Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
We all know that the year speeds up, it’s apparent rate of passage, at some point during the course of the 12 months of the year. Not a year goes by that I don’t hear someone say, “Boy! where did the year go? One minute it was January and now it’s…” (fill in one of the months of the last Quarter of the year). Good news! I’ve discovered when the acceleration commences, in earnest. This week. The one we’re finishing up. The first full week of March. The year is now, officially, speeding the hell up.
Just thought you’d want to know.
1) Cynthia…
2) road trips (Haven’t been on one in too long. Thinking that, once I get Blogdominion completed, I need to go drive by St. Emily’s and spend the night in the Hilton Chicago/Indian Lakes Resort where the first mysterious death occurred in the story of Unit 17 and the Bloggers and the Nun)
3) hey!! the Academy Awards were this week!! Am I ever grateful? well, no, I don’t really care about the Academy Awards. But I do like movies! This TToT is shaping up to being pretty lame, (except my reference to Cynthia and Una and Phyllis and the Gravity Challenge and Blogdominion and the Six Sentence Story). You want to see one of the best movies ever? and, if you’re a new Reader? and you’re wondering which is your predominant world view, you want some help finding which personal reality is your? Well, do you? This movie (for which I will invoke SR 893.389, chap 3 and count as 4 Items on a future TToT post), will help big time! Lets get you started on the movie, then I’ll come back and tell you what the movie can tell you about your personality type, ok?
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5) so, the movie: if you’re a clark, you’ll not only enjoy the movie immensely, but you’ll laugh in recognition to the opening scenes. if you’re a roger you will not make it past, like, the first 5 minutes… you will totally hate it. (not just hate it, but, if you’re watching this with anyone else, especially a clark, you’ll get mad at what a monumental waste of time this movie is, and how can anyone say that this is anything but awful.) If you’re a scott, you’ll enjoy if you’re watching it with another person, be bored and turn it off, if alone.
6) the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) is wonderful. In today’s Post, I’m invoking the ‘at least a million words‘ clause of the Rule. This allows us to use motion pictures as an example, not only of a thing we are grateful for, but the relationships that exist that allow such a thing to be shared and enjoyed. (or something)(lol)
7) Chapter 20 of Blogdominion is out and, well, let me say, that Sister Margaret! Land Sakes Alive! That young woman has more sides that Heinlein’s tesseract!*
8) * well, sure! we’re not limited to staring at the silver screen! here, you want to read a classic short story? Here is Heinlein’s, ‘-And He Built A Crooked House’
9) since we’re all about the movies this week, you want to see a real science fiction, time-travel paradox movie? I mean, probably the best one ever made? Go see, (or rent from wherever you rent movies from), “Predestination” Staring Ethan Hawke… seriously, this movie is amazing and, I might add, based on a short story by the master of time-travel paradox stories, Robert A Heinlein! worth the price of the rental, for sure.
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Is that a Right of Hat photo for the Grand Canyon? The Blogdominion road trip sounds quite awesome. One of the wild ladies at my book club last night was talking about a religious relative named, wait for it, Sister Margaret. It’s like when something becomes part of your conscious mind, you see it all over the place. Entrenched in your story.
Actually (the angles are not quite as good as they should have been, but I asked a total stranger to take the photo, and he was not aware of the Wakefield Doctrine!!) (I know! go figure!) in any event, Meteor Crater is what you are correctly identifying as my right to claim.
Aiyee! Maribeth Hartley can’t be too far behind. Too bad Bernadine (the real life friend from the past can’t be with us today. tell me she would not make a perfect Catholic School Principal):
A road trip sounds like a lot of fun, a great idea. Likely it can provide a good amount of inspiration for your writing.
Happy for you that February is behind us and it is March, as I know how much you were looking ahead to getting this year going.
yeah, it was funny how just this week the sense of ‘where did that week go?!!’ really hit home. but at least the cold is on it’s way out. More to the point, even if we get more snow, we’re on the right side of the holidays so it won’t be as if we’re stuck with it for any length of time.
OMG – there should be a movie about a Clark, a Scott and a Roger who meet by chance on the subway and somehow all end up having to be roommates and all the things that could happen.
OMG – The Wakefield TV show!!!
Hahaha.
Anyways…thankful for your list of thankfuls. :)
aiyeee! (naturally I’m running TV shows through my head, trying to find a match… and, thanks for…that thing. (lol)
Aw man! The whole movie! Excellent!
When I watched Slacker for the first time (was there a second?) I watched it with my other half, a roger. This is a very accurate litmus test! I don’t think my roger lasted more than 10 minutes and yes, he thought it was boring and an awful movie.
How exciting to take a road trip to some of the actual places in Blogdominion. Very cool.
I look forward to watching Predestination. The time travel stuff is always a fun topic :D
no really, Predestination is such a good story/movie… I can’t say anything more until you’ve seen it, because it would give stuff away.
I too love a good road trip. Does Una travel with you?—say on a nice LONG walk?
she did not, up until last Summer’s Great Virtual People Convergence Event in New Jersey. and she did ride with us (the others are still complaining, in a good natured way, about how Una always got to ride shotgun*!)
*hey, is that a colloquialism over where you are? I would think not, as the origin of the expression comes from stag coach days in the Wild West
No complaints just teasing. She is an awesome companion! The Heinlein story that the movie was based on was freakin me out…much more than the concept did when presented in movie format… maybe it’s just that I don’t like movies
Una does enjoy riding shotgun…. yeah, some movies will do that, others I can watch again and again and movies like ‘Slacker’ I can enjoy coming back, watching segments returning later, etc (mostly, I suspect, because it so reflects the clarklike worldview!)
I have never heard of the movies of which you spoke. I’m not surprised, though. You and I seem to have come from different worlds. :)
I never watch the Academy Awards. I do watch the wrap-up shows, though. I like to see all the dresses.
A road trip sounds delightful. Of course, a road trip always sounds delightful to me.
You have my total respect for your road trip skills… which, when you think about it, is more mindset than itinerary. To go for the sake of going, to discover things that, by the fact of their being unknown, cannot be anticipated.
Well, for one, your roads are all ruler straight and your corners are all 90 degree angles! (no, I saw it on ‘the google’, so it has to be true). ‘Slacker’ you can safely miss, but if you’re in a mood for scifi puzzlement, ‘Predestination’ is a very good movie. I forget the Rating, but I know there wasn’t anything overly graphic or non-child-friendly….
yes, for the most part, we like logical roads here in Indiana, except downtown. The same person who designed D.C. designed Indy, so there is a circle in the middle and 4 roads radiate from it. Makes for some seriously confusing intersections downtown.
While much of Indiana is easy to navigate, there are some fun, twisty, hilly roads that we love.
At least a million words? SNEAKY! Here’s to road trips and keeping connections and the ever-faster-approaching GOOD season in the year.
true dat…. (I had a friend in Jr High School, who, back before OCD became popular, decided that, as a hobby, he would see how high a number he could reach, writing them down on a pad. 1,2,3…. interesting. I don’t recall the final number, but he sure got excited at crossovers, like 9,999)
no, I have no idea what that was meant to mean!