<?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.post116592275156627664..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/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/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>29</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116692513293385391</id><published>2006-12-23T20:52:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-23T20:52:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>sometimes there are more than one winners.</title><summary type='text'>sometimes there are &lt;A HREF=&quot;http://patnoxsystems.com/houston&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;more&lt;/A&gt; than one winners.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116692513293385391'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116692513293385391'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html?showComment=1166925120000#c116692513293385391' title=''/><author><name>Sambian</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10921679822339502355</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/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116592275156627664' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116592275156627664' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-286121510"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 23, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116641607189721195</id><published>2006-12-17T23:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-17T23:27:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Yeah, sometimes the old codgers get grouchier and ...</title><summary type='text'>Yeah, sometimes the old codgers get grouchier and grouchier, like me.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116641607189721195'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116641607189721195'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html?showComment=1166416020000#c116641607189721195' 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/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116592275156627664' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116592275156627664' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 17, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116632818068665007</id><published>2006-12-16T23:03:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-16T23:03:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Aging? The realization of mortality?The fading of ...</title><summary type='text'>Aging? The realization of mortality?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The fading of desire, as they settle into middle-aged well-to-do-ness, hanging their wild years on the nails they used to drive into the walls of literature. That seems to be a problem. It does seem to be a very individual thing.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;As a contrary example, I&#39;ve been reading a lot of Hayden Carruth lately, his &quot;Collected Essays &amp; Reviews&quot; as well </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116632818068665007'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116632818068665007'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html?showComment=1166328180000#c116632818068665007' 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/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116592275156627664' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116592275156627664' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1119200278"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116606992826524715</id><published>2006-12-13T23:18:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-13T23:18:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>art, your take on Ashbery is right on.  I think we...</title><summary type='text'>art, your take on Ashbery is right on.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think we need to imagine inside of our possible sense of his long career, what options he may have had.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;He made enormous strides--or strokes--whatever--with each of his first six or so books, kind of the same way Creeley did&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;JA:  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Some Trees&lt;BR/&gt;      Rivers &amp; Mountains&lt;BR/&gt;      The Double Dream of Spring&lt;BR/&gt;      </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116606992826524715'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116606992826524715'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html?showComment=1166069880000#c116606992826524715' 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/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116592275156627664' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116592275156627664' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 13, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116605096809644762</id><published>2006-12-13T18:02:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-13T18:02:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;m with curtis on this one.As someone who WAS rea...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;m with curtis on this one.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;As someone who WAS reading John Cage at age 12 or so, I can say that it did leave a profound change in me. I use indeterminacy on some level in most of my creative work; except, oddly perhaps, in poetry. Indeterminacy shows up there mostly as &quot;haiku mind,&quot; i.e. the mindset of being open to whatever is going around one at the moment, and the willingness to </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116605096809644762'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116605096809644762'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html?showComment=1166050920000#c116605096809644762' 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/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116592275156627664' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116592275156627664' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1119200278"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 13, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116602131271329666</id><published>2006-12-13T09:48:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-13T09:48:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Forkingspoon wrote:&quot;He is not a man&#39;s man and then...</title><summary type='text'>Forkingspoon wrote:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;He is not a man&#39;s man and then neither is Ms. Silliman.&quot; &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;As a gay man he is a man&#39;s man. But not just one man, many.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;hpulzb</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116602131271329666'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116602131271329666'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html?showComment=1166021280000#c116602131271329666' title=''/><author><name>ombilic des</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03318554537326184413</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/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116592275156627664' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116592275156627664' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1506852026"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 13, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116600497346623219</id><published>2006-12-13T05:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-13T05:16:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>You sure struck a chord -- 19 comments. Yes, Ashbe...