<?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.post551663162539444825..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/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/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>42</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8136520346321476794</id><published>2010-01-02T16:42:23.883-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-02T16:42:23.883-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Dear Mr. Silliman,&#xa;New Year&amp;#39;s Day, 2010. My so...</title><summary type='text'>Dear Mr. Silliman,&lt;br /&gt;New Year&amp;#39;s Day, 2010. My son calls from Glasgow where he lives with his wife. We speak, like Janus, of the year before and the year to come. Among other things he mentions your blog and the ensuing comments about his father, my late husband, Paul Blackburn. I do not do blogs, and you have the dubouus distinction of sponsoring the first blog I have ever responded to, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/8136520346321476794'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/8136520346321476794'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html?showComment=1262468543883#c8136520346321476794' title=''/><author><name>Joan Blackburn</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05069436382070199467</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/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-551663162539444825' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/551663162539444825' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-15046931"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 02, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8747416954425215346</id><published>2009-12-16T11:19:51.532-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-16T11:19:51.532-05:00</updated><title type='text'>This whole comment thread reminds me of what happe...</title><summary type='text'>This whole comment thread reminds me of what happened when Roger Ebert broke his anonymity: http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/08/my_name_is_roger_and_im_an_alc.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;m a sober poet too. That doesn&amp;#39;t mean I&amp;#39;m happy everyday, but it does simplify my life in some ways. It also has helped me make invaluable connection with friends with other serious diseases - HIV, Crone&amp;#</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/8747416954425215346'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/8747416954425215346'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html?showComment=1260980391532#c8747416954425215346' title=''/><author><name>sophie klahr</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17661038047591907166</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='15' src='http://bp3.blogger.com/_7RCC9R7UKR0/SB0zaTNbgRI/AAAAAAAAABo/88NX0OvUFAQ/S220/may1st3.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-551663162539444825' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/551663162539444825' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-74947694"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 16, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3090720620700743576</id><published>2009-12-14T10:45:09.664-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-14T10:45:09.664-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&amp;quot;Better to read Dylan Thomas than be Dylan Ma...</title><summary type='text'>&amp;quot;Better to read Dylan Thomas than be Dylan Marlais Thomas RIP,&amp;quot; was my thought; and it is often my thought when I see his morning after the night before photos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I packed up a smelly stressful depressing unhealthy smoking habit more than 20 years ago; and curiously when I did so the craving for an accompanying drink disappeared with it. It was as if these two habits were </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/3090720620700743576'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/3090720620700743576'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html?showComment=1260805509664#c3090720620700743576' title=''/><author><name>Poet in Residence</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03305768121713053837</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ziEZ2Nqeh7g/SXCr8xsBDXI/AAAAAAAAAEo/eZ8Cg6y03Ho/S220/IMG_0040.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-551663162539444825' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/551663162539444825' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1401644336"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 14, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6734430331622828062</id><published>2009-12-11T11:09:09.843-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-11T11:09:09.843-05:00</updated><title type='text'>there was a time way back in the early days of thi...</title><summary type='text'>there was a time way back in the early days of this blog where someone used the metaphor of the pub talk pub cyber talk and it bore some of the likeness to that a lot of wild ribald even uneven emotion and emotionalism and some intense engagement minds tinged with rawness and grist...perhaps now the discussion is more like an ongoing classroom discussion maybe with coffee and tea but not much </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/6734430331622828062'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/6734430331622828062'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html?showComment=1260547749843#c6734430331622828062' title=''/><author><name>jh</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10043530995274885830</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='14' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GGxzozVkZvg/SoNWqdZHBoI/AAAAAAAAAAM/IGjF8tvmWwg/S220/sculpture_crop2%5B1%5D.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-551663162539444825' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/551663162539444825' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1850634495"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 11, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2465346134177625943</id><published>2009-12-11T10:18:26.454-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-11T10:18:26.454-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I&amp;#39;m a lifelong non-drinker and the comments ar...</title><summary type='text'>I&amp;#39;m a lifelong non-drinker and the comments are always, &amp;quot;You&amp;#39;re a poet - how can you not drink?&amp;quot;  The stereotype runs very deep and people assume that the poetry comes from the alcohol - maybe because everybody feels they are more poetic when they&amp;#39;re drunk.  I don&amp;#39;t know, obviously.  