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

Quick Post. Two Items.

FTSF

One of my first friends on the Facebook, and still a most appreciated person (and full time clark), Kristi does this Finish the Sentence Friday bloghop every…. well, Friday of course! Anyway, FTSF was my first bloghop and was where I met most of the ‘people’ I value here, in the ‘sphere.

Simple premise: sentence fragment, complete and post. This week’s Sentence (to be finished) apparently is:

If I were a crayon…

I’d most likely end up being the ‘flesh colored’ one. You know, every 5 year old’s first introduction to life’s disappointments. You tried to create a flesh tone with the oranges and the whites, but they never mixed together consistently enough to be more than ‘pumpkins with vitiligo’s disease’. Then, after saving your allowance for weeks and weeks, the day came when you had enough to buy the Crayola 72 Crayon Set (‘with built-in sharpener!’). Sitting on the floor, in front of your open closet door, (“You have a perfectly good desk, why do you have to sit on the floor?”),  you flipped back the cooler-than-it-should-be, square angled top and found what you’d dreamt of… the ‘Flesh Colored’ crayon.
And you took the crayon, new, with a perfect ‘squared-off round point’ and finding a picture with people in it in your coloring book, you colored. And… it smeared and picked up surrounding colors, (and you even went to the trouble of leaving a margin, the best you could).

And so, you went back to coloring the people, (and the dogs and cats and trucks), whatever color you wanted to and set aside the dream of producing a coloring book that would make your parents look at you with surprise-which-turns-happiness-tinged-with-a-little-fear-that-they-didn’t-recognise-your-coloring-talent-and-what-else-might-they-not-understand-and-appreciate-about-you-now?

Hey! thanks Kristi  this was fun!

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vidchat: precisely  at something-o’clock tonight!  ha ha.   Lets make that 7:00 pm EST  (just to be sure and to coordinate time zones, look at your watch or the wall clock… in it precisely ….6:21 am!)  Good.

So how it works is, I’ll post the link to the clark scottroger page and the Wakefield Doctrine page (just to be on the safe side) and that link should get you to the chat. If this is your first vichat, don’t be alarmed if the audio is out, for reasons unknown, this is not uncommon. Dress nicely, at least from the waist up… (after all, this is the 21st Century). There are no secret passwords, protocols or standards of proper behavior. Come and go as you please. In fact, we are used to abrupt departures, this being subject to: bandwidth, internet connection speed, child needs to go to bed, spouses reluctantly acknowledging the technology, if not the sociology, and generalized confusion. It’s fun. It’s interesting. It’s George and Jane Jetson present, the Dick van Dyke Show* (Lizzi, my vspouse, is, of course, Laura  and, during most of these vidchats, provides much the same saving grace as did Mary Tyler Moore)

See you there tonight.

Yes, yes you can invite other people. I mean, we were all brought up on movies that revolve around the plot device of,  ‘parents away, party out of control.’  So bring a friend. Lets see what google hangouts is capable of.

*damn! how sad, neither of those cultural references would mean anything to 84% of you Readers, were it not for Nickelodeon or google. And, I would submit, even with the information available, the socio-psycho-sexual implications would be nonexistent, as it must be for any cultural references. Ah well. (for the record, it was a very cool era)