<?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.post114000831779460818..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/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/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>51</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114037390735436631</id><published>2006-02-19T13:31:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-19T13:31:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Reuters: “After more than seven weeks of bloodshed...</title><summary type='text'>Reuters: “After more than seven weeks of bloodshed and rioting and the dissolution of parliament, Leslie Scalapino was declared a political poet.”</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114037390735436631'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114037390735436631'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html?showComment=1140373860000#c114037390735436631' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114000831779460818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114000831779460818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114017738304362220</id><published>2006-02-17T06:56:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-17T06:56:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Please excuse my English, but I am writing to invi...</title><summary type='text'>Please excuse my English, but I am writing to invite you, as a poet first of Canada and now, secondarily, of America, to what I now wish to present. I am speaking concerning a conference (International) devotional to translation in all the sense of this word. We are interested, with specificness, in the doubled (tripled!) voices passed through many mediators of history and cultural ignorance. </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114017738304362220'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114017738304362220'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html?showComment=1140177360000#c114017738304362220' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04555982712708881025</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114000831779460818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114000831779460818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 17, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114015222065689145</id><published>2006-02-16T23:57:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-16T23:57:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I take Kent&#39;s need for attention now to be a compl...</title><summary type='text'>I take Kent&#39;s need for attention now to be a complete betrayal and crass reversal of all his against authorship stuff.  I mean, when he pulls the blog puppet strings, the blogs all stand up and cheer? Is that really against the cult of personality that Kent was sooo against for sooo long? And why don&#39;t these poems have to be any good? Kent&#39;s not governed by the rules of having to write </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114015222065689145'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114015222065689145'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html?showComment=1140152220000#c114015222065689145' title=''/><author><name>Behrle, Prince of Trolls</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02376200318127362630</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114000831779460818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114000831779460818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1368997688"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114015032235168308</id><published>2006-02-16T23:25:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-16T23:25:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;There is an elegance here that is quite apart fro...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;There is an elegance here that is quite apart from the structure of Good Night Moon – as there is in “Mission” &amp; almost anything Johnson writes in verse form. But Johnson’s question about Helen Vendler’s bladder is a good one? What is it doing here? And what is the point being made by equating a burned child (crispy girl) with fried chickens with William Carlos Williams? Is Williams being </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114015032235168308'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114015032235168308'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html?showComment=1140150300000#c114015032235168308' title=''/><author><name>Lester</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04219479023387881600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114000831779460818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114000831779460818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1478288716"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114015023131890486</id><published>2006-02-16T23:23:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-16T23:23:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>You know, maybe Kent&#39;s book just sucks. A lot of p...</title><summary type='text'>You know, maybe Kent&#39;s book just sucks. A lot of people seem to think so. I mean, maybe some of the ideas are interesting, but the actual poems come up way short. Kent can be charming in person, why is he such a dick on the page with such consistancy? Grapple with that. All negative reviews have faced the tap dancing of Kent&#39;s buddies: the poems do not lie to us. Either they&#39;re good poems or...</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114015023131890486'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114015023131890486'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html?showComment=1140150180000#c114015023131890486' title=''/><author><name>Behrle, Prince of Trolls</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02376200318127362630</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114000831779460818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114000831779460818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1368997688"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114014898112483244</id><published>2006-02-16T23:03:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-16T23:03:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>What might be tantrum to one seems like entirely n...</title><summary type='text'>What might be tantrum to one seems like entirely necessary outrage another.  I can see that the perception of Johnson as someone who should be ghastly ashamed to self-promote or deliberately stimulate controversy and debate can lead to the perception that Johnson&#39;s effort is tantrum-like (and therefore to be dismissed as childish, embarassing). &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I like Kent&#39;s book a whole lot. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114014898112483244'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114014898112483244'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html?showComment=1140148980000#c114014898112483244' title=''/><author><name>Lester</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04219479023387881600</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114000831779460818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114000831779460818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1478288716"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114014502852197780</id><published>2006-02-16T21:57:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-16T21:57:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>And just a note about two other things before I be...