And most disappointingly to me, Canadian poet Al Purdy once said that he would never sit</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/2465346134177625943'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/2465346134177625943'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html?showComment=1260544706454#c2465346134177625943' title=''/><author><name>Jocko Benoit</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01534103570000604134</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/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-551663162539444825' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/551663162539444825' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-955373932"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 11, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4176620001662366297</id><published>2009-12-11T08:23:49.280-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-11T08:23:49.280-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism</title><summary type='text'>Intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/4176620001662366297'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/4176620001662366297'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html?showComment=1260537829280#c4176620001662366297' title=''/><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/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-551663162539444825' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/551663162539444825' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 11, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8005797570085880974</id><published>2009-12-11T05:56:56.996-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-11T05:56:56.996-05:00</updated><title type='text'>It&amp;#39;s interesting to see the variety of opinion...</title><summary type='text'>It&amp;#39;s interesting to see the variety of opinions about this.  There are the expected ones that are part and parcel of society&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;enablement&amp;quot;.  Oddly enough...we see individuals as enablers but never whole societies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What gives?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My experience with AA was that it was clearly established at meetings that the &amp;quot;higher power&amp;quot; could be anything a person </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/8005797570085880974'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/8005797570085880974'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html?showComment=1260529016996#c8005797570085880974' title=''/><author><name>Meg</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11023871171456340729</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_uYCDfb2QGz8/SeB3B8MTI5I/AAAAAAAAAm4/rWoHodRohJA/S220/arco+iris.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-551663162539444825' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/551663162539444825' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2000124934"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 11, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8691943786127209052</id><published>2009-12-10T20:59:24.768-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T20:59:24.768-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Thank you for your wonderful post and congratulati...</title><summary type='text'>Thank you for your wonderful post and congratulations on your length of sobriety, Ron. I appreciate your good words for AA. Sorry to say, but a good number of those young folks in writing programs and open readings do indeed think that their lives as poets are not legitimate unless they live what they regard as the &amp;quot;authentic&amp;quot; style of a Kerouac, a Bukowski, an O&amp;#39;Hara. True enough </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/8691943786127209052'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/8691943786127209052'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html?showComment=1260496764768#c8691943786127209052' title=''/><author><name>Ted Burke</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16610296721891201100</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='19' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_C89YLyBFNJ0/ScOlFsNlqiI/AAAAAAAACKY/nr0_xDYD8uU/S220/DSCF2074.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-551663162539444825' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/551663162539444825' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1368526798"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 10, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-59844904471731473</id><published>2009-12-10T20:14:31.950-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T20:14:31.950-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Dargle,&#xa;&#xa;I&amp;#39;m quite fine with drinking and drug...</title><summary type='text'>Dargle,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;m quite fine with drinking and drugs and even getting fucked up. I do it on occasion for recreational purposes. What I object to, in my own behavior (everyone else can do what they want) is when I push recreation in self-destruction). I think there&amp;#39;s a distinction. Though, if anyone wants to drink/drug themselves to death, it&amp;#39;s certainly their right to do so.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/59844904471731473'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/59844904471731473'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html?showComment=1260494071950#c59844904471731473' 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://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ORlp3tVHPQY/SZi-2BCS_4I/AAAAAAAAAEs/zROuteVffYM/S220/l_55b898221b4f402ab32ac0aa6970792a.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-551663162539444825' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/551663162539444825' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1091123171"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 10, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3719602498995586448</id><published>2009-12-10T19:32:17.148-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T19:32:17.148-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, congratulations to you. Many many happy retur...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, congratulations to you. Many many happy returns of this day. