<?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.post116904194666175731..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/3738579/116904194666175731/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/questions-for-john-ashbery-questions_17.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>11</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116939768416879626</id><published>2007-01-21T11:41:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-21T11:41:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Andy:Yeah, I like Irish Oats (from the can) boiled...</title><summary type='text'>Andy:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Yeah, I like Irish Oats (from the can) boiled slow for 30 minutes, with Lyle&#39;s sweet syrup and a shot of scotch stirred in before pouring, then immersed in heavy cream with a sprinkle of cinnamon.  With good rich coffee, this must be one of the great classic dishes--for me, rivalling a T-bone or 12 fresh oysters.  Supposed to be good for the digestion, too.  Not sure it would help </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116904194666175731/comments/default/116939768416879626'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116904194666175731/comments/default/116939768416879626'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/questions-for-john-ashbery-questions_17.html?showComment=1169397660000#c116939768416879626' 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/2007/01/questions-for-john-ashbery-questions_17.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116904194666175731' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116904194666175731' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 21, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116927023956419076</id><published>2007-01-20T00:17:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-20T00:17:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I like my oatmeal cooked thick and chewy (preferab...</title><summary type='text'>I like my oatmeal cooked thick and chewy (preferably steel-cut oats). You can add milk without making it runny.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Strangely, I&#39;ve discussed my oatmeal preferences with others in this comments box before.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116904194666175731/comments/default/116927023956419076'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116904194666175731/comments/default/116927023956419076'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/questions-for-john-ashbery-questions_17.html?showComment=1169270220000#c116927023956419076' 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/2007/01/questions-for-john-ashbery-questions_17.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116904194666175731' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116904194666175731' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1436621432"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 20, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116923109350901765</id><published>2007-01-19T13:24:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-19T13:24:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>A home with a monster cold two days ago, I sketche...</title><summary type='text'>A home with a monster cold two days ago, I sketched in my congested head how the expansive Bernstein might have answered the questions asked Ashbery, and how the concise Ashbery might have answered the questions asked Bernstein. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It was fun, and instructive.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I recognize the difference in context that gave rise to the answers&#39; disparate lengths.  Nevertheless, Ron created the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116904194666175731/comments/default/116923109350901765'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116904194666175731/comments/default/116923109350901765'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/questions-for-john-ashbery-questions_17.html?showComment=1169231040000#c116923109350901765' 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/2007/01/questions-for-john-ashbery-questions_17.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116904194666175731' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116904194666175731' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1945919831"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 19, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116922833000751586</id><published>2007-01-19T12:38:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-19T12:38:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Even --or perhaps more especially--taking the diff...</title><summary type='text'>Even --or perhaps more especially--taking the different contexts into account, I found the juxtapostion hilarious.  Ashbery&#39;s response&#39;s are those of an artist, and Bernstein&#39;s those of a professor-bureaucrat.&lt;BR/&gt;It makes me think of scenes in Joyce Cary&#39;s novel The Horse&#39;s Mouth,or the film version with Alec Guiness as the painter Gulley Jimson.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116904194666175731/comments/default/116922833000751586'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116904194666175731/comments/default/116922833000751586'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/questions-for-john-ashbery-questions_17.html?showComment=1169228280000#c116922833000751586' title=''/><author><name>David-Baptiste Chirot</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04615801257240774205</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/2007/01/questions-for-john-ashbery-questions_17.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116904194666175731' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116904194666175731' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-38922887"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 19, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116921718223660655</id><published>2007-01-19T09:33:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-19T09:33:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Zeke:  Do your comments also belong to the subset ...</title><summary type='text'>Zeke:  Do your comments also belong to the subset of those &quot;weak comments in this stream&quot;?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Sorry, just asking....</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116904194666175731/comments/default/116921718223660655'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116904194666175731/comments/default/116921718223660655'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/questions-for-john-ashbery-questions_17.html?showComment=1169217180000#c116921718223660655' 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/2007/01/questions-for-john-ashbery-questions_17.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116904194666175731' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116904194666175731' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 19, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116919278984745503</id><published>2007-01-19T02:46:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-19T02:46:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>God bless John Ashbery, God bless Charles Bernstei...</title><summary type='text'>God bless John Ashbery, God bless Charles Bernstein, Goddamn Steve Fama.  Look at the difference in the questions the two were asked.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Let me not be polite: Steve, your comment sucked!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Berstein&#39;s answers to the interviewer&#39;s questions were, and are, awe inspiring, and I believe that is why the comments here in this stream are so weak.