<?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.post116411559067462080..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/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><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>50</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116510382406535065</id><published>2006-12-02T18:57:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-02T18:57:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>George Fenniman greets the bird dropping from the ...</title><summary type='text'>George Fenniman greets the bird dropping from the sky.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116510382406535065'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116510382406535065'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html?showComment=1165103820000#c116510382406535065' 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/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116411559067462080' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116411559067462080' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 02, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116507975238052054</id><published>2006-12-02T12:15:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-02T12:15:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>These two Bertolinos I didn&#39;t understand at all.  ...</title><summary type='text'>These two Bertolinos I didn&#39;t understand at all.  Maybe this is what Ron means when he says he fits right in with the post-avant.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Word salad.  Yummy yummy.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116507975238052054'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116507975238052054'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html?showComment=1165079700000#c116507975238052054' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</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/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116411559067462080' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116411559067462080' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 02, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116501216757627535</id><published>2006-12-01T17:29:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-01T17:29:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>A few more from Bertolino&#39;s Precinct Kali &amp; The Ge...</title><summary type='text'>A few more from Bertolino&#39;s Precinct Kali &amp; The Gertrude Spicer Story:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Terminal Placebos/2&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Half the brains it took to survive&lt;BR/&gt;the Om tomb&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Rate your lobe&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Sucking the artificial limb&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;In control&lt;BR/&gt;utterly&lt;BR/&gt;&amp; weeping by turns&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;We acknowledge its pain but must&lt;BR/&gt;continue meeting microbes&lt;BR/&gt;openly&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;A fistful of nightsoil </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116501216757627535'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116501216757627535'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html?showComment=1165012140000#c116501216757627535' title=''/><author><name>Hayes</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10510685711977938662</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/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116411559067462080' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116411559067462080' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-364042053"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 01, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116499550481909654</id><published>2006-12-01T12:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-01T12:51:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Curtis doesn&#39;t have his own blog because more peo...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Curtis doesn&#39;t have his own blog because more people will read him here.&quot; -Ron&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Don&#39;t flatter yourself, dude.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116499550481909654'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116499550481909654'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html?showComment=1164995460000#c116499550481909654' 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/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116411559067462080' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116411559067462080' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 01, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116489890324462392</id><published>2006-11-30T10:01:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-30T10:01:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I wish we could talk more about Bertolino and the ...</title><summary type='text'>I wish we could talk more about Bertolino and the NW poetry scene.  But I guess this comment stream is now dead.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116489890324462392'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116489890324462392'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html?showComment=1164898860000#c116489890324462392' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</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/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116411559067462080' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116411559067462080' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 30, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116469990132940211</id><published>2006-11-28T02:45:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-28T02:45:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>One of the things that happens with this sort of t...</title><summary type='text'>One of the things that happens with this sort of thing, this &quot;partitioning&quot; of schools of criticism is exactly this:  it is missed.  And I&#39;d say...haha..that it was pretty much missed this time eh Kirby?  :)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I remember there was this blind guy on Jeopardy! and he was unbeatable.  How did he do it?  No one really knows.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Look at this:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;He needed a pocket diesel, yearned&lt;BR</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116469990132940211'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116469990132940211'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html?showComment=1164699900000#c116469990132940211' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04555982712708881025</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/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116411559067462080' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116411559067462080' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 28, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116469913985755542</id><published>2006-11-28T02:32:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-28T02:32:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;As a taste in persons, Camp responds particularly...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;As a taste in persons, Camp responds particularly to the markedly attenuated and to the strongly exaggerated. The androgyne is certainly one of the great images of Camp sensibility. Examples: the swooning, slim, sinuous figures of pre-Raphaelite painting and poetry; the thin, flowing, sexless bodies in Art Nouveau prints and posters, presented in relief on lamps and ashtrays; the haunting </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116469913985755542'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116469913985755542'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html?showComment=1164699120000#c116469913985755542' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04555982712708881025</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/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116411559067462080' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116411559067462080' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 28, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116465494983710033</id><published>2006-11-27T14:15:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-27T14:15:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>What is the point of Bertolino&#39;s second poem?  