<?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.post3820245899997296731..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/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/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>26</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5863648863880933545</id><published>2008-12-05T06:36:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-05T06:36:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Brautigan used the pages of his mss to get the fir...</title><summary type='text'>Brautigan used the pages of his mss to get the fires going over which&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;with a stick shoved into fish&#39;s gut&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;cooked his dinner..&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;then &lt;BR/&gt;round and round &lt;BR/&gt;that fire&lt;BR/&gt;sang&lt;BR/&gt;danced&lt;BR/&gt;then&lt;BR/&gt;left&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;that last little novel that he wrote  is funny..&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;w gov&#39;t &quot;in the arts&quot; it all becomes  at best mere prop-i-ganda  and group-grope.. or just </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/5863648863880933545'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/5863648863880933545'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html?showComment=1228476960000#c5863648863880933545' title=''/><author><name>Ed Baker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/R3Owpv1OTyI/AAAAAAAAAAM/5uapZyaJmtY/S220/Ed++by+Evie+Baker'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3820245899997296731' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3820245899997296731' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 05, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1980846720436441048</id><published>2008-12-04T19:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-04T19:39:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis, god knows I like being right, but I take n...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis, god knows I like being right, but I take no credit for saying that Brautigan&#39;s &lt;I&gt;Trout Fishing&lt;/I&gt; comes a bit out of Spicer.  The book&#39;s dedicated to Spicer and Ron Loewinsohn, and Killian and Ellingham&#39;s &lt;I&gt;Poet Be Like God&lt;/I&gt; tells how Spicer and Brautigan together revised the book into its serial poem way of being.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/1980846720436441048'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/1980846720436441048'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html?showComment=1228437540000#c1980846720436441048' 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/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3820245899997296731' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3820245899997296731' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 04, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4890581225956239685</id><published>2008-12-01T19:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-01T19:16:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Fama&#39;s right.  Brautigan&#39;s work owes something to ...</title><summary type='text'>Fama&#39;s right.  Brautigan&#39;s work owes something to Spicer.  I said that about three years ago right here on the Ron-blog.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/4890581225956239685'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/4890581225956239685'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html?showComment=1228176960000#c4890581225956239685' 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/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3820245899997296731' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3820245899997296731' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 01, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5539326039224432068</id><published>2008-12-01T19:14:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-01T19:14:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I think Brautigan was always really a quiet countr...</title><summary type='text'>I think Brautigan was always really a quiet country boy from Oregon who got in over his head with the publicity.  He had an original mind and a deft technique, but he was no genius. He liked the rural scene and he liked to fly fish.  He retired to Montana, then got depressed.  The last three or so books were tired rehearsals.  It&#39;s sad.  But you might have predicted it by seeing behind the early </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/5539326039224432068'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/5539326039224432068'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html?showComment=1228176840000#c5539326039224432068' 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/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3820245899997296731' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3820245899997296731' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 01, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2606277172952209057</id><published>2008-12-01T16:37:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-12-01T16:37:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Damn! I have just learned that the little bugger&#39;s...</title><summary type='text'>Damn! I have just learned that the little bugger&#39;s worth about $700.00. That&#39;s more than my 1576 printing of St. Bernard&#39;s Opera Omnia is worth.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think I&#39;ll go peruse my library.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/2606277172952209057'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/2606277172952209057'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html?showComment=1228167420000#c2606277172952209057' title=''/><author><name>Gary B. Fitzgerald</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17919492445467135425</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/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3820245899997296731' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3820245899997296731' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1865147512"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 01, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2132441024942780769</id><published>2008-11-30T15:35:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-30T15:35:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I still have a copy of Brautigan&#39;s little poetry b...</title><summary type='text'>I still have a copy of Brautigan&#39;s little poetry book &#39;Please Plant This Book&#39;, seeds and all.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I hear it&#39;s worth some bucks these days.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/2132441024942780769'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/2132441024942780769'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html?showComment=1228077300000#c2132441024942780769' title=''/><author><name>Gary B. Fitzgerald</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17919492445467135425</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/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3820245899997296731' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3820245899997296731' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1865147512"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 30, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6062405561004392195</id><published>2008-11-30T14:56:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-30T14:56:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>15 months old!I kant spel worth a shit, either.who...