<?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.post1286862192559228164..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/3738579/1286862192559228164/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/09/jim-carroll-1950-2009.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>8</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-200992642157778477</id><published>2009-09-16T13:21:16.511-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-16T13:21:16.511-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Good picture. Is that yours? I might use it on my ...</title><summary type='text'>Good picture. Is that yours? I might use it on my blog. Jim Carroll (b1949) started doing cocaine at 13, and I (b1942) started drinking hard at 13 in Memphis listening to Little Richard. Those nine years difference all sorts of shit happened. I always figured if I had moved to NYC I could very easily be one of those guys in the song, huh? I&amp;#39;m glad I found El Paso.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1286862192559228164/comments/default/200992642157778477'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1286862192559228164/comments/default/200992642157778477'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/09/jim-carroll-1950-2009.html?showComment=1253121676511#c200992642157778477' title=''/><author><name>Bobby Byrd</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17990783036661848472</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://bp0.blogger.com/_n2Wex_QRk70/R8WsKZZ0emI/AAAAAAAAAG0/RaDXpHkOIbA/S220/2008_January_Debbie%27s%2BLee%2Band%2BBobby.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/09/jim-carroll-1950-2009.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1286862192559228164' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1286862192559228164' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1846872364"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 16, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5827064802127495592</id><published>2009-09-16T11:54:45.587-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-16T11:54:45.587-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I had a strange experience. I was walking to work ...</title><summary type='text'>I had a strange experience. I was walking to work when Carroll appeared to me in a vision and seemed very friendly. I hadn&amp;#39;t thought of him for a decade!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had heard that he had laughed mightily at my article that appeared in the Corpse in the late 80s entitled &amp;quot;My Night with Allen Ginsberg.&amp;quot;  I think Codrescu said something like Carroll said that Ginsberg had deserved </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1286862192559228164/comments/default/5827064802127495592'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1286862192559228164/comments/default/5827064802127495592'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/09/jim-carroll-1950-2009.html?showComment=1253116485587#c5827064802127495592' 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/2009/09/jim-carroll-1950-2009.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1286862192559228164' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1286862192559228164' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 16, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8379300485176963785</id><published>2009-09-15T00:26:42.567-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-15T00:26:42.567-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I saw Carroll do a reading/performance at the Impr...</title><summary type='text'>I saw Carroll do a reading/performance at the Improv club in San Diego twenty years ago, and he packed the house; he looked ghostly even then. He read amazingly well, though, and understood better how to rock a lyric for bittersweet irony than anyone. He was a junkie , of course, and the awareness that the worst and best parts of ourselves are expressed simultaneously, and that it&amp;#39;s a miracle</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1286862192559228164/comments/default/8379300485176963785'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1286862192559228164/comments/default/8379300485176963785'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/09/jim-carroll-1950-2009.html?showComment=1252988802567#c8379300485176963785' title=''/><author><name>Ted Burke</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16610296721891201100</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='19' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_C89YLyBFNJ0/ScOlFsNlqiI/AAAAAAAACKY/nr0_xDYD8uU/S220/DSCF2074.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/09/jim-carroll-1950-2009.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1286862192559228164' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1286862192559228164' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1368526798"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 15, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5769146067421186006</id><published>2009-09-14T23:37:39.406-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-14T23:37:39.406-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Once sat at table with Jim Carroll and a group of ...</title><summary type='text'>Once sat at table with Jim Carroll and a group of others.  Carroll&amp;#39;s red hair was so long, he hid beneath it and barely said a word.  I assume he must have been on something strong enough to subdue his consciousness.  I liked some of his early poetry, despite (or perhaps because of) its romanticized Rimbaud/Burroughs/down-and-out drug line.  Basketball Diaries had the ring of truth, as seen </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1286862192559228164/comments/default/5769146067421186006'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1286862192559228164/comments/default/5769146067421186006'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/09/jim-carroll-1950-2009.html?showComment=1252985859406#c5769146067421186006' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</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/2009/09/jim-carroll-1950-2009.