<?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.post5311920008146427714..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/3738579/5311920008146427714/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/other-day-when-i-compared-ca-conrad.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>18</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7113393872844271669</id><published>2010-02-01T16:44:56.926-05:00</published><updated>2010-02-01T16:44:56.926-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I love CA. I have found my few meetings with him t...</title><summary type='text'>I love CA. I have found my few meetings with him to be joyful. Book of Frank is a treasure.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5311920008146427714/comments/default/7113393872844271669'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5311920008146427714/comments/default/7113393872844271669'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/other-day-when-i-compared-ca-conrad.html?showComment=1265060696926#c7113393872844271669' title=''/><author><name>Jennifer Bartlett</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15931457867406555423</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/other-day-when-i-compared-ca-conrad.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5311920008146427714' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5311920008146427714' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-547270347"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="February 01, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2234759956840325596</id><published>2010-01-30T19:44:35.503-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-30T19:44:35.503-05:00</updated><title type='text'>That Conrad has never received a Pew is one of the...</title><summary type='text'>That Conrad has never received a Pew is one of the great injustices in this world.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5311920008146427714/comments/default/2234759956840325596'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5311920008146427714/comments/default/2234759956840325596'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/other-day-when-i-compared-ca-conrad.html?showComment=1264898675503#c2234759956840325596' title=''/><author><name>Minor American</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11479733049496723149</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/_W1Q3mX5W0X0/SK3RdZCsUFI/AAAAAAAAABY/Px0i3SlGEqE/S220/Photo+53.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/other-day-when-i-compared-ca-conrad.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5311920008146427714' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5311920008146427714' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-157300565"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 30, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8794332692613616622</id><published>2010-01-30T15:23:09.481-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-30T15:23:09.481-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Take it from me. CAConrad- a friend to have when y...</title><summary type='text'>Take it from me. CAConrad- a friend to have when you&amp;#39;re dying. Thanks again, companero!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5311920008146427714/comments/default/8794332692613616622'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5311920008146427714/comments/default/8794332692613616622'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/other-day-when-i-compared-ca-conrad.html?showComment=1264882989481#c8794332692613616622' title=''/><author><name>Frank</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03942451616567857427</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/other-day-when-i-compared-ca-conrad.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5311920008146427714' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5311920008146427714' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-919852102"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 30, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8954193357960348915</id><published>2010-01-30T01:55:52.371-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-30T01:55:52.371-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Fantastic reading. &amp;quot;Did you wash your crows? ...</title><summary type='text'>Fantastic reading. &amp;quot;Did you wash your crows? Did you wash your filthy stinkin&amp;#39; crows?&amp;quot; I love it!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5311920008146427714/comments/default/8954193357960348915'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5311920008146427714/comments/default/8954193357960348915'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/other-day-when-i-compared-ca-conrad.html?showComment=1264834552371#c8954193357960348915' 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/other-day-when-i-compared-ca-conrad.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5311920008146427714' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5311920008146427714' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1685508273"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 30, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5075057837681455767</id><published>2010-01-29T23:21:45.592-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-29T23:21:45.592-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thank you again.&#xa;&#xa;Everyone keeps asking where I am...</title><summary type='text'>Thank you again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everyone keeps asking where I am in the video.  It&amp;#39;s my favorite rooftop in Philadelphia, where I like to go to watch the sunset, and write poems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have a great weekend,&lt;br /&gt;CAConrad</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5311920008146427714/comments/default/5075057837681455767'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5311920008146427714/comments/default/5075057837681455767'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/other-day-when-i-compared-ca-conrad.html?showComment=1264825305592#c5075057837681455767' title=''/><author><name>poet CAConrad</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13148611902772898013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vy9H2bBCxYk/SMaL6fmKV4I/AAAAAAAAAZE/n1EfTHmp830/S220/BIG+E.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/other-day-when-i-compared-ca-conrad.