<?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.post4597852761935944141..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/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>27</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2091744262653476340</id><published>2010-04-15T00:00:05.156-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-15T00:00:05.156-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron,&#xa;&#xa;Any plans to take your place in the mainstre...</title><summary type='text'>Ron,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Any plans to take your place in the mainstream of American Poetry?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They came for Bernstein; any day now, they may come for you. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lookout.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/2091744262653476340'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/2091744262653476340'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html?showComment=1271304005156#c2091744262653476340' title=''/><author><name>Jeremy James Foxtrot Thompson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06223335037924767241</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MwAOGN4r_4I/S7ppHJVJDGI/AAAAAAAAAG8/tADsPaCPyFc/S220/jjft.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4597852761935944141' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4597852761935944141' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1543237345"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 15, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9173490080943315700</id><published>2010-04-14T17:16:41.195-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-14T17:16:41.195-04:00</updated><title type='text'>yes&#xa;&#xa;a phun list and WRITE ON!&#xa;&#xa;don&amp;#39;t know who...</title><summary type='text'>yes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a phun list and WRITE ON!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;don&amp;#39;t know who first said this:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;:could have been&lt;br /&gt;Henry Adams or Haskins or Henry Miller</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/9173490080943315700'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/9173490080943315700'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html?showComment=1271279801195#c9173490080943315700' title=''/><author><name>Ed Baker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/S6Kfnd1TdqI/AAAAAAAAALw/ekFALfY5tzI/S220/Ed+Sept+2009++photo+by+Jan+Perlman'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4597852761935944141' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4597852761935944141' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 14, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5871085616647310315</id><published>2010-04-14T15:11:22.023-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-14T15:11:22.023-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ian, &#xa;&#xa;Fantastic collection of quotations!</title><summary type='text'>&lt;br&gt;Ian, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fantastic collection of quotations!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/5871085616647310315'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/5871085616647310315'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html?showComment=1271272282023#c5871085616647310315' 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/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4597852761935944141' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4597852761935944141' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 14, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8569205866258341413</id><published>2010-04-14T11:56:28.851-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-14T11:56:28.851-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Rebecca, Most people agree on the surface that med...</title><summary type='text'>Rebecca, Most people agree on the surface that mediocrity is not a good thing and the actual poetry rather than attaining the right image, faction and venue is what matters so I don&amp;#39;t want to get into the &amp;#39;whose mediocre, who&amp;#39;s not&amp;#39; game, but I was collecting &amp;#39;mediocrity&amp;#39; quotes a few months ago and here are some poetry-related goodies:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nothing is as </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/8569205866258341413'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/8569205866258341413'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html?showComment=1271260588851#c8569205866258341413' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</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/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4597852761935944141' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4597852761935944141' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 14, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3682612355418602814</id><published>2010-04-14T10:38:08.376-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-14T10:38:08.376-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The advantage of poetry outside MFA programs is th...</title><summary type='text'>The advantage of poetry outside MFA programs is that poets will always pummel and be jealous and dismissive of each other, especially poets who are (Ginsberg vs. James Dickey) doing better work than one is willing to admit one is doing.  If there are other around who need poetry to be exciting and stimulating (often because they&amp;#39;re artists in other fields finding parallels to their own </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/3682612355418602814'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/3682612355418602814'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html?showComment=1271255888376#c3682612355418602814' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4597852761935944141' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4597852761935944141' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-328297626"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 14, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5228012700955285155</id><published>2010-04-13T16:46:13.703-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-13T16:46:13.703-04:00</updated><title type='text'>is an MFA what used to be called an MA?  or do I n...</title><summary type='text'>is an MFA what used to be called an MA?  or do I need a &amp;quot;good&amp;quot; LLB to answer the question?&lt;br /&gt;and&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;that that MFA is free&lt;br /&gt;explains why we got so many incompetents in our congress... one gets what one pays for....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;all of my cousins are either lawyers, doctors, dentists or accountants&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;some of them even know &amp;quot;stuff&amp;quot; besides how to bully and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/5228012700955285155'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/5228012700955285155'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html?showComment=1271191573703#c5228012700955285155' title=''/><author><name>Ed Baker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/S6Kfnd1TdqI/AAAAAAAAALw/ekFALfY5tzI/S220/Ed+Sept+2009++photo+by+Jan+Perlman'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4597852761935944141' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4597852761935944141' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 13, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-13025470530915442</id><published>2010-04-13T16:22:33.936-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-13T16:22:33.936-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Changed my mind -- not worth it.&#xa;&#xa;@Ed Baker&#xa;The $1...