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TTOmovieT -the Wakefield Doctrine- no, despite what I claim in the intro, I couldn’t pull it off…oh well, still time to go normal

May 14, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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“ok, good start, we’re all willing to believe that you’ll walk the straight and normal for this week’s TToT!”

So we all know how this bloghop works, correct? Ten things that inspire in you, prompt from you, stimulate, initiate, or otherwise cause you (the participant) to experience a feeling of gratitude. Pretty simple, isn’t it?

Well for some people. Some people are naturally fluent in the language of emotion. They not only have available a gigantic palette of feelings (to mix up this here metaphor, here), they are blessed with an ear for emotions. And there are people who are naturally inclined to organize and, by organizing present their List (or groups or collections of like objects) in a manner most easily understood by everyone (else).

For the rest of us, we have the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules), and this is (one of) the things that makes this a remarkable ‘hop. It allows everyone/anyone to participate. Not only does the BoSR/SBoR help those of us who might benefit by a little help, it sanctions the broader expanse of expression that not only offers a certain variety, but it also provides a greater variety of reading fun and enjoyment for those participating and those who just happen to stop by.

So, what’s up with this Week’s Post Title? Welll! let me tell you. This week has been a week of remembering some of the fun of my early days in this blog world. Such as the Post based on a TV commercial or, today’s (at the time of writing, yesterday when you read this) chance quote from a book. The energy would pop up and I’d write me a Post. Today’s TToT title is an example of another type of blogging fun, grab a premise and write my way out of it. In other words, I seem to be proposing a List using, referring to or something to do with movies! What the hell! Clearly we can see how it is I came to be ‘comfortable’ with the seat-of-the-pants writing that I’ve done for ‘Blogdominion‘ and ‘Almira‘. Start writing and see where it takes ya.

Item 1: the Wakefield Doctrine All kinds of good things about this… in the simplest of terms, were it not for the Doctrine, I am certain I would not be typing in a blog. So… what movie, what movie… hey, lets use the clip from ‘Mad Dog and Glory’ with David Caruso (as the scott), Robert DeNiro (as the clark) and some actor whose name I don’t know (as the roger). this was the second film clip that I found when I started writing the Doctrine blog (advisory: adult language)

Item 2: Una! (boy am I in trouble! Item 2 and I can’t find the videos I would have sworn were there

damn… lets try

Item 3: ‘Almira‘ (I’m currently in the midst of artistic crisis, i.e. ‘what the hell was I thinking? I can’t write a book and even if I could, a book based on a story that everyone knows… so I can’t totally wing it?? what the hell was I thinking?!?!’ I am grateful for the Readers of Almira in Chapter 7 (to be released tomorrow, Monday at the very latest) in which we should discover: that Tom Hardesty is very talented and really needs to do something with his music, Eliza is about to meet someone who isn’t just interested in her body and money like her current houseguest, Stephen Lawrence (who is only there because his father needs more money for the school, well, that and the fact that Eliza is remarkably hot) and we get to know our little friend, Becky Stillworth who, at the library for a warm June Saturday, finds herself increasingly fascinated by farmhand (at the Gale Farm) Hunk Dietrich and… the best part, we go back, just for a while, to 1912 and find out more about Almira Ristani’s life as a young girl.

Item 4: Phyllis (who has relatives who live in Colorado…. and though this video wasn’t on a trip to see them… actually it was a business trip/Doctrine road trip )

Item 5: work and work: surely there’s a movie out there that I can get a clip from that exemplifies the virtue of good work and steadfast effort.

Item 6: the Gravity Challenge (now this should be easy enough) 5 intrepid bloggers engaged in the struggle with gravity…

(hint one of the Graviteers has a similar name, but then another one of them lives on a farm, and still another also has blonde hair and…and! a 4th lives in Chicago (which is kinda like New York*), one makes me think of the Nation’s capital (but that was a different episode) and of all of the Graviteers only one is named kristi)

Item 7: the people I know here, in the virtual world hey! I just remembered Cynthia totally used to do some cool videos… lets see if I can find them

got one! (thanks out to Cynthia… I’d say she’s an inspiration, but that’d be less (and more) than I want to say, lets try for a made up word (no! no way! lol) we’re really big into ‘identification’ here at the Doctrine, especially and in particularly with other clarks… being Outsiders we tend to come up a little short when the most common (and btw effective) advice is “hey! don’t worry, everyone feels like that/goes through that/thinks that at one time or another” while not disputing the correctness of that observation, as clarks we lack the key element… of being like anyone else (Outsider, ya know?) anyway way, Cynthia is demonstrating that clarks can self-develop themselves way beyond what we might think and so, here in this Video she illustrates this fact (not simply what she’s saying on the video, that fact of how she comes across to the viewer…that’s the encouraging and impressive part)

Item 8: god! I better come up with something! hey! doug! yo! Friend of the Doctrine zoe is totally the Christopher Nolan of those of us who would make videos for Post…. production values? damn straight. Anyway Click on this Link and (at the bottom of the Post) are three vids that she did with Meester Douglas (and one by yours truly that’s like…jeez a little talkative?)