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5311920008146427714' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5311920008146427714' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-691277454"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 29, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1700154414030116058</id><published>2010-01-29T00:27:35.849-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-29T00:27:35.849-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I don&amp;#39;t understand the venue.&#xa;&#xa;Is he sitting o...</title><summary type='text'>I don&amp;#39;t understand the venue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is he sitting on a snow-drift?  It looks terrifically uncomfortable!  Wind blowing in his hair.  Philadelphia in the dead of Winter.  What a place.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5311920008146427714/comments/default/1700154414030116058'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5311920008146427714/comments/default/1700154414030116058'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/other-day-when-i-compared-ca-conrad.html?showComment=1264742855849#c1700154414030116058' 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/other-day-when-i-compared-ca-conrad.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5311920008146427714' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5311920008146427714' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 29, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8996236434219515257</id><published>2010-01-28T23:09:07.381-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-28T23:09:07.381-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Nice idea, not gonna happen. What buildings in the...</title><summary type='text'>Nice idea, not gonna happen. What buildings in the downtown area? Let&amp;#39;s be serious...</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5311920008146427714/comments/default/8996236434219515257'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5311920008146427714/comments/default/8996236434219515257'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/other-day-when-i-compared-ca-conrad.html?showComment=1264738147381#c8996236434219515257' 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/2010/01/other-day-when-i-compared-ca-conrad.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5311920008146427714' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5311920008146427714' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-956570955"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 28, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8816976232563978426</id><published>2010-01-28T19:20:26.721-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-28T19:20:26.721-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&amp;quot;Will there some day be a Conrad Institute in...</title><summary type='text'>&amp;quot;Will there some day be a Conrad Institute in downtown Philadelphia along the lines of the Franklin Institute?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kirby, with any luck, there&amp;#39;ll be something even better- Conrad&amp;#39;s Poetry Hotel: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Due to escalating rents making it impossible for poor and working class poets to move to the city and write, CAConrad will open the Philadelphia Poetry Hotel. The </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5311920008146427714/comments/default/8816976232563978426'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5311920008146427714/comments/default/8816976232563978426'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/other-day-when-i-compared-ca-conrad.html?showComment=1264724426721#c8816976232563978426' title=''/><author><name>Patrick Lucy</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05135255373023547101</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/other-day-when-i-compared-ca-conrad.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5311920008146427714' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5311920008146427714' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2104086813"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 28, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4685971396556653944</id><published>2010-01-28T19:03:46.432-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-28T19:03:46.432-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Yo CA Con-Philly, what sort of hat should Kirby O ...</title><summary type='text'>Yo CA Con-Philly, what sort of hat should Kirby O wear?--KO, quoter of Glenn Beck and Pat Robertson, born-again xtian, hater of the french, and surrealists (including Breton, tho&amp;#39; KO still keeps his pic on his bozoblog--for marketing purposes perhaps).  Maybe one one covered with tinfoil, or a  white hood, with like eyes cut out.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ciao</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5311920008146427714/comments/default/4685971396556653944'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5311920008146427714/comments/default/4685971396556653944'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/other-day-when-i-compared-ca-conrad.html?showComment=1264723426432#c4685971396556653944' 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/other-day-when-i-compared-ca-conrad.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5311920008146427714' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5311920008146427714' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1512031455"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 28, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3248614362183813312</id><published>2010-01-28T18:39:41.629-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-28T18:39:41.629-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Viva CA!&#xa;Who is hilarious&#xa;and passionately devoted...</title><summary type='text'>Viva CA!&lt;br /&gt;Who is hilarious&lt;br /&gt;and passionately devoted to social transformation&lt;br /&gt;to boot.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5311920008146427714/comments/default/3248614362183813312'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5311920008146427714/comments/default/3248614362183813312'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/other-day-when-i-compared-ca-conrad.html?showComment=1264721981629#c3248614362183813312' title=''/><author><name>Andy Gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04367834692026653431</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6k4HvGxKtyg/SVPBwJ5AtYI/AAAAAAAAACI/AIiTa7_THRM/S220/Shadow+Head.