</title><summary type='text'>You sure struck a chord -- 19 comments. Yes, Ashbery does deserve a medal. Maybe it is my age, coming of age in the 50&#39;s, but I admire Wilbur very much. Few poets handle rhyme as subtlely as he does.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116600497346623219'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116600497346623219'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html?showComment=1166004960000#c116600497346623219' title=''/><author><name>Nancy Ruth</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14992975981879032574</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1401/2583/1600/nancysm2.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116592275156627664' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116592275156627664' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1858584914"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 13, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116599634550970419</id><published>2006-12-13T02:52:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-13T02:52:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Oh god, Ashbery is to poetry what Jordan was to ho...</title><summary type='text'>Oh god, Ashbery is to poetry what Jordan was to hoops?  Give us an effing break.  Ashbery shoots underhanded free throws...correctly of course, but quaint and sissified.  He is not a man&#39;s man and then neither is Ms. Silliman.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116599634550970419'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116599634550970419'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html?showComment=1165996320000#c116599634550970419' title=''/><author><name>forkingspoon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05103242774838156692</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/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116592275156627664' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116592275156627664' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-619181895"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 13, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116599208887982042</id><published>2006-12-13T01:41:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-13T01:41:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>My impression of the National Medal for the Arts i...</title><summary type='text'>My impression of the National Medal for the Arts is that it&#39;s set up to create federally sanctioned role models and that Ashbery&#39;s alcoholism makes him an unlikely recipient.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116599208887982042'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116599208887982042'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html?showComment=1165992060000#c116599208887982042' title=''/><author><name>Dale</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13842990542856986110</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/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116592275156627664' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116592275156627664' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1413089634"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 13, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116598586443128798</id><published>2006-12-12T23:57:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-12T23:57:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>just came from a real mexican fiestafor our lady o...</title><summary type='text'>just came from a real &lt;BR/&gt;mexican fiesta&lt;BR/&gt;for our lady of guadalupe&lt;BR/&gt;whom catholics in the americas&lt;BR/&gt;celebrate&lt;BR/&gt;a festive reprieve&lt;BR/&gt;in the hushed silence&lt;BR/&gt;of the advent season&lt;BR/&gt;like we&#39;re all locked &lt;BR/&gt;in a quiet church&lt;BR/&gt;avoiding the mayhem&lt;BR/&gt;cast into a vapid culture&lt;BR/&gt;by a complete misunderstanding&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;and then i read a few ashbery poems&lt;BR/&gt;and must conclude</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116598586443128798'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116598586443128798'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html?showComment=1165985820000#c116598586443128798' title=''/><author><name>john hanson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09681354460957743187</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/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116592275156627664' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116592275156627664' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1428247785"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 12, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116597540666038320</id><published>2006-12-12T21:03:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-12T21:03:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Wow, great thread!!!&quot;But I think she&#39;s ugly and bo...</title><summary type='text'>Wow, great thread!!!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;But I think she&#39;s ugly and boring. Except for the background, which is kind of cool. Murky. Cavernously, twistedly deep, like a torqued smile twirled in smoke.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;--Thank you, Omby, for that!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;tony, your post on baseball is sheer genius, but I&#39;m going to have to disagree with you a little bit--&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Actually, what Eckersely rendered &quot;obsolete&quot; was not</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116597540666038320'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116597540666038320'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html?showComment=1165975380000#c116597540666038320' 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/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116592275156627664' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116592275156627664' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 12, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116597223671127480</id><published>2006-12-12T20:10:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-12T20:10:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Getting back on topic, I tend to agree with Ron th...</title><summary type='text'>Getting back on topic, I tend to agree with Ron that poets and poetry are too often ignored and it is long past time to tear down this wall.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;So who wants to go for it?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116597223671127480'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116597223671127480'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html?showComment=1165972200000#c116597223671127480' title=''/><author><name>Billy Jones</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16264147065000056960</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/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116592275156627664' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116592275156627664' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-626270859"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 12, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116596746649001394</id><published>2006-12-12T18:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-12T18:51:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116596746649001394'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116596746649001394'/><author><name>Tony Tost</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15765857872778493229</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/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116592275156627664' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116592275156627664' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1599768463"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 12, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116596282565826024</id><published>2006-12-12T17:33:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-12T17:33:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>False analogy, Steve,To have an impact at the leve...