<?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.post7837443030612359676..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/3738579/7837443030612359676/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/roger-rice-katrina-sings-blues-quite.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>8</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6596069709741741429</id><published>2008-08-16T12:46:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-16T12:46:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Long an admirer of your work, I just came about yo...</title><summary type='text'>Long an admirer of your work, I just came about your blog and so glad I did. &#39;Great blog and great post.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&#39;ve been a fan of folk art since the late 80&#39;s when I was introduced to Howard Finster&#39;s work through R.E.M. and Talking Heads. My older brother lived in Atlanta so I was able to visit Finster&#39;s place near the &quot;mecca&quot; of Athens, and when I did I fell in love with his work, not to </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7837443030612359676/comments/default/6596069709741741429'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7837443030612359676/comments/default/6596069709741741429'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/roger-rice-katrina-sings-blues-quite.html?showComment=1218905160000#c6596069709741741429' title=''/><author><name>Sara Kearns</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10009406545077045857</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7870/2932/1600/sara_licenseCROP.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/roger-rice-katrina-sings-blues-quite.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7837443030612359676' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7837443030612359676' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1683538266"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 16, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-616237209535371487</id><published>2008-08-13T22:19:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-13T22:19:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>On the bottom floor of the Franklin Center at Duke...</title><summary type='text'>On the bottom floor of the Franklin Center at Duke, adjacent to my office, is a small gallery that regularly shows eclectic collections.  My favorite to date has been the Jimmy Lee Sudduth show.  Sitting there with it open and gazing upon me every day, I began to develop a relationship with the work, one curiously devoid of description.  Anyway, it&#39;s good to see his name in wider circulation.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7837443030612359676/comments/default/616237209535371487'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7837443030612359676/comments/default/616237209535371487'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/roger-rice-katrina-sings-blues-quite.html?showComment=1218680340000#c616237209535371487' 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/2008/08/roger-rice-katrina-sings-blues-quite.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7837443030612359676' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7837443030612359676' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-328297626"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 13, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7201542620738206309</id><published>2008-08-13T21:43:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-13T21:43:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>simplistic and boring trite and hackneyed the genr...</title><summary type='text'>simplistic and boring &lt;BR/&gt;trite and hackneyed &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;the genre is called &quot;Outsider Art&quot; very clubbie..and marketed EVERYWHERE&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;certainly, not like my &quot;stuff&quot; - which unlike this piece (and 25 million others) is utterly worthless&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Lester Barrar,  many years  ago (1970) bought one of my pieces... he asked me  &quot;what is your definition of art?&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I had no ready </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7837443030612359676/comments/default/7201542620738206309'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7837443030612359676/comments/default/7201542620738206309'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/roger-rice-katrina-sings-blues-quite.html?showComment=1218678180000#c7201542620738206309' 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='31' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/R3Owpv1OTyI/AAAAAAAAAAM/5uapZyaJmtY/S220/Ed++by+Evie+Baker'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/roger-rice-katrina-sings-blues-quite.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7837443030612359676' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7837443030612359676' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 13, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2008085130674506732</id><published>2008-08-13T11:53:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-13T11:53:00.001-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron writes, &quot;My own interest in folk art is that t...</title><summary type='text'>Ron writes, &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&quot;My own interest in folk art is that the work of untrained artists often strike me as being much closer to what I’m doing in my poetry than the excessively processed works of the MFA mills.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I agree with the underlying implication here that the work of outsiders is more vital and interesting than that done by those with more programmatic training and perhaps </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7837443030612359676/comments/default/2008085130674506732'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7837443030612359676/comments/default/2008085130674506732'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/roger-rice-katrina-sings-blues-quite.html?showComment=1218642780001#c2008085130674506732' 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/2008/08/roger-rice-katrina-sings-blues-quite.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7837443030612359676' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7837443030612359676' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-862679579"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 13, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-926323980121025924</id><published>2008-08-13T11:53:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-13T11:53:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Interesting that the painter shows only black vict...</title><summary type='text'>Interesting that the painter shows only black victims and one white -- apparently W., with his cross and his sword.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I know that the storm disproportionately affected black citizens of the 9th ward (whatever that is), but I believe there were also white victims, and I thought that mayor named Nagin or Nagins held an equal share of the responsibility, and perhaps more, since he was the </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7837443030612359676/comments/default/926323980121025924'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7837443030612359676/comments/default/926323980121025924'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/roger-rice-katrina-sings-blues-quite.html?showComment=1218642780000#c926323980121025924' 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/2008/08/roger-rice-katrina-sings-blues-quite.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7837443030612359676' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7837443030612359676' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 13, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7087638023716129216</id><published>2008-08-13T11:48:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-13T11:48:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Yesterday at the El Cerrito Re-Cycle Center a guy ...</title><summary type='text'>Yesterday at the El Cerrito Re-Cycle Center a guy showed up with one of these decorated cars.  His inspiration was the Jurassic--dinosaurs and fossils and tropical motifs, etc.--he hadn&#39;t finished, there was still lots of room inside and outside for his continuing work.  These were thought of once as &quot;Hippie Vans&quot; which we used to see trucking around Berkeley or at camp sites on the road.  Now </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7837443030612359676/comments/default/7087638023716129216'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7837443030612359676/comments/default/7087638023716129216'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/roger-rice-katrina-sings-blues-quite.html?showComment=1218642480000#c7087638023716129216' 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/2008/08/roger-rice-katrina-sings-blues-quite.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7837443030612359676' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7837443030612359676' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 13, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8458750814336243395</id><published>2008-08-13T07:31:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-13T07:31:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Thank you for reviewing this once-in-Tuscaloosa ga...</title><summary type='text'>Thank you for reviewing this once-in-Tuscaloosa gallery.  I moved to Tuscaloosa 2 1/2 years ago so missed visiting the gallery.  There is still plenty of opportunities to see the magnificent folk art of this area by visiting the new galleries in Tuscaloosa and Northport along the Black Warrior River.  I would encourage you to visit again sometime in October when the amazing Kentuck Festival </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7837443030612359676/comments/default/8458750814336243395'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7837443030612359676/comments/default/8458750814336243395'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/roger-rice-katrina-sings-blues-quite.html?showComment=1218627060000#c8458750814336243395' title=''/><author><name>Pam</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08765105091538770825</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/2008/08/roger-rice-katrina-sings-blues-quite.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7837443030612359676' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7837443030612359676' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1673120768"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 13, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-246436477603654089</id><published>2008-08-13T06:14:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-13T06:14:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>American VISIONARY Art Museum        in Bal&#39;moreHa...</title><summary type='text'>American VISIONARY Art Museum&lt;BR/&gt;        in Bal&#39;more&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Hank has a recently published book&lt;BR/&gt;    ONE DOZEN PORTIONS&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;  Country Valley Press, 2008&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;(znrtuvxilink to CVP on my site)</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7837443030612359676/comments/default/246436477603654089'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7837443030612359676/comments/default/246436477603654089'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/roger-rice-katrina-sings-blues-quite.html?showComment=1218622440000#c246436477603654089' 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='31' height='24' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_SpwtdDR0utk/R3Owpv1OTyI/AAAAAAAAAAM/5uapZyaJmtY/S220/Ed++by+Evie+Baker'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/roger-rice-katrina-sings-blues-quite.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7837443030612359676' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7837443030612359676' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-771816173"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 13, 2008"/></entry></feed>