<?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.post3689704384614922935..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/3738579/3689704384614922935/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/in-attempt-to-arouse-audience-interest.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>8</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2880889106955961673</id><published>2010-03-15T10:04:48.368-04:00</published><updated>2010-03-15T10:04:48.368-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The body bomb thing happened at least once that I ...</title><summary type='text'>The body bomb thing happened at least once that I know of, in Pittsburgh, PA, a few years ago.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3689704384614922935/comments/default/2880889106955961673'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3689704384614922935/comments/default/2880889106955961673'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/in-attempt-to-arouse-audience-interest.html?showComment=1268661888368#c2880889106955961673' 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='32' height='32' src='http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/silliman/silliman2a.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/in-attempt-to-arouse-audience-interest.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3689704384614922935' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3689704384614922935' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 15, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8420887700249139809</id><published>2010-03-15T02:25:30.588-04:00</published><updated>2010-03-15T02:25:30.588-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Best discussion of the film I have seen.  Renner w...</title><summary type='text'>Best discussion of the film I have seen.  Renner was fantastic, way better than Jeff Bridges, I don&amp;#39;t care how many dues Bridges has paid.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wonder if the body-bomb thing has ever happened.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I thought the movie was basically a well-executed action film, wanting to be something more, maybe it was a bit more, but just a bit.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3689704384614922935/comments/default/8420887700249139809'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3689704384614922935/comments/default/8420887700249139809'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/in-attempt-to-arouse-audience-interest.html?showComment=1268634330588#c8420887700249139809' title=''/><author><name>Mother of Invention Acting School</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05427231273355510134</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://www.utteracting.com/images/au-homepage1.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/in-attempt-to-arouse-audience-interest.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3689704384614922935' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3689704384614922935' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2095103689"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 15, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2889896628317429656</id><published>2010-02-28T20:35:29.917-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-28T20:35:29.917-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Hello,&#xa;&#xa;&amp;#39;The Hurt Locker&amp;#39; is my my favorit...</title><summary type='text'>Hello,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;#39;The Hurt Locker&amp;#39; is my my favorite...</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3689704384614922935/comments/default/2889896628317429656'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3689704384614922935/comments/default/2889896628317429656'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/in-attempt-to-arouse-audience-interest.html?showComment=1267407329917#c2889896628317429656' title=''/><author><name>old pajamas</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10229885785933385293</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YiOt47ntY5k/SujrR5GbBwI/AAAAAAAAAAU/_m9tzrkSzcw/S220/DSCN3995.JPG.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/in-attempt-to-arouse-audience-interest.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3689704384614922935' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3689704384614922935' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1656621556"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 28, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5656005752816449117</id><published>2010-02-25T10:56:10.114-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-25T10:56:10.114-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Everybody seems to forget that before Spiderman, M...</title><summary type='text'>Everybody seems to forget that before Spiderman, Maguire was considered a much more serious actor. Remember, say, &amp;quot;Wonder Boys&amp;quot;?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3689704384614922935/comments/default/5656005752816449117'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3689704384614922935/comments/default/5656005752816449117'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/in-attempt-to-arouse-audience-interest.html?showComment=1267113370114#c5656005752816449117' title=''/><author><name>Not Lon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17639765066370206564</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/2010/02/in-attempt-to-arouse-audience-interest.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3689704384614922935' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3689704384614922935' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-956570955"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 25, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5022370533496847485</id><published>2010-02-24T15:30:59.618-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-24T15:30:59.618-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I don&amp;#39;t see how you can be anti-war altogether...</title><summary type='text'>I don&amp;#39;t see how you can be anti-war altogether.  The Civil War was a very good war, and few would argue that WWII wasn&amp;#39;t necessary, esp. after Pearl.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The war in Iraq is pretty nutty, I have to admit.  We seem to have about four agendas laid on top of one another: create a Democracy, destroy Saddam (accomplished), fight Islamic terrorism, befriend Iraqi moderates..., while all </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3689704384614922935/comments/default/5022370533496847485'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3689704384614922935/comments/default/5022370533496847485'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/in-attempt-to-arouse-audience-interest.html?showComment=1267043459618#c5022370533496847485' 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/2010/02/in-attempt-to-arouse-audience-interest.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3689704384614922935' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3689704384614922935' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 24, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5073043177335036557</id><published>2010-02-24T14:54:15.869-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-24T14:54:15.869-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Last night, we saw the Netflix of In Bruges, for w...</title><summary type='text'>Last night, we saw the Netflix of In Bruges, for which Martin McDonagh won the Oscar last year for original screenplay.  What a lot of crap! It had Tarantino&amp;#39;s fingerprints all over it.  Is this what the American New Wave has to give the world?  Absurd plots which have no narrative thread, in which non-sequiturs and irrational events occur right alongside bland, pointless dialogue?  Crash </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3689704384614922935/comments/default/5073043177335036557'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3689704384614922935/comments/default/5073043177335036557'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/in-attempt-to-arouse-audience-interest.html?showComment=1267041255869#c5073043177335036557' 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/2010/02/in-attempt-to-arouse-audience-interest.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3689704384614922935' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3689704384614922935' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 24, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3437201697295254549</id><published>2010-02-24T01:45:48.686-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-24T01:45:48.686-05:00</updated><title type='text'>You&amp;#39;re right - it may win, but in my opinion i...</title><summary type='text'>You&amp;#39;re right - it may win, but in my opinion it is as much &amp;quot;pro&amp;quot; as &amp;quot;anti&amp;quot; war and is a well-made, well-edited, well-acted, piece of crap.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3689704384614922935/comments/default/3437201697295254549'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3689704384614922935/comments/default/3437201697295254549'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/in-attempt-to-arouse-audience-interest.html?showComment=1266993948686#c3437201697295254549' title=''/><author><name>bill sherman</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04168365468808561496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_QcEn2JGycC0/SEaH3QctefI/AAAAAAAAAAk/nGibJRmqmSI/S220/billonmoorea.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/in-attempt-to-arouse-audience-interest.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3689704384614922935' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3689704384614922935' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-230710657"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 24, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4268737539210680381</id><published>2010-02-24T00:14:01.058-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-24T00:14:01.058-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Oh, that photo. Buzz Lightyear Go PooBoom! If anyo...</title><summary type='text'>Oh, that photo. Buzz Lightyear Go PooBoom! If anyone ever slangs any other decade, ever, for taste, I&amp;#39;ma just point right here and say &amp;quot;Yeah? You think you know dorky? Well, &lt;i&gt;I&lt;/i&gt; was around in the (what do you call this sad wreck of history? the Nutties?). Yeesh.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3689704384614922935/comments/default/4268737539210680381'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/3689704384614922935/comments/default/4268737539210680381'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/in-attempt-to-arouse-audience-interest.html?showComment=1266988441058#c4268737539210680381' title=''/><author><name>Old 333</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17806372860467057912</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_J3TAxT5vmhg/S34aLinYP7I/AAAAAAAAC4Y/k82j2EYWgBA/S220/lucky.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/02/in-attempt-to-arouse-audience-interest.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3689704384614922935' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/3689704384614922935' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1941817897"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 24, 2010"/></entry></feed>