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/other-day-when-i-compared-ca-conrad.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5311920008146427714' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5311920008146427714' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1668048852"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 28, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6272962947745605658</id><published>2010-01-28T18:02:37.277-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-28T18:02:37.277-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Well, as long as Allison Collins made the hat by h...</title><summary type='text'>Well, as long as Allison Collins made the hat by hand out of fake fur, it seems fine.  I hope it&amp;#39;s warm.  The next two days are going to make Al Gore shiver.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Best wishes, Kirby</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5311920008146427714/comments/default/6272962947745605658'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5311920008146427714/comments/default/6272962947745605658'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/other-day-when-i-compared-ca-conrad.html?showComment=1264719757277#c6272962947745605658' 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/other-day-when-i-compared-ca-conrad.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5311920008146427714' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5311920008146427714' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 28, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4725955700320538386</id><published>2010-01-28T14:33:11.654-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-28T14:33:11.654-05:00</updated><title type='text'>THANKS RON!  THANKS EVERYONE!  MY GOODNESS!&#xa;&#xa;Oh, a...</title><summary type='text'>THANKS RON!  THANKS EVERYONE!  MY GOODNESS!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, and Kirby, the hat is fake fur, made by hand by my amazing artist friend &lt;a href=&quot;http://providenceartwindows.blogspot.com/2008/11/5-two-brothers-beauty-supply-at-eddy.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Allison Collins&lt;/a&gt; who is married to poet Greg Fuchs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OH, and I&amp;#39;m hard at work inventing a candy bar that makes straight men queer.  I&amp;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5311920008146427714/comments/default/4725955700320538386'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5311920008146427714/comments/default/4725955700320538386'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/other-day-when-i-compared-ca-conrad.html?showComment=1264707191654#c4725955700320538386' title=''/><author><name>poet CAConrad</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/13148611902772898013</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='21' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vy9H2bBCxYk/SMaL6fmKV4I/AAAAAAAAAZE/n1EfTHmp830/S220/BIG+E.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/other-day-when-i-compared-ca-conrad.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5311920008146427714' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5311920008146427714' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-691277454"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 28, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-798913816412637322</id><published>2010-01-28T12:41:28.035-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-28T12:41:28.035-05:00</updated><title type='text'>thanks for this clip.  my first &amp;quot;taste&amp;quot; ...</title><summary type='text'>thanks for this clip.  my first &amp;quot;taste&amp;quot; of CA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;good sounds/rhythms&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and his pauses and commentary   aside&lt;br /&gt;;sured punctuation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I still wouldn&amp;#39;t&lt;br /&gt;want &lt;br /&gt;to die in Philly &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(as WCFIELDS once said)  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;or here, either&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;yoursweatypartydress.    yoursweatypartydress&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;neat.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5311920008146427714/comments/default/798913816412637322'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5311920008146427714/comments/default/798913816412637322'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/other-day-when-i-compared-ca-conrad.html?showComment=1264700488035#c798913816412637322' 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/Sv8169iwWuI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/MzdIl_zrqtc/S220/edinstudio1998'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/other-day-when-i-compared-ca-conrad.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5311920008146427714' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5311920008146427714' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 28, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6385983182314361170</id><published>2010-01-28T11:39:29.823-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-28T11:39:29.823-05:00</updated><title type='text'>He would need to have a scientific side such as di...</title><summary type='text'>He would need to have a scientific side such as discovering electricity (is that what Franklin did is discover electricity?).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will there some day be a Conrad Institute in downtown Philadelphia along the lines of the Franklin Institute?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Franklin was also an ambassador to France where he was very popular with the ladies.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally, Franklin instituted a Poor Man&amp;#39</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5311920008146427714/comments/default/6385983182314361170'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5311920008146427714/comments/default/6385983182314361170'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/other-day-when-i-compared-ca-conrad.html?showComment=1264696769823#c6385983182314361170' 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/other-day-when-i-compared-ca-conrad.