<?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.post7496826753995615375..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/3738579/7496826753995615375/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/what-i-find-most-appalling-about.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>14</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8462379525321184149</id><published>2009-08-04T14:05:02.010-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-04T14:05:02.010-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I&amp;#39;ll admit that the Palin stuff is pretty funn...</title><summary type='text'>I&amp;#39;ll admit that the Palin stuff is pretty funny, but what I don&amp;#39;t like is that in the larger culture, as mirrored by comedians, indeciferable language = poetry.  If it&amp;#39;s unintelligible, it&amp;#39;s poetry.  The fact that that assumption is almost universal confirms what we already know -- that few people read poetry.  I love Conan, but if he or Letterman really wanted to do something </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7496826753995615375/comments/default/8462379525321184149'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7496826753995615375/comments/default/8462379525321184149'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/what-i-find-most-appalling-about.html?showComment=1249409102010#c8462379525321184149' title=''/><author><name>Furnitude</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13602504119730560278</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/2009/08/what-i-find-most-appalling-about.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7496826753995615375' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7496826753995615375' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-102838912"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 04, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5929965629731518065</id><published>2009-08-03T11:00:25.865-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-03T11:00:25.865-04:00</updated><title type='text'>My favorite segment of Northern Exposure was Elain...</title><summary type='text'>My favorite segment of Northern Exposure was Elaine Miles singing Jingle Bells in Tlingit.  It was unforgettable. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alaska is a brawny place, and the people have to be hardy.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Palin would be stupid in any state.  Actually she seems a lot more like a dumb Republican from Louisiana.  It&amp;#39;s just an accident she&amp;#39;s in Alaska.  She&amp;#39;s a born-again cotton-mouth Southern </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7496826753995615375/comments/default/5929965629731518065'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7496826753995615375/comments/default/5929965629731518065'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/what-i-find-most-appalling-about.html?showComment=1249311625865#c5929965629731518065' 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/2009/08/what-i-find-most-appalling-about.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7496826753995615375' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7496826753995615375' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 03, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5315709834813068510</id><published>2009-08-02T17:24:24.457-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-02T17:24:24.457-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron,&#xa;I sometimes listen to prairie home etc. in th...</title><summary type='text'>Ron,&lt;br /&gt;I sometimes listen to prairie home etc. in the car on the drive from western Mass. to NJ on weekends and find it&amp;#39;s kind of like the old Ed Sullivan show, there&amp;#39;s almost always something that bores me (so I switch stations for a while) and often bits that entertain me, like make me laugh or some music I can get into and sometimes from musicians I&amp;#39;m hearing for the first time.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7496826753995615375/comments/default/5315709834813068510'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7496826753995615375/comments/default/5315709834813068510'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/what-i-find-most-appalling-about.html?showComment=1249248264457#c5315709834813068510' title=''/><author><name>Lally</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05310472614196384595</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1UZ-EklSnDQ/SmYOuxD4uAI/AAAAAAAAAVk/PdRO4wGXgaQ/S220/Lally2_bw.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/what-i-find-most-appalling-about.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7496826753995615375' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7496826753995615375' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-778757446"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 02, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6780561730039555822</id><published>2009-08-02T15:31:09.026-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-02T15:31:09.026-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Surely you can&amp;#39;t mean your opening sentence to...</title><summary type='text'>Surely you can&amp;#39;t mean your opening sentence to imply that satire of poetry is a bad thing -- are you sure you want the word &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt; in there?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7496826753995615375/comments/default/6780561730039555822'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7496826753995615375/comments/default/6780561730039555822'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/what-i-find-most-appalling-about.html?showComment=1249241469026#c6780561730039555822' title=''/><author><name>Uke Xensen</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14925310033193507314</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://www.rightreading.com/daybook_images/p-villa.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/what-i-find-most-appalling-about.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7496826753995615375' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7496826753995615375' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-191445863"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 02, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3450889431036955786</id><published>2009-08-02T13:35:56.878-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-02T13:35:56.878-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The beauty of Palin&amp;#39;s speech shouldn&amp;#39;t be ...