<?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.post114939907018445539..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/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.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>25</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114962346708798306</id><published>2006-06-06T15:51:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-06T15:51:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Congratulations, Ron! This milestone is merely the...</title><summary type='text'>Congratulations, Ron! This milestone is merely the effect of such excellent, astute posts.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114962346708798306'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114962346708798306'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html?showComment=1149623460000#c114962346708798306' 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/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114939907018445539' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114939907018445539' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2002640408"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 06, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114949690746521772</id><published>2006-06-05T04:41:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-05T04:41:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Not naive. And, incidentally, my own comments were...</title><summary type='text'>Not naive. And, incidentally, my own comments weren&#39;t meant to begrudge anybody any access they&#39;ve had to anything interesting. In case it was taken that way.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114949690746521772'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114949690746521772'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html?showComment=1149496860000#c114949690746521772' 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/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114939907018445539' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114939907018445539' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 05, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114948429524572706</id><published>2006-06-05T01:11:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-05T01:11:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I don&#39;t have a visits counter on my blog at this p...</title><summary type='text'>I don&#39;t have a visits counter on my blog at this point, but if it&#39;s even in the three-figures I&#39;d consider myself lucky...&lt;BR/&gt;As for the academia thing-- a paycheck is a paycheck, as long as you think you can still do your own thing in your own writing, and not just churn out crap for the sake of it (as someone said above).  And hopefully turn some people (students) on to whatever good writing </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114948429524572706'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114948429524572706'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html?showComment=1149484260000#c114948429524572706' title=''/><author><name>Mike Begnal</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01803705147493474572</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/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114939907018445539' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114939907018445539' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2080381834"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 05, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114948273087978284</id><published>2006-06-05T00:45:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-05T00:45:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Wow, John Ashbery.  I missed that.  Could the movi...</title><summary type='text'>Wow, John Ashbery.  I missed that.  Could the movie be that old--that I was unaware of Ashbery when I first saw it?  That&#39;s way old!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114948273087978284'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114948273087978284'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html?showComment=1149482700000#c114948273087978284' title=''/><author><name>Big2Heart</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08881471362195898761</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/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114939907018445539' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114939907018445539' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1138120600"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 05, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114948269529780167</id><published>2006-06-05T00:44:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-05T00:44:00.000-04:00</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/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114948269529780167'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114948269529780167'/><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/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114939907018445539' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114939907018445539' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 05, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114948024134192659</id><published>2006-06-05T00:04:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-05T00:04:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>To say &quot;The Swimmer&quot; is just an idea for a story s...</title><summary type='text'>To say &quot;The Swimmer&quot; is just an idea for a story seems a bit unfair to me. That was one of the first short stories I remember really enjoying, at a fairly early age -- and the movie only made it better, particularly John Cheever&#39;s cameo, in which he introduces himself as John Ashbery.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114948024134192659'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114948024134192659'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html?showComment=1149480240000#c114948024134192659' title=''/><author><name>Max</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18171731007326838375</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/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114939907018445539' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114939907018445539' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1533672398"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 05, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114947125544345935</id><published>2006-06-04T21:34:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-04T21:34:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Yeah, a great movie -- as I tried to explain. I we...</title><summary type='text'>Yeah, a great movie -- as I tried to explain. I went home and reread &quot;From Here to Eternity&quot; one of our strangest novels. James Jones. John Cheever.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;When we go I&#39;ll bet these guys will go too.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114947125544345935'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114947125544345935'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html?showComment=1149471240000#c114947125544345935' 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/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114939907018445539' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114939907018445539' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 04, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114946989319032320</id><published>2006-06-04T21:11:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-04T21:11:00.000-04:00</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/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114946989319032320'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114946989319032320'/><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/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114939907018445539' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114939907018445539' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 04, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114946932639979396</id><published>2006-06-04T21:02:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-04T21:02:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Joe:I love the anecdote.  Cheever fantasized a sub...</title><summary type='text'>Joe:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I love the anecdote.  Cheever fantasized a suburban wasteland of endless approbation and sexual blandishment.  The Swimmer is just a few pages, nothing more than an idea for a story, but there&#39;s no story, just the statement of a fact.  Yet, they made a movie of it.  Astonishing.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Your Burt Lancaster moment.  Actually a John Cheever moment.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;How romantic.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114946932639979396'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114946932639979396'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html?showComment=1149469320000#c114946932639979396' 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/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114939907018445539' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114939907018445539' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 04, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114946892809400077</id><published>2006-06-04T20:55:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-04T20:55:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ok, now, be honest and ask yourself if you had the...</title><summary type='text'>Ok, now, be honest and ask yourself if you had the chance for a tenured position in some shippy clime even though you know that you won&#39;t get along with this one because he is unsound on Dickens and that, at any moment, someone might drop by and compare himself to Adorno and you have a job for life and are mostly left alone and can spend summers in Greece and soon will have a year off to spend in</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114946892809400077'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114946892809400077'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html?showComment=1149468900000#c114946892809400077' 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/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114939907018445539' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114939907018445539' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1849826838"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 04, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114946330688292031</id><published>2006-06-04T19:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-04T19:21:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>So that’s it? The university wins?. It’s not a “me...</title><summary type='text'>So that’s it? The university wins?. It’s not a “mediating institution,” and therefore a worthy adversary, but a place where leftist intellectuals (some writing innovatively) go to die? &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;And, by the way, nobody gets tenure anymore anyway; it’s promotes too much “inflexibility.” That’s a little trick that the masters in academe took from the user-friendly corporate world</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114946330688292031'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114946330688292031'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html?showComment=1149463260000#c114946330688292031' title=''/><author><name>onetimeposter</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/14171888394508176138</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/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114939907018445539' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114939907018445539' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1394268085"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 04, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114946066110447528</id><published>2006-06-04T18:37:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-04T18:37:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I would have to say that &#39;Tjanting&#39; is one of the ...</title><summary type='text'>I would have to say that &#39;Tjanting&#39; is one of the most important works in American literature - to be able to read it is one of the most important gifts I&#39;ve ever been given - but maybe that&#39;s because I&#39;ve been exposed to the man...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;we&#39;re not dealing with frill here - &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;congratulations - I hope this blog isn&#39;t taking you away from, well, you know...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;w.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114946066110447528'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114946066110447528'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html?showComment=1149460620000#c114946066110447528' title=''/><author><name>w.</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01330509508149332419</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/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114939907018445539' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114939907018445539' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-534740713"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 04, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114944887310568628</id><published>2006-06-04T15:21:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-04T15:21:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>*You can&#39;t trust anyone who works for a living...*...</title><summary type='text'>*You can&#39;t trust anyone who works for a living...*&lt;BR/&gt;That made my morning! It is inexact, in your face and wonderfully insane. Mr. Silliman, your blog, its tenure and viewer statistics are worthwhile and thought provoking.  I would not describe you as a great or profound poet but many of your blog comments are exceptional, especially when you manage to distance yourself a little from your </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114944887310568628'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114944887310568628'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html?showComment=1149448860000#c114944887310568628' title=''/><author><name>Arago Press</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01854798848338540056</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/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114939907018445539' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114939907018445539' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1658279969"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 04, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114944768156463250</id><published>2006-06-04T15:01:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-04T15:01:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;m glad I don&#39;t have that many readers. That woul...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;m glad I don&#39;t have that many readers. That would be scary. Anyway, thanks for keeping this blog up and going!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114944768156463250'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114944768156463250'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html?showComment=1149447660000#c114944768156463250' title=''/><author><name>Petrus Pokus</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09209455669849294360</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/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114939907018445539' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114939907018445539' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-378981546"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 04, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114944498094188267</id><published>2006-06-04T14:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-04T14:16:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Dear Kirk:  Aside from one three year interruption...</title><summary type='text'>Dear Kirk:  Aside from one three year interruption to get a design degree, I&#39;ve been out of the groves of academe for 33 years.  Refreshing.  How silly it all seems now.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The one thing I remember was how ill-prepared we graduate students were for the challenges (call them deliberate obstacles) that were set for us, and how little the professorial staff cared about helping.  Think or </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114944498094188267'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114944498094188267'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html?showComment=1149444960000#c114944498094188267' 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/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114939907018445539' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114939907018445539' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 04, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114944237607343001</id><published>2006-06-04T13:32:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-04T13:32:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The long march continues. With the scenery on eith...</title><summary type='text'>The long march continues. With the scenery on either side -- blog &amp; comments -- as lively as ever.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The business about &quot;sidetracked critical faculties,&quot; though, I shouldn&#39;t think purely a problem of academic life. The blood feuds of the English Department ecclesia, petty administrators and such, are hardly unknown in the corporate Imperium. And a tenureless, at-will status is all the more</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114944237607343001'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114944237607343001'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html?showComment=1149442320000#c114944237607343001' 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/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114939907018445539' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114939907018445539' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-895736745"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 04, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114943861535594068</id><published>2006-06-04T12:30:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-04T12:30:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The Rakosi interview is WELL worth reading, for th...</title><summary type='text'>The Rakosi interview is WELL worth reading, for the fully compos mentis and engaged possibility of being nearly 100 and still in touch with the world and with writing, for the reminiscences of a wide range of writers known (the Zukofskys pere et fils come across not 100% endorsed as &#39;villagers and human beings&#39;, but it&#39;s a balanced account), and for memories of a life concerned with many other </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114943861535594068'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114943861535594068'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html?showComment=1149438600000#c114943861535594068' title=''/><author><name>jot</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16475752589904055136</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/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114939907018445539' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114939907018445539' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-55274114"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 04, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114943790446967375</id><published>2006-06-04T12:18:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-04T12:18:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Good (or great) poems don&#39;t suffer from being diss...