<?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.post114035415948940149..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/3738579/114035415948940149/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/there-have-only-been-couple-of-sports.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>10</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114045446969644115</id><published>2006-02-20T11:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-20T11:54:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>john hanson:My main gripe with the skating is that...</title><summary type='text'>john hanson:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;My main gripe with the skating is that it all becomes so formulaic after a while.  The first time you see the spinning jump, or the 40 revolution spin, or the &quot;triple salt cow&quot; or whatever they call it, it&#39;s pretty neat (provided it&#39;s done correctly), but the 20th or 100th time it&#39;s really tedious.  Same moves, same jumps, same holding out the arms and twisting the fingers </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114035415948940149/comments/default/114045446969644115'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114035415948940149/comments/default/114045446969644115'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/there-have-only-been-couple-of-sports.html?showComment=1140454440000#c114045446969644115' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</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/there-have-only-been-couple-of-sports.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114035415948940149' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114035415948940149' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114045379188313151</id><published>2006-02-20T11:43:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-20T11:43:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>ckays,&quot;I still write poems though.&quot;About boys, or ...</title><summary type='text'>ckays,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;I still write poems though.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;About boys, or skating?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114035415948940149/comments/default/114045379188313151'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114035415948940149/comments/default/114045379188313151'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/there-have-only-been-couple-of-sports.html?showComment=1140453780000#c114045379188313151' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</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/there-have-only-been-couple-of-sports.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114035415948940149' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114035415948940149' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114041589654277980</id><published>2006-02-20T01:11:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-20T01:11:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>not wishing to disparage too awfully much the athl...</title><summary type='text'>not wishing to disparage too awfully much the athletic effort and time it takes to skate like ballet...however....am i the only one to notice that it all appears as soft porn after awhile?    when is poetry like raising your leg far over your head and showing your crotch to some judges?    so much seems to hang on those ridiculous leaps and twists...as if music can be reduced to ornaments...which</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114035415948940149/comments/default/114041589654277980'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114035415948940149/comments/default/114041589654277980'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/there-have-only-been-couple-of-sports.html?showComment=1140415860000#c114041589654277980' title=''/><author><name>john hanson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09681354460957743187</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/there-have-only-been-couple-of-sports.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114035415948940149' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114035415948940149' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1428247785"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114041550709007533</id><published>2006-02-20T01:05:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-20T01:05:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I grew up as a competive ice skater...skating up t...</title><summary type='text'>I grew up as a competive ice skater...skating up to eight hours a day six days a week.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Then I discovered boys.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I still write poems though.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;LOL.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114035415948940149/comments/default/114041550709007533'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114035415948940149/comments/default/114041550709007533'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/there-have-only-been-couple-of-sports.html?showComment=1140415500000#c114041550709007533' title=''/><author><name>ckays1967</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09734433683039844640</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/there-have-only-been-couple-of-sports.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114035415948940149' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114035415948940149' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1319086457"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114041330488261448</id><published>2006-02-20T00:28:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-20T00:28:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Yes. I agree. Wonderful thoughts, Ron.</title><summary type='text'>Yes. I agree. Wonderful thoughts, Ron.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114035415948940149/comments/default/114041330488261448'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114035415948940149/comments/default/114041330488261448'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/there-have-only-been-couple-of-sports.html?showComment=1140413280000#c114041330488261448' title=''/><author><name>Michael Parker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01280355936107965244</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/there-have-only-been-couple-of-sports.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114035415948940149' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114035415948940149' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2002640408"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 20, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114036665901408214</id><published>2006-02-19T11:30:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-19T11:30:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>How is skating like writing poems?  Ashbery&#39;s Skat...</title><summary type='text'>How is skating like writing poems?  Ashbery&#39;s Skaters comes instantly to mind.  Then there&#39;s Anthony&lt;BR/&gt;Hecht&#39;s poem about Proust and skaters, comparing the crisscrossing figures and swoops to Proust&#39;s sentences and paragraphs.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think you meant something about &quot;effort&quot; or going all out, which is what Weir couldn&#39;t do, because he choked.  I know that well, as a permanent sufferer of&lt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114035415948940149/comments/default/114036665901408214'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114035415948940149/comments/default/114036665901408214'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/there-have-only-been-couple-of-sports.html?showComment=1140366600000#c114036665901408214' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</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/there-have-only-been-couple-of-sports.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114035415948940149' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114035415948940149' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114036589836264194</id><published>2006-02-19T11:18:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-19T11:18:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Absolutely with you on this. Particularly the last...</title><summary type='text'>Absolutely with you on this. Particularly the last paragraph. I have often compared the poetic process and the test -- whatever it is -- to the Olympics for figure skaters. How it&#39;s so much body and bodylessness. I think of that other black skater (oops, spacing out on the name) who used to listen to George of the Jungle, the theme from the kids&#39; cartoon, while she skated, timing her quads to the</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114035415948940149/comments/default/114036589836264194'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114035415948940149/comments/default/114036589836264194'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/there-have-only-been-couple-of-sports.html?showComment=1140365880000#c114036589836264194' title=''/><author><name>Lorna Dee Cervantes</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09020619136188745312</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/there-have-only-been-couple-of-sports.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114035415948940149' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114035415948940149' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1018401473"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114036044326108620</id><published>2006-02-19T09:47:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-19T09:47:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The real lesson is:Stay awayfrom Coatesville, Pa.</title><summary type='text'>The real lesson is:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Stay away&lt;BR/&gt;from Coatesville, Pa.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114035415948940149/comments/default/114036044326108620'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114035415948940149/comments/default/114036044326108620'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/there-have-only-been-couple-of-sports.html?showComment=1140360420000#c114036044326108620' 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/there-have-only-been-couple-of-sports.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114035415948940149' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114035415948940149' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114035939829430924</id><published>2006-02-19T09:29:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-19T09:29:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>One tragic part perhaps of great art is the sacrif...</title><summary type='text'>One tragic part perhaps of great art is the sacrifice of stability of life that often seems to come with art. I&#39;m not sure how true this is currently though, I&#39;m studying 19th century, and things like syphillis and mercury may be more of the cause of madness than devotion to art. But I&#39;ve just studied 5 or 6 musicians of the 19th century, the great composers, and they are all, sadly, at first </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114035415948940149/comments/default/114035939829430924'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114035415948940149/comments/default/114035939829430924'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/there-have-only-been-couple-of-sports.html?showComment=1140359340000#c114035939829430924' title=''/><author><name>Valerie</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03716498736157684730</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/there-have-only-been-couple-of-sports.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114035415948940149' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114035415948940149' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-643752735"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 19, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114035438539903854</id><published>2006-02-19T08:06:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-02-19T08:06:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;ve reposted this. For reasons I never understood...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;ve reposted this. For reasons I never understood, yesterday it kept disappearing AND the comments box was not working. Today at least we have the comments back, so maybe this will stay as well.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114035415948940149/comments/default/114035438539903854'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114035415948940149/comments/default/114035438539903854'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/02/there-have-only-been-couple-of-sports.html?showComment=1140354360000#c114035438539903854' 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/there-have-only-been-couple-of-sports.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114035415948940149' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114035415948940149' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 19, 2006"/></entry></feed>