Can...</title><summary type='text'>What is the point of Bertolino&#39;s second poem?  Can anyone figure out what you&#39;re meant to think about the second one?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think the first one is just crudeness, and the humor of that.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But I can&#39;t figure out the tendency of the second one, it&#39;s flavor.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116465494983710033'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116465494983710033'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html?showComment=1164654900000#c116465494983710033' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</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/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116411559067462080' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116411559067462080' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 27, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116458086871555495</id><published>2006-11-26T17:41:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-26T17:41:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>rubaihe seeks the chair of nothingness and nothing...</title><summary type='text'>rubai&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;he seeks the chair of nothingness and nothing less&lt;BR/&gt;allowing as his happiness is nothingness&lt;BR/&gt;there&#39;s nothing stopping someone from attaining that&lt;BR/&gt;except perhaps a hint of wanting something yes?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;d.i.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116458086871555495'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116458086871555495'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html?showComment=1164580860000#c116458086871555495' title=''/><author><name>david raphael israel</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07535589040322113419</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/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116411559067462080' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116411559067462080' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1441140986"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 26, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116456536136881422</id><published>2006-11-26T13:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-26T13:22:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Splabman writes:Few outside the Northwest know Cha...</title><summary type='text'>Splabman writes:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Few outside the Northwest know Charles Potts, or Paul Hunter, or John Olson, Nico Vassilakis, Judith Roche, Marion Kimes and others from this part of the world, so I guess they&#39;d not have much influence for those who usually read this blog, but they are all excellent poets, part of the diverse literary landscape of the Pacific Northwest and have been of essential use for</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116456536136881422'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116456536136881422'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html?showComment=1164565320000#c116456536136881422' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</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/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116411559067462080' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116411559067462080' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 26, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116452466440536998</id><published>2006-11-26T02:04:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-26T02:04:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis, you are right. Kirby is not defending the ...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis, you are right. Kirby is not defending the way academy tends to do business, he&#39;s bemoaning its tendency towards political correctness, yet he still comes across here and in other posts, as though a decent-paying job in the academy is one way to measure success. That may be his yardstick and he&#39;s welcome to it. I was suggesting another consideration.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;As for influence, another word</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116452466440536998'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116452466440536998'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html?showComment=1164524640000#c116452466440536998' title=''/><author><name>peN</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08068813038783953187</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/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116411559067462080' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116411559067462080' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-499294682"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 26, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116451350749726283</id><published>2006-11-25T22:58:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-25T22:58:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>A sort of late, minor response to some characteriz...</title><summary type='text'>A sort of late, minor response to some characterizations of W.S. Merwin above, viz. --&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;&lt; Merwin was at least 20 years behind Snyder on the environment, and his work in any event has almost nothing to do with nature--it&#39;s all Quietly literary. &gt;&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The author of such volumes as The Dancing Bears [1954], Green with Beasts [1956], The Lice [1967], Finding the Islands [which features, to </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116451350749726283'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116451350749726283'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html?showComment=1164513480000#c116451350749726283' title=''/><author><name>david raphael israel</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07535589040322113419</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/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116411559067462080' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116411559067462080' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1441140986"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 25, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116449524983688981</id><published>2006-11-25T17:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-25T17:54:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Here&#39;s a few things I know about James Bertolino:1...</title><summary type='text'>Here&#39;s a few things I know about James Bertolino:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;1. He&#39;s an excellent teacher, poet and person. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;2. His poetry is perfect on the page. That&#39;s one of the things it&#39;s noted for. He&#39;s also just happens to be an excellent reader. He can read anyone&#39;s poetry and make it sound great... or terrible, if he chooses. If you don&#39;t know his poetry on the page, you should read it. The </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116449524983688981'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116449524983688981'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html?showComment=1164495240000#c116449524983688981' title=''/><author><name>AKB</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12721361351103807301</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/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116411559067462080' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116411559067462080' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1929254962"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 25, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116448161513779380</id><published>2006-11-25T14:06:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-25T14:06:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Paul, I tried to respond on my own blog.I think I ...