</title><summary type='text'>15 months old!&lt;BR/&gt;I kant spel worth a shit, either.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;who-ever said &quot;poets are smart&quot;?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;check this out:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;http://feminine-fragrance.blogspot.com/</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/6062405561004392195'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/6062405561004392195'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html?showComment=1228074960000#c6062405561004392195' title=''/><author><name>Ed Baker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/R3Owpv1OTyI/AAAAAAAAAAM/5uapZyaJmtY/S220/Ed++by+Evie+Baker'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3820245899997296731' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3820245899997296731' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 30, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7694868820486188863</id><published>2008-11-30T14:35:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-30T14:35:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ed,That best-seller list is 15 months old,Ron</title><summary type='text'>Ed,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;That best-seller list is 15 months old,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ron</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/7694868820486188863'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/7694868820486188863'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html?showComment=1228073700000#c7694868820486188863' 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='32' height='32' src='http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/silliman/silliman2a.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3820245899997296731' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3820245899997296731' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 30, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1156294965320429161</id><published>2008-11-30T12:38:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-30T12:38:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Brautigan was a publicity genius.  That&#39;s at least...</title><summary type='text'>Brautigan was a publicity genius.  That&#39;s at least part of it.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;That book is not his best: the prose poems in Revenge of the Lawn are his best work.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It happened against the whole New York establishment which did everything it could to manhandle Brautigan and put him into a kiddie chair associated with Flower Power.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;That hurt Brautigan emotionally, but his book triumphed </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/1156294965320429161'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/1156294965320429161'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html?showComment=1228066680000#c1156294965320429161' 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/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3820245899997296731' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3820245899997296731' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 30, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5192755762490101089</id><published>2008-11-30T11:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-30T11:27:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Kirby Olson said... &amp;quot;Richard Brautigan used t...</title><summary type='text'>Kirby Olson said...&lt;BR/&gt; &lt;BR/&gt;&amp;quot;Richard Brautigan used to go into bookstores and demand that they stock his books. If books are out there and visible someone WILL buy them, but the problem is getting them to be visible....the problem is getting them into bookstores.&amp;quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I agree with this, so:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;BUY MY POETRY!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Now available at all the usual internet places.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/5192755762490101089'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/5192755762490101089'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html?showComment=1228062420000#c5192755762490101089' title=''/><author><name>Gary B. Fitzgerald</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17919492445467135425</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/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3820245899997296731' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3820245899997296731' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1865147512"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 30, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2313165542595773266</id><published>2008-11-30T11:02:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-30T11:02:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>last week&#39;s &quot;best sellers (poetry), here:http://ww...</title><summary type='text'>last week&#39;s &quot;best sellers (poetry), here:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;http://www.poetryfoundation.org/publishing/bestsellers.html&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Maya Angelou  don&#39;t sell?&lt;BR/&gt;Rumi? Frost? Rilke? WCW?  don&#39;t &quot;sell&quot;? etcs don&#39;t &quot;sell&quot;?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;and, who are all them 1.3 million students buying?  the books of poetry that their &quot;teachers&quot; self-publish?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/2313165542595773266'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/2313165542595773266'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html?showComment=1228060920000#c2313165542595773266' title=''/><author><name>Ed Baker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/R3Owpv1OTyI/AAAAAAAAAAM/5uapZyaJmtY/S220/Ed++by+Evie+Baker'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3820245899997296731' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3820245899997296731' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 30, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-83431592048878762</id><published>2008-11-29T20:02:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-29T20:02:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Brautigan&#39;s Trout Fishing In America can only be c...</title><summary type='text'>Brautigan&#39;s &lt;I&gt;Trout Fishing In America&lt;/I&gt; can only be characterized as a prose poem.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Heavily influenced by Jack Spicer too.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It is an incredible exception to the notion that poetry doesn&#39;t sell. Really, though, no matter what you call it, it is incredible how popular that book was and is.  Who&#39;d of thunk?  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;How&#39;d it happen -- specifically, aside from the late 1960s age</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/83431592048878762'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/83431592048878762'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html?showComment=1228006920000#c83431592048878762' 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/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3820245899997296731' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3820245899997296731' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 29, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-987281452594093355</id><published>2008-11-29T13:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-29T13:53:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanks for a link to my aphrodite post.