</title><summary type='text'>And just a note about two other things before I bend down to pray with my nose to the ground:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;K. Silem.  You ask a guy his name and you know the result but you ask anyway because, as Ron noted in one of his blogentries this past week, &quot;Is a person entitled to know the anthropomorpphic data on a given individual who offers political advice via his poetry/blogs/random provocations?&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114014502852197780'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114014502852197780'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html?showComment=1140145020000#c114014502852197780' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04555982712708881025</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114000831779460818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114000831779460818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114014407403108709</id><published>2006-02-16T21:41:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-16T21:41:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>:)I knew this must be the case.  But gee Murat.  D...</title><summary type='text'>:)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I knew this must be the case.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But gee Murat.  Doesn&#39;t any mention of the word Smyrna bring to your mind the idea of the Armenians versus Ataturk?  It does me.  Smyrna is such a charged word and to the Floridian, it is just a beach populated by old poets and pedophiles.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Kirby, settle down.  I&#39;ll not travel back in time to find that comment.  More importantly Kirby, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114014407403108709'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114014407403108709'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html?showComment=1140144060000#c114014407403108709' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04555982712708881025</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114000831779460818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114000831779460818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114013762080192776</id><published>2006-02-16T19:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-16T19:53:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>And just to be clear in re the cover.  The cupids....</title><summary type='text'>And just to be clear in re the cover.  The cupids.  Self implicating and then moving beyond that just because what can be said that makes any sense and approaches anything like the truth has to implicate the self in some kind of real way and the distance from the real is shown by watching one&#39;s self make exactly the gesture that is made with the cover.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;That is -- no defenses.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114013762080192776'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114013762080192776'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html?showComment=1140137580000#c114013762080192776' title=''/><author><name>joe green</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12257285616529795340</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114000831779460818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114000831779460818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114013683539750966</id><published>2006-02-16T19:40:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-16T19:40:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>My dear wife called to inform me anent the cover t...</title><summary type='text'>My dear wife called to inform me anent the cover that this was exactly the kind of thing I would do and she is right.  My suspicions and reaction hold up only if the usual is involved as in the usual schtick which I see (that is there for me).  In other words I now believe that Kent is serious and gets closer to writing about what is serious then I could see until I got the idea that the usual </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114013683539750966'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114013683539750966'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html?showComment=1140136800000#c114013683539750966' title=''/><author><name>joe green</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12257285616529795340</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114000831779460818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114000831779460818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114012711994713581</id><published>2006-02-16T16:58:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-16T16:58:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>It&#39;s also interesting that Kent seems to have less...</title><summary type='text'>It&#39;s also interesting that Kent seems to have less fans &amp; defenders each and every time he tries to make a splash in the tide pool. His schtick has gotten tired for *everyone.*&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;My schtick, on the other hand, is always lemon fresh.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;xxxjimmy</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114012711994713581'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114012711994713581'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html?showComment=1140127080000#c114012711994713581' title=''/><author><name>Behrle, Prince of Trolls</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02376200318127362630</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114000831779460818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114000831779460818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1368997688"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114012596590017053</id><published>2006-02-16T16:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-16T16:39:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Before I heard from Kent I intended to place this ...</title><summary type='text'>Before I heard from Kent I intended to place this here:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Dear Kent,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Will do.  Already you&#39;ve overcome expectations.  So I&#39;m wrong.  At least this exchange has caused Ian to post something funny.  I&#39;ll be Lear if you&#39;ll be Edmund.  Kirby can be Cordelia.&lt;BR/&gt;&gt;  &gt;  &gt;  &gt;  &gt;  &gt;  &gt; &gt; &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Now I have heard from him and now consider him a soul in bliss.  The usual that I was </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114012596590017053'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114012596590017053'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html?showComment=1140125940000#c114012596590017053' title=''/><author><name>joe green</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12257285616529795340</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114000831779460818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114000831779460818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114012582539335191</id><published>2006-02-16T16:37:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-16T16:37:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Who does Ryan mean? It ain&#39;t me. Although Kent wan...