<?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.post5218809978179505070..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/3738579/5218809978179505070/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/sometimes-i-forget-why-preppy-types.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-98423230986734275</id><published>2010-01-07T18:02:54.985-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-07T18:02:54.985-05:00</updated><title type='text'>But Herb Caen was not Mark Twain, let alone John A...</title><summary type='text'>&lt;i&gt;But Herb Caen was not Mark Twain, let alone John Ashbery. Caen’s work doesn’t date well and it doesn’t have much applicability beyond the market area of the Chron, which barely went east of Berkeley.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Right you are.  At times, Caen may have produced an F Scott Fitzgerald-ish sort of jazzy prose, but his columns were often dull, &amp;quot;insider&amp;quot; rants about minor squabbles and </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5218809978179505070/comments/default/98423230986734275'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5218809978179505070/comments/default/98423230986734275'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/sometimes-i-forget-why-preppy-types.html?showComment=1262905374985#c98423230986734275' 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='22' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_95DiS_tm2Gs/SwIGrtWoQtI/AAAAAAAAA38/-1CpkpbL_6s/S220/Spade.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/sometimes-i-forget-why-preppy-types.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5218809978179505070' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5218809978179505070' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1512031455"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 07, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1483278158370824729</id><published>2010-01-07T16:09:33.898-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-07T16:09:33.898-05:00</updated><title type='text'>A monkey dressed up and dancing may not mean to cr...</title><summary type='text'>A monkey dressed up and dancing may not mean to critique a professional (human) dancer, may be a good dancer nevertheless. Or, at least, a fascinating monkey.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5218809978179505070/comments/default/1483278158370824729'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5218809978179505070/comments/default/1483278158370824729'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/sometimes-i-forget-why-preppy-types.html?showComment=1262898573898#c1483278158370824729' title=''/><author><name>Glenn Ingersoll</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10674475308395975995</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_iMEmv6aWYmc/SUbr7qd5GII/AAAAAAAAAW0/VdzuqU-cysU/S220/GIandSundy.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/sometimes-i-forget-why-preppy-types.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5218809978179505070' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5218809978179505070' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-38984541"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 07, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-47433874688402602</id><published>2010-01-06T15:26:36.779-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-06T15:26:36.779-05:00</updated><title type='text'>That issue wasn&amp;#39;t about newspapers, it was abo...</title><summary type='text'>That issue wasn&amp;#39;t about newspapers, it was about the print medium. Success or non-success aside, I don&amp;#39;t think it was meant, oddly enough, to be a love letter to newspapers. Or to be a newspaper. Eggers has no newspaper publishing experience that I know of, aside from running Might and writing journalism. Am I wrong on that? I know it looks like a newspaper, but I think the newspaper form</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5218809978179505070/comments/default/47433874688402602'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5218809978179505070/comments/default/47433874688402602'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/sometimes-i-forget-why-preppy-types.html?showComment=1262809596779#c47433874688402602' title=''/><author><name>Max Winter</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04015402378429631819</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/2010/01/sometimes-i-forget-why-preppy-types.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5218809978179505070' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5218809978179505070' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1354347098"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 06, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2367279625043500667</id><published>2010-01-06T15:11:33.488-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-06T15:11:33.488-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I&amp;#39;m surprised that the Panorama is being plugg...</title><summary type='text'>I&amp;#39;m surprised that the Panorama is being plugged as a business model, just as I would&amp;#39;ve been surprised if the earlier issue of Mc&amp;#39;s Quarterly Concern that took the form of a bundle of junk mail had been intended as a model for mail-order companies. The Panorama is, after all, an issue of the Quarterly, a journal that&amp;#39;s always made a point of mimicking other formats.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5218809978179505070/comments/default/2367279625043500667'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5218809978179505070/comments/default/2367279625043500667'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/sometimes-i-forget-why-preppy-types.html?showComment=1262808693488#c2367279625043500667' title=''/><author><name>Cy Mathews</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03244437975709553222</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/_b4REVX6FKWI/SsgCjedVorI/AAAAAAAAAF4/cdRZQuD8NPU/S220/cy.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/sometimes-i-forget-why-preppy-types.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5218809978179505070' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5218809978179505070' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1685508273"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 06, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7267404087194518572</id><published>2010-01-06T12:43:05.428-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-06T12:43:05.428-05:00</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/3738579/5218809978179505070/comments/default/7267404087194518572'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5218809978179505070/comments/default/7267404087194518572'/><author><name>phaneronoemikon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_hLJ2N7ZOgD8/R6EJKLnXPdI/AAAAAAAAAS4/2kJ0hAZuqOs/S220/Ozilanniman.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/sometimes-i-forget-why-preppy-types.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5218809978179505070' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5218809978179505070' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 06, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8019287626419297633</id><published>2010-01-06T12:26:23.446-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-06T12:26:23.446-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Matt,&#xa;&#xa;I&amp;#39;ll think about it. Your site has been...