<?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.post7539818489170813342..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/3738579/7539818489170813342/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/singing-north-country-blues-1963-photo.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>5</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3710175734067713182</id><published>2007-12-13T11:06:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-13T11:06:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Regarding that article about dumbing down poetry, ...</title><summary type='text'>Regarding that article about dumbing down poetry, I just completed 4+ years of study in English Language Arts and Secondary Education, and to my awful distate I can attest that we are being insructed to &quot;dumb it down.&quot;  Of course, they don&#39;t call it that, they call it things like making accomodations and modifications, and I&#39;m not just talking about special ed, here.  I&#39;m talking about general </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7539818489170813342/comments/default/3710175734067713182'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7539818489170813342/comments/default/3710175734067713182'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/singing-north-country-blues-1963-photo.html?showComment=1197561960000#c3710175734067713182' title=''/><author><name>Talia</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12281634890880692552</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/2007/12/singing-north-country-blues-1963-photo.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7539818489170813342' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7539818489170813342' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-154465662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 13, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4888701624157512587</id><published>2007-12-12T18:47:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-12T18:47:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ike Turner just died...he did the first rock &#39;n&#39; r...</title><summary type='text'>Ike Turner just died...&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;he did the first rock &#39;n&#39; roll song  1951  Rocket 88&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Ed</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7539818489170813342/comments/default/4888701624157512587'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7539818489170813342/comments/default/4888701624157512587'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/singing-north-country-blues-1963-photo.html?showComment=1197503220000#c4888701624157512587' title=''/><author><name>Ed</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='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/2007/12/singing-north-country-blues-1963-photo.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7539818489170813342' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7539818489170813342' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 12, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5080336749053369749</id><published>2007-12-12T14:33:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-12T14:33:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>That&#39;s a fine anecdote about the lyrics in the poc...</title><summary type='text'>That&#39;s a fine anecdote about the lyrics in the pocket, Ron.  Thanks.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7539818489170813342/comments/default/5080336749053369749'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7539818489170813342/comments/default/5080336749053369749'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/singing-north-country-blues-1963-photo.html?showComment=1197487980000#c5080336749053369749' title=''/><author><name>John</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07000424514491809383</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/2007/12/singing-north-country-blues-1963-photo.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7539818489170813342' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7539818489170813342' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1712146185"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 12, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5533372454902211640</id><published>2007-12-12T11:06:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-12T11:06:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I met a man who went to high school with Dylan in ...</title><summary type='text'>I met a man who went to high school with Dylan in Hibbing.  He said Dylan (Zimmerman) had been a weird kid that no one knew much, whose parents ran the corner grocery.  Zimmerman would sit in the corner at parties playing weird songs and everyone ignored him.  But they didn&#39;t pick on him.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Then the school had a big talent show featuring a brand new baby grand piano that the community </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7539818489170813342/comments/default/5533372454902211640'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7539818489170813342/comments/default/5533372454902211640'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/singing-north-country-blues-1963-photo.html?showComment=1197475560000#c5533372454902211640' 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/2007/12/singing-north-country-blues-1963-photo.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7539818489170813342' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7539818489170813342' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 12, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1369327030250080675</id><published>2007-12-12T10:05:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2007-12-12T10:05:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The availability of various Dylan recordings &amp; per...</title><summary type='text'>The availability of various Dylan recordings &amp; performances has been a godsend. When I was a teenager in the early seventies, you needed a miracle to find a copy of &lt;I&gt;The Great White Wonder&lt;/I&gt;, or the original bootleg recordings of the concerts played at the Royal Albert Hall and Manchester Free Trade Hall in 1966. They absolutely did not exist, except in tale, in the far reaches of Europe, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7539818489170813342/comments/default/1369327030250080675'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7539818489170813342/comments/default/1369327030250080675'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/12/singing-north-country-blues-1963-photo.html?showComment=1197471900000#c1369327030250080675' title=''/><author><name>KK</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11485642707008456895</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/2007/12/singing-north-country-blues-1963-photo.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7539818489170813342' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7539818489170813342' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-659023168"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 12, 2007"/></entry></feed>