</title><summary type='text'>Good (or great) poems don&#39;t suffer from being dissected.  It&#39;s those bad ones that do.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114943790446967375'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114943790446967375'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html?showComment=1149437880000#c114943790446967375' 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/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114939907018445539' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114939907018445539' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 04, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114943595982200448</id><published>2006-06-04T11:45:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-04T11:45:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;ve said this before (in the comments to the Apri...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;ve said this before (in the comments to the April 21st post), and I&#39;ll say it again, the word &quot;visitor&quot; is ambiguous in the context of descriptions to a web site.  The word &quot;visitor&quot; might imply different people. The more precise word is &quot;visits.&quot;   &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;But as I also said before, even passing landmark numbers for &quot;visits&quot; here deserves congratulations.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I enjoy high (and low) talk</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114943595982200448'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114943595982200448'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html?showComment=1149435900000#c114943595982200448' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04378273134042527425</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/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114939907018445539' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114939907018445539' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1945919831"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 04, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114943502726711672</id><published>2006-06-04T11:30:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-04T11:30:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Obstruction, frustration and zeal come from straw ...</title><summary type='text'>Obstruction, frustration and zeal come from straw usually.    Thanks for your synopsis on the academy. And for your zeal and straw men. i usually attempt to write my zeal out of existence if it proves to be made of straw. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;(i was genuinely pleased by this blog, b/c it was helping me to begin again. rethink self, writing, life. i have no desire to kiss the ass of a poetry school, but to </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114943502726711672'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114943502726711672'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html?showComment=1149435000000#c114943502726711672' title=''/><author><name>Arif</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10848051487247507286</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/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114939907018445539' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114939907018445539' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1469529504"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 04, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114943331089891445</id><published>2006-06-04T11:01:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-04T11:01:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>And thank YOU, Ron, for an enterprise that so enli...</title><summary type='text'>And thank YOU, Ron, for an enterprise that so enlivens,enlightens, connects and amuses.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114943331089891445'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114943331089891445'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html?showComment=1149433260000#c114943331089891445' title=''/><author><name>jot</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16475752589904055136</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/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114939907018445539' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114939907018445539' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-55274114"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 04, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114943273376560543</id><published>2006-06-04T10:52:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-04T10:52:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The point isn&#39;t that the &quot;academy&quot; is hung up on p...</title><summary type='text'>The point isn&#39;t that the &quot;academy&quot; is hung up on pointless detail, or that anyone who addresses detail is &quot;academic.&quot;  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The problem with &quot;academy&quot; is:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;1) The typical bureaucratic atmosphere, with competitiveness and petty vendettas, and networks of authority.  Masters and apprentices.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;2) The academic sense of security and continuity, which has nothing whatever to do </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114943273376560543'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114943273376560543'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html?showComment=1149432720000#c114943273376560543' 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/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114939907018445539' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114939907018445539' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 04, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114943210653508475</id><published>2006-06-04T10:41:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-04T10:41:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>but no rules really. one finds the rare genuis pro...</title><summary type='text'>but no rules really. one finds the rare genuis professor in the academy. frank davey and hedi bouraoui altered the course of my thinking and writing.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;salams,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;arif</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114943210653508475'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114943210653508475'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html?showComment=1149432060000#c114943210653508475' title=''/><author><name>Arif</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10848051487247507286</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/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114939907018445539' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114939907018445539' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1469529504"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 04, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114943160125544539</id><published>2006-06-04T10:33:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-04T10:33:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>thank you, ron. you helped me start writing again....</title><summary type='text'>thank you, ron. you helped me start writing again. honestly, the deeper one gets into the academy, the less creative critical thinking there is. people argue for eons about one tic in a text - caught on one side of the brain.   &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;as vassanji told me, you can&#39;t learn creative writing in a university context.  You just have a keep churning crap out, until you hit upon something. And think </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114943160125544539'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114943160125544539'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html?showComment=1149431580000#c114943160125544539' title=''/><author><name>Arif</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10848051487247507286</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/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114939907018445539' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114939907018445539' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1469529504"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 04, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114940446052964109</id><published>2006-06-04T03:01:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2006-06-04T03:01:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>ron,although I find most of what you and your blog...</title><summary type='text'>ron,&lt;BR/&gt;although I find most of what you and your bloggers have to say academic fodder, i do enjoy the daily visit. please continue-</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114940446052964109'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114939907018445539/comments/default/114940446052964109'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html?showComment=1149404460000#c114940446052964109' title=''/><author><name>olga stamata</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17701772501943394666</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/2006/06/today-this-weblog-will-register-its.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114939907018445539' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114939907018445539' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1375848053"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="June 04, 2006"/></entry></feed>