Item 9: still nothing! wait wait! (I just saw a comment from Kerry.…. hey! she’s done some vids (rummaging through old links and posts and such)…. got it! Here kinda roundabout… a Link to a Post on another’s site but it’s a song that had lyrics by Kerry’s brother… so that qualifies for today’s theme!
[STOP the PRESSES!!! Alert Reader and professional clark, Denise (over at Girlie) totally caught my misnomer** on the credits for the song!! The Lyrics is by Kerry and the music is by her Brother. OK re-start the PRESSES!!!]

Item 10: SR 1.3 and am I totally grateful for getting through this post! In all humility I will say, I have totally raised the bar for Trainwreck BlogPosts (category: TToT)

* where the Douglas’ are from…of course

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-the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘special Friday the Fridayth Post!’

May 13, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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

Hey, this being the week of remembering the fun of the old days of writing for the Doctrine, to wit, the spontaneous, single thought or sentence or idea which amounts to the push of the sled down the icy street.*

So I was just researching the famous ‘Bread and Roses Strike’ (Lawrence Ma 1912) for ‘Almira‘. (Non-Spoiler Alert!!: Almira Gulch, at the time of the Strike was 16 year old, not yet married and therefore was Almira Ristani, not only witnessed the Strike, but become involved in it on a very personal level. Hint: she tried to send her younger brothers off to relatives during the ill-fated ‘Children Affair’, which, as I’ve come to learn, sort of marks the nadir of the Strike.) Anyway. I was reading a book on the strike and the author wrote,

“Many (Historians) have also come across the saying, “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.”

I’d not come across that expression before, and, like in the early Doctrine days, I was all, ‘damn, what a great way to say it’

Anyway. There it is. Our public past is of the record, engraved in the collective memory of family and friends, communities and cultures. While it is a given that the rise of commercials for genealogy websites and companies that offer to help you discover your past (or, at least, the cast of that ‘longest running of plays’), is pretty much a rogerian thing, it nevertheless represents a need we all share. Especially nowadays among all, in response to an increasingly institutionalized present to seek out one’s personal past. Of course, our tour guide for a trip like this is surely suspect. These tour guides not only are not professional or otherwise trained, rather are amateurs who happen to seem like nice and well-meaning enough that we think, yeah, sure…. lets go explore my past history for the last (fill in years since born), why not?

“...the past is a foreign country: they do things differently.”

Gotta get back to work!

(Now! if only Kristi and them at Finish the Sentence Friday did a sentence fragment that has to do with our personal history, I’m golden.)

*when I was young…. lol wait, wait!! hear me out!! winter? we had sleds then, these wooden things with metal skids and pointed (metal!) ends that you twisted (the metal!!) rails to steer… anyway, there was one street, Penguin Ave (I know! I have trouble remembering appointments coming up this weekend, but you want to know the name of a street that I didn’t live on when I was 10 years old? I totally got it covered!!) anyway, it was steep and ended in an intersection with a cross street, Potowomut Rd. The town workers used to ‘forget’ to sand the street, for at least a day after a snowstorm, so as not to wreck the excellent sledding. Now that’s a common occurrence nowadays, isn’t it?

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Six (sure, the count is right) Sentence (er… probably) Story (to a certain, un-tethered* sort, sure!) -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 5, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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The cue for this week’s Six Sentence Story is, base

Six Sentence Stories are a bloghop sponsored by zoe (aka Ivy) over at Doug’s place. The Object (and challenge) is to write a story of six, and only six, sentences. Everything else is up to you. (In this week’s example, I’m kinda seeing how far off the free association cliff I can get this jalopy. I promise, next week there will be a simple story, maybe a narrative involving: true love, reckless disregard for one’s own well-being, a stunning lack of fixed and established personal boundaries and maybe a little sex… that’s next week. If some one reminds me.) Until then,

“Sentimentality Base to Sparrow 1, Sentimentality Base to Sparrow 1, report your status.”

“Sparrow 1 to Sentimentality Base, the fog is thick, it’s impossible to see the Way, instinct is the only available navigational aid.”

“Sentimentality Base to Sparrow, do not, we repeat, do not rely on instinct, the terrain is too emotional and unreliable…”

“Falcon 1 to Sentimentality Base, too late, have identified a landing zone, repeat, have chosen a place to land.”

“Sentimentality Base 1, please return to base, it’s too soon, please return to base.”

“Eagle 1, who is this?”

*a set of words that is complete in itself, typically containing a subject and predicate, conveying a statement, question, exclamation, or command, and consisting of a main clause and sometimes one or more subordinate clauses.

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 28, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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Six Sentences, not Six words….sentences. Not 7 Sentences, Exactly six sentences.

‘Ex’ That’s the word. That’s the word?! ‘Ex’ ?!?! jeez, challenge our creative imagination much, zoe? (zoe being the hostess and curator and Madame of ‘Stories, Short and Small’ here at Six Sentence Story.) Come and try your hand (well, literally, mind and fingers, but you know what I mean).

