Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

Anyone who has written a blog for more than, say, 18 months, accepts the fact that there is a rhythm to the ‘reads’ that a blog experiences. Nothing surprising in that. Patterns of activity and rhythm in our energy levels, exert their influence throughout our day, each and every minute is devoted and assigned to something.  When to leave for work, what time we need to meet the kids getting off the school bus, the afternoon ‘coffee break’, patterns and rhythms all.

But that is not what today’s Post is about. I do not know, at this point (Word count:109) what, if anything, today’s Post is about. However two thoughts, like school children anxious to impress the Teacher in the first week of classes (yes, they would be rogers) rattle around in my head:

1. “hey, just write something… you can bury it with a new Post tomorrow” In the early days of this blog, I often overcame writers stoppage with the simple thought. ‘get something really outrageous down and then write your way out of it’
2. (something that zoe said in a Comment this recent Monday), “…there is a constant push /pull to do the blog /quit the blog… despite my investment in it at any given time… WTF is that about?“
3. the photo today?  Simply an example of an-unsung genius of marketing… (photo of today’s dose of  ‘hey-old-man-don’t-worry-eat-all-of-these-and-you’ve-earned-the-right-to-beleieve-that-science-can-do-what-your-body-seems-to-hellbent-on-forgetting-how-important-certain-functions-are’ Vitamin Supplement. I am totally serious. I’ve looked it up. If you wanted to, you could easily put 10 times more supplements, nutritional additives and South American Ardor Plant extract into a single tablet no larger a One-a-Day vitamin. But that would not let me imagine that this product is different! No! What GNC has done is put 6 different capsules in a see-through plasticine packet…can you see in the photo?  all different sizes and colors… some small, but there’s that black capsule and the clear yellow one?  oh yeah! can’t wait til next Saturday Night!  I will say, in the characteristic manner of the Wakefield Doctrine, you can learn (nearly) everything you need to know about people (in general) and men (in particular) if you can appreciate what makes this such an effective approach to marking a vitamin.)

Lets move on.  What zoe said. (which is either: why do we do the blog thing that we all do, none of us (well, most of us) professional-get-paid-impressive-salaries-to-write people. So why put in the not-inconsiderable effort to produce Post after Post? And…and more interesting, why our ambivalence towards the idea of simply quitting?  My opinion is that blogging is what every 12 year old girl dreams of: changing the world with well expressed thoughts and conflicts resolved with good intentions and everyone can live happily ever after…. (no, send your angry comments to:  zoe rewritten  it was her Comment!)

Speaking of angry, unsolicited opinions, why have I never….ever….ever seen our kitchen in a TV commercial? We have a nice little house, 2bds /2bath, galley style kitchen…call it 800 sf total living area… even though I mute the commercials, I can still see them and what they show, when selling breakfast and laundry products, (in the world of TV commercials, breakfast is the only meal eaten at home… lunch and dinner is out with friends in restaurants and nightclubs and other places that rogers enjoy.  Anyway,  the fricken kitchens are huge!  (now, for the record, I’m, a real estate broker in a market where homes range in value from 100K to 10MM, so I know from houses. If the ‘normal’ kitchens in TV commercials are used as a standard, the average house would be in the 500-800K price range.

speaking of real estate… gots to get out to work.

apropos of nothing (at least in this Post):