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That&amp;#39;s all I had really wanted to say, but I started glancing through the comments and I saw Clayton&amp;#39;s remarks about Paul Blackburn going to pieces after his breakup with Sarah. I want to say that his statements are very OFFBASE. Sure, as Paul amply documented in his JOURNALS, he went nuts that summer in 1966. </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/3719602498995586448'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/3719602498995586448'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html?showComment=1260491537148#c3719602498995586448' title=''/><author><name>Bobby Byrd</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17990783036661848472</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='23' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_n2Wex_QRk70/SsP0EponqaI/AAAAAAAAA78/2MnshxkUOLY/S220/bb%40lumenbrite+by+CesarIvan+(2).jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-551663162539444825' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/551663162539444825' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1846872364"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 10, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6421994332407663465</id><published>2009-12-10T19:03:23.634-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T19:03:23.634-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Sorry, J, about the typo(s) in my comment, which c...</title><summary type='text'>Sorry, J, about the typo(s) in my comment, which changed your &amp;quot;phunn&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;punn.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I sometimes believe my middle name ought to be &amp;quot;Typo.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That&amp;#39;s in part why &lt;a href=&quot;http://stevenfama.blogspot.com/2008/12/newwords.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;I flipped so high and hard, in a good way, over the collection of poems, published last year, titled &lt;i&gt;The </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/6421994332407663465'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/6421994332407663465'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html?showComment=1260489803634#c6421994332407663465' 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/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-551663162539444825' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/551663162539444825' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 10, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5271148343575655135</id><published>2009-12-10T18:36:24.263-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T18:36:24.263-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Cherry flavored Jell-o&#xa;outsells&#xa;&#xa;poetry&#xa;and alcoho...</title><summary type='text'>Cherry flavored Jell-o&lt;br /&gt;outsells&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;poetry&lt;br /&gt;and alcohol.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Owls&lt;br /&gt;pee.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/5271148343575655135'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/5271148343575655135'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html?showComment=1260488184263#c5271148343575655135' title=''/><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/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-551663162539444825' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/551663162539444825' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 10, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2772484963210685098</id><published>2009-12-10T16:35:54.100-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T16:35:54.100-05:00</updated><title type='text'>J:&#xa;&#xa;&amp;quot;Disingenuous&amp;quot;?&#xa;&#xa;How so?&#xa;&#xa;The point ...</title><summary type='text'>J:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;Disingenuous&amp;quot;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How so?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The point is that there is no necessary connection between substance abuse and creativity.  That&amp;#39;s all I was saying.  For a long time, people tried to suggest that there was some kind of inspiration in the bottle, that booze and the imagination were twin poles of some ideal kind of access to artistic activity (production).</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/2772484963210685098'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/2772484963210685098'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html?showComment=1260480954100#c2772484963210685098' 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/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-551663162539444825' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/551663162539444825' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 10, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4609791129238802075</id><published>2009-12-10T16:18:06.758-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T16:18:06.758-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Frat-boy Nietzscheanism might be considered part o...</title><summary type='text'>Frat-boy Nietzscheanism might be considered part of the problem, along with Boozeco (though Nietzsche actually made some comments against the beer-swillers of his era, did he not, as exemplifying the er, f&amp;#39;edup-edness of the germanic spirit)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(and that was &amp;quot;phunn&amp;quot;, and Mr. J.).</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/4609791129238802075'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/4609791129238802075'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html?showComment=1260479886758#c4609791129238802075' 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/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-551663162539444825' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/551663162539444825' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1512031455"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 10, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7975505565227557254</id><published>2009-12-10T14:57:31.241-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T14:57:31.241-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The last part of the comment by &amp;quot;J&amp;quot; -- w...</title><summary type='text'>The last part of the comment by &amp;quot;J&amp;quot; -- where he/she mentions that booze is a part of college-town &amp;quot;punn&amp;quot; reminds me that in addition to the the self-medicating possiblities with substances vis-a-vis mental health conditions that might otherwise cause harm to someone - - &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;getting fucked up (altering consciousness) can be fun and probably the desire to alter </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/7975505565227557254'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/7975505565227557254'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html?showComment=1260475051241#c7975505565227557254' 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/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-551663162539444825' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/551663162539444825' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 10, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2243702978946911456</id><published>2009-12-10T14:20:54.189-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T14:20:54.189-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Mr Sillyman, I think, reading some of these goody ...