<?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.post114311613858174621..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/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/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>65</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114357225959145655</id><published>2006-03-28T13:57:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-28T13:57:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Yes, actually, that&#39;s a very wonderful statement. ...</title><summary type='text'>Yes, actually, that&#39;s a very wonderful statement. That crucial place where to be pragmatic, to be linguistically rigorous, and to be kind and humane, converge.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;m moved and remarkably lucid for the pre-coffee part of my day.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114357225959145655'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114357225959145655'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html?showComment=1143572220000#c114357225959145655' 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/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114311613858174621' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114311613858174621' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 28, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114357210250345422</id><published>2006-03-28T13:55:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-28T13:55:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanks, Kirk; that was a satisfying answer after a...</title><summary type='text'>Thanks, Kirk; that was a satisfying answer after all.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;That&#39;s the right LW book for a good laugh.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114357210250345422'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114357210250345422'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html?showComment=1143572100000#c114357210250345422' 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/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114311613858174621' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114311613858174621' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 28, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114354918958726376</id><published>2006-03-28T07:33:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-28T07:33:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Andy, I find the relevant LW in Culture and Value ...</title><summary type='text'>Andy, I find the relevant LW in Culture and Value (p 29e):&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;I can say: &#39;Thank these bees for their honey as though they were kind people who have prepared it for you&#39;; that is intelligible and describes how I should like you to conduct yourself. But I cannot say: &#39;Thank them because, look, how kind they are!&#39;--since the next moment they may sting you.&quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114354918958726376'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114354918958726376'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html?showComment=1143549180000#c114354918958726376' title=''/><author><name>Kirk Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05529898733002317995</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/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114311613858174621' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114311613858174621' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-895736745"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 28, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114349467256049478</id><published>2006-03-27T16:24:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-27T16:24:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>damn you andy...you know...i had a feeling you wer...</title><summary type='text'>damn you andy...you know...i had a feeling you were going to drop wittgenstein&#39;s name...haha...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;I&gt;little buddha&lt;/I&gt; was a good film because number one...keanu had very little if any dialogue which was a plus...and number two it was more imaginative than most of your standard hollywood crap...number 3 in the film keanu&#39;s look was very similar to how buddhist iconography reveals the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114349467256049478'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114349467256049478'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html?showComment=1143494640000#c114349467256049478' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</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/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114311613858174621' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114311613858174621' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-790371086"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 27, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114349418374533085</id><published>2006-03-27T16:16:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-27T16:16:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Getting back to Sally Potter - back when she was s...</title><summary type='text'>Getting back to Sally Potter - back when she was still an underground filmmaker - mid/late 80s - she wrote lyrics for a few song cycles that were recorded and performed by Lindsay Cooper&#39;s band. The lyrics were never that good, but her experience in writing rhymed lyrics probably was the catalyst for the dialogue in &lt;I&gt;Yes&lt;/I&gt;.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114349418374533085'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114349418374533085'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html?showComment=1143494160000#c114349418374533085' title=''/><author><name>Dan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01237559167492474544</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/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114311613858174621' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114311613858174621' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1461314134"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 27, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114349155496418319</id><published>2006-03-27T15:32:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-27T15:32:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Sure, Andrew.Though I also didn&#39;t find that scene ...</title><summary type='text'>Sure, Andrew.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Though I also didn&#39;t find that scene moving, I did find it fascinating in other ways, partly because it stepped back from the main mode of the film, which I &lt;I&gt;did&lt;/I&gt; find moving, partly because it was a nice formal move (the Shakespeare structures everything in the play that isn&#39;t related to the River Phoenix character, and thereby enacts a double critique: it brings out </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114349155496418319'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114349155496418319'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html?showComment=1143491520000#c114349155496418319' 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/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114311613858174621' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114311613858174621' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 27, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114349073011396165</id><published>2006-03-27T15:18:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-27T15:18:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>well here it goes andy...the film was a decent fil...</title><summary type='text'>well here it goes andy...the film was a decent film like i said...to me that particular scene was not convincing...it had no heart in my opinion...i simply used cooper&#39;s novel as an illustration of material that i find &#39;convincing&#39;...