</title><summary type='text'>Changed my mind -- not worth it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;@Ed Baker&lt;br /&gt;The $100,000 was for my law degree. My MFA was free -- just as it has been for thousands and thousands of MFA graduates (many of whom were/are as poor as I was when I applied to an MFA) over the past decade.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/13025470530915442'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/13025470530915442'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html?showComment=1271190153936#c13025470530915442' title=''/><author><name>Seth Abramson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08059849202129580100</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/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4597852761935944141' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4597852761935944141' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-11614668"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 13, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-379718944148193509</id><published>2010-04-13T16:00:34.852-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-13T16:00:34.852-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>This comment has been removed by the author.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/379718944148193509'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/379718944148193509'/><author><name>Seth Abramson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08059849202129580100</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/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4597852761935944141' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4597852761935944141' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-11614668"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 13, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3154470628621653730</id><published>2010-04-13T15:53:13.475-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-13T15:53:13.475-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Dream Gazette makes some good points. &#xa;&#xa;But please...</title><summary type='text'>Dream Gazette makes some good points. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But please everyone, decide for yourself what Dinh&amp;#39;s post &amp;quot;pointed out,&amp;quot; basically or otherwise.  The Dream Gazette&amp;#39;s encapsulation of Dinh here, and the characterization of it by Abramson in the essay linked to by Ron&amp;#39;s list, strips Dinh&amp;#39;s Harriet blog post of its thorns, barbs, its spit-on-that-reality energy.  That&amp;#39</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/3154470628621653730'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/3154470628621653730'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html?showComment=1271188393475#c3154470628621653730' 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/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4597852761935944141' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4597852761935944141' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 13, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1756393597440271269</id><published>2010-04-13T11:46:22.922-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-13T11:46:22.922-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Rebecca, Your comments are so interesting.. I do t...</title><summary type='text'>Rebecca, Your comments are so interesting.. I do think that there&amp;#39;s a level of compartmentalization that is historically unprecedented, because of the factors you mentioned.. the NY School and the SF scene (Spicer promoted painters) were curious within close proximity of other genre .. and that goes back to when all the artists were crammed together in Paris and Berlin and before, as Olson </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/1756393597440271269'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/1756393597440271269'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html?showComment=1271173582922#c1756393597440271269' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</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/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4597852761935944141' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4597852761935944141' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 13, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4260276700896589683</id><published>2010-04-13T11:21:23.007-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-13T11:21:23.007-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The thing that disturbs me about the MFA marketpla...</title><summary type='text'>The thing that disturbs me about the MFA marketplace is the inequality it highlights in the American educational system. An MFA is very much a degree that only the privileged can afford. I have nothing against people spending a few years reading and talking about poetry and nothing else. And a lot of poets who teach in MFA programs are wonderful, generous people. But while we&amp;#39;re squabbling </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/4260276700896589683'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/4260276700896589683'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html?showComment=1271172083007#c4260276700896589683' title=''/><author><name>Annandale Dream Gazette</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08155953951163636760</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/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4597852761935944141' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4597852761935944141' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1293329833"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 13, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7373469587556933979</id><published>2010-04-13T09:20:51.454-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-13T09:20:51.454-04:00</updated><title type='text'>well&#xa;pardon me&#xa;but &#xa;where DID the creative artist/...</title><summary type='text'>well&lt;br /&gt;pardon me&lt;br /&gt;but &lt;br /&gt;where DID the creative artist/poet go?  that artist/poet who stands outside of  / apart from&lt;br /&gt;the cliches of his-her culture born into?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I mean uh-tell-you that&lt;br /&gt;these formerly acceptable academic approaches are no longer (and maybe have never been) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a serviceable means of reaching any valued primal reality OR / AND &lt;br /&gt;any </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/7373469587556933979'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/7373469587556933979'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html?showComment=1271164851454#c7373469587556933979' title=''/><author><name>Ed Baker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/S6Kfnd1TdqI/AAAAAAAAALw/ekFALfY5tzI/S220/Ed+Sept+2009++photo+by+Jan+Perlman'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4597852761935944141' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4597852761935944141' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 13, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3802368237000274724</id><published>2010-04-13T03:23:43.741-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-13T03:23:43.741-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Even the best MFA programs tend to end up with 90 ...</title><summary type='text'>Even the best MFA programs tend to end up with 90 percent of their students quitting writing a year after graduation (Cornell&amp;#39;s stats).   