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1286862192559228164' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1286862192559228164' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 14, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-585010049213419762</id><published>2009-09-14T20:09:06.493-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-14T20:09:06.493-04:00</updated><title type='text'>So long, Jim. My late teens would&amp;#39;ve been much...</title><summary type='text'>So long, Jim. My late teens would&amp;#39;ve been much, much duller had I not discovered your writing.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1286862192559228164/comments/default/585010049213419762'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1286862192559228164/comments/default/585010049213419762'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/09/jim-carroll-1950-2009.html?showComment=1252973346493#c585010049213419762' title=''/><author><name>Scott</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02760452936316956665</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_arxTk3dj6vw/R_j7eybYm9I/AAAAAAAAAPU/WlR9fM78RNs/S220/creepo.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/09/jim-carroll-1950-2009.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1286862192559228164' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1286862192559228164' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-832401268"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 14, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-141334327882315976</id><published>2009-09-14T12:15:44.400-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-14T12:15:44.400-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I had one great Jim Carroll moment for which I&amp;#39...</title><summary type='text'>I had one great Jim Carroll moment for which I&amp;#39;m thankful--was eating dinner at Symphony in Cincinnati in a small room with Lina and realized halfway through the appetizer that Jim Carroll and a few friends had come in and sat down immediately behind me-- must&amp;#39;ve been in town for a poetry gig. Got to hear a few wonderful stories in that unmistakable voice throughout dinner and didn&amp;#39;t </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1286862192559228164/comments/default/141334327882315976'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1286862192559228164/comments/default/141334327882315976'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/09/jim-carroll-1950-2009.html?showComment=1252944944400#c141334327882315976' title=''/><author><name>Larry Sawyer</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18209176066752392711</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='21' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_V4TdVjSvuHY/SWo3Vztl81I/AAAAAAAAA-8/dQVYhYwvbHA/S220/e.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/09/jim-carroll-1950-2009.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1286862192559228164' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1286862192559228164' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-633681119"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 14, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6070018813851984335</id><published>2009-09-14T12:03:43.685-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-14T12:03:43.685-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The full text of Carroll&amp;#39;s first book of poems...</title><summary type='text'>The full text of Carroll&amp;#39;s first book of poems &lt;i&gt;Organic Trains&lt;/i&gt; (1967) (said to have been written on NYC subways) is available in its entirety at the URL below, part of the comprehensive &amp;quot;CatholicBoy&amp;quot; website that Ron links to (click &amp;quot;1949&amp;quot;) in this post:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.catholicboy.com/ottext.php</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1286862192559228164/comments/default/6070018813851984335'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1286862192559228164/comments/default/6070018813851984335'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/09/jim-carroll-1950-2009.html?showComment=1252944223685#c6070018813851984335' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13733977161680651117</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/2009/09/jim-carroll-1950-2009.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1286862192559228164' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1286862192559228164' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 14, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1433635711545311748</id><published>2009-09-14T10:33:23.227-04:00</published><updated>2009-09-14T10:33:23.227-04:00</updated><title type='text'>beautiful photo -- it came up (on the screen) slow...</title><summary type='text'>beautiful photo -- it came up (on the screen) slowly, Iine by line, as if he was emerging out of white space.&lt;br /&gt;I used to see him  when he lived here in Bolinas, walking on Brighton toward the beach with his little white dog. . . .</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1286862192559228164/comments/default/1433635711545311748'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1286862192559228164/comments/default/1433635711545311748'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/09/jim-carroll-1950-2009.html?showComment=1252938803227#c1433635711545311748' title=''/><author><name>STEPHEN RATCLIFFE</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412</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/2009/09/jim-carroll-1950-2009.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1286862192559228164' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1286862192559228164' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1996291811"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="September 14, 2009"/></entry></feed>