</title><summary type='text'>Mr Sillyman, I think, reading some of these goody goody responses to your costumed helter skelter bottle battles, you must be thinking, &amp;quot;what a prick I am to come off like this, to shine a light so bright on my own good deeds for myself,&amp;quot; but likely you don&amp;#39;t. Maybe you do and this rejoicing is a puzzle. Whatever works for you is your plumbing but maybe you shouldn&amp;#39;t crow so </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/2243702978946911456'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/2243702978946911456'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html?showComment=1260472854189#c2243702978946911456' title=''/><author><name>Dargle Madge</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15944226522189452010</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/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-551663162539444825' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/551663162539444825' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1807496876"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 10, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8987019491076895542</id><published>2009-12-10T13:25:29.162-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T13:25:29.162-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Well many a great artiste--whether Baudelaire, or ...</title><summary type='text'>Well many a great artiste--whether Baudelaire, or Hendrix-- did partake of various recreational substances.   So a bit of opium might at times help with gettin&amp;#39; the creative juices flowin&amp;#39;. Heroin--it&amp;#39;s yr &lt;i&gt;right.&lt;/i&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But Mr Faville&amp;#39;s being slightly disingenuous by suggesting that the Lit-biz does not encourage the myth of the romantic writer or artist whose creative</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/8987019491076895542'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/8987019491076895542'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html?showComment=1260469529162#c8987019491076895542' 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/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-551663162539444825' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/551663162539444825' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1512031455"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 10, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6454855636418368013</id><published>2009-12-10T12:46:41.050-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T12:46:41.050-05:00</updated><title type='text'>yea...&#xa;addictions.&#xa;&#xa;you jus cant live with them&#xa;an...</title><summary type='text'>yea...&lt;br /&gt;addictions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;you jus cant live with them&lt;br /&gt;and &lt;br /&gt;you cant live without them&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;what was it that Confucius&lt;br /&gt;sd?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;a little ine makes wise-men of us all&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;now&lt;br /&gt;a confession:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I got &amp;quot;hooked&amp;quot; and am a Golf Addict&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;all this due to my inability to get my little white balls&lt;br /&gt;into all them flagged</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/6454855636418368013'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/6454855636418368013'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html?showComment=1260467201050#c6454855636418368013' 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/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-551663162539444825' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/551663162539444825' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 10, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8588416441166092327</id><published>2009-12-10T12:12:48.234-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T12:12:48.234-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&amp;quot;The trick is always the same.&amp;quot;&#xa;&#xa;Your us...</title><summary type='text'>&amp;quot;The trick is always the same.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your use of the word &amp;quot;trick&amp;quot; proves that there is no such thing as alcoholism and that global warming is a myth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But seriously, your post is powerful and welcome on all kinds of levels. Much appreciated...</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/8588416441166092327'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/8588416441166092327'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html?showComment=1260465168234#c8588416441166092327' 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/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-551663162539444825' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/551663162539444825' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1148938945"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 10, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6435722988572538431</id><published>2009-12-10T12:10:27.509-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T12:10:27.509-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Individual nonbelievers are not welcome in recover...</title><summary type='text'>Individual nonbelievers are not welcome in recovery programs which are cult like and only add further stress to people who are probably using to erase the stigma of their &amp;quot;sins.&amp;quot; They are better off reading Nietzsche and Camus!</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/6435722988572538431'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/6435722988572538431'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html?showComment=1260465027509#c6435722988572538431' title=''/><author><name>Mary Jo Malo</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18148588310769074332</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/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-551663162539444825' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/551663162539444825' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1737322265"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 10, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3009572825101833832</id><published>2009-12-10T12:06:33.332-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T12:06:33.332-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I still get poetry students who point to Bukowski ...