</title><summary type='text'>Who does Ryan mean? It ain&#39;t me. Although Kent wanted to have a tearful sit down with me to officially raise the white flag at the Cloister Cafe after his reading. I accepted his surrender. I took pity on him: he obviously can dish it out but can&#39;t take it. That&#39;s the saddest thing I can say about anybody anytime anywhere. If you&#39;re going to bring it, don&#39;t go around moping for quarter, or </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114012582539335191'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114012582539335191'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html?showComment=1140125820000#c114012582539335191' title=''/><author><name>Behrle, Prince of Trolls</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02376200318127362630</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114000831779460818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114000831779460818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1368997688"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114011975404906762</id><published>2006-02-16T14:55:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-16T14:55:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Once again, as is wont to occcur (I like my happen...</title><summary type='text'>Once again, as is wont to occcur (I like my happenings to CCCP themselves) in blogworld, ego and citation seem to get the best of the wondrous and wanderous blogger, full of the best intention to snipe and bring those down to earth who, in &quot;another&#39;s&quot; eyes, need to be leveled. Who are these judges to level &quot;guilty&quot; on KJ? &lt;BR/&gt;I have been born a witness to circumstances involving KJ and another </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114011975404906762'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114011975404906762'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html?showComment=1140119700000#c114011975404906762' title=''/><author><name>radio</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04326854015729536558</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114000831779460818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114000831779460818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-743849109"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114011904609832594</id><published>2006-02-16T14:44:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-16T14:44:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114011904609832594'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114011904609832594'/><author><name>radio</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04326854015729536558</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114000831779460818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114000831779460818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-743849109"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114011834052292744</id><published>2006-02-16T14:32:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-16T14:32:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>A question and a couple of quick comments:1. Ron, ...</title><summary type='text'>A question and a couple of quick comments:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;1. Ron, how come you didn’t mention “Get the Hood Back On”? Obviously, you can’t discuss the entire book, but that seems to me to be an extremely powerful response to the war and a pretty clear rebuttal to your claim that LPAA is not war or anti-war poetry. Here it is, for those who don’t have LPAA:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;http://www.geoffreygatza.com/arkv/</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114011834052292744'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114011834052292744'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html?showComment=1140118320000#c114011834052292744' title=''/><author><name>Bill</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02803701855944790354</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114000831779460818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114000831779460818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-551268623"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114010056960991447</id><published>2006-02-16T09:36:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-16T09:36:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I never said that I thought all Sufis were dead, L...</title><summary type='text'>I never said that I thought all Sufis were dead, Lilac.  You are bearing false witness against me.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I even defended the Muslim tradition last evening. I was reading from a novel at a convention of retired luminaries and we began to discuss the idea of humor.  Someone said Jews have humor (she was Jewish) and Muslims don&#39;t.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But I pointed out the Sufi tradition of humor (it can be </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114010056960991447'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114010056960991447'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html?showComment=1140100560000#c114010056960991447' 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/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114000831779460818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114000831779460818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114009426776858747</id><published>2006-02-16T07:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-16T07:51:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Murat Nemet-Nejat is another reader here who hasn&#39;...</title><summary type='text'>Murat Nemet-Nejat is another reader here who hasn&#39;t figured out the registration system for blog comments. He asked me to post the following:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Dear Ron,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I am glad there is an open confrontation with Kent Johnson&#39;s work in your blog. That itself is a significant event. Having said that, let me try to respond to a few of your observations:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;A) &quot;Miseries of Poetry&quot; I think </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114009426776858747'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114009426776858747'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html?showComment=1140094260000#c114009426776858747' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114000831779460818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114000831779460818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114008089369998410</id><published>2006-02-16T04:08:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-16T04:08:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Dear Lilac:&quot;To be completely honest, I don&#39;t think...</title><summary type='text'>Dear Lilac:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;To be completely honest, I don&#39;t think there is a poet that can write about Iraq (meaningfully) without being either a polemic asshole (pro or con) or, as some are, a muslim.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Maybe you&#39;re right. But one can, I think, write about one&#39;s own position in relation to it all, and the brutality of one&#39;s government/corporate alliance, everywhere.