</title><summary type='text'>False analogy, Steve,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;To have an impact at the level of form would mean something different altogether in baseball. Sort of like the way Dennis Eckersley made complete games obsolete would be the parallel kind of statement.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Torvill &amp; Dean in Figure Skating, Jordan in basketball -- people who actually change the shape of the game is what you&#39;re looking for.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116596282565826024'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116596282565826024'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html?showComment=1165962780000#c116596282565826024' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</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/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116592275156627664' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116592275156627664' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 12, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116596162057519737</id><published>2006-12-12T17:13:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-12T17:13:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Blake and Coleridge no more made obsolete the type...</title><summary type='text'>Blake and Coleridge no more made obsolete the type of poetry that some today enjoy writing and reading than Willie Mays and Roberto Clemente rendered obsolete stellar outfield play.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Originality can be expressed in various ways.  Unless a lyric or sonnet or ? is a rote copy of or a tired pastiche from  an old master, it could be an original or enough of one, and reflective of the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116596162057519737'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116596162057519737'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html?showComment=1165961580000#c116596162057519737' 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/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116592275156627664' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116592275156627664' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1945919831"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 12, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116595705891461187</id><published>2006-12-12T15:57:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-12T15:57:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;It&#39;s the equivalent of sidewalk chalk artists who...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;It&#39;s the equivalent of sidewalk chalk artists who can do perfect copies of the Mona Lisa.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;More like: who can do new paintings that, while not by any means being exact copies---perhaps having very different subjects and perspectives, and some novel formal contortions (without breaking utterly out of the original formal frame, but furthering and torquing it)---equal or exceed the quality</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116595705891461187'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116595705891461187'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html?showComment=1165957020000#c116595705891461187' title=''/><author><name>ombilic des</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03318554537326184413</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/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116592275156627664' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116592275156627664' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1506852026"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 12, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116595327654039797</id><published>2006-12-12T14:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-12T14:54:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I agree with everyone above.  That&#39;s news!!!Actual...</title><summary type='text'>I agree with everyone above.  That&#39;s news!!!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Actually, you can come at this problem from any number of divergant positions.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Prizes are bullshit.  No argument there.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Does Ashbery deserve a prize?  Of course.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But for my money, Ashbery&#39;s already won all the prizes he needs.  What?--do we give him a Nobel?  I mean, aside from the additional dinners out and 3rd </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116595327654039797'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116595327654039797'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html?showComment=1165953240000#c116595327654039797' 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/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116592275156627664' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116592275156627664' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 12, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116595256727736101</id><published>2006-12-12T14:42:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-12T14:42:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Hecht &amp; Wilbur may be tremendous practitioners, b...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Hecht &amp; Wilbur may be tremendous practitioners, but of a tradition that was rendered obsolete by Wordsworth, Blake &amp; Coleridge.&quot;  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I can see how from w/in the framework of post-avant poetics, Hecht, Wilbur, Richard Howard, James Merrill, and other modern practitioners of poetry written in traditional verse would seem &quot;obsolete&quot;, but I think this is a rather myopic way to view them and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116595256727736101'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116595256727736101'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html?showComment=1165952520000#c116595256727736101' title=''/><author><name>Rocco DiStreitlmahn</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05401952796335386301</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/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116592275156627664' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116592275156627664' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-522616634"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 12, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116595045600806479</id><published>2006-12-12T14:07:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-12T14:07:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Cheering for Ashbery to win *more* awards is like ...</title><summary type='text'>Cheering for Ashbery to win *more* awards is like cheering for the The New York Yankees to beat a little league team. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Go Bad News Bears!