</title><summary type='text'>The beauty of Palin&amp;#39;s speech shouldn&amp;#39;t be unexpected. Prarie Home Companion is appalling onto its own.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7496826753995615375/comments/default/3450889431036955786'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7496826753995615375/comments/default/3450889431036955786'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/what-i-find-most-appalling-about.html?showComment=1249234556878#c3450889431036955786' title=''/><author><name>dirtywrite</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17715486812252430068</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='26' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_mGZSZcRpoZg/SUhMAZ5DeWI/AAAAAAAAAEw/4dyZ9qfxqg4/s1600-R/marquise3.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/what-i-find-most-appalling-about.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7496826753995615375' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7496826753995615375' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-954637305"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 02, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2621361132284876481</id><published>2009-08-02T12:13:24.617-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-02T12:13:24.617-04:00</updated><title type='text'>silliman,&#xa;&#xa;you seriously annoy me with your babel....</title><summary type='text'>silliman,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you seriously annoy me with your babel. i cant believe you represent the poetry world. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;thinking about unsubscribing to your bs.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7496826753995615375/comments/default/2621361132284876481'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7496826753995615375/comments/default/2621361132284876481'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/what-i-find-most-appalling-about.html?showComment=1249229604617#c2621361132284876481' title=''/><author><name>igattini</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17057741012091690459</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/2009/08/what-i-find-most-appalling-about.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7496826753995615375' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7496826753995615375' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1446879183"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 02, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-145753724273648892</id><published>2009-08-02T11:38:26.164-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-02T11:38:26.164-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Inchoate argle-bargle is a nice turn of phrase, Ro...</title><summary type='text'>Inchoate argle-bargle is a nice turn of phrase, Ron.  Bravo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shatner&amp;#39;s recitation ain&amp;#39;t nearly as inspired as the way he did up (with rocker Joe Jackson) the song &amp;quot;Common People&amp;quot; (actually, a most excellent vocalization there) or his (going way back now) so absurd it is fascinating (at least the first minute or so) do-over of the Bernie Taupin / Elton John &amp;quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7496826753995615375/comments/default/145753724273648892'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7496826753995615375/comments/default/145753724273648892'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/what-i-find-most-appalling-about.html?showComment=1249227506164#c145753724273648892' 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/2009/08/what-i-find-most-appalling-about.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7496826753995615375' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7496826753995615375' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 02, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5793500517534388703</id><published>2009-08-02T11:27:56.738-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-02T11:27:56.738-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I was a speech writer for several politicians in t...</title><summary type='text'>I was a speech writer for several politicians in the early 1970s &amp;amp; I never saw one who did not obsessively &amp;quot;edit&amp;quot; the final product to make it their own. I had one who used to add grammatical mistakes on the theory that it made him sound more &amp;quot;believable.&amp;quot; (This guy is now married to a poet, believe it or not.)</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7496826753995615375/comments/default/5793500517534388703'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7496826753995615375/comments/default/5793500517534388703'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/what-i-find-most-appalling-about.html?showComment=1249226876738#c5793500517534388703' 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/2009/08/what-i-find-most-appalling-about.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7496826753995615375' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7496826753995615375' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 02, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1430468267532878803</id><published>2009-08-02T11:14:32.449-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-02T11:14:32.449-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Outrageous bit spots was a concept invented by Dav...</title><summary type='text'>Outrageous bit spots was a concept invented by David Letterman about 20 years ago.  Followed closely by the bizarre mundane.  Is a hot dog vender on Times Square smarter than the Vice President?  Probably.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The point is that almost anyone in Alaska could do a &amp;quot;poetic&amp;quot; fragments speech off the cuff.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Does this implicate free-range free association associated with </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7496826753995615375/comments/default/1430468267532878803'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7496826753995615375/comments/default/1430468267532878803'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/what-i-find-most-appalling-about.html?showComment=1249226072449#c1430468267532878803' 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/2009/08/what-i-find-most-appalling-about.