{"id":143,"date":"2008-12-23T09:08:35","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T16:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/modernevil.com\/Podcast\/?p=143"},"modified":"2009-07-09T20:56:39","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T03:56:39","slug":"episode-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/modernevil.com\/Podcast\/episode-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Ep. 31: Two poems from Worth 1k &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Volume 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/modernevil.com\/worth-1k-volume-2\/\" title=\"Worth 1k --- Volume 2, from Modern Evil Press\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/modernevil.com\/img\/w1kV2.jpg\" class=\"bigCover\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The last two poems in the feed for 2008, also from Worth 1k &#8212; Volume 2.  The first one is actually somewhat fun\/humorous, and is a sort of a meta-meta-poem.  Post-post-modern, or post- Post-post-modern, perhaps.  (Yes, I think piling repetitive tags on things like that is silly.  So is my poem, intentionally about a breakdown in meta-.)  The second poem is more personal.  A look at how I sometimes bury myself in a world of numbers and math to escape from or distract from the world, or simply to give my mind something to do when (especially at a boring day job) there&#8217;s literally no challenge to getting the job done.<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays, I still find myself scrawling notebooks full of numbers, column after column of hard-calculated numbers, the explanation of which just makes other peoples&#8217; heads hurt (though not for mathematical sophistication; I&#8217;ve never taken any <em>really<\/em> advanced math classes), but -lately- which produces an end result of interesting and\/or beautiful music.  (I&#8217;ve been composing intro\/outro and bed music for my podcasts mathematically.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last two poems in the feed for 2008, also from Worth 1k &#8212; Volume 2. The first one is actually somewhat fun\/humorous, and is a sort of a meta-meta-poem. Post-post-modern, or post- Post-post-modern, perhaps. (Yes, I think piling repetitive tags on things like that is silly. So is my poem, intentionally about a breakdown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40,5,8,35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/modernevil.com\/Podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/modernevil.com\/Podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/modernevil.com\/Podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/modernevil.com\/Podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/modernevil.com\/Podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/modernevil.com\/Podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389,"href":"http:\/\/modernevil.com\/Podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/modernevil.com\/Podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/modernevil.com\/Podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/modernevil.com\/Podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}