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I think I shall refer often to </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116904194666175731/comments/default/116919278984745503'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116904194666175731/comments/default/116919278984745503'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/questions-for-john-ashbery-questions_17.html?showComment=1169192760000#c116919278984745503' title=''/><author><name>Zeke Hunkaburning</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05144662896092856507</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/2007/01/questions-for-john-ashbery-questions_17.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116904194666175731' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116904194666175731' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-820081779"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 19, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116916709963674998</id><published>2007-01-18T19:38:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-18T19:38:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>It seemed to me that Ashbery&#39;s interview was in pe...</title><summary type='text'>It seemed to me that Ashbery&#39;s interview was in person, where Bernstein&#39;s was correspondence via email--thus the brevity in Ashbery&#39;s responses.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116904194666175731/comments/default/116916709963674998'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116904194666175731/comments/default/116916709963674998'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/questions-for-john-ashbery-questions_17.html?showComment=1169167080000#c116916709963674998' title=''/><author><name>Chris Tiefel</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/02624620418836007855</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/2007/01/questions-for-john-ashbery-questions_17.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116904194666175731' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116904194666175731' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1888953180"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 18, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116914685712584094</id><published>2007-01-18T14:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-18T14:00:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Great writing attempts ambitious things. That path...</title><summary type='text'>Great writing attempts ambitious things. That path is littered with embarrassments and failure. For every great poem there are artifacts of that attempt that are singularly awful. While valuable to scholars... such failures are irksome to a writer&#39;s self respect. Bernstein is either light years ahead in terms of his understanding or...his own opus may not be that significant to him in the long </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116904194666175731/comments/default/116914685712584094'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116904194666175731/comments/default/116914685712584094'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/questions-for-john-ashbery-questions_17.html?showComment=1169146800000#c116914685712584094' 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/2007/01/questions-for-john-ashbery-questions_17.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116904194666175731' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116904194666175731' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1658279969"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 18, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116913823849355785</id><published>2007-01-18T11:37:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-18T11:37:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ashbery&#39;s relative brevity comes, I think, from hi...</title><summary type='text'>Ashbery&#39;s relative brevity comes, I think, from his concept of the occasion.  This was just a quickie conducted to fill a column of newspaper type, with the usual cliche careerist queries, etc.    &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Bernstein&#39;s was a serious critical exchange meant to cover a lot of ground, and Charles handled it with his usual exactitude and confidence.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ashbery is just as capable of detail, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116904194666175731/comments/default/116913823849355785'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116904194666175731/comments/default/116913823849355785'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/questions-for-john-ashbery-questions_17.html?showComment=1169138220000#c116913823849355785' 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/2007/01/questions-for-john-ashbery-questions_17.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116904194666175731' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116904194666175731' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 18, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116909116573843537</id><published>2007-01-17T22:32:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-17T22:32:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thank you for the link to the Ashbery Q&amp;A.  I only...</title><summary type='text'>Thank you for the link to the Ashbery Q&amp;A.  I only wish there was more!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I particularly like&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Are you saying you won’t mind if all your scribbles and random jottings are brought out in a book after your death? No, I won’t mind. I think it will be understood that I didn’t publish them myself if they are published posthumously.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116904194666175731/comments/default/116909116573843537'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116904194666175731/comments/default/116909116573843537'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/questions-for-john-ashbery-questions_17.html?showComment=1169091120000#c116909116573843537' title=''/><author><name>Ben Sherman</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05416782702510533272</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/2007/01/questions-for-john-ashbery-questions_17.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116904194666175731' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116904194666175731' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-322735828"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 17, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116904892845188694</id><published>2007-01-17T10:48:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-01-17T10:48:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Comparing the Ashbery answers to Bernstein&#39;s refle...</title><summary type='text'>Comparing the Ashbery answers to Bernstein&#39;s reflects poorly on the latter.  The longest Ashbery answer is circa 60 words, and many are much shorter.  Bernstein&#39;s shortest answer is just under 200 words; his longest is over 800.  Compared to the brevity of Ashbery, the prolixity of Bernstein, at least first thing here this morning, comes off as oatmeal cooked way too long.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116904194666175731/comments/default/116904892845188694'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/116904194666175731/comments/default/116904892845188694'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/01/questions-for-john-ashbery-questions_17.html?showComment=1169048880000#c116904892845188694' 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/2007/01/questions-for-john-ashbery-questions_17.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-116904194666175731' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/116904194666175731' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1945919831"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 17, 2007"/></entry></feed>