</title><summary type='text'>Thanks for a link to my aphrodite post.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/987281452594093355'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/987281452594093355'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html?showComment=1227984780000#c987281452594093355' title=''/><author><name>Princess Haiku</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13178263734982687383</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/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3820245899997296731' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3820245899997296731' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1533411230"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 29, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5550376789596603459</id><published>2008-11-29T12:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-29T12:22:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Richard Brautigan used to go into bookstores and d...</title><summary type='text'>Richard Brautigan used to go into bookstores and demand that they stock his books.  If books are out there and visible someone WILL buy them, but the problem is getting them to be visible.  My brother has a bookstore and sells my novel in it. It&#39;s one of the only bookstores in America that sells my novel. Through that bookstore I&#39;ve sold a dozen copies.  If I could get my novel into every </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/5550376789596603459'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/5550376789596603459'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html?showComment=1227979320000#c5550376789596603459' 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/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3820245899997296731' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3820245899997296731' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 29, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8725823078228049180</id><published>2008-11-29T11:10:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-29T11:10:00.001-05:00</updated><title type='text'>from an article in today&#39;s Philadelphia Inquirer N...</title><summary type='text'>from an article in today&#39;s Philadelphia Inquirer Nov 29, 2008:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;So Robin, who has a strong resemblance to musician David Crosby, is already working on his next act.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;On the second floor of 108 S. 13th St., where Robin still plans to offer some used books for sale, a &quot;café&quot; is taking shape where, on a stage yet to be built, readings and other performances &quot;with intellectual </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/8725823078228049180'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/8725823078228049180'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html?showComment=1227975000001#c8725823078228049180' title=''/><author><name>Ed Baker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/R3Owpv1OTyI/AAAAAAAAAAM/5uapZyaJmtY/S220/Ed++by+Evie+Baker'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3820245899997296731' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3820245899997296731' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 29, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9127939334852095615</id><published>2008-11-29T11:10:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-29T11:10:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Just a clarification--the new Ronald Johnson: Life...</title><summary type='text'>Just a clarification--the new Ronald Johnson: Life and Works is edited by Joel Bettridge and Eric Selinger, not Scroggins</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/9127939334852095615'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/9127939334852095615'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html?showComment=1227975000000#c9127939334852095615' title=''/><author><name>Richard</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09710043594248807198</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/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3820245899997296731' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3820245899997296731' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2107882941"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 29, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4408054214870220971</id><published>2008-11-29T10:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-29T10:54:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Robin&#39;s closing--that is terrible, terrible news. ...</title><summary type='text'>Robin&#39;s closing--that is terrible, terrible news.  I went there almost 40 years ago--one of the few places to find poetry (the surrealists, that great Mishima Books Basho).  And ever since!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;This really hurts.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/4408054214870220971'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/4408054214870220971'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html?showComment=1227974040000#c4408054214870220971' title=''/><author><name>mgushuedc</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10116858669590406909</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/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3820245899997296731' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3820245899997296731' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1541080022"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 29, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2634985024478689723</id><published>2008-11-28T17:36:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-28T17:36:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>next thing you&#39;ll know? Gulf of Maine Bookswill be...</title><summary type='text'>next thing you&#39;ll know?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt; Gulf of Maine Books&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;will be the &quot;last man standing&quot;!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;last time I was there I found something my frien Joe Carderelli had published! and, there was Jim Koller (gawd bls im) ringing up the sale...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;then we went over to this fish-place and bought some live lob-stahs!  out of a 5,000 gallon tank!  my vegetarian friend&#39;s mother made ....</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/2634985024478689723'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/2634985024478689723'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html?showComment=1227911760000#c2634985024478689723' title=''/><author><name>Ed Baker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/R3Owpv1OTyI/AAAAAAAAAAM/5uapZyaJmtY/S220/Ed++by+Evie+Baker'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3820245899997296731' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3820245899997296731' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 28, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8233204775681384773</id><published>2008-11-28T07:57:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-28T07:57:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I can&#39;t believe Robin&#39;s is closing.  They are one ...</title><summary type='text'>I can&#39;t believe Robin&#39;s is closing.  They are one of the few places around you can buy chapbooks and their poetry selection actually had things other than the usual stuff.