&#39;sleaziness&#39; does not make a good film or novel or whatever...good acting and good story do...you know?...let me ask you this...does a bad poet write good poetry? &lt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114349073011396165'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114349073011396165'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html?showComment=1143490680000#c114349073011396165' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</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/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114311613858174621' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114311613858174621' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-790371086"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 27, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114348177525090283</id><published>2006-03-27T12:49:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-27T12:49:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Come on like rhyme. it`s like, really, you know. P...</title><summary type='text'>Come on like rhyme. it`s like, really, you know. &lt;BR/&gt;People rhyme, in hip hop, here, there, in the crummy books, come on. paleese, no more rhyme.  Hi from Aggy,lurker type.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114348177525090283'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114348177525090283'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html?showComment=1143481740000#c114348177525090283' title=''/><author><name>sincerelyreader</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11167491090821640484</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/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114311613858174621' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114311613858174621' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1676910289"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 27, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114345877261668007</id><published>2006-03-27T06:26:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-27T06:26:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>You didn&#39;t love him in Little Buddha?</title><summary type='text'>You didn&#39;t love him in &lt;B&gt;Little Buddha&lt;/B&gt;?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114345877261668007'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114345877261668007'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html?showComment=1143458760000#c114345877261668007' 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/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114311613858174621' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114311613858174621' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 27, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114345299237429850</id><published>2006-03-27T04:49:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-27T04:49:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Reeves&#39; only two good roles are in Idaho (an utter...</title><summary type='text'>Reeves&#39; only two good roles are in &lt;I&gt;Idaho&lt;/I&gt; (an utterly amazing treatment of &lt;I&gt;Henry IV&lt;/I&gt;, in my opinion, which treats prostitution, friendship and loneliness with a rare and absolutely crucial sensitivity and humanity rather than focusing on &quot;sleaziness&quot;) and &lt;I&gt;Bill &amp; Ted&lt;/I&gt;; in neither film does he have to do any actual acting.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114345299237429850'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114345299237429850'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html?showComment=1143452940000#c114345299237429850' 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/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114311613858174621' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114311613858174621' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 27, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114340980741496974</id><published>2006-03-26T16:50:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-26T16:50:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>oh...in addition...wasn&#39;t it gus van sant that dir...</title><summary type='text'>oh...in addition...wasn&#39;t it gus van sant that directed &lt;I&gt;drugstore cowboy&lt;/I&gt;? now that was convincing...</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114340980741496974'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114340980741496974'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html?showComment=1143409800000#c114340980741496974' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</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/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114311613858174621' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114311613858174621' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-790371086"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 26, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114340970583384168</id><published>2006-03-26T16:48:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-26T16:48:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>ron...i actually read this a couple days back...yo...</title><summary type='text'>ron...i actually read this a couple days back...you said:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;think of how riveting it is when, in the middle of Gus Van Sant’s &lt;I&gt;My Own Private Idaho&lt;/I&gt;, lines from &lt;I&gt;Henry IV&lt;/I&gt; pop up amidst the street hustlers &amp; druggies of Portland.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;this movie was a decent movie in some parts...river phoenix played a very convincing role in this film...whoever played that sugar daddy </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114340970583384168'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114340970583384168'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html?showComment=1143409680000#c114340970583384168' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</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/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114311613858174621' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114311613858174621' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-790371086"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 26, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114340308863943925</id><published>2006-03-26T14:58:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-26T14:58:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Bernstein&#39;s blog for March 19 posts Tom Raworth&#39;s ...</title><summary type='text'>Bernstein&#39;s blog for March 19 posts Tom Raworth&#39;s &quot;Listen Up,&quot; 30 lines of rhymed four-beat couplets -- doggerel, to be precise -- originally published in Counterpunch in 2003. Notable rhymes are &quot;Hans Blix,&quot; &quot;foreign pricks&quot;; &quot;munchkin Putin,&quot; &quot;no disputing&quot;; &quot;Allah,&quot; &quot;valor&quot;; &quot;ears and pecker,&quot; &quot;napalm Mecca.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Form: never less than an extension of content. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Tom&#39;s blog says </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114340308863943925'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114340308863943925'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html?showComment=1143403080000#c114340308863943925' title=''/><author><name>Kirk Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05529898733002317995</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/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114311613858174621' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114311613858174621' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-895736745"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 26, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114333206258901077</id><published>2006-03-25T19:14:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-25T19:14:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>http://thejeunessedoree.libsyn.com/Here are immort...