the Wakefield Doctrine

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

This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s weakly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful (TToT) bloghop. Born in need, nurtured by acceptance and perpetuated by the practical benefits, this ‘hop is a very fun, surprisingly useful exercise in cultivating one’s sense (and sensibility) of the state of gratitude.

So join us.

For the Wakefield Doctrine, we find the following items to totally be Grat List worthy:

1) Phyllis

2) Una

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) the Six Sentence Story bloghop

5) paths (old and new)

6) imaginary places in the blogosphere frequented by imaginary people and endless challenge (in the best possible sense) and this week that place is the Six Sentence Café & Bistro. Which, as luck would have it, is hosting a Poetry Slam next week. …ok, quick backstory. Way long ago one of the Proprietors (of the Café) was releasing a new book (in the real world) so, we held a book launch party at… you guessed it, the SSC&B. It was such a success that it wasn’t long afterwards that someone suggested having a Poetry Slam. Welll… it was fun. So, long-story typed: Chris (the aforementioned Proprietors) wrote (in a Comment, we believe) last week: something-something, fun-with-friends, something-something, lets do a Poetry Slam again, real soon. And, yours truly being a clark, (and therefore surprised by the notion of being included in a fun, casual online social event), what we heard was: “something-something, Poetry Slam-Next Week!’ lol. Chris was gracious in her, ‘well, I was thinking out-loud, isn’t one week a little on the short side to get everything together?’ Too. Late.  So… be sure to…wait! what’re we doing… gotta leverage this once-in-a-blue-moon thing into more than one Grat!

7) this: (see Grat #9)

8) something, something

9) So for all reading this: You’re all Invited to join us next Thursday at (Denise’s) Six Sentence Story bloghop. Read(ers) or write(rs), all are welcome. If’n your in the mood for some virtual fun and hijinks, write and link a post (doors open at 6:00 pm Wednesday). Format is casual. Written or audio. Same with the types of poetry, whatever you feel would be fun to put before a virtual audience, have at it. (TToT Host, Frank posed an interesting question about the format (after the “what??!! you are people for real?!!?” lol). He thought perhaps he would devote some of his Six Sentence allotment to his character/avatar/whatever to being in the Café and getting up on stage… the story of the Poetry (Slam) from his perspective. Excellent idea. btw if you’ve never been to the Café follow the link in Grat #6 for a description, layout of the joint. (The layout/floor plan being stable and long-established is the cool thing about the Bistro).

10) Secret Rule 1.3

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

yes, this is was the first in the Wakefield Doctrine fashion line

ok, still in ‘Summer is Over Denial’.

What say we include a personal antidote?

We, your humble Curator, almost went to Woodstock.

(damn! this write-the-white-off-the-page cure for writer’s block thing really does work!)

We’ll still do the RePrint (from way, ago in the first years) but before that, lets throw out a bit of chum into the currently still water of the Sea of Fiction:

The short, innocuous-sounding phrase: ‘I Almost’ can be a lodestone of regret and remorse of unimaginable power in the hands/mind of a clark.’

lets save that bad-boy for later in the day, eh wot?

RePrintageL

Buy No Milk. Stop Max’s Hippy Music Festival

August 16, 2010

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

Given the apparent demographic of the readership of the Wakefield Doctrine, what else would we do a Post on today, other than the anniversary of “three days of filth and harmony” that was the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival? I know I wasn’t there, but given the reports from my contemporaries (at the start of the 1969 school year), the only people that I knew who didn’t attend Woodstock was me and my mother. (And I cannot account for her whereabouts for most of Saturday and a good part of Sunday.)

I’m sure the blogosphere is bursting at it’s digital seams with Posts commemorating this event, seeing how those of us from that era that still have (most) of our faculties are now in possession of the megaphone of the 21st Century, i.e. a blog. Unfortunately for us, the format of this blog does not lend itself to clever word-play relating to our subject. (with the exception of the “filth and harmony” expression, which I will lay claim to, no doubt along with 85% of my contemporaries). But hey let’s try anyway!

….”by the time I got to Woodstock,
I had half my brain still left.”…

Yeah, well maybe I should leave the clever wordplay to someone else, I was there man!

And for the record? The expression “far out” (and) “far out, man” was used as repetitiously as Arlo makes it sound.

Hey out of time (for now).

You know, been thinking about the participation levels around here and I remembered that I recognise that if people are given something for nothing, they tend to place about that value on the thing. So…you want clever Post here?

(….be my guest)

(btw clarks, while not recognised by that name at the time, would have {in fact, did} totally rejected the herd mentality (read: rogerian) as evidenced by the whole peace, love and understanding bullshit.)

So you want more of a Post? Then go ahead and send in the material…(I will paste into a Post-like format)

First up some corraborating information for DownSpring glenn’s Comment:

“In April 1969, newly-minted superstars Creedence Clearwater Revival were the first act to sign a contract for the event, agreeing to play for $10,000. The promoters had experienced difficulty landing big-name groups prior to the Bay Area swamp rockers committing to play. Creedence drummer Doug Clifford later commented “Once Creedence signed, everyone else jumped in line and all the other big acts came on.” Given their 3 a.m. start time and non-inclusion (at Creedence frontman John Fogerty’s insistence) in the Woodstock film, Creedence members have expressed bitterness over their experiences at the famed festival.” (wikipedia 2010)

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