Monthly Archive for February, 2009
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Here’s what I’ve found using WordPress 2.7:
After clicking on “comments”
Firefox 3.0.5: page doesn’t fully load
IE 7.0.5 : page loads without widgets
Safari 3.1.2 : same as Firefox.
I’ve also noticed that “preview” posts acts the same way.
email me if you have ideas: goinglikesixty@gmail.com
I’ve deactivated any plug-ins related to commenting.
Sux.
If you have tried to comment: thanks! You can email me!
UPDATE: Removed Google Analytics because of this post and am amazed at how much faster page loads! Didn’t fix my comment problem tho’
COMMENT: Suburban Hippie:
Actually, it sort of reminds me of those acid trips back in college, when I go to comment. So, you know, thanks for the memory.
Can you hum the theme from Friends? I’ll Be There For You? Who wrote it? This is causing a kerfuffle between St. Todd DeCubbville (SIL) and myself. If you said I’ll Be There For You was written by The Rembrandts, you would be on the side of St. Todd DeCubbville. If on the other hand, you knew my new good friend, Allee, you would know that she wrote it. That and a dozen other hits that you will recognize after the first few bars. Her songs have sold 50 million records. Visit her website to hear clips.
- September – Earth, Wind & Fire
- Neutron Dance – The Pointer Sisters
- Stir It Up – Patti LaBelle
- In The Stone – Earth Wind & Fire
- I Am Love – Jennifer Holliday
- Shaker Song – The Manhattan Transfer
Yeah, those songs! Did they take you back to the days when MTV actually played music videos? Allee also co-authored The Color Purple Broadway show. She has some serious chops.
How cool is it that Allee invited me to a party at her house in L.A.? How cool is it that she is throwing this party to celebrate the release of a video featuring her 91 year-old-drummer friend? How cool is it that Allee made the video to help her friend, Jerrie, embrace oxygen tank she needs to survive?
91. That’s a Boomer and a half!
I’m hoping my new music video, “Hey Jerrie”, might capture your imagination. Not only because I’m a boomer who’s going strong but my partner in the video, Jerrie Thill, is a boomer plus – a 91 year old female drummer on an oxygen tank and going stronger than ever.
I tell Jerrie to think of the tank as a fashion accessory – jewel the carrying case so it looks like a shoulder bag or build a cart with fins and chrome and roll it around like a doll in a kiddie car. I also tell her that she’s got the ultimate hook in this Age Of YouTube. How many people making contemporary music videos have tubes jutting into their nose?
Allee Willis and Jerrie
What a party that will be. Allee throws quite a do. Check out her New Year’s Bash. I’ll be posting the video as soon as Allee sends me the embed code. Watch for it Friday (or Saturday depending on when the party ends!)
PS: I won’t be in attendance. 
PSS: St. Todd DeCubbville remains unconvinced. I have yet to hear him admit he was wrong.
This is going to be awesome. I’ve assembled a team of crack sports bloggers to work the Super Bowl game and we will be live blogging it. Expect to see scintillating analysis, dynamic details, hilarious observations, and insider information. If you have any special requests, get them to me as soon as possible. I will be making out assignments until Friday.
Stand by. This is going to be awesome.
The headline is a little premature. As of today, Pat Summitt, the head coach for the University of Tennessee Volunteers women’s basketball team sits with 999 Ws on her resume. Tonight will give Pat Summitt number 1,000. One Thousand. Wins. Some coaches don’t last 1,000 games. What about this Boomer’s career?
- She’s 57 and has been a head coach for 35 years. Remarkable. With all the political maneuvering involved in college sports, this proves winning is the only key to keeping your job.
- Pat Summitt didn’t back into the job because the team she inherited was so bad she couldn’t screw it up. The season before she took over, the Lady Vols were 25-2.
- Let me do the math for you 35 years, 1000 wins is an average of 28 wins every. single. year.
- Championships didn’t come easy. The NCAA decided in 1981 that women should have a national championship tournament. The Lady Vols and Pat Summitt have appeared in every single tournament. It took the Lady Vols seven tries before the NCAA crown was theirs. Summitt declared recently her first NCAA title was her sweetest. (She lead the Lady Vols to seven more NCAA championships.)
- Pat Summitt coached a perfect season in 1997 – running the table with 39 victories and no defeats.
And on, and on, and on.
How about a little Boomer perspective. Boomers are good at putting things in perspective.
- She works with volunteers – literally as well as figuratively. Student-athletes don’t get paid to come play for Pat Summitt. One can argue that getting an education free is a nice perk. Those people need to try to get a 17 year old to work for them for a free education alone.
- We’re talking kids here. Ages 17-23 (?). Today Summitt says her biggest challenge is getting kids that are focused. “Seems like all they want to do now is text. I’m having that problem with this team right now – we need to get focused.”
- Every year she loses her most experienced and sometimes best players. They graduate.
- Pat Summitt has a 100% graduation rate. Every young woman that joins her basketball program has to perform on two levels: scholastically and athletically.
- She is a fantastic mentor. Forty-five of her players are now coaches themselves. Her advice to budding coaches: “study psychology.”
Washington Post writer Sally Jenkins needs to get her head screwed on straight.
I don’t know whether Summitt belongs in the same breath with a Wooden or a Bob Knight, I only know that she’s matchless, there is only one of her.
Wrong question: Jenkins should ask, does Bob Knight belong in the same breath as Pat Summitt?
With all this kind of career, what does Pat Summit have to say?
People talk about 1,000 wins,” Summitt, 56, said last week in her office. “I remind them that I’ve never scored a basket for the University of Tennessee.