</title><summary type='text'>http://thejeunessedoree.libsyn.com/&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Here are immortal podcasts. Easily downloaded. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Check out &quot;The Diamond at the End of Time&quot; and listen for the faint rhymes in the part where we are chased to the ramparts of Elsinore by Pound and his minions.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Most importantly and coming soon...America&#39;s Most Beloved Poet, Kent Johnson, reads from his newest book.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114333206258901077'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114333206258901077'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html?showComment=1143332040000#c114333206258901077' 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/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114311613858174621' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114311613858174621' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 25, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114331209106034611</id><published>2006-03-25T13:41:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-25T13:41:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron,happy to see you weighing in on Sally Potter&#39;s...</title><summary type='text'>Ron,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;happy to see you weighing in on Sally Potter&#39;s film, despite having a differing response to it (and to the rhyme issue -- perhaps relatedly).  At this point -- or at least when I started reading the above comments -- I am (or was) #51 in a growing roster.  I found such of the above as I read, interesting, but if I take time to read all 50, my day be gone.  Will return to further </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114331209106034611'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114331209106034611'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html?showComment=1143312060000#c114331209106034611' title=''/><author><name>david raphael israel</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07535589040322113419</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/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114311613858174621' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114311613858174621' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1441140986"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 25, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114330277512974879</id><published>2006-03-25T11:06:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-25T11:06:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Housman died during the Depression. Williams is st...</title><summary type='text'>Housman died during the Depression. Williams is still alive and writing, and rarely (from the little I&#39;ve read) uses rhyme and meter, though the poems are often lyric. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;m down to the dregs in my morning coffee, served today to me in a mustard yellow mug adorned with a happy face and &quot;arkansas.&quot; &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;I&gt;There will come a year&lt;BR/&gt;when one by one your friends&lt;BR/&gt;thumbing past your </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114330277512974879'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114330277512974879'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html?showComment=1143302760000#c114330277512974879' title=''/><author><name>Michael Hoerman</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07253904232487904166</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/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114311613858174621' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114311613858174621' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1328156720"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 25, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114329982159285817</id><published>2006-03-25T10:17:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-25T10:17:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Or, in the parlance of the day--Yoo-Joo mutha-fuck...</title><summary type='text'>Or, in the parlance of the day--&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Yoo-Joo mutha-fucka masta-beata chica-sucka say&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Wee Bee&#39;s on toppa yoo coochie-man wee-wee&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;An cut-choo faggot-ass voodoo da-boost!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Hava a nice day, Mr. A-Turd.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114329982159285817'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114329982159285817'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html?showComment=1143299820000#c114329982159285817' 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/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114311613858174621' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114311613858174621' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 25, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114329653956852937</id><published>2006-03-25T09:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-25T09:22:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>dr dried-up shit stain on a dead chicken&#39;s virulen...</title><summary type='text'>dr dried-up shit stain on a dead chicken&#39;s virulent asshole (my apologies---I&#39;m afraid that makes him actually sound relevant... but I&#39;m too pressed for time to come up with a more appropriate metaphor):&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Rhyme is an &quot;authoritarian&quot; tool for making people submissive? (Moreso than rhythm and wordplay in general?....)&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Children only enjoy rhyme because their parents have encouraged </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114329653956852937'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114329653956852937'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html?showComment=1143296520000#c114329653956852937' title=''/><author><name>ombilic des limbes</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11293658529083388162</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/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114311613858174621' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114311613858174621' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1836590126"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 25, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114325284715314921</id><published>2006-03-24T21:14:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-24T21:14:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Dear Turd:I think you keep missing the point of th...</title><summary type='text'>Dear Turd:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think you keep missing the point of the discussion.  The subject was rhyme, and its place in contemporary writing.  You keep dragging in meter and assonance and so forth.  Why? &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Your determination to remain anonymous is, again, neither dignified nor amusing.  You think it shields you from consequence, but its real affect is to degrade your assertions by your hiding </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114325284715314921'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114325284715314921'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html?showComment=1143252840000#c114325284715314921' 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/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114311613858174621' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114311613858174621' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 24, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114324476929596059</id><published>2006-03-24T18:59:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-24T18:59:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;Do people set up artificial dialogues in which rh...