Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
(sshh… it’s 1:06 am Saturday. Una and Phyllis are asleep and I have a cold. As Readers familiar with our little blog know, having a cold does not, in and of itself, per se… factotum (lol no! does not even approach appropriate use!!), it (the cold, not ‘the use’) can have elements that are interesting. Now, the coughing part…not overly fun or funny, the convulsive shivering when the chills hit, that can be fun (fun, strictly in the sense of ‘hey! lets go on the roller coaster…it’ll be fun!’ Now, the fever… that definitely has potential. It’s not that clarks, as a people, require a lot of help to see the world-askew, but the effects of a fever (mild, nothing that require ice baths, or worse, alcohol rubdowns!! ayyiieee! I totally remember having that happen when I was about 5 years old. 2 am and my parents decide that my temperature is getting out of hand (don’t really recall… 102 or 103 or something) anyway, it was the 1950s and everything was closed at 2:00 am! so out comes the rubbing alcohol. An amazing combination of sensory inputs… lights too bright, both parents awake and acting a little too concerned and the smell! is there anything that smells more like a hospital than rubbing alcohol? I survived to grow up and write about it.)
As I was saying, a fever can bring a certain sense of quiet frivolity, a lessening of the normal filters on what I might say to co-workers and clients and such. At moment, the fever seems to have abated, the cough has subsisted (rogerian expression…lol). So, up and at the Computer.)
Item 4 (this will make sense later). Friend of the Doctrine Val quite graciously sent multiple photos of her Wakefield Doctrine hat that she took to the Tropics! How very cool. Not only that, but she sent a set of photos from Aruba and a set from ‘Anti-Aruba’, USA! I suspect that you will be seeing more of this fine cranial fashion ware in the coming days. Thanks! Valito!
Number Five: Una who is in the photo on ‘the cover’ of today’s Post. (I believe that, if you visit through the link on a host’s page, you do not get to see ‘the secondary photo’…that’s the thumbnail that appears in the blurb (blurb??!! what ever made people think that the word, ‘blurb’ should be used by anyone other than a 4 year or a 14 year old boy? yes, I will go find out! wait here… ok here’s the link
Number Six…. the damn internet! come on! you know that link in the previous item, the one about the etymology of the term ‘blurb’? well, not only is it interesting (most of us here have some part of our souls invested in writing Words that Others Will Read and Enjoy/Be Moved By)…. but when I look up the image of the fictitious woman from the story, I got this:
I trust you can blow it up or print it or otherwise make the thing readable… totally worth the effort.
Number Seven: I am grateful that it worked out that I could leave work early enough to take Una for a car walk. And we went cow hunting! (My admiration grows for you people, Christine and Kristi and the others who do those very clear and well laid-out photos). I even used my real camera!
Number 8: I am more grateful than you can imagine for writing Number Seven… because I mentioned using my regular camera, it made me think about how I changed the normal settings… specifically, I upped the resolution and turned off the Date/Time stamp. That’s as it should be, but… but! I just remembered that I better remember to restore the settings! Because I so rarely change the settings, I might very well have gone out today on inspections only to end the day with useless photos!! (inspection photos must be date stamped). Damn! nice bullet dodge.
Number Nine: the cow of the Week. omg!! we have a tie!!!
10) wait!! we have to do 1-3…. which is a video!! hold on!!
(hey! it’s not even 2:00 yet!I might even be able to upload this in the morning (the real, people morning, not 200 am morning…) (well…actually it’s 2:08 time to finish this Post so I can go and lay in bed and dream of newspaper Taxis and hope to dodge the ‘fever creeps’* this time.)
(* you don’t want to know…well, fact is, you do know, but there is very little amusing about ‘fever creeps’…. so I’ll just let it go at that….)
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Great post! but let’s just get to your vid.
Nice juxtapositioning of blurry camera v. blurry “sick” voice. Coudn’t have planned that if you tried. But my favorite part?! Rewind to 4 minutes….that’s it….
“….wrestle with large furry blocks…..fingers as big as….” lol
Get well? Not too soon. Want to hear/some more. Not often you get to channel the Tom Waits like voice. lol
And I’ll claim FRIST from second place. Boo-ya!
