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

The is the Wakefield Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. A ‘grat blog’ by any other name… (well, it is summer, so gratuitious and, in all likelihood inappropriate citing of Shakespeare notwithstanding), we will suggest you, (the Reader), stop by the others who are thumbnail’d at the bottom of this post, (yeah, anyone who just had a audiovisual of Homer Simpson) Damn! we want you at this ‘hop. Serially! If you have a blog, write a list of the Ten Things (or Places or People) that come to mind and link it at the bottom. You’re totally the, (whatever), kind of blogger that would enhance our weekly get together. In fact, if you join in this week we will totally give you, free of all owage, two free Grats!! You herd that correctly! Two free Grats*

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) * hey, we try to not self-referential ourselfs… but the image at the top of this post? two words:  lol. We’re totally grateful for the four or five thousand images we’ve accrued over the years… WP lets us, like, spin the wheel, (of Time), just to see what comes up at random. (Full Disclosure: images are saved to month/year resulting in quite the ‘card file’ (Sorry, milens… referring to ancient tech). Today we ended up with John William Waterhouse’s ‘Hylas and the Nymphs‘. (We totally lack an informed appreciation of the ‘painting pitchas’ branch of the arts (nick‘s from the Café is our  go-to guy on that stuff). But, to our imagined credit, we did think, after doing our ‘research’  (a clark’s Survey of the Arts degree from RIJC), we thought, with a smile, ‘Hey! Parrish… Waterhouse called and he wants his pastels back!’

5) a review! …sorry, got ahead of ourselfs… Friend of the Doctrine, cai wrote (and posted) a review of my story ‘the Case of the Missing Starr an Ian Devereaux Mystery’ how cool is dat?

6) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

7) the Unicorn Challenge bloghop

8) had a decent week of landscaping (hard to appreciate in the photo) but the left-hand view corridor past the cottage (on the left behind the pine trees) down to the tree house (far right in the distance) is much more comprehensive.

9) something, something

10) Secret Rule 1.3  “…when compilin[g] a Grat List, the approach, both in terms of completion and satisfaction, of the final Grat (‘in limine’ Lat); the feeling of relief, satisfaction at the soon-to-be-completed list is a valid Grat Item for inclusion (traditionally Number 10) ibid op. cit.”

*some restrictions may apply. Current Hostinae and their family are not eligible… unless you sign up to be a host (sure)

music vids

sure, the ’80s and MTV introduced the music video to an audience who, for reasons less encouraging, were rather simple. With the turn of the Century, it really came into its own.

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