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;Do people set up artificial dialogues in which rhyme is the imagined &#39;central technique&#39; in history? People do. In fact, you just did in your post above.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You seem to have a problem with reading things carefully. Perhaps your eyesight&#39;s going. Or is it your memory? I wrote&lt;BR/&gt;that, historically (over the periods I specified), rhyme has been &quot;*a* central technique&quot; in the poetry of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114324476929596059'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114324476929596059'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html?showComment=1143244740000#c114324476929596059' title=''/><author><name>ombilic des limbes</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11293658529083388162</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/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114311613858174621' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114311613858174621' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1836590126"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 24, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114324339994060961</id><published>2006-03-24T18:36:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-24T18:36:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Curt Feyvill rote:&quot;&#39;rhyme and meter give immediate...</title><summary type='text'>Curt Feyvill rote:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;&#39;rhyme and meter give immediate pleasure&#39;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;This is a matter ultimately of taste, not of immediate recognition.&quot; &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You might say the same about chocolate. The vast majority of the population (in childhood, at least) finds an immediate embodied pleasure in rhyme and meter. If as an infinite you took no delight in rhythm or repeated sound patterns, you </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114324339994060961'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114324339994060961'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html?showComment=1143243360000#c114324339994060961' title=''/><author><name>ombilic des limbes</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11293658529083388162</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/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114311613858174621' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114311613858174621' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1836590126"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 24, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114324180404265109</id><published>2006-03-24T18:10:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-24T18:10:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanks, Joe, for the civilized reply.  Why is it t...</title><summary type='text'>Thanks, Joe, for the civilized reply.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Why is it that literary debate so often, and quickly, turns malevolent?  It must be that the stakes are higher than we imagine.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;There IS a debate raging, as there always seems to be, against the demonstrators in the street who want to tear down the facades of respectability and set up temporary tents.  I remember the polite titters in </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114324180404265109'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114324180404265109'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html?showComment=1143241800000#c114324180404265109' 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/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114311613858174621' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114311613858174621' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 24, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114323700323787444</id><published>2006-03-24T16:50:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-24T16:50:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis, we can agree to deplore that academic habi...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis, we can agree to deplore that academic habit of supposing that everything is a deviation from rhyme but I have never encountered it.  After all we old guys began with Beowulf so it was rather hard to then treat rhyme as the standard.  My old professors were quite ecstatic about blank verse and, for example, Wordworth&#39;s many poems in this form were not treated as exceptions.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114323700323787444'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114323700323787444'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html?showComment=1143237000000#c114323700323787444' 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/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114311613858174621' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114311613858174621' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 24, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114323631709563760</id><published>2006-03-24T16:38:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-24T16:38:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Andy:Charmingly lucid, as usual.Especially this:&quot;B...</title><summary type='text'>Andy:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Charmingly lucid, as usual.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Especially this:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;Bad rhymed verse is bad on the level of technique. It comes off as banal almost no matter what. It lacerates the language for the sake of something that, in a bad rhymed poem, is artificial in the bad sense, rather than the productive one.&quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114323631709563760'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114323631709563760'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html?showComment=1143236280000#c114323631709563760' 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/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114311613858174621' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114311613858174621' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 24, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114323340450470547</id><published>2006-03-24T15:50:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-24T15:50:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I like that Corso poem.I think it&#39;s a bad idea to ...</title><summary type='text'>I like that Corso poem.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think it&#39;s a bad idea to conflate poetry and song. The relation is historical, totally, unmistakably obvious, and thus mind-numbingly boring as a topic. They&#39;ve moved apart (just as all art forms have managed to free themselves from their old social functions, so that music doesn&#39;t have to be ritual any more, and painting doesn&#39;t have to appease gods or feudal </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114323340450470547'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114311613858174621/comments/default/114323340450470547'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html?showComment=1143233400000#c114323340450470547' 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/2006/03/i-am-not-as-you-might-have-gathered.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114311613858174621' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114311613858174621' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 24, 2006"/></entry></feed>