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5311920008146427714' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5311920008146427714' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 28, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4767354254801885268</id><published>2010-01-28T11:16:24.380-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-28T11:16:24.380-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I agree.</title><summary type='text'>I agree.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5311920008146427714/comments/default/4767354254801885268'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5311920008146427714/comments/default/4767354254801885268'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/other-day-when-i-compared-ca-conrad.html?showComment=1264695384380#c4767354254801885268' title=''/><author><name>Joseph Massey</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05981577788706579406</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/_tbKQJ2Kr5fE/SmxoVVvtiwI/AAAAAAAAADI/Mn6XTkuwvgE/S220/Billy+Fury+Sleeve+Face.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/other-day-when-i-compared-ca-conrad.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5311920008146427714' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5311920008146427714' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-213924934"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 28, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4133304914255121550</id><published>2010-01-28T10:09:56.641-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-28T10:09:56.641-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&amp;quot;Conrad holds no teaching position at any of ...</title><summary type='text'>&amp;quot;Conrad holds no teaching position at any of the region’s universities &amp;amp; has never received a Pew Fellowship or MacArthur, but is himself as crucial to the vitality of poetry here as any institution we have.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love this guy already!A people&amp;#39;s poet with no ties to academia or public monies.Whitmanesque and Dickinsonian both: true to his craft and fiercely proud of his</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5311920008146427714/comments/default/4133304914255121550'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5311920008146427714/comments/default/4133304914255121550'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/other-day-when-i-compared-ca-conrad.html?showComment=1264691396641#c4133304914255121550' title=''/><author><name>Conrad DiDiodato</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18312831623791642286</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_WYu0QSkXE9I/RrfUh0dvuKI/AAAAAAAAAA0/q66ZnGQXpSY/s400/IMG_0272.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/other-day-when-i-compared-ca-conrad.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5311920008146427714' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5311920008146427714' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-610431874"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 28, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-73852072757334180</id><published>2010-01-28T10:00:09.292-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-28T10:00:09.292-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ah, a little over four years ago, when I first mov...</title><summary type='text'>Ah, a little over four years ago, when I first moved to Philly from Atlanta, I was in a big bookstore off Rittenhouse Square, staring at its poetry section, hoping to find Tender Buttons. Not a whiff of Stein to be found. After a minute or so a man swooped in, asked if I needed anything. “Tryna find Tender Buttons,” I said. He immediately said it was not in stock, no way, but went on a hunch, I </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5311920008146427714/comments/default/73852072757334180'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5311920008146427714/comments/default/73852072757334180'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/other-day-when-i-compared-ca-conrad.html?showComment=1264690809292#c73852072757334180' title=''/><author><name>paul siegell</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04358833285371296498</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://phish.com/_content/viewers/thumbnails/viewer_189/20040811_6sm.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/other-day-when-i-compared-ca-conrad.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5311920008146427714' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5311920008146427714' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1410860524"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 28, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-103068909766272467</id><published>2010-01-28T00:26:04.162-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-28T00:26:04.162-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Conrad is incredible. He&amp;#39;s encouraged, support...</title><summary type='text'>Conrad is incredible. He&amp;#39;s encouraged, supported, and helped those of us in the New Philadelphia Poets SO much by helping us get great folks to read at events, plugging our events, attending them, inviting us to readings he puts on, reading our work...he&amp;#39;s very generous, very kind, and so supportive. Philly poetry, yr absolutely correct Ron, would not be what it is without him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5311920008146427714/comments/default/103068909766272467'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/5311920008146427714/comments/default/103068909766272467'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/other-day-when-i-compared-ca-conrad.html?showComment=1264656364162#c103068909766272467' title=''/><author><name>Matthew Landis</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01913278950823273657</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ORlp3tVHPQY/S0TxxUOohXI/AAAAAAAAAFo/JBoKx6SMj_w/S220/photo.jpeg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2010/01/other-day-when-i-compared-ca-conrad.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5311920008146427714' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/5311920008146427714' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1091123171"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 28, 2010"/></entry></feed>