<?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.post8857647049543519765..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/3738579/8857647049543519765/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/matt-damon-clint-eastwood-with-crew.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-3148565528565202897</id><published>2010-01-27T23:01:57.537-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-27T23:01:57.537-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I agree with a previous comment that UNFORGIVEN is...</title><summary type='text'>I agree with a previous comment that UNFORGIVEN is a great film, one of several great films directed by Clint Eastwood, and in my opinion, INVICTUS is the finest American film of the year, by our greatest living film-maker, whether it is so nominated next week or not.  Although the rugby sequences have been criticized in The New Zealand Herald, that is a kind of &amp;quot;sour grapes&amp;quot; especially</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8857647049543519765/comments/default/3148565528565202897'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8857647049543519765/comments/default/3148565528565202897'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/matt-damon-clint-eastwood-with-crew.html?showComment=1264651317537#c3148565528565202897' title=''/><author><name>bill sherman</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04168365468808561496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_QcEn2JGycC0/SEaH3QctefI/AAAAAAAAAAk/nGibJRmqmSI/S220/billonmoorea.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/matt-damon-clint-eastwood-with-crew.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8857647049543519765' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8857647049543519765' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-230710657"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 27, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3117028356315502052</id><published>2010-01-27T20:42:42.769-05:00</published><updated>2010-01-27T20:42:42.769-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>This comment has been removed by the author.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8857647049543519765/comments/default/3117028356315502052'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8857647049543519765/comments/default/3117028356315502052'/><author><name>bill sherman</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04168365468808561496</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_QcEn2JGycC0/SEaH3QctefI/AAAAAAAAAAk/nGibJRmqmSI/S220/billonmoorea.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/matt-damon-clint-eastwood-with-crew.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8857647049543519765' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8857647049543519765' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name='blogger.contentRemoved' value='true'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-230710657"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 27, 2010"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4456123643539016630</id><published>2009-12-19T17:50:10.281-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-19T17:50:10.281-05:00</updated><title type='text'>re another Henley poem:&#xa;&#xa;http://knottprosepo.blogs...</title><summary type='text'>re another Henley poem:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://knottprosepo.blogspot.com/2009/05/lifes-whore-and-deaths-her-pimp-in-this.html</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8857647049543519765/comments/default/4456123643539016630'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8857647049543519765/comments/default/4456123643539016630'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/matt-damon-clint-eastwood-with-crew.html?showComment=1261263010281#c4456123643539016630' title=''/><author><name>knott</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10848525067425082815</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/matt-damon-clint-eastwood-with-crew.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8857647049543519765' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8857647049543519765' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1665046687"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 19, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-9108606848647235023</id><published>2009-12-14T22:06:53.373-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-14T22:06:53.373-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&amp;quot;Unforgiven&amp;quot; is maybe one of the finest ...</title><summary type='text'>&amp;quot;Unforgiven&amp;quot; is maybe one of the finest damn films ever made.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8857647049543519765/comments/default/9108606848647235023'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8857647049543519765/comments/default/9108606848647235023'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/matt-damon-clint-eastwood-with-crew.html?showComment=1260846413373#c9108606848647235023' title=''/><author><name>Amish Trivedi</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11839976680249253602</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/_mPfhUEoPnU0/SYpxS8Lh8ZI/AAAAAAAAAQw/aWbjRciM9H8/S220/2.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/matt-damon-clint-eastwood-with-crew.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8857647049543519765' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8857647049543519765' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-832955061"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 14, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6883856384226476569</id><published>2009-12-14T19:56:09.125-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-14T19:56:09.125-05:00</updated><title type='text'>You&amp;#39;ll love to hear that Henley was an early m...</title><summary type='text'>You&amp;#39;ll love to hear that Henley was an early modernist, I&amp;#39;m sure. I&amp;#39;ll inveigh elsewhere soon against reading him only for his RLS ties and his unfortunate role (with Kipling) as author of a favorite chestnut of extremists.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Henley&amp;#39;s uneven but to belittle him this way is unbecoming.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8857647049543519765/comments/default/6883856384226476569'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8857647049543519765/comments/default/6883856384226476569'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/matt-damon-clint-eastwood-with-crew.html?showComment=1260838569125#c6883856384226476569' title=''/><author><name>Jordan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10451174274596699645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://static.flickr.com/68/168671726_f87b53b572_m.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/matt-damon-clint-eastwood-with-crew.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8857647049543519765' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8857647049543519765' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1484709122"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 14, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5318787530208923606</id><published>2009-12-14T11:55:21.848-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-14T11:55:21.848-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Hey BLONDIE! ..make my DAY...you know what you are...</title><summary type='text'>&lt;i&gt;Hey BLONDIE! ..make my DAY...you know what you are...hijo de la gran puta...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;f**k Eastwood the Carmel cowboy, man  (and f- the shekelmeisters in their Pebble beach chateaus)</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8857647049543519765/comments/default/5318787530208923606'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8857647049543519765/comments/default/5318787530208923606'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/matt-damon-clint-eastwood-with-crew.html?showComment=1260809721848#c5318787530208923606' 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/matt-damon-clint-eastwood-with-crew.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8857647049543519765' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8857647049543519765' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1512031455"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 14, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8088175661671202096</id><published>2009-12-14T11:49:14.907-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-14T11:49:14.907-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I didn&amp;#39;t understand your Havel/Dubcek comparis...</title><summary type='text'>I didn&amp;#39;t understand your Havel/Dubcek comparison wrt President Obama.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Havel was a Democrat and a liberal, while Dubcek was a socialist with a human face, as the phrase went.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are you saying that Obama has turned out to be more of a socialist and less of a liberal, or is your parallel based on some other criterion?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;d think you&amp;#39;d be for socialism with a</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8857647049543519765/comments/default/8088175661671202096'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8857647049543519765/comments/default/8088175661671202096'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/matt-damon-clint-eastwood-with-crew.html?showComment=1260809354907#c8088175661671202096' 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/2009/12/matt-damon-clint-eastwood-with-crew.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8857647049543519765' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8857647049543519765' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 14, 2009"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-262133869530014399</id><published>2009-12-14T08:08:15.514-05:00</published><updated>2009-12-14T08:08:15.514-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Henley is important for two other reasons: first, ...</title><summary type='text'>Henley is important for two other reasons: first, a friend of Robert Louis Stevenson, he was the inspiration for the figure of Long John Silver in Treasure Island (he lost a leg due, I believe, to disease). Second, Timothy McVeigh&amp;#39;s last words were a silent printing out of the poem &amp;quot;Invictus.&amp;quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8857647049543519765/comments/default/262133869530014399'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/8857647049543519765/comments/default/262133869530014399'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2009/12/matt-damon-clint-eastwood-with-crew.html?showComment=1260796095514#c262133869530014399' title=''/><author><name>tyrone</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/10893356047914344813</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/matt-damon-clint-eastwood-with-crew.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8857647049543519765' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/8857647049543519765' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-570102948"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="December 14, 2009"/></entry></feed>