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I want to express</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114008089369998410'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114008089369998410'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html?showComment=1140080880000#c114008089369998410' title=''/><author><name>andy gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00797822725132844348</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114000831779460818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114000831779460818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114007590753931267</id><published>2006-02-16T02:45:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-16T02:45:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The Islamic Republic is a system based on belief i...</title><summary type='text'>The Islamic Republic is a system based on belief in: &lt;BR/&gt;the One God (as stated in the phrase &quot;There is no god except Allah&quot;), His exclusive sovereignty and the right to legislate, and the necessity of submission to His commands; &lt;BR/&gt;Divine revelation and its fundamental role in setting forth the laws; &lt;BR/&gt;the return to God in the Hereafter, and the constructive role of this belief in the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114007590753931267'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114007590753931267'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html?showComment=1140075900000#c114007590753931267' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04555982712708881025</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114000831779460818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114000831779460818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114007403968273638</id><published>2006-02-16T02:13:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-16T02:13:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Alaiku&#39;wu&#39;asallam wa barakatu.Then this:So this is...</title><summary type='text'>Alaiku&#39;wu&#39;asallam wa barakatu.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Then this:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;So this is a problematic issue, in my opinion, this raising of the sails of ethical value on the gunboat of aesthetic experiment. It&#39;s not that this poetry doesn&#39;t have a key role to play, for it does: it is an advanced undertaking, doing the work in poetry, you might say, that little-known radio astronomers on a cold mountaintop in the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114007403968273638'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114007403968273638'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html?showComment=1140073980000#c114007403968273638' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04555982712708881025</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114000831779460818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114000831779460818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114007127804668010</id><published>2006-02-16T01:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-16T01:27:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Kent Johnson week indeed..  “This sort of overt be...</title><summary type='text'>Kent Johnson week indeed..  “This sort of overt begging for attention, especially in a meta-critical frame, is almost the signature Johnson move.”  He steals everything from you, and you ask nothing! .....it’s always Jimmy in the harem with the candlestick, every time we get out the game.  Enjoyed the Morrow/ Dangers stuff..</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114007127804668010'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114007127804668010'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html?showComment=1140071220000#c114007127804668010' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114000831779460818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114000831779460818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114007060793075816</id><published>2006-02-16T01:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-16T01:16:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Can you guys get a room? Or exchange e-mails? Who ...</title><summary type='text'>Can you guys get a room? Or exchange e-mails? Who gives a shit? &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It&#39;s Kent Johnson Week! I&#39;m wearing a commerative thong!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;xxxjimmy</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114007060793075816'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114007060793075816'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html?showComment=1140070560000#c114007060793075816' title=''/><author><name>Behrle, Prince of Trolls</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02376200318127362630</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114000831779460818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114000831779460818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1368997688"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114006919963980937</id><published>2006-02-16T00:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-16T00:53:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Salaam wa alaikum.  A lot of Kent&#39;s poetry&#39;s onlin...</title><summary type='text'>Salaam wa alaikum.  A lot of Kent&#39;s poetry&#39;s online..</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114006919963980937'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114006919963980937'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html?showComment=1140069180000#c114006919963980937' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114000831779460818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114000831779460818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 16, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114006558240695051</id><published>2006-02-15T23:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-15T23:53:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ian.  Let me tell you something.  Pardon me Ron.Ba...</title><summary type='text'>Ian.  Let me tell you something.  Pardon me Ron.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Back in the old days when I worked at Sambo&#39;s...yes, in Arizona, I had no idea that one day I&#39;d deal with real negroes from Africa.  The time I waited table on a group of negroes after church and accidently asked them if they wanted &quot;all white or all black&quot; meat (you could split the fried chicken order back then)...it was hilarious and I </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114006558240695051'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114000831779460818/comments/default/114006558240695051'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html?showComment=1140065580000#c114006558240695051' title=''/><author><name>Lady Jane</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04555982712708881025</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/im-convinced-that-for-whatever-reason.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114000831779460818' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114000831779460818' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1542572767"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 15, 2006"/></entry></feed>