blogoSFERICS
My first real blog, and one that lasted two and a half years -- through two platform changes and at least as many URL changes. I finally got tired of the name and changed that too -- to Yippee-Ki-Yay!
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Dec 2004
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Never Mind (Updated)
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Tue 14 Dec 2004 12:06
by Kevin McGehee
in Coweta County, GA
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UPDATE: Commenting will be broken (probably) for a little while as someone from pMachine tries to figure out why my attempt to use the subdomain URL discussed below the fold, made comments not work. If you have a blog and want to comment on something here while this is going on, please consider posting a related entry on your blog and sending a trackback, so we can see whether this also breaks trackbacks. Thanks.
‘NOTHER UPDATE: Well, apparently the only way I could make comments (or any kind of form) work with the weblog.mcgeheezone.com URL in EE settings, is to have a real subdomain as opposed to the aliased one I’m using now. The explanation from pMachine’s Chris Curtis:
The problem comes when you want to submit data via a form. The form points to the former location, and the server then redirects it to the latter. What’s wrong here, though, is that by doing so the server then ignores all of the form data that was originally sent. So the destination page never receives any data submitted. This isn’t a problem restricted to just comment submission, either; you would see this same behavior with any form on your site.
Now, there do appear to be two different ways that Verve’s subdomain system works, but I’ve only used the redirected (what I call “aliased”) kind. I will have to check out how the unredirected kind works—maybe there’s still hope. But at this point it looks like switching my blog’s home URL will be even more difficult than I had hoped.
Anyway, comments should be working again now.
‘NOTHER OTHER UPDATE: Nope, can’t get the other kind to work. The instructions are far from clear, for one thing. Back to the drawing board.
‘NOTHER OTHER OTHER UPDATE, March 2006: All of this refers to blogoSFERICS, which is now back at http://mcgeheezone.com/index.php/yky/, so ignore everything here about rewriting the URL in your address window. The weblog.mcgeheezone.com URL will ultimately be referred to Yippee- Ki- Yay. us.
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There Goes DiCaprio’s Cross-Marketing Deal
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Tue 14 Dec 2004 10:55
by Kevin McGehee
in Coweta County, GA
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Ford to Dump Aviator, Excursion
Amy Wilson, Automotive News
DETROIT—Ford Motor Co. will kill two of its priciest SUVs after the 2005 model year.
Production of the Ford Excursion, the automaker’s biggest SUV, is expected to end in September, according to an internal Ford document.
A supplier source also confirmed the vehicle will be dropped from the lineup next year.
Lincoln Aviator production will end in July, according to the Ford document. Lincoln will revive the nameplate with a car-based SUV in 2006.
The St. Louis assembly plant that produces the Aviator and its sister Ford Explorer and Mercury Mountaineer SUVs is dropping one of its two shifts in January.
Ford officials refused to comment on the demise of the two vehicles.
But the end of the Excursion and Aviator is not surprising.
Ford once said it would drop the fuel-hungry Excursion, a frequent target of environmentalists, after the 2004 model year.
But Ford Division President Steve Lyons this year said that production would continue through at least the 2005 model year.
The decision to end Excursion production comes as Ford seeks production capacity for its F-250 and F-350 Super Duty pickups, a Ford source says. Those pickups and the Excursion are assembled at the same plant in Louisville, Ky.
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Ford announces they’re ending the Aviator, just as The Aviator is opening in theaters. Leo will be pissed.
In a way it’s kind of a relief to see the Excursion go. The most truck-like of Ford’s SUVs, it still wasn’t very truck-like. And though I am an SUV defender, I also don’t much care for the way they’ve gone from the enclosed 4WD trucks of yesteryear, to the favored soccer-mom-mobile.
The problem, from my male chauvinist point of view, was that a subsegment of the female market started buying luxury SUVs—which in those days meant enclosed 4WD trucks with cupholders—and the marketing people thought they smelled a trend. Next thing you knew, an SUV had become a mini-van on steroids, with a mission no more challenging. Us truck guys call them mall-terrain vehicles.
So with these models being dropped to free up assembly-line capacity for actual trucks, I am gladdened, and shall celebrate.
Not with a quiche.
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Threads Be Goin’ Old School, Dog
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Tue 14 Dec 2004 10:05
by Kevin McGehee
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Via Transterrestrial Musings:
Hip-Hop Flops
Suzanne Kapner, New York Post
A shakeout is afoot in the world of urban apparel, as sales of once red-hot labels begin to cool, analysts and industry executives said.
The across-the-board slowdown is alarming some of the major department-store retailers that had allocated a growing amount of space to these brands on the belief that the double-digit sales growth of recent years would continue, sources said.
Federated Department Stores, which operates the Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s chains, for instance, is seeing recent sales of urban brands decline in the double digits, compared with year-ago levels, said one person, who added: “It has everyone worried.“
With its edgier looks tied to the inner-city streets and often to a rap star’s personal image, urban apparel exploded over the last decade, as sales of more traditional men’s wear made by Polo Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger and Nautica went into a prolonged decline.
Women’s urban labels soon followed, and before long “anyone who’d ever released an album thought they needed their own line,“ said Bernt Ullmann, president of Phat Fashions, the clothing company founded in 1992 by hip-hop impresario Russell Simmons.
Meanwhile, demand for the oversized jerseys and baggy jeans that these lines were known for dwindled, as classic looks regained popularity.
Those who failed to adapt quickly have been hit the hardest — such as Fubu, one of urban’s pioneers, which has seen sales shrivel by more than three-quarters since 2001, two people said. A call to Fubu wasn’t returned.
Other labels that were launched with much fan-fare, but have since fizzled include Outkast Clothing, Eminem’s Shady line and the Snoop Dog Collection, sources said.
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Ah, wouldn’t it be nice if culture followed couture?
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Democrat to Pro-Bush Merchant: “SILENCE!!!“
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Mon 13 Dec 2004 17:17
by Kevin McGehee
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Bush Photo at Farmers’ Market Causes Row
AP
LANCASTER - A Democratic city councilman has demanded that a baker remove photos of President Bush from his stand in Lancaster’s venerable farmers’ market, saying the city needs a “healing period” following the bitterly contested presidential election.
City Council member Nelson Polite approached David Stoltzfus last month and asked him to remove the pictures. When Stoltzfus refused, Polite vowed to pursue a city ordinance that would ban all political items from public places in the city.
Polite said the photo offended city Democrats.
“I just feel that since it was a close election and the city’s so divided, that we should have a healing period,“ Polite told the New Era of Lancaster.
After the New Era published a story about the flap earlier this month, conservative pundits from around the nation skewered Polite as being clueless about free speech.
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(Farther on in the story there’s a typo or something, attributing to the merchant, Stoltzfus, statements that clearly must have come from either this inaptly named Polite guy, or someone equally off his rocker.)
Incidents like this lead me to believe ever more firmly that efforts from the Left to remove mentions of God from public, have nothing whatsoever to do with the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, and everything to do with their absolute intolerance for ideas other than their own.
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No Question (Mark) About It
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Mon 13 Dec 2004 11:26
by Kevin McGehee
in Coweta County, GA
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The question mark in this category is there because, well, just because I think something’s funny doesn’t mean it is. Well, it does mean it is, but other people are entitled to their humor-challenged opinions.
But there’s never any challenge when it comes to Day By Day, so for this entry, and any others presenting a DbD cartoon, consider the question mark excised.
Editor’s Note: Any category mentioned in any entry on this site may be defunct by the time you read it.
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