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It seems my last post might not actually link to a full text article... if you link to it over from Google(tm) it seems to work. Odd. Well, anyway try here: http://jsomers.net/DFW_TV.pdