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

Today is Saturn’s Day. Our founderess, being one of the blogosphere’s leading authorities on matters both mythological and parenthetical, centered her creation, (Ten Things of Thankful aka TToT) on the this day. (Of course, the full Holiday of the Grats, runs from Thursday(ish) through Monday or Tuesday, ’cause, like, the weekend, ya know?)

Hey! You know who we’ve been seeing on the Book of Face*? Kristi

(New Readers of the Doctrine, yeah, we know you’re going totally-Arnold Horschach** “I know! I know!” This is surely a Grat for the list… thank you)

In any event, Kristi was one of the original hostinae, back in the day, and, in our metaphor-obsessed way of appreciating the Life Virtual, was one of the cool kids who not only didn’t make fun of us when we first showed up, but actually let us sit at the same table. You know, high school cafeteria table? About twelve, fourteen feet long, three wide, had metal folding legs that could be booby-trapped by those resentful of those of us, (who clearly did not fit in), but for reasons that only made them angrier, just wouldn’t go away.

… what? Ten Things of….

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1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine (say with us, ‘sine qua non, binyons! sine qua non’)

4) Kristi Campbell Back in the early days, one could, on occasion, encounter an online discussion on the topic, ‘Are ‘online relationships, aka Virtual Friends, the equal to traditional friends in the ‘real’ world?’ Our favorite response was: ‘Yes. As soon as you encountered a conversation or exchange with that included, ‘Remember the time that...'”

5) Serial writing: ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘ and ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘

6) Early Friend of the Doctrine, Andy and his blog, ‘Spatula’ which, unless we’re mistaken*** was one of the first bloggers to put the Doctrine on their blogroll

7) Six Sentence Story the place for short, short stor…

8) Minute 01:07 in the Miles Davis music vid below. (You’ll know it when you see it.)

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3 (Because, without a tool, nay, the license, to imagine beyond our established boundaries we surely forsake the greatest gift/curse of the gods)

* Friend of the Doctrine Andy (writer of the most excellent, unfortunately now out of print, ‘Spatula in the Wilderness’) contributed that one, from back in the day.

** OCR (Old Cultural Reference) Hey, it’s the internet! Go look it up

*** yeah, we know! as if

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