<?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.post621281886506412796..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/3738579/621281886506412796/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/natalie-merchant-sings-old-poems.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>3</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-419356403622884851</id><published>2010-04-19T11:38:53.061-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-19T11:38:53.061-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I&amp;#39;ve only listened through once, but the album...</title><summary type='text'>I&amp;#39;ve only listened through once, but the album sounded not bad at all.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/621281886506412796/comments/default/419356403622884851'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/621281886506412796/comments/default/419356403622884851'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/natalie-merchant-sings-old-poems.html?showComment=1271691533061#c419356403622884851' title=''/><author><name>Jordan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10451174274596699645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://static.flickr.com/68/168671726_f87b53b572_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/natalie-merchant-sings-old-poems.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-621281886506412796' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/621281886506412796' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1484709122"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 19, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-300922273741295488</id><published>2010-04-18T18:17:19.992-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-18T18:17:19.992-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Merchant&amp;#39;s attitude toward the poems on the &amp;q...</title><summary type='text'>Merchant&amp;#39;s attitude toward the poems on the &amp;quot;dead flat page&amp;quot; reminds me of the common reaction to having heard a novel has been made into a movie - suddenly it&amp;#39;s more real!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not that I would mind Natalie Merchant&amp;#39;s voice working over something I&amp;#39;ve left for dead on the page.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/621281886506412796/comments/default/300922273741295488'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/621281886506412796/comments/default/300922273741295488'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/natalie-merchant-sings-old-poems.html?showComment=1271629039992#c300922273741295488' title=''/><author><name>Glenn Ingersoll</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10674475308395975995</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_iMEmv6aWYmc/SUbr7qd5GII/AAAAAAAAAW0/VdzuqU-cysU/S220/GIandSundy.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/natalie-merchant-sings-old-poems.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-621281886506412796' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/621281886506412796' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-38984541"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 18, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6489048124684018452</id><published>2010-04-18T00:58:44.834-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-18T00:58:44.834-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Natalie Merchant is just about peerless.  She coul...</title><summary type='text'>Natalie Merchant is just about peerless.  She could sing using text from from &lt;i&gt;The Burpee Seed Catalog&lt;/i&gt; or (talking a cue from Mac Low) &lt;i&gt;A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates&lt;/i&gt; and it&amp;#39;d still be ever-smart and wondrous and oh yes gorgeous. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;m going to say some kind of prayer of thanks tonight, perhaps in iambic pentameter, that Merchant has chosen to </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/621281886506412796/comments/default/6489048124684018452'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/621281886506412796/comments/default/6489048124684018452'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/natalie-merchant-sings-old-poems.html?showComment=1271566724834#c6489048124684018452' 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/2010/04/natalie-merchant-sings-old-poems.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-621281886506412796' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/621281886506412796' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 18, 2010"/></entry></feed>