</title><summary type='text'>Paul, I tried to respond on my own blog.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think I also posted three posts to this comment box, but they were either lost or just didn&#39;t register.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Check the blog roll for my name and click if you feel like reading my response.  Personally, I think success/failure is a fascinating dichotomy that poetry and poets need to clarify.  There is a paradoxical relationship in them.  </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116448161513779380'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116448161513779380'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html?showComment=1164481560000#c116448161513779380' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</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/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116411559067462080' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116411559067462080' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 25, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116442556262346160</id><published>2006-11-24T22:32:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-24T22:32:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>On the contrary, slabman, Kirby isn&#39;t arguing on b...</title><summary type='text'>On the contrary, slabman, Kirby isn&#39;t arguing on behalf of the esteem of institutional repute, he&#39;s denigrating it.  He sees the academy as occupying a position of power and influence in the literary arena--for better or ill--and bemoans its affect on public taste (if I read him aright).  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The so-called public taste and its sophistication has been debated endlessly over the last 100 </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116442556262346160'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116442556262346160'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html?showComment=1164425520000#c116442556262346160' 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/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116411559067462080' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116411559067462080' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 24, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116441686407135679</id><published>2006-11-24T20:07:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-24T20:07:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I assume that writers who publish want to be read,...</title><summary type='text'>I assume that writers who publish want to be read, and they want readers to approve of their work.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;If someone is writing purely for their own pleasure, as you imply, Splabman, is the name of the game, then I don&#39;t think there is any need to make the work more widely available.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116441686407135679'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116441686407135679'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html?showComment=1164416820000#c116441686407135679' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</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/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116411559067462080' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116411559067462080' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 24, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116441675823430494</id><published>2006-11-24T20:05:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-24T20:05:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;m just interested in the evaluative schemes. Rac...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;m just interested in the evaluative schemes. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Race, gender, class?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Risk?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;To me, the poems of Bertolino at least those here seem to lie somewhere between attempts at popular success at Collins&#39; level (I suppose that I accept Collins more than most because at least he&#39;s fiercely anti-communist).  On the other hand there is a crudeness in the humor (eating of insects, ha</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116441675823430494'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116441675823430494'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html?showComment=1164416700000#c116441675823430494' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</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/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116411559067462080' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116411559067462080' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 24, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116441649119234241</id><published>2006-11-24T20:01:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-24T20:01:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;m not sure how you derive these ideas about succ...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;m not sure how you derive these ideas about success.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I would argue rather that I was arguing about what has influence in the academy is not the same as what has influence in the marketplace.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Bertolino has neither.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;m not sure what the intention is behind the poems that are quoted.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;As I read them again it seemed the first one is a kind of little boys joke.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116441649119234241'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116441649119234241'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html?showComment=1164416460000#c116441649119234241' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</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/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116411559067462080' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116411559067462080' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 24, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116439233099617457</id><published>2006-11-24T13:18:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-24T13:18:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby,You write as if book sales, or academic jobs...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You write as if book sales, or academic jobs are the big payoff for having a writing pracice. There is little in your post today (&amp; other days) that relates to the simple joy of creation, or the joy in discovering a bit of writing that changes one&#39;s life, that re-shapes our neural network. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Perhaps Bertolino is not interested in having the greatest book sales in the North</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116439233099617457'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116439233099617457'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html?showComment=1164392280000#c116439233099617457' title=''/><author><name>peN</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08068813038783953187</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/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116411559067462080' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116411559067462080' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-499294682"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 24, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116431402691949675</id><published>2006-11-23T15:33:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-23T15:33:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis, thanks for this intelligent feedback.  