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Finish the Sentence Friday the Wakefield Doctrine “…if you can possibly manage the time, please play both sides at one meeting.”

April 11, 2014 By clarkscottroger

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We have some other friends, Stephanie and Janine and Kate and, of course, Kristi. They are, the Ladies of the Write, aka the Women (who) Finish the Sentence Friday. This being, of course, the first bloghop that we participated in and still a favorite. Each week a sentence fragment, every week some amazing ‘takes’ on a provocative idea. This week? Well, I hope my skills are up to my imagination.

This week, the sentence to be finished is:

“If I could go back in time… ”

“… but, I did!”

Speaking of Friends…and Challenges and …the alphabet… (ok, no one was speaking of the alphabet). Lets check in with our A to Zeewriters!

Jen-ay Friday…. my god it’s Friday already! here, the letter is J

zoe our Mistress of Informinationing what can we tell you, ‘a rabbi, an Irishman and a dog walk into a bar, the blonde says….’

Lizzi yeah, her ‘here she comes, walkin down the street, gets the funniest looks from, everyone she meets’**

the Wakefield Doctrine presents:

the Fabulous Bloggers Friday Night vidchat with your hosts

Lizzi and Michelle!

Vidchat update: Hey! Hey! we’ve found a more convenient and easier way to do the inviting for the Friday Night Vidchat. There’ll be a url in a number of different places tonight (e.g. on the FB and here and on Lizzi’s blog ‘Considerings’)… click the link and you’ll be at our door. How easy is that? We’ll also be doing the traditional form of invitationing (our Ms Rogers so gets into the fun of finding unsuspecting bloggers and getting them to stop by..)

Speaking of stopping by… now that everyone knows about google+ hangouts there are a lot of different events and hangouts to go to… which is totally good. Never a dull moment in the 21st Century, eh? Just want to mention, there are a couple of different formats for vidchats… one is simply a live connection, the other is live and recorded.

Lizzi and Michelle’s vidchats are not and have never been recorded.*

It’s just what we did when we started doing these last Fall…a live hangout, talk to friends, meet people, stop by for a minute and come back later… you know, like that dorm room on a Thursday or Friday night, where everyone passes through on the way to the weekend. Just wanted you to know.

*there is another type of hangout that allows the person running to record it and save it to their youtube account…for re-use later. We never record. If you’re not sure when you get to whatever hangout you are at, your best bet is to simply ask your host, “hey roger! are you recording this for some kind of mean joke later or what?” (being rogers, if the answer is ‘yes’ they’ll still deny it but get all offended that you’re accusing them unfairly of something lol)

** theme song to very old show

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(BONUS Post-ette included today!!) the Wakefield Doctrine “1st Annual Black Friday Video Chat…Tonight! at 7*”

November 28, 2013 By clarkscottroger

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Hey! ~~Tomorrow~~ Friday Tonight as in later in the same day as you are reading this here correction in….from (unless, of course, you forget and don’t read this Post until tomorrow, the forget about it) ….November 29th ( 29-Nov-13 to our International Friends) at 7:00 pm* First Annual Black Friday Video and X-rated Movie Festival!!

BONUS new material!***

Speaking of contributions from Downsprings, had an interesting and challenging discussion with Phyllis the other morning regarding rogers. For some distantly related reason Phyllis said that ‘rogers are mean’. Out of the context in which this sentence was made, this statement, ‘rogers are mean’ demanded consideration. For if a statement is true about one form, what does it tell us about the other two forms? So from that Phyllis’ single statement we jumped to the following:

rogers are mean, scotts are cruel and clarks are heartless

So, lets consider these statements.
We start with the premise, i.e. when one (of us) chooses to be unkind to another, what is the characteristic of the behavior relative to our type. (Or may I could just say, why are clarks heartless and scotts cruel and rogersmean, instead of say, clarks are cruel and rogers are heartless etc) ( Update: The current preferred way of expressing this: how do each of the three ‘manifest’ the state of ‘to negatively affect another’ This is a result of the understanding that ‘everyone does everything at one time or another’. )

‘Rogers are mean’ because when they want to negatively affect someone, they do it within the context of the herd. They will gossip and talk among each other about the target (of this negativity). They will never go up to the target(person) and say ‘you are a slut’. Instead they will say to each other, ’isn’t she such a slut’? It will be the group opinion that will constitute the negative effect. In other words, if an outsider comes on the scene and and needs information reagrding this person, the herd will make a point of offering an opinion. ( as in: “hey, clark! because I’m your friend and no one will say this, I think I owe it to tell you that everyone thinks you’re a slut. Not that I agree with them, but I am your friend” ) Updated 11.29.13
(Now class, why is that so rogerian?)
(God, I so love to lecture)

The answer is, of course, because the effort to affect a non-herd member is always done among and within the herd. No single member (of the herd) could or would approach the ’target person’ directly and certainly would not say anything to their face.

