less dweeby than yours — they wore powder blue satin shirts and Jim played the organ. Their best song was “Louie Louie” . They only had a few songs so they would just start over every time their playlist! And OVER again!!! jny
Yeah I noticed that is Marilyn Chambers, porn queen extraordinaire, on that box of Ivory Snow, clark
jny
(I suspect that few if any other Readers would have been able to make that ID…. lol at the risk of misinterpretation, I will say, ‘I’m totally not surprised that you would have caught that!’)
yeah unfortunately the only photo I could find for today’s Post was ruffle not flowered, but is the spirit, if not the fact of the clothes I had to wear for ‘my art’.
I am totally not surprised that you are totally not surprised…lol
I’m surprised enough at the both of ye, for all o’ us.
that is because time went by and you never saw behind the green door. because you were not born yet!!! (phew! you don’t even know what I am talking about! I hope!)…
Hey were you the polyester flower band at my brother’s first (of 4) wedding? No kidding my other bro and I still make fun of those shirts. Everyone was playing the Rockford Files back then.
zoe
not only un-attractive but impermeable material!! took sweating to a whole ‘nother level, is all. lol
HA – you still got it, although I was sad to not see a photo of you in your get-up for the wedding band because that polyester shirt sounds like a memory in itself. Love how you have some fuzzy memory years in there, too, and laughed out loud about the Scottian woman! And too funny that one of the “main elements” of FTSF is embarrassing bodily functions. Awesome and so glad you’re back at this hop, Clark!
Kristi
I did search the internet, but no photos are to be found, needless to say that I didn’t arrange for any photos and never got a glossy of the band, ‘Brass Tacks’
scottian women are the reason the for the majority of guys deciding to try for a Law Degree or figuring that holding up 7/11s was the best way to increase their income.
I have to agree. The 70s were my favorite too. With a little nod to the early 80s. I’d love to go back and see if it was really as wonderful as I remember it.
Jamie
…I suspect that iit would have been darker and rainier that we all remember… with more illicit sex and career ambitions taking a backseat to a short term goal
Hooray! We are SO excited to see you back here, and no, of course you haven’t lost your touch with FTSF! So great to hear your voice again… you know what I mean.
Stephanie
yeah… know what you mean and though I had a little bit of nerves starting the Post, I remembered, ‘hey clark! they know what you’ve written in the past, too weird just ain’t no thing!’
(which is, of course, one of the things I like about you and your sistas… you’ll be alright responding to ‘The Questions’, with “what? oh! that’s clark and he has this personality theory thing and he sends out tee shirts and video post….er never mind! Don’t worry, he’s alright”)
lol
Where’s the Bozo hair? Darn it. The seventies is my favorite decade for music – the 70s station on XM is the first station I tune into in my car. May try to stop by tonight!
Dana
alas… while I know successful brokers with long hair today, when I started in the business there was no way I could have giant hair.
that’s great (we should be starting at 8 til whenever)
Good work, Clark! Gotta respect a man who drops out of school with a semester to go. Big ones! I hope to join you for a bit tonight, we’ll see. I’ll be at the chicken joint, so it’s a possibility.
Don
dude… the 70’s!! …ill-considered decisions and a stunted appreciation of long-term consequences, Stayin alive…stayin alive!!!
Time went by. You were there. And it kinda segued (with interruptions and the usual amount of tangent) into Real Life Now. :)
And why is there no picture of you wearing ths famous polyester flowered shirt??
Stephanie
alas! (or not) the year was 1975 (or maybe 1976) damn you! hazy Decades! and, and! there were 8 track ‘tapes’ as big as a small tablet, but, like an inch thick, that held our music for playing in our automobiles!
but no photos can be found of me or the shirt…but I still have one of the guitars I played! lol
Hi Clark! I’m so glad you jumped into the decade fray. My date to the senior prom wore a polyester suit. The 70’s were good, but I still like the 80’s better.
totally do not disagree!
on whole, I think the 80s have to get the highest marks, at least in terms of balance and survivability !
Hey! The 70’s were my fave too as you know. And is changing your college major six times and taking 6.5 years to graduate the same thing as quitting grad school? Cause I quit before I even started.
Also, Blog hops. Love the girls, the act, sucking the life out of me. Oh well. Guess it’s back to being a nobody!
Jen
yeah, I think it is (the same)… yours and (the) FTSF were my first attempts at ‘getting out and trying to hangout and pass as a real person in the ‘sphere’… TMTT made that easy, not just ’cause of the music, but the ‘tude.*
* I guess it is apostrophe day! lol