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;St. Marks Poetry Project seems to have had a higher percentage of winners in its instructors than all but a very few graduate programs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Someone commented in defense of MFA programs over moving to a major cultural center was that</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/3802368237000274724'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/3802368237000274724'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html?showComment=1271143423741#c3802368237000274724' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4597852761935944141' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4597852761935944141' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-328297626"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 13, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-810115100394084985</id><published>2010-04-12T23:01:15.972-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-12T23:01:15.972-04:00</updated><title type='text'>PS&#xa;&#xa;&amp;quot;...[you] have shared your opinions of th...</title><summary type='text'>PS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;...[you] have shared your opinions of the MFA resulting in &lt;b&gt;Seth Abramson&amp;#39;s response that &lt;em&gt;people who couldn&amp;#39;t afford college&lt;/em&gt; are not enfranchised to criticize it on account of their &amp;#39;ignorance,&amp;#39;&lt;/b&gt; an implication that representatives of higher education are supposed to make with more subtlety.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;I would also venture to guess </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/810115100394084985'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/810115100394084985'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html?showComment=1271127675972#c810115100394084985' title=''/><author><name>Seth Abramson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08059849202129580100</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/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4597852761935944141' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4597852761935944141' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-11614668"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 12, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3760191454289459074</id><published>2010-04-12T22:59:17.149-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-12T22:59:17.149-04:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>This comment has been removed by the author.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/3760191454289459074'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/3760191454289459074'/><author><name>Seth Abramson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08059849202129580100</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/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4597852761935944141' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4597852761935944141' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-11614668"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 12, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4220651294086587228</id><published>2010-04-12T22:57:03.613-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-12T22:57:03.613-04:00</updated><title type='text'>@mouseworks&#xa;&#xa;FWIW -- and believe me, I don&amp;#39;t t...</title><summary type='text'>@mouseworks&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FWIW -- and believe me, I don&amp;#39;t take rankings to be the be-all and end-all -- Virginia Tech is one of the top 25 most selective MFA programs in the U.S., and its poetry program is ranked 11th nationally (about the same ranking University of California at Irvine has in fiction). I have a former student now in the program and I can tell you he&amp;#39;s talented as all hell. </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/4220651294086587228'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/4220651294086587228'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html?showComment=1271127423613#c4220651294086587228' title=''/><author><name>Seth Abramson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08059849202129580100</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/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4597852761935944141' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4597852761935944141' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-11614668"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 12, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5689870709485141337</id><published>2010-04-12T21:47:38.382-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-12T21:47:38.382-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Hickok was hired after I looked at who was teachin...</title><summary type='text'>Hickok was hired after I looked at who was teaching there (when I looked at the MFA program there, they had an advertisement for a major poet).  He&amp;#39;s still someone who doesn&amp;#39;t have the name recognition that Giovanni has.   Virginia Tech is still not a school where first rate students are going to show up.  I wouldn&amp;#39;t have heard of him except for your mention of him.  So Giovanni, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/5689870709485141337'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/5689870709485141337'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html?showComment=1271123258382#c5689870709485141337' title=''/><author><name>Anonymous</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/blank.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4597852761935944141' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4597852761935944141' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-328297626"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 12, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5390977690661189814</id><published>2010-04-12T20:52:31.714-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-12T20:52:31.714-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Seth, My point was that you were specifically resp...</title><summary type='text'>Seth, My point was that you were specifically responding to Ron and Linh, saying that they hadn&amp;#39;t the frame of reference to criticize the MFAs.  Regarding the other statement of yours I cited, I agreed with you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have no interest in debating whether you were right to read things in to what I said or whether you put words in my mouth, but it sincerely didn&amp;#39;t cross my mind to </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/5390977690661189814'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/5390977690661189814'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html?showComment=1271119951714#c5390977690661189814' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</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/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4597852761935944141' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4597852761935944141' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 12, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3201348649643115302</id><published>2010-04-12T20:47:10.291-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-12T20:47:10.291-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Do the collected bric-a-bracs of ...a Creeley, or ...</title><summary type='text'>Do the collected bric-a-bracs of ...a Creeley, or the PC theatrics of Waldman--dozens of &amp;#39;em-- add up to, say,  Faulkner&amp;#39;s As I lay Dying?  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(hint: nyet ...)</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/3201348649643115302'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/3201348649643115302'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html?showComment=1271119630291#c3201348649643115302' title=''/><author><name>J</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='33' height='28' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_95DiS_tm2Gs/S773QWeLgAI/AAAAAAAABAc/BOBhtrm77HQ/S220/th_dice.