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/8233204775681384773'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/8233204775681384773'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html?showComment=1227877020000#c8233204775681384773' title=''/><author><name>The Cubicle Reverend</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07698802395603296603</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2612/1188/1600/Feb16%20016.0.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3820245899997296731' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3820245899997296731' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1565099610"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 28, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7619957889141353810</id><published>2008-11-27T18:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-27T18:00:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>If you wanted to buy a book by Reznikoff in Philad...</title><summary type='text'>If you wanted to buy a book by Reznikoff in Philadelphia, where would you go?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think I was directed to Robin&#39;s last summer, by a staff member at the Borders in King of Prussia Mall.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Would they have had something? I wanted to buy it for my host, who is a middle-aged banker who wanted to try and write some poetry.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I never got to Robin&#39;s.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Would there have been </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/7619957889141353810'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/7619957889141353810'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html?showComment=1227826800000#c7619957889141353810' 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/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3820245899997296731' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3820245899997296731' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 27, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5464240595272068468</id><published>2008-11-27T15:17:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-27T15:17:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Speaking of snow sounds, how about Larry Eigner&#39;s&quot;...</title><summary type='text'>Speaking of snow sounds, how about Larry Eigner&#39;s&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;snow fleering off the edge of the roof&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/5464240595272068468'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/5464240595272068468'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html?showComment=1227817020000#c5464240595272068468' 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/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3820245899997296731' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3820245899997296731' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 27, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3090790411190568465</id><published>2008-11-27T15:05:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-27T15:05:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&amp;quot;The poetry of James Merrill is a good deal c...</title><summary type='text'>&amp;quot;The poetry of James Merrill is a good deal closer to a Haydn piano trio or Boccherini quintet than it is to Walt Whitman’s “barbaric yawp.” Like the 18th-century Galante style in music, Merrill’s work has a high, almost lacquered finish and prizes the qualities of refinement, intricacy of design and formal containment. It is music for the court, for the knowledgeable and cultivated listener</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/3090790411190568465'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/3090790411190568465'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html?showComment=1227816300000#c3090790411190568465' 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/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3820245899997296731' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3820245899997296731' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 27, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6516123600648022389</id><published>2008-11-27T14:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-27T14:53:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy Thanksgiving!thankyou for yr work especially...</title><summary type='text'>Happy Thanksgiving!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;thankyou for yr work especially, by which I mean especially the poetry and this here blog&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;and thanks giving folks a chance today to link through to &lt;A HREF=&quot;http://stevenfama.blogspot.com/2008/11/punny-poems-and-future-of-world.html&quot; REL=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Punny Poems and the Future of the Wor(l)d&quot;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;[ ]</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/6516123600648022389'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/6516123600648022389'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html?showComment=1227815580000#c6516123600648022389' 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/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3820245899997296731' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3820245899997296731' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 27, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-712886618337425442</id><published>2008-11-27T13:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-27T13:27:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The news about Robin&#39;s is really, really sad. As a...</title><summary type='text'>The news about Robin&#39;s is really, really sad. As a Philly native I&#39;ve come to see it as a symbol of the city&#39;s scrappy, independent spirit. What a shame.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/712886618337425442'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/712886618337425442'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html?showComment=1227810420000#c712886618337425442' title=''/><author><name>Abecedarian/f(x)</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01913278950823273657</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/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3820245899997296731' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3820245899997296731' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1091123171"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 27, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5611517161301441808</id><published>2008-11-27T10:35:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-11-27T10:35:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The Wikipedia on Johnson is an abbreviation (stub)...</title><summary type='text'>The Wikipedia on Johnson is an abbreviation (stub).  It needs to be expanded!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/5611517161301441808'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3820245899997296731/comments/default/5611517161301441808'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html?showComment=1227800100000#c5611517161301441808' 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/2008/11/words-take-wing-in-north-beach-this.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3820245899997296731' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3820245899997296731' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="November 27, 2008"/></entry></feed>