</title><summary type='text'>Matt,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;ll think about it. Your site has been off the topic of poetry for awhile.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ron</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5218809978179505070/comments/default/8019287626419297633'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5218809978179505070/comments/default/8019287626419297633'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/sometimes-i-forget-why-preppy-types.html?showComment=1262798783446#c8019287626419297633' 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/2010/01/sometimes-i-forget-why-preppy-types.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5218809978179505070' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5218809978179505070' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 06, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5521509248721586872</id><published>2010-01-06T11:50:06.609-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-06T11:50:06.609-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Your analysis of the dubiousness of Panorama as a ...</title><summary type='text'>Your analysis of the dubiousness of &lt;i&gt;Panorama&lt;/i&gt; as a social or business model for a daily seems unassailable.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not to mention that cost-wise it&amp;#39;s sort of dubious even as a one-shot, although people are buying it (it&amp;#39;s currently on back-order).  McSweeney&amp;#39;s website charges $16 per issue, and recommends that customers use FedEx Ground  for shipping, no doubt due to the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5218809978179505070/comments/default/5521509248721586872'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5218809978179505070/comments/default/5521509248721586872'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/sometimes-i-forget-why-preppy-types.html?showComment=1262796606609#c5521509248721586872' 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/2010/01/sometimes-i-forget-why-preppy-types.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5218809978179505070' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5218809978179505070' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 06, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3564276944601814210</id><published>2010-01-06T11:31:47.733-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-06T11:31:47.733-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Wow, a lot of issues to cover here.&#xa;&#xa;I&amp;#39;ll take...</title><summary type='text'>Wow, a lot of issues to cover here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;ll take them one at a time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;McSweeney&amp;#39;s take on popular culture looks very much like an inspired teenager&amp;#39;s, perhaps like a Bill Gates jacking off in the upstairs bathroom while fantasizing about stand-alone CRT workstations of the future.  What a concept.  It&amp;#39;s hard to take their ersatz &amp;quot;newspaper&amp;quot; seriously, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5218809978179505070/comments/default/3564276944601814210'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5218809978179505070/comments/default/3564276944601814210'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/sometimes-i-forget-why-preppy-types.html?showComment=1262795507733#c3564276944601814210' 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/2010/01/sometimes-i-forget-why-preppy-types.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5218809978179505070' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5218809978179505070' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 06, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5747009818920430996</id><published>2010-01-06T09:56:10.399-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-06T09:56:10.399-05:00</updated><title type='text'>please take me off your blogroll. thanks.</title><summary type='text'>please take me off your blogroll. thanks.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5218809978179505070/comments/default/5747009818920430996'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5218809978179505070/comments/default/5747009818920430996'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/sometimes-i-forget-why-preppy-types.html?showComment=1262789770399#c5747009818920430996' title=''/><author><name>Matt</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00791420971869885860</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qSTexJoGYnQ/SXXMvQ7yRrI/AAAAAAAAAWs/iHgQG5bXM88/S220/Photo+8.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/sometimes-i-forget-why-preppy-types.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5218809978179505070' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5218809978179505070' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1864187319"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 06, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3985489047788679073</id><published>2010-01-06T09:09:15.787-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-06T09:09:15.787-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I love the smell of the morning paper.</title><summary type='text'>I love the smell of the morning paper.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5218809978179505070/comments/default/3985489047788679073'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5218809978179505070/comments/default/3985489047788679073'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/sometimes-i-forget-why-preppy-types.html?showComment=1262786955787#c3985489047788679073' 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/2010/01/sometimes-i-forget-why-preppy-types.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5218809978179505070' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5218809978179505070' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 06, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6231410340714793508</id><published>2010-01-06T08:21:05.433-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-06T08:21:05.433-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Michael Kinsley said it best, but I&amp;#39;ll still t...</title><summary type='text'>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/201001/short-writing&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Michael Kinsley said it best&lt;/a&gt;, but I&amp;#39;ll still try to say it better -- papers just need to spit it out.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5218809978179505070/comments/default/6231410340714793508'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5218809978179505070/comments/default/6231410340714793508'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/sometimes-i-forget-why-preppy-types.html?showComment=1262784065433#c6231410340714793508' title=''/><author><name>Jordan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10451174274596699645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://static.flickr.com/68/168671726_f87b53b572_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/sometimes-i-forget-why-preppy-types.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5218809978179505070' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5218809978179505070' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1484709122"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 06, 2010"/></entry></feed>