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4597852761935944141' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4597852761935944141' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1512031455"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 12, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-127462852565009498</id><published>2010-04-12T15:48:13.233-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-12T15:48:13.233-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I&amp;#39;m glad somebody else noticed the obnoxious s...</title><summary type='text'>I&amp;#39;m glad somebody else noticed the obnoxious stupidity of Adam Fieled&amp;#39;s Four Quartets essay over at the Argotist. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mark</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/127462852565009498'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/127462852565009498'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html?showComment=1271101693233#c127462852565009498' 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/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4597852761935944141' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4597852761935944141' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-956570955"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 12, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-109182891729549281</id><published>2010-04-12T15:35:40.042-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-12T15:35:40.042-04:00</updated><title type='text'>@mouseworks&#xa;&#xa;Nobody&amp;#39;s heard of Bob Hicok?&#xa;&#xa;@Ia...</title><summary type='text'>@mouseworks&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nobody&amp;#39;s heard of Bob Hicok?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;@Ian&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not sure how you got from what I wrote that &amp;quot;people who couldn&amp;#39;t afford college are not enfranchised to criticize [MFAs] on account of their &amp;#39;ignorance,&amp;#39;&amp;quot; as in fact the primary point of the essay was that dozens of MFA programs are &lt;em&gt;free&lt;/em&gt; (and many do not require a B.A. for admission, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/109182891729549281'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/109182891729549281'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html?showComment=1271100940042#c109182891729549281' title=''/><author><name>Seth Abramson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08059849202129580100</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/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4597852761935944141' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4597852761935944141' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-11614668"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 12, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7562006099677370550</id><published>2010-04-12T15:05:51.766-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-12T15:05:51.766-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Hey Bok!&#xa;&#xa;what did you expect?&#xa;you might as well s...</title><summary type='text'>Hey Bok!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;what did you expect?&lt;br /&gt;you might as well save the day up there...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the next (2011) AWP gonna be here...&lt;br /&gt;http://www.awpwriter.org/conference/2011awpconf.php&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you can stay here and walk to the event.. or better still... just walk&lt;br /&gt;on by  go to a (free) museum on The Mall ot to The Library of Congress or &lt;br /&gt;to Congress it s-self!&lt;br /&gt;and&lt;br /&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/7562006099677370550'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/7562006099677370550'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html?showComment=1271099151766#c7562006099677370550' title=''/><author><name>Ed Baker</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/S6Kfnd1TdqI/AAAAAAAAALw/ekFALfY5tzI/S220/Ed+Sept+2009++photo+by+Jan+Perlman'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4597852761935944141' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4597852761935944141' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 12, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9205149025991669216</id><published>2010-04-12T13:44:30.597-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-12T13:44:30.597-04:00</updated><title type='text'>This MFA culture evolved out of Iowa, and whatever...</title><summary type='text'>This MFA culture evolved out of Iowa, and whatever the diverse intentions of its growth resulting in thousands of uniform poet-professors that would have been philologists 70 years ago, it has succeeded at limiting the social effect of poetry after the book banning and indecency trials of previous eras backfired.  You and Linh Dinh are worlds apart stylistically and politically, but both of you </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/9205149025991669216'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/9205149025991669216'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html?showComment=1271094270597#c9205149025991669216' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</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/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4597852761935944141' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4597852761935944141' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 12, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1889338650870325330</id><published>2010-04-12T13:43:12.977-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-12T13:43:12.977-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I did like Gillian Conoley&amp;#39;s piece for, among ...</title><summary type='text'>I did like Gillian Conoley&amp;#39;s piece for, among other things, her rationalization for her MFA and the overall perspective she brings to what she&amp;#39;s experiencing.  Most of all, I&amp;#39;m not aware that the so-called &amp;quot;hate parade against the Language Poets&amp;quot; was referred to publicly anywhere else.  Whoever is saying these things, they don&amp;#39;t feel the need to say them publicly, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/1889338650870325330'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/1889338650870325330'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html?showComment=1271094192977#c1889338650870325330' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</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/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4597852761935944141' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4597852761935944141' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 12, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3032656885542701368</id><published>2010-04-12T12:14:15.163-04:00</published><updated>2010-04-12T12:14:15.163-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanks for all these links. &#xa;&#xa;I especially enjoyed...</title><summary type='text'>Thanks for all these links. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I especially enjoyed learning, in the linked-to post on &lt;i&gt;Trout Fishing in American&lt;/i&gt;, that astronaut Jack Schmitt (second-to-last person to walk on the moon) named a crater after a character in Brautigan&amp;#39;s book!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://the-moon.wikispaces.com/Shorty&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Click here to see a photo of the crater!&lt;/a&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/3032656885542701368'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/4597852761935944141/comments/default/3032656885542701368'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html?showComment=1271088855163#c3032656885542701368' 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/2010/04/video-on-aftermath-of-bombing-of-iraqs.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4597852761935944141' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/4597852761935944141' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 12, 2010"/></entry></feed>