….ain’t getting any more complete a word, so lets have at it.

“I can’t see why you don’t understand how I feel,” the young man was not as old as he sounded, (at times), and much more mature than he acted, (at times).

“I do, but you don’t know what it’s like to be cooped up in this small house, with 2 children, children not yet capable of speaking a complete sentence, at least not without spitting something up or putting something in their mouths as they try, I need to do this for both of us,” leaning over the back of the couch where her husband sat, her feet shifted in the direction of the front door.

A single wail-of-infantile-demand ricocheted down the staircase and began to fill the living room, like snowmelt in a street gutter, once started, it grew in volume.

“We have something special here, how can you not see that?” he put the newspaper on the emptiness of the couch to his left and started to get up, looking up the stairway, turning to aim his words at his wife.

“I know we can get though this, the four of us are a…”

The front door of the handsome Colonial in the most sought-after neighborhood, closed on his words with a finality that made him wince, the swelling volume of the child-cries drew him away from the pain (that he knew would be waiting for the quiet of the night), and didn’t hear the silent cries of the woman outside the heavy wooden door, as she was drawn down into the excitement that now, too late, was clearly intent on exacting far more of her soul than she had ever expected.

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TToT (TToT unofficial motto: ‘sharing valuable insights and remarkable conclusions for more than 13 years running!’) -the Wakefield Doctrine-

April 16, 2016 By clarkscottroger

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Writing this TToT Post way early, like Friday morning early, thinking about a combo Post or maybe a Friday Post or just getting a start on the TToT Post for the weekend. As must be abundantly clear, not really sure what, if anything I would write. Following my own personal rule, ‘it’s easier to edit than it is to write’ I’ll just do some finger-aerobics here for a short time and then head out into the world. (yeah, clark here)

1-5) Reference above video (camera, actually its a new phone): dog, car and dog, cows to harass and nice weather

6) Chapter 3 ‘Almira’ due to be released this weekend. The First Two Chapters are out on both the website and on jukepop (jukepop is a site that hosts serial stories, basic advantage is that they provide a sequential format (of the stories by the Chapter) which makes them easier to follow as the number of Chapters increases. If you have a minute, you should go there and ‘Vote’ for Almira (yeah, what the hell!, is there anything, in this culture, that’s not obsessed with competition?)

7) work, which is kinda necessary to all this typation, fortunately it remains interesting work. That being said, the fact of the matter is, the vast majority of work, at least in my own experience, is repetition of (skilled and un-skilled) acts and actions, interspersed with brief, (not seeming so, at the time), intervals of terror and/or stress. (lol) Speaking of jobs, I saw an opening for ‘forklift operator’ the other day. I was sorely tempted. Buried in my work record, are a couple of interludes during which I was a professional forklift operator. Very enjoyable work.
Back to my ‘tedium interrupted by terror’ thesis; most of the other work I’ve done in my life has conformed to that description. It is, (as always), the exceptions to that rule that prove to be interesting, in light of the topic of this Item. I’ve worked in mills, both textile and manufacturing. How cool is this reality of mine, when the experiences of the worst job(s) I’ve held are, in very real fact, the most useful and valuable thing to me today? Damn! Working in a mill. It’s important to me today because, Almira Gulch (the at-the-moment, very silent protagonist of my Serial Story, ‘Almira‘) worked in a mill when she was young.( Lawrence, MA 1910 to 1912). While un-deniably repetitious, factory work can be very difficult work, the very same, limited number of motions, 8 hours a day (or more) 5 days a week (or more)… for the rest of your life. I’ve met people who were at the same punch press for 20, 25…30 years! Incomprehensible to my then, 19-year-old mind. I eventually learned. They did it for someone/something else. Someone, (singular or, more likely plural), else needed what working a punch press 8 hours a day, forever provided right then and there that day, that dinner, that future for others. Gotta give ’em credit.

8) grateful for the people here, (in the ‘sphere), who, by their presence, allow me to experiment with the tools I’ve found for self-developing myself. The Wakefield Doctrine is, of course, primary among these tools, however, I’m come to realize that the inherent flaw to ‘hermitized self-improvement’, is that, without feedback and reflections/suggestions from people walking in the same world as I am, I have no way of knowing if it’s ‘working’. So thanks to those clarks (and scotts and rogers who are possessed of a significant secondary clarklike aspect)

9) (to be completed mid day…. ) yeah, no! I’m serious, I’ll get us something un-rote for this TToT list. I have a pretty full schedule today: several houses to inspect, Chapter 3 to work on and an Open House… bound to be something in all that, small, but definitely measurable portion of my life, to include here.

10) SR 1.3 (and Our Miss Lewis and her co-hortessae, Christine and Kristi, Lisa and Zoe, Kristi and Michelle, Sarah and Dyanne )

(yeah… should have some music…. will try to find us some)

Out in the world in the course of this day: found a tune, will post….more from the field as it develops…. (remind me again, this gratitude thing, like even when the world is not cooperating or I’m getting too busy to stop and notice? jeez bar set high or what?)

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