All right, then how about scotts? Why cruel instead of heartless or mean?
Because it is the nature of predators, to act alone. Granted scotts will gather in packs when the occasion rises, but for the most part they hunt alone. And when a scott is being ‘negative’ it is expressed in a manner that can only be called cruelty. Part of this is the result of the fact that scotts will act directly but impersonally. They enjoy the efforts of the prey to resist, hey that squirming and trying to get away is the damn relish. But its nothing personal, the scott is hungry and the prey is food. So in the case of scotts, this cruelty is the ‘way of nature’ cruelty.

Clarks? Heartless? No! Say it ain’t so!! If any Reader needs it explained, then you need to read the content in these Pages a bit more.

So leave a Comment let everyone know if you are intending to join us tomorrow… you may regret your rash decision, but hey, that’s what the Wakefield Doctrine blog is for!!

(I’ll be back in the course of the day today, will have more details and and insights and outrageous assertions as, I trust you have all come to expect from everyone’s new favorite Doctrine, the Wakefield Doctrine continues it’s coverage of this first of ‘the Big Three Holidays)

(back) So what do you have to look forward to from the Wakefield Doctrine this Joyous Winter Season? more scott and more roger! you do recall that the Doctrine holds that we all have (the potential) inherent in all three worldviews, don’t you? and you remember what we said about using the Wakefield Doctrine as a tool for self-development, right? (i.e. ‘simple as can be, harder than anything you have ever tried to do’…that) Well that’s what we are going to be spending your valuable blog-reading time over the next 6 weeks or so. Plan accordingly.

(back) I know that I write every year about parades… (rogerian essential) but my god!! where the hell is Child Protection services? those poor children… 3 hours walking the streets of New York City , in 30 degree windy temperature all for 5 seconds ‘in frame’ in front of Macy’s so the folks back in Indiana can say ‘look!! it’s Tracy!!! what the hell’s the matter with her face?’
On a personal note: the over-hormoned 23 year old inside of me died a little late this morning as I sat in stunned disbelief as Joan Jett stood, singing, on a frickin float…. not a cigarette or ‘record machine’ in sight…waving at the crowds with a blank look on her still very attractive face…

(back) (…again!) that ‘cover photo? the one with the Delegates from Slovenia? that goes back to the early days of this blog. we had a thing about Slovenians!! (a good thing, nothing bad…just a fun kinda affectation.) will tell you more in a little bit

* For the time-zone impaired:

Jak!! yo!!! that means 6:00 pm Twin City time
Stephanie? I believe you will have to stay up kind of late… this being like 2:00 am (!) in your time…. well, there’s always the Sunday Video Brunch (which is 3:30 pm local i.e. your local )
Molly? yeah… I know we’ll need to co-odrdinate on the google circle thing, but these Video chats are kinda fun… for you it would be 5:00 pm stop in while fixing dinner…if your phone can handle google hangouts
Michelle? wakey wakey!! 8:00 yo
Lizzi? it’s a Friday night! you get to stay up late ( sorry if we appear to be assuming that you would have nothing more…. exotic…exciting? better to do on a Friday night! 12 Midnight!
Melanie a late night rendavouz with what I trust is the oddest group of people you know
Christine… you know that we totally would love to have you join us…but it will be either 6 or 7 pm your time, so I suspect that you’ll be in the middle of dishes and homework and such… but if you do get a chance…on your phone come hangout with us!
Kristi oh Kristi! come out and plaaay
Richard oh Richard…. lol you know it would be fun

** ‘cept for Zoe… she has a very rare, ‘Join in late Card’ a privilege enjoyed by few, so step carefully when you join the brunch! lol

*** well, ‘new’ in the sense that if you were born anytime after, say… I don’t know 2011?? then this is totally new and original!! hey, it’s a great insight from a DownSpring so ya better appreciate it …you know how hard it is to get a roger to say anything that amounts to more than ‘I told you so…’??! I didn’t think so…. so read and comment, already.

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‘…the songs! where are the s.s..songs?’ the Wakefield Doctrine it’s Tuesday, it’s Twisted, but is it a MixTape?

August 20, 2013 By clarkscottroger

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There have been weeks when the songs, (in my head), build up in the days preceding Tuesday¹, the snatches of melody gather in my head, like overly affectionate parrots on a senile pirate’s shoulder. Today, it is Tuesday² and unfortunately this has not been one of those weeks. Now this is not to say that the ‘theme’, for today’s TMT is not valid or memorable or …suggestive. It is, they are, we could be…

I just can’t get the songs to sample in my head! My approach to Jen and Kristi’s totally fun bloghop is simply to find one song that seems to say: (“insert theme here”) then get out to ‘the youtube’ for a video. So far, not long after I find the first song, the rest show up. But today… but everything has the feeling of either déjà vu or déjà entendu.

But, the show must go on!³

Twisted MixTape 21

No Strings Attached

You know those musicians. It’s a seedy business. I mean, come on, Fleetwood Mac? Whom wasn’t with whom at some point. I think every single musician has written some song about an actual, or imagined, or desired night, or weekend or lifetime of a relationship with no strings attached. And so, without furtherness down this path that could cause trouble so I’ll just spin the tunes.