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7496826753995615375' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7496826753995615375' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 02, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6746769069288785084</id><published>2009-08-02T10:41:58.784-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-02T10:41:58.784-04:00</updated><title type='text'>It was meant to be evocative, and was.  But it doe...</title><summary type='text'>It was meant to be evocative, and was.  But it doesn&amp;#39;t mean that she wrote it.  Doesn&amp;#39;t she have a speech-writer?  Does she write all her own speeches?  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That would be odd to expect any governor to write their own speeches, or any president to do so. None of them write anything.  And when they speak off the cuff, we get national scandals, in general.  These aren&amp;#39;t sensitive</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7496826753995615375/comments/default/6746769069288785084'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7496826753995615375/comments/default/6746769069288785084'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/what-i-find-most-appalling-about.html?showComment=1249224118784#c6746769069288785084' 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/2009/08/what-i-find-most-appalling-about.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7496826753995615375' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7496826753995615375' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 02, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6034405905964586998</id><published>2009-08-02T10:41:52.534-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-02T10:41:52.534-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Well, if one is going to use Lake Woebegone as a s...</title><summary type='text'>Well, if one is going to use Lake Woebegone as a standard . . . &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only thing Palin&amp;#39;s speeches and tweets have going for them as interesting language is that she&amp;#39;s really trying not to say anything, but to give the impression of having said something, which is a good starting place for art that tries to reveal something about how language can work. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the other </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7496826753995615375/comments/default/6034405905964586998'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7496826753995615375/comments/default/6034405905964586998'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/what-i-find-most-appalling-about.html?showComment=1249224112534#c6034405905964586998' title=''/><author><name>John Gallaher</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02112997671155171626</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3362/3683/320/JGlessCloseWithEffect.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/what-i-find-most-appalling-about.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7496826753995615375' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7496826753995615375' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1450736026"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 02, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7195517240821570359</id><published>2009-08-02T10:33:31.471-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-02T10:33:31.471-04:00</updated><title type='text'>nothng can compromise the eloquence of a woman lik...</title><summary type='text'>nothng can compromise the eloquence of a woman like this her very heart emerges from between her lips she speaks perfumes of poems and then to then have most likely the very bad breath of william shatner who evidently just lives in some boxes in the studio alley and is available for cameos anytime day or night to have the poems come forth from his breath and then for us to behold them is indeed a</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7496826753995615375/comments/default/7195517240821570359'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7496826753995615375/comments/default/7195517240821570359'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/what-i-find-most-appalling-about.html?showComment=1249223611471#c7195517240821570359' title=''/><author><name>jh</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10043530995274885830</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/2009/08/what-i-find-most-appalling-about.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7496826753995615375' 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href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/what-i-find-most-appalling-about.html?showComment=1249218928799#c6368980988481727050' title=''/><author><name>Doodle</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04995332885940017913</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/2009/08/what-i-find-most-appalling-about.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7496826753995615375' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7496826753995615375' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1604261415"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 02, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-64640490922654883</id><published>2009-08-02T08:03:58.134-04:00</published><updated>2009-08-02T08:03:58.134-04:00</updated><title type='text'>It&amp;#39;s ok to laugh at poetry, and even better to...</title><summary type='text'>It&amp;#39;s ok to laugh at poetry, and even better to laugh at found poetry. The reframing here is pretty good, actually -- at least as good as the Kantian nonsense of Rumsfeld&amp;#39;s Phil Kline set, or for that matter, the poems of Phil Rizzuto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What interested me here was how completely natural it was to see someone read poetry with musicians right behind him, with occasional reaction </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7496826753995615375/comments/default/64640490922654883'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7496826753995615375/comments/default/64640490922654883'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/08/what-i-find-most-appalling-about.html?showComment=1249214638134#c64640490922654883' 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/2009/08/what-i-find-most-appalling-about.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7496826753995615375' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7496826753995615375' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1484709122"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 02, 2009"/></entry></feed>