Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Today being Friday, we’re hanging with the girls/women/friends/hot chicks at the Finish the Sentence Friday bloghop. They are fun and are totally possessed of the aforementioned but un-specified attributes. The ‘they’ being: Stephanie, Kate, Janine and Kristi. Hey, now that I see our host’s names (and for me, the connectors to the descriptors are near- instantaneous), I realize that I have ‘met’ 2 out of 4 of these talented writers! By ‘met’, I mean, of course, at our Friday Night Vidchat* Kristi is a regular and Kate stopped in last week, we had a rather good time. So that leaves Janine and Stephanie. Janine was almost in attendance last Friday. The biggest hurdle to attending a vidchat is always scheduling, for a variety of reasons, vidchats are not simply, “oh honey? be a dear and amuse the kids for a little, I want to go hangout with my virtual friends on the tele screen”
So hopefully Janine and Stepanie (who should be back from her road trip by now) can stop in for a brief visit at say…. 8:30 pm EDST
…no, I’m not avoiding today’s (unfinished) sentence!
I went to a concert…
but as any blog writer out there knows, there is that time, after we know the topic but before we know how we are going to deal with it, that we sit quietly and shake our minds, like a metaphorical snow globe calmly watching the half formed ideas drift around and hope that an something comes to us that will make the Post be ‘one of those Posts’…. that people write Comments that include: ‘I really identified with what you…‘ ‘wow! that takes me back‘ ‘I really laughed when you said…’ and ‘stay the hell out of my head, I don’t care what your Doctrine tells you, you peeping-tom-assed creep‘ You know, like we all hope for…
I went to a concert…
(we all chipped in a quarter for gas, crammed into Lennie’s girlfriend’s parent’s VW, $4.50 Tickets in hand, got to the RI Auditorium a half hour early, (warming up for Hendrix was Cactus and Catmother and the Allnight Newsboys), and the wooden folding chairs were freezing because the night before the ‘Auditorium’ hosted a hockey game and they put plywood over the ice for the concert. and … and!! the best thing? my ears rang for two days and I couldn’t have been happier going to school and saying. “what?! can’t hear you” … tinnitus was the live-concert-souvenir of choice… )
…the histerio-musico cachet that derives from seeing Jimi Hendrix is almost worth the age bracket that is required to make this claim.
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the Wakefield Doctrine
presents
the fabulous bloggers Friday Vidchat
(with your hosts, Lizzi and Michelle)
on google+ hangouts… at 8:00 pm EDST
About clarkscottroger
I know I am a slacker at the VideoChats. Seriously, you need to do them in the afternoon, when my kids are in school, because last night at around 8:30, I was having to clean up stuffed animals and toys with my kids at this time. See the pattern, I really have such a wild and crazy life, lol! But really, mine is dictated by what two little kids have in store for me on any given day or night. But I will try, but seriously hope you know I do want to be there, but these princesses have other things in store for me nightly. God only knows what it will be tonight lol :)
Janine
np… your situation (with the girls and the family) is more the rule than the exception, I have been thinking about ‘Afterschool Specials’ vidchats and the mid t- late afternoon is surely going to be the timeframe… to be cont’d
I know it was nowhere near the focus of your fine post, but I can’t get the snow globe image out of my head. It’s a blog mind-worm. So thanks for that, good stuff. :)
hey. thank you for the compliment-of-compliments, i.e. mind-worm stature lol, man we are so into ‘the audience’ non?
You saw Jimmy Hendrix in concert, Clark? What an incredible concert and $4.50 to boot! I hope to see you tonight after a few weeks away. :)
Jennifer
yeah, what a difference 40 years or so can make! good! will be starting at about 8:00 pm EDST
Hendrix for $4.50… wow my ears are ringing from the envy alone.
zoe,
yeah, pretty cool, huh? lol see you tonight?
I keep forgetting about the vidchats! Gah!! Some day I’ll do one! And, Jimi Hendrix for $4.50?! Wow!! That’s crazy and awesome!
Sorry, left the ‘hey join us tonight message’ at your blog as a comment (where it will have the distinction of having not a single reference point!) lol in any event, I did enjoy my ancient concert!
Hendrix would totally be worth the ear ringing and the age bracket required. Love the snow globe imagery (so right) and by the way? you peeping-tom-assed creep, get out of my head.
;-)
lol
Seeing Hendrix is worth it. You just scored eleventybillion Cool Points :D
thank you very much, (as I alluded to, it’s almost worth the price in years…) lol
Jimmi Hendrix sounds delightful right now. Even though I’m more a fan of the acoustic guitar. Have a great weekend!!
Stephanie
aww man, you had to say that! welll seems like I have a little vid of an acoustic by Hendrix (lol)
I was reading this thinking how great the snow globe imagery works and how awesome it was that you actually saw a Hendrix concert for $4.50, then I saw Lizzie’s comment and it brought me right back to the 2nd grade…when the teacher asked what 10×11 was and I blurted out eleventy! Tried to suck it back in before I finished saying it, but it was too late lol. [#FTSF]
LOVE Hendrix–miss you guys! xox sleeptime here!
Haha! Jimi Hendrix sounds impressive and cool. He’s no Flock of Seagulls though. ;-) I missed the chat. My mom said she had 15 min to talk and it turned into 40. Then I didn’t know where to go to reconnect because my notification bubble disappeared. Gah! Next
Friday.
Kate
yeah… sorry I saw the attempted connection but alas and there was also Jennifer trying to get it… too late for tonight def next week
… I realize I’m tired and it’s late but I kinda took issue on the thread at Bloppies as I understood you to say that julie tapes or does something with her hangouts… no recording is the rule here… a lot of us are clarks and don’t particularly like the idea that a vid might get shared around for fun or educational or promotional purposes…. real stick in the mud, me lol oh well I doubt if anyone read that far down into the thread