<?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.post3306421093669573866..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/3738579/3306421093669573866/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/john-ashbery-on-pbs-newshour-two-views.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>7</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3628004193905474620</id><published>2008-01-03T19:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-03T19:00:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The Poet Laureate of Illinois does not know I am i...</title><summary type='text'>The Poet Laureate of Illinois does not know I am in town.....&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I am not telling him either. I will let him figure it out. I mean after all he is the poet laureate - He should know that there it a little ole magazine like mine is in town....shouldn&#39;t he? And I could probably do more in one day than he has done in a year.... no?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I know I am a pain in the buttocks. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;d.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3306421093669573866/comments/default/3628004193905474620'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3306421093669573866/comments/default/3628004193905474620'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/john-ashbery-on-pbs-newshour-two-views.html?showComment=1199404800000#c3628004193905474620' title=''/><author><name>Didi Menendez</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08195202743154382432</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_yyMS6N_gKRg/R2HV46NnWJI/AAAAAAAAAfE/lvOOboq1HJk/S220/12_08_1.JPEG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/john-ashbery-on-pbs-newshour-two-views.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3306421093669573866' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3306421093669573866' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1301407041"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 03, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8711155075812347343</id><published>2008-01-03T12:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-03T12:00:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I think one might warn, for the benefit of your re...</title><summary type='text'>I think one might warn, for the benefit of your readers who don&#39;t know, that Narendra Modi, as chief minister of Gujarat, presided over and was the driving force for the 2002 pogrom in Gujarat.  He&#39;s a killer poet!  At different points, the ownership of the Times of India, which is right-leaning, has been strongly Hindutva-sympathetic, which probably explains this review.  There&#39;s a fascinating </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3306421093669573866/comments/default/8711155075812347343'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3306421093669573866/comments/default/8711155075812347343'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/john-ashbery-on-pbs-newshour-two-views.html?showComment=1199379600000#c8711155075812347343' title=''/><author><name>equivocal</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00408199156528969347</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/2008/01/john-ashbery-on-pbs-newshour-two-views.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3306421093669573866' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3306421093669573866' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1569202724"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 03, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6514673959228107265</id><published>2008-01-03T10:58:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-03T10:58:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>So, Ashbery waddles through another Aw Shucks inte...</title><summary type='text'>So, Ashbery waddles through another Aw Shucks interview, feigning modesty and pretending naivite.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Yawn.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;It&#39;s as if his poetic persona of dreamy credulity and evasiveness has become the man himself.  But I don&#39;t believe it.  There&#39;s always a controller behind the curtain.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3306421093669573866/comments/default/6514673959228107265'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3306421093669573866/comments/default/6514673959228107265'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/john-ashbery-on-pbs-newshour-two-views.html?showComment=1199375880000#c6514673959228107265' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</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/2008/01/john-ashbery-on-pbs-newshour-two-views.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3306421093669573866' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3306421093669573866' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 03, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-282009649445986337</id><published>2008-01-02T16:49:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-02T16:49:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;m happy this blog had circa a half-million visit...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;m happy this blog had circa a half-million visits last year.  At least soem are interested in poetry, and more importantly, presumably read, buy, and otherwise support it.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Nevertheless, a half-million visits a year still translates as &quot;not many.&quot; sy&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;According to wikipedia, Nielsen reports that Drudge gets &quot;3 million visitors per month.&quot;  NYTimes.com: 13 million unique visitors</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3306421093669573866/comments/default/282009649445986337'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3306421093669573866/comments/default/282009649445986337'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/john-ashbery-on-pbs-newshour-two-views.html?showComment=1199310540000#c282009649445986337' title=''/><author><name>Steven Fama</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13733977161680651117</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/2008/01/john-ashbery-on-pbs-newshour-two-views.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3306421093669573866' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3306421093669573866' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 02, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4464247921682582116</id><published>2008-01-02T15:12:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-02T15:12:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Read the proverbs by the Vietnamese poet.  It&#39;s ha...</title><summary type='text'>Read the proverbs by the Vietnamese poet.  It&#39;s hard to understand the sense of some of these.  Perhaps the meaning could be given.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Apparently there was a Vietnamese Solzhenitsyn: a poet who spent 30 years in North Vietnamese prisons.  His poems make obvious sense.  The name is Nguyen Chi Thien:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;http://www.quehuongmedia.com/modules.php?name=News&amp;new_topic=8&amp;file=article&amp;sid=32</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3306421093669573866/comments/default/4464247921682582116'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3306421093669573866/comments/default/4464247921682582116'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/john-ashbery-on-pbs-newshour-two-views.html?showComment=1199304720000#c4464247921682582116' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/john-ashbery-on-pbs-newshour-two-views.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3306421093669573866' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3306421093669573866' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 02, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1565445589238396611</id><published>2008-01-02T13:41:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-02T13:41:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Brian, with oil on the NY markets hitting a first-...</title><summary type='text'>Brian, with oil on the NY markets hitting a first-time ever high today of $100 per barrel, I hope you&#39;re right about that shale oil and wind power. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Peak&#39;s argument, however, is that we don&#39;t have to run out of oil before massive problems of finance, transport, and food production hit us. There is the question of how much energy to invest in that shale to get it out in time to treat it </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3306421093669573866/comments/default/1565445589238396611'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3306421093669573866/comments/default/1565445589238396611'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/john-ashbery-on-pbs-newshour-two-views.html?showComment=1199299260000#c1565445589238396611' title=''/><author><name>Dale</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13285558511682553411</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/2008/01/john-ashbery-on-pbs-newshour-two-views.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3306421093669573866' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3306421093669573866' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-641760374"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 02, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2822275939845242964</id><published>2008-01-02T11:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-02T11:27:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Dale is right about the oil crisis,but alternative...</title><summary type='text'>Dale is right about the oil crisis,&lt;BR/&gt;but alternatives such as wind power&lt;BR/&gt;(growing at 25+% annually) may &lt;BR/&gt;significantly reduce our need for&lt;BR/&gt;oil; and if not, there is a parcel&lt;BR/&gt;of government-owned land in the&lt;BR/&gt;Rockies (Colorado mainly) which&lt;BR/&gt;contains oil locked in shale--three&lt;BR/&gt;times the amount of oil found in&lt;BR/&gt;Saudi Arabia--and Shell Oil has an&lt;BR/&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3306421093669573866/comments/default/2822275939845242964'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3306421093669573866/comments/default/2822275939845242964'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/john-ashbery-on-pbs-newshour-two-views.html?showComment=1199291220000#c2822275939845242964' title=''/><author><name>brian salchert</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11649691450577647656</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/2008/01/john-ashbery-on-pbs-newshour-two-views.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3306421093669573866' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3306421093669573866' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1297934363"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 02, 2008"/></entry></feed>