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;xxxjimmy</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116595045600806479'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116595045600806479'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html?showComment=1165950420000#c116595045600806479' title=''/><author><name>Jim Behrle</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10413318641271302421</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/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116592275156627664' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116592275156627664' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-705957718"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 12, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116594987685492783</id><published>2006-12-12T13:57:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-12T13:57:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;m looking for E-Chapbooks for our new press, If ...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;m looking for E-Chapbooks for our new press, If Press.  More info is in the link below.  Thanks.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;http://wordofmouthpress.blogspot.com/2006/12/were-looking-for-e-chapbooks.html</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116594987685492783'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116594987685492783'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html?showComment=1165949820000#c116594987685492783' title=''/><author><name>Don</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13556663035451699295</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/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116592275156627664' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116592275156627664' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-909060766"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 12, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116594945565539388</id><published>2006-12-12T13:50:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-12T13:50:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Warren&#39;s Audubon always struck me as a pale copy o...</title><summary type='text'>Warren&#39;s &lt;B&gt;Audubon&lt;/B&gt; always struck me as a pale copy of Crane&#39;s &lt;B&gt;The Bridge&lt;/B&gt;, an anti-modernist&#39;s attempt to reconcile with modernism. Crane does it far better. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Hecht &amp; Wilbur may be tremendous practitioners, but of a tradition that was rendered obsolete by Wordsworth, Blake &amp; Coleridge. It&#39;s the equivalent of sidewalk chalk artists who can do perfect copies of the Mona Lisa. </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116594945565539388'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116594945565539388'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html?showComment=1165949400000#c116594945565539388' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</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/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116592275156627664' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116592275156627664' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 12, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116594507353281514</id><published>2006-12-12T12:37:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-12T12:37:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I think you&#39;re selling Hecht and Wilbur extremely ...</title><summary type='text'>I think you&#39;re selling Hecht and Wilbur extremely short. Their aesthetic may not be your cup of tea, but their achievement is great withing that aesthetic. Though I agree that the range of who is honored ought to be greater, including Ashbery.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116594507353281514'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116594507353281514'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html?showComment=1165945020000#c116594507353281514' title=''/><author><name>Jason Gray</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05975059092305599915</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/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116592275156627664' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116592275156627664' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-237335437"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 12, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116594352469667497</id><published>2006-12-12T12:12:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-12T12:12:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I believe that he prefers to be called Chairman Gi...</title><summary type='text'>I believe that he prefers to be called Chairman Gioia.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116594352469667497'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116594352469667497'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html?showComment=1165943520000#c116594352469667497' title=''/><author><name>morescotch</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14439813112611802880</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/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116592275156627664' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116592275156627664' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-339955049"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 12, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116594204046412848</id><published>2006-12-12T11:47:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-12T11:47:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ashbery sure deserves it.  But as the commenters a...</title><summary type='text'>Ashbery sure deserves it.  But as the commenters above said, it would be too controversial (because a lot of people think he&#39;s writing nonsense and have much more conservative views of writing, even now).  Don&#39;t look to govt to notice genius -- it&#39;s not going to happen.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116594204046412848'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116594204046412848'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html?showComment=1165942020000#c116594204046412848' title=''/><author><name>Don</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13556663035451699295</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/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116592275156627664' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116592275156627664' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-909060766"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 12, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116594117908226713</id><published>2006-12-12T11:32:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-12-12T11:32:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The problem too Ron is that scum like John Barr of...</title><summary type='text'>The problem too Ron is that scum like John Barr of the POETRY FOUNDATION Love Love Love to take shots at Ashbery whenever they can!  As often as they can!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;John Barr&#39;s &lt;A HREF=&quot;http://www.poetrymagazine.org/magazine/0906/comment_178560.html&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;recent admission of boredom&lt;/A&gt; is a BIZARRE moment to keep tuning in to once in a while!  I mean, I could hear an alarm clock so LOUD</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116594117908226713'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116592275156627664/comments/default/116594117908226713'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html?showComment=1165941120000#c116594117908226713' title=''/><author><name>poet CAConrad</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17360262447900081942</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/2006/12/photo-by-john-tranter-it-strikes-me-as.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116592275156627664' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116592275156627664' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-866494505"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 12, 2006"/></entry></feed>