I’m FRIST from third place! HAHA
frist it is
This here Doctrine is spreading like wildfire! Aruba! Just wait til I bring my clark sweatshirt to Mexico and Costa Rica and Chile and Spain and New Zealand and Australia and Scotland and…and…and…
yeah… how cool is it to have membership in a group characterized by being ‘the Outsider’…. ja ja ja
Hope you feel better, Clark. There is way too much snow in the Northeast. Sometimes from those mental aberrations come the best creative posts.
Thank you Val… it is only a cold, but the weird head effects is about as exotic as I manage to get at this stage of the game… sad, I know! lol
Yikes, Clark, I hope that you guys get over the nasty bug soon! That aside, the car walk must have been fun. Say hi to Una and Phyllis, this Roger hasn’t seen them in a while!
yeah… I know! (not seeing Phyllis and Una… like when we first started the vid chats… ‘hey! look! that rapidly moving dark shape on the bed? It must be Una!’)
” Hey Clark , I want you to commit suicide driving in a blizzard and filming at the same time…” That was probably the fever talking, not Christine! Feel better , Tom…
…and if Tommy told to jump off the Brookyln Bridge… I suppose you would do that too!
(voices of childhood authority figures)
lol
NO JOKE! I just hope he was stopped to take the cow photos with his real camera.
well, Una was in the car with me! so…duh! (of course I stopped the car!)
*grins* Actually, both Beth’s AND Helena’s books make me want to crawl through thirty miles of dense tropical jungle and bite someone in the neck.
LOVE it.
I’m so happy you got to claim Ah-ruba. Do you want me to take a hat across the states with me? Can it be blue? I know by default you might have the states covered, but I thought I’d offer. I can also claim at least four planes, so you can get some doctrinal airspace, too.
The rubbing-alcohol thing sounds HORRENDOUS, but way to make it into an ordeal :D
Aaaaaand I find lack of sleep an infinitely preferable way of losing a filter or six.
funny about sleep dep… I can, at times get a little of loosening of the filters, but mostly I loose the Power of Speech! no! really! I totally remember one time 30 or so years ago, had not slept for a couple of days, but wasn’t tired (you know how the energy cycles keep you going)… physically ok… but someone asked me for simple directions (no, seriously simple…as in see this corridor? go until there is a hall on the right, walk down the hall and stop at the second door on the left.)
could.not.do.it lol (the fun clarks have!)
I just tend to start spouting the real, unadulterated thoughts and feels, and think ‘ah, fuck it – they can stand to hear it’. Tres dangereuse!
LOL… that (first) being the fun and simple part but the it’s always the part as it relates to ‘them’ that trips us up! we don’t care (at the time) and the effect (of these un-characteristic speaking) are not, in and of themselves bad or good… in fact, (there are times) when those around us are all… ‘wow! didn’t know you had that in you’ but how much of (this change (temporary and episodic)) can we maintain? (emphasis on ‘we’… it is about us not them…. that’s the part that is important…
I don’t think we’d necessarily LIKE to live with the filters off all the time. I’m not sure if they’re there to protect us or THEM, sometimes, but I think they’re generally a good thing, especially when we’re aware that the thing we say might come across as really quite esoteric, and makes perfect sense within the context of our own (or another clark’s) mind, yet we’re too…liberated (for want of a better word, though “careening” might also fit)…to care that we’re addressing rogers or scotts.
the idea of the resultant effect of temporary removal of filters is twofold, (I suspect): a) in the context of your answer, with which I am in agreement and the larger (secret) inference of what we are referring to and that is to say ‘our worldviews’….
maybe we don’t have filters, maybe it’s just that from our reality there are certain words/concepts/ideas/possibilities and they (these words/concepts/ideas/possibilities) are ‘translated out’ a certain way…
wait…. lets try this: a simple clark (no significant secondary or tertiary) would be limited to communicating only in the language of the Outsider and therefore would be at the mercy of the (Listener)’s capacity to ‘translate’ into their own worldview…. happens a lot those of us (of any of the three) that have secondary or tertiary aspects… are in possession of ‘additional vocabulary’ (of words/concepts/ideas/possibilities) and so we are able to communicate more in concert with out needs (relative to those around us)… the filters in this case, when removed have the effect of us speaking a mix of three languages…
man, we need to find a way for you to be able to call in on Saturday Nights (without having to take a second mortgage on the house)…. we had a excellent call with Denise and Cynthia last night… you would have enjoyed it….I would have enjoyed it
Yes Lizzi! You should have been in on last night’s call. Come on Miss All Over the Planet! You can find a way:)
Digesting this last comment Clark. In keeping w/what we were talking about last night, all I have to say now, at a time of no words, is: I can identify. It translates. I know you know that I know what it is you know and are trying to say lol
I know. :( But lets definitely schedule a real VidChat soon. Friday still looks good for me.
