<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post115874689642154644..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115874689642154644/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/you-can-tell-that-its-aaron-sorkin.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>7</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115878509189290787</id><published>2006-09-20T16:44:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-20T16:44:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Joe Bob says:Three chain-saw murders, six flashing...</title><summary type='text'>Joe Bob says:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Three chain-saw murders, six flashing titties, one mad-dog slathering for throat, one haunted trailer park, and a so-so Stephen-King-knock-off script.  Another night at the opera....</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115874689642154644/comments/default/115878509189290787'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115874689642154644/comments/default/115878509189290787'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/you-can-tell-that-its-aaron-sorkin.html?showComment=1158785040000#c115878509189290787' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/you-can-tell-that-its-aaron-sorkin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115874689642154644' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115874689642154644' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115878501778567286</id><published>2006-09-20T16:43:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-20T16:43:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>West Wing was and continues to be and extraordinar...</title><summary type='text'>West Wing was and continues to be and extraordinary show in my mind as Ai continue to watch it on dvd. I&#39;m not such a snob that I refuse to equate anything on television outside of pbs with quality.&lt;BR/&gt;Sorkin has given us some amazing writing, certaining better than is on the big screen for the most part. Policy discussion up against a reality show? What would you pick?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115874689642154644/comments/default/115878501778567286'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115874689642154644/comments/default/115878501778567286'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/you-can-tell-that-its-aaron-sorkin.html?showComment=1158784980000#c115878501778567286' title=''/><author><name>Chris Mansel</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08387214424145665054</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/you-can-tell-that-its-aaron-sorkin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115874689642154644' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115874689642154644' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-62929607"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115877858494983650</id><published>2006-09-20T14:56:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-20T14:56:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I find myself most fascinated on TV by the replay ...</title><summary type='text'>I find myself most fascinated on TV by the replay on  local cable of the weekly hearing held by the San Francisco Board of Permit Appeals.  I come across it late on weekend nights.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The Board of Permit Appeals considers disputes about such things as building a residential elevator or  whether a business offering accupressure services is really  a massage parlor.   One party wants the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115874689642154644/comments/default/115877858494983650'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115874689642154644/comments/default/115877858494983650'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/you-can-tell-that-its-aaron-sorkin.html?showComment=1158778560000#c115877858494983650' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04378273134042527425</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/you-can-tell-that-its-aaron-sorkin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115874689642154644' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115874689642154644' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1945919831"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115876916146736130</id><published>2006-09-20T12:19:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-20T12:19:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Where are the great writers? I&#39;ll take a night of ...</title><summary type='text'>Where are the great writers? I&#39;ll take a night of Twilight Zone and Hitchcock old-runs over just about anything on these days...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;(though I have a fondness for My Name is Earl- those people are all members of my family, I swear; and my daughter and I watch project Runway together- she&#39;s in costume design school)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;and Eureka on Sci-fi ids predictable (good to see Matt Frewer again)</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115874689642154644/comments/default/115876916146736130'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115874689642154644/comments/default/115876916146736130'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/you-can-tell-that-its-aaron-sorkin.html?showComment=1158769140000#c115876916146736130' title=''/><author><name>shann</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14067576860660881139</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/you-can-tell-that-its-aaron-sorkin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115874689642154644' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115874689642154644' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1505930166"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115876832201893282</id><published>2006-09-20T12:05:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-20T12:05:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The preceding commercial announcement was brought ...</title><summary type='text'>The preceding commercial announcement was brought to you by...!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Snap me!  I&#39;m a product!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115874689642154644/comments/default/115876832201893282'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115874689642154644/comments/default/115876832201893282'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/you-can-tell-that-its-aaron-sorkin.html?showComment=1158768300000#c115876832201893282' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/you-can-tell-that-its-aaron-sorkin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115874689642154644' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115874689642154644' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115876461084358606</id><published>2006-09-20T11:03:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-20T11:03:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I feel more and more like the entertainment world ...</title><summary type='text'>I feel more and more like the entertainment world is swallowing its own tail. A couple of years ago I went to a movie and was forced to sit through an ad for a documentary about the making of a theme park ride based on a movie.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115874689642154644/comments/default/115876461084358606'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115874689642154644/comments/default/115876461084358606'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/you-can-tell-that-its-aaron-sorkin.html?showComment=1158764580000#c115876461084358606' title=''/><author><name>Tiel Aisha Ansari</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03994169558252043919</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/you-can-tell-that-its-aaron-sorkin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115874689642154644' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115874689642154644' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-659844337"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115876180800088955</id><published>2006-09-20T10:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-09-20T10:16:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I don’t pretend to be a big TV nut, but I have wat...</title><summary type='text'>I don’t pretend to be a big TV nut, but I have watched a few of the drama-coms from the 1980’s and ‘90’s while eating dinner, etc.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Melrose Place, Seinfeld, The Practice, etc.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;One thing I’ve noticed is that the shows often have a fully scripted first season with a close circle of well-defined characters, but always seem to degenerate in the second season—new characters appear, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115874689642154644/comments/default/115876180800088955'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/115874689642154644/comments/default/115876180800088955'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/you-can-tell-that-its-aaron-sorkin.html?showComment=1158761760000#c115876180800088955' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/09/you-can-tell-that-its-aaron-sorkin.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-115874689642154644' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/115874689642154644' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 20, 2006"/></entry></feed>