I a...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis, thanks for this intelligent feedback.  I am glad we agree on some central places, things.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But here&#39;s where I am going to disagree again.  Or rather I am going to reframe &quot;fame.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Fame&quot; is possible outside of academia.  For instance, Bukowski is quite famous and his books still sell to undergraduates who might actually be in the process of pursuing a degree in forestry </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116431402691949675'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116431402691949675'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html?showComment=1164313980000#c116431402691949675' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</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/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116411559067462080' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116411559067462080' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 23, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116430713333021316</id><published>2006-11-23T13:38:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-23T13:38:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The Jung camp has lived on long enough to turn int...</title><summary type='text'>The Jung camp has lived on long enough to turn into popular doxa -- via Joseph Campbell on PBS, to the kind of how-to guides that scriptwriting gurus hustle to their gullible students. The Hero with a Thousand Screen Tests. I suppose in some alternative universe Northrup Frye and die arme BB are still facing off like Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef at the end of Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo. </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116430713333021316'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116430713333021316'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html?showComment=1164307080000#c116430713333021316' title=''/><author><name>Kirk Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05529898733002317995</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/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116411559067462080' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116411559067462080' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-895736745"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 23, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116424349472733613</id><published>2006-11-22T19:58:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-22T19:58:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I guess I find myself falling into the &quot;Deep image...</title><summary type='text'>I guess I find myself falling into the &quot;Deep image&quot; camp but I am also a post-Snyder poet. (I&#39;ve even been compared to him, which I take as praise.) I think that Curtis is right about the Deep Image poets having hardly been supplanted. Speaking as a bisexual, I often find monosexuals to be quite limited in their thinking. My major objection to polarized binary distinctions such as &quot;SoQ vs. </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116424349472733613'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116424349472733613'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html?showComment=1164243480000#c116424349472733613' title=''/><author><name>Art Durkee</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07399620147907002735</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/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116411559067462080' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116411559067462080' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1119200278"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 22, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116422329010192731</id><published>2006-11-22T14:21:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-22T14:21:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanks Kirby for that clarification, I did not kno...</title><summary type='text'>Thanks Kirby for that clarification, I did not know that.  I think, at least in my own mind, maybe this stifling criticism world is not helping the growth of poetry.  Not to say that I write poems to be popular, but that the academia acceptance or denial seems to be quite selective.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I learned this the hard way, when 3 of my own poems were rejected by own school&#39;s magazine, only to win </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116422329010192731'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116422329010192731'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html?showComment=1164223260000#c116422329010192731' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</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/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116411559067462080' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116411559067462080' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1769159980"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 22, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116421624062847537</id><published>2006-11-22T12:24:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-22T12:24:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;For Peter Hayward -- to be read in a creative wri...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;For Peter Hayward -- to be read in a creative writing class isn&#39;t to be &#39;studied.&#39; It&#39;s just to be read in a creative writing class.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I don&#39;t know why I insist on that distinction, but I do. Actually, I do know why, but I don&#39;t feel like explaining it. Well, why not try it, just for my own sake. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It has to do with cultural canonization. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Somehow what gets studied in &#39;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116421624062847537'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116421624062847537'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html?showComment=1164216240000#c116421624062847537' 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/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116411559067462080' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116411559067462080' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 22, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116421127894001199</id><published>2006-11-22T11:01:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-11-22T11:01:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>For Peter Hayward -- to be read in a creative writ...</title><summary type='text'>For Peter Hayward -- to be read in a creative writing class isn&#39;t to be &quot;studied.&quot;  It&#39;s just to be read in a creative writing class.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I don&#39;t know why I insist on that distinction, but I do.  Actually, I do know why, but I don&#39;t feel like explaining it.  Well, why not try it, just for my own sake.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It has to do with cultural canonization.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Somehow what gets studied in</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116421127894001199'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116411559067462080/comments/default/116421127894001199'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html?showComment=1164211260000#c116421127894001199' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</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/2006/11/low-carb-one-of-pleasures-of-eating.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116411559067462080' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116411559067462080' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 22, 2006"/></entry></feed>