(Post-start Note: I feel that I can state, finally, that I appreciate how the force of habit can good for something more than: refusing to lose weight, finding old friends interesting and/or staying in a relationship with sexually proficient partners. Here are some songs. I hope you find them enjoyable. I trust that my Summer cold/writers block will have resolved itself by next Monday.)

Walk on the Wild Side – Lou Reed

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Crosstown Traffic – Jimi Hendrix

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKQK8I5ZqfI

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Hot Rod Lincoln – Commander Cody

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R7l7nDuj1o

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Dallas – Johnny Winter

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I Get Off – Halestorm

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1) days with funny names like: Saturday and Friday and such

2) voted: Silliest Name for a day for 3 years running

3) mustn’t it?

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I’d rather fight zombies in a parking lot than in a shopping mall*, the Wakefield Doctrine ’10 Things of Thankful’ (Bloghop and Weekend hangout…the 3rd)

June 22, 2013 By clarkscottroger

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Weekends¹. A job that involves working every/any day of the week². A moment in bed in the morning before the day begins³. A secondary scottian aspect⁴. A new toaster⁵. The clean slate environment of the blogosphere⁶. An appreciation of the unusual⁷. A dog to greet me⁸. Having our new Wakefield Doctrine docTees finally be ready to ship⁹. Sending Wakefield Doctrine tee shirts to people around the globe¹⁰.

Alright, so what is it? Thankful or Grateful? (our friends at ‘the Wikipedia’ define ‘thankful as : “…a positive emotion or attitude in acknowledgment of a benefit that one has received or will receive.” while a search for (a definition of the word) gratitude yields the following:

Gratitude is not the same as indebtedness. While both emotions occur following help, indebtedness occurs when a person perceives that they are under an obligation to make some repayment of compensation for the aid. The emotions lead to different actions; indebtedness can motivate the recipient of the aid to avoid the person who has helped them, whereas gratitude can motivate the recipient to seek out their benefactor and to improve their relationship with them.

* and what does the Wakefield Doctrine have to say about zombies and/or the Zombie Apocalypse? Two things: a) scotts would appear, at first blush**, to be the best equipped to survive a zombie attack, and they would, as long as they did not run out of ammo or break a heel and fall down, b) clarks actually will, be able to survive the up-coming humanity game-changer… for a number of reasons, not the least of which is, we can decide to not resist the overwhelming horde attack and pretend to be one of them, ‘passing as being zombish’ if you will, until we can make our escape and 3) yeah, rogers… stand on the roof top with the brain-eating mob on the street and yell, “hey! look isn’t that Ken Burns down the street there!!” and you’ll be able to waltz out the front door, safe as can be… until the crowd realizes that Ken never actually got bitten by a zombie

1) a certain suspension of expectations/demands as to how much energy we put into our activities

2) being in business for myself allows me to take whatever time off I would like, being in business for myself, of course means I hardly ever do…lol

3) just before the body gets up to ‘stand up now’ mode… when the brain is ‘still in it’s pajamas’ (the Title of today’s Post came in one those precious moments of sanctioned insanity)

4) cause otherwise, I would totally never hit publish on this… interesting take on a Gratitude List

5) if I have to explain, you would not get it

6) this is a place of the ultimate “if I could, I would…”

7) lol

8) dogs, are, as I constantly remind people, perfect lifeforms

9) they are getting even better…

10) Kristi and Considerer! watch those damn mailboxes! (hey Christine… Tracy yo! as it works out… I only got 2 ‘scotts‘ tees printed this run… you’re both welcome to wear one of these nearly-free Official Doctrine apparel lemme know)

** yeah, like a scott is gonna ever blush

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there, and nearly, back again …the Wakefield Doctrine Road Trip 2013 (slight return)

March 17, 2013 By clarkscottroger

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A quick Post as I sit in my room at the Hilton Garden Inn somewhere in Phoenix, return flighting early this morning and, with the benefits of a little time dilation/rollback, should be back on terra familiara by the end of the afternoon.

clarks really are an odd bunch, non? Would a scott or a roger:

study the maps covering the area to be travelled, knowing fully well that there will be a GPS with the rental car
spend nearly 8 hours in the car and (an average) of 15 minutes at each tourist attraction(s)*
enjoy the driving even more as the weather conditions went bad (and we mean really enjoy as in ‘get excited and laugh and look for the video camera)
look upon the entire process (of travel and road trip) as possible evidence of a life well spent
compare what they have accomplished to people they know, not to feel superior to but to feel worthy of attention/ interest?

No, I gots a feeling not.
And, even by this blogs standards, the above should not resonate too strongly even with other clarks. There is some weird kind of after-effect that follows travelling out of my comfort zone. Not entirely bad, not simply good… it’s complicated. …you know, clarklike.

In any event, back to the grindstone. Will catch up with everyone beginning of this week.

Naturally we will have a location appropriate video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzC7_im4_ac

* actually the Meteor Crater skewed the numbers, Winslow was about 5 minutes (not counting stopping in the gift shop conveniently located across the street).