I think I missed a trick there – the removal of filters ALLOWS us to speak more in a translatable way to the others?
Friday it is… lets post a public time (and then I’ll probably get on a little early)
no, you have the idea, instead of ‘filters’ think worldviews (actually think ‘language native to a given world view’) most of the time we pretty much stick to our native language (Outsider/Predator/Herd) so filters more the fact of our language… sometimes (when sick, or tired or sick and tired) we speaking poly-worldview….) we go raging throughout the house that contains the living space of clarks and of rogers and scotts and bang on the doors and yell shit like, “yIqIm!!! roger chugh vaj biHegh qaStaHvIS pagh mejDI’ naDev ‘ej Qab rur scott ‘e’ vISov!”
so this business of filters is key thank you
remind me to mention ‘the Questions we pose (to) ourselfs’
AHHHHHHH okay that makes more sense – coming out of our filters and into the hallways.
Um. I shall want to have finished my TToT…shall we say midnight my time?
yes (remind me again..5 hours in the future?)
Right you are
I love that it comes through as anti-aruba. That is hilarious.
lol
I’m totally jealous of that hat. How I wish I could be in Aruba (which is my favorite place I’ve ever been yet)! Kudos for playing around with your camera and bringing those gorgeous bovine specimens to the TToT. I’m still playing it safe with my new camera and using it in Guide mode. Manual scares me.
well, the camera I use for work is simply one of those little square, point-and-shoot digital… I do have a zoom! lol but thats about all the expertise required to operate it
What a great photo from Aruba! I can’t believe I didn’t think to take my t-shirt to Paris. Or even downtown Indy! I will have to remedy this situation.
I could not watch the whole video, but I must say, that voice! I like it!
I hope you are feeling better very soon. I can’t seem to find anything good about being sick with a cough and fever.
Side note, what helps with Kristi’s and my photos is that we make them larger. When you post a photo, does it have to be so small? Larger photos are more impressive and easier to see. People like to see the details, which the smaller size prevents.
Yes, I clicked the photo. i did get to see it enlarged and with the details. Regardless, it would still be nicer to see in the post itself. :)
Christine
I usually use the medium size when embedding the photos… a full (size) takes up the page margin to margin…. may try it… but it may very well be a limitation of my blog layout
Hey Lizzi! On your trip – wear the t shirt or the hat, stand in front of a landmark (or not) and simply claim by right of hat. It will be fabulous! :D
Did I already say here about being told to put onions in my kids’ socks for sickness? I think I did. How odd that that should come up twice. The alcohol one is something I think I’ve read in books, but nothing I’ve ever seen done. It does sound like sensory overload.
yeah totally (the sensory overload) (but very much in a bad way: feel sick, be doused in a liquid that is the scent of a hospital)
had never heard about the onions in socks therapy…damn! sounds delish
That’s a helluva lot of snow.
I sound like Brenda Vaccaro when I have a cold.
I like your videos, but you terrify me that you are going to crash into something and die. I guess when you’ve posted one, I can be assured that hasn’t happened. THIS time.
Feel better!
I have NOT seen a snow bank like that here! (I have seen snow banks like that other places, though.)
Christine is right–usually I post the photos at the “X-large” setting.
I tried using the largest format in the process of embedding the photo but it ended up showing only the middle of the photo (the width was greater than the space)…unless the x-large is on the camera and not in the computer…
we had 49 degrees later in the day (that you commented)! So hopefully the snowbanks will recede. Although it’s always amazing how long they last, apparently the dirt and stuff from the plowing ends up insulting the snow and ice… but then again, back when I fished, the captain of one boat I worked on, liked to get his ice from the ice house in town (Narragansett). Nowadays they have a machine to produce the ice, but talking to the people there I learn about how they used to drag large blocks of ice from a fresh water pond in the winter and with only saw dust and a wooden building (and, of course, mass quantities of ice) would be in a position to sell ice the whole year around… including the middle of summer!