</title><summary type='text'>I still get poetry students who point to Bukowski as the way.  Then I think of that Modest Mouse song where it goes, yeah, Bukowski is a pretty good read, &amp;quot;But who would want to be such an asshole.&amp;quot;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your blog--its clear-headedness--has had a considerable influence on how I think about poetry, poetics, and art. To 25 more years...</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/3009572825101833832'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/3009572825101833832'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html?showComment=1260464793332#c3009572825101833832' title=''/><author><name>Name: Matthew Guenette</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06901074740673802260</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/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-551663162539444825' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/551663162539444825' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-188382328"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 10, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8894360790796181993</id><published>2009-12-10T12:01:34.513-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T12:01:34.513-05:00</updated><title type='text'>ron, this is a powerful/moving post. i am a young ...</title><summary type='text'>ron, this is a powerful/moving post. i am a young poet and have for the most part stayd away from alcohol and drugs thus far.  have been ridiculed because i am a writer and i &amp;quot;don&amp;#39;t have a vice.&amp;quot;  you make me a little more confident that it&amp;#39;s ok to be ok.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;thanks&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;warmly,&lt;br /&gt;steve</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/8894360790796181993'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/8894360790796181993'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html?showComment=1260464494513#c8894360790796181993' title=''/><author><name>steve roggenbuck</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/18365298081050960605</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wzZYutaust4/SxAbwgjcYVI/AAAAAAAAACc/OPEPmsXa2AI/S220/JK171164_sq.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-551663162539444825' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/551663162539444825' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1356455361"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 10, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3602614983588676181</id><published>2009-12-10T12:00:16.082-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T12:00:16.082-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Congratulations, Ron!  It&amp;#39;s good read your sto...</title><summary type='text'>Congratulations, Ron!  It&amp;#39;s good read your story.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I also appreciate Ed Baker&amp;#39;s comments.  My dad has emphysema and over the past 20 months he has had two brain operations, radiation &amp;amp; chemotherapy to treat the small cell lung cancer and bladder cancer that resulted from 40+ years of smoking.  He is 75 now and could be enjoying life, breathing normal, walking without aid, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/3602614983588676181'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/3602614983588676181'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html?showComment=1260464416082#c3602614983588676181' title=''/><author><name>speterme</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17055890133721456106</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/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-551663162539444825' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/551663162539444825' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1987501952"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 10, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7070442059224975246</id><published>2009-12-10T11:57:08.606-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T11:57:08.606-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Alcoholism and substance abuse are in people of al...</title><summary type='text'>Alcoholism and substance abuse are in people of all avocations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For people with creative avocations, the self-destructive part seems sometimes to arise from self-medicating for depression or bi-polar condition.  And there is a relationship between at least the latter mental health condition and a certain kind of creativity.  See Kay Redfield Jameson&amp;#39;s &lt;i&gt;Touched By Fire&lt;/i&gt;.  Such</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/7070442059224975246'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/7070442059224975246'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html?showComment=1260464228606#c7070442059224975246' 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/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-551663162539444825' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/551663162539444825' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 10, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3811191948573876618</id><published>2009-12-10T11:45:31.447-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-10T11:45:31.447-05:00</updated><title type='text'>.&#xa;AA&#xa;&#xa;&#xa;I’m not going to say what I’m supposed to s...</title><summary type='text'>.&lt;br /&gt;AA&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’m not going to say what I’m supposed to say&lt;br /&gt;because I’m a poet and a drunkard&lt;br /&gt;and I’ve always been that way. I’m not proud.&lt;br /&gt;I’ll say: “Hello…”&lt;br /&gt;I’ll say: “My name is Gary…”&lt;br /&gt;But what I want to say, I will, too loud, that is&lt;br /&gt;that I’m the guy who sits in the very last pew&lt;br /&gt;every few years when I go to church.&lt;br /&gt;The one who’s never seen</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/3811191948573876618'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/551663162539444825/comments/default/3811191948573876618'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html?showComment=1260463531447#c3811191948573876618' title=''/><author><name>Gary B. Fitzgerald</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17919492445467135425</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jd60l7fjpIE/SWUBq9hPgcI/AAAAAAAAAAM/DUpzzvPlxb8/S220/kitty.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-december-10-2004-i-posted-note-below.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-551663162539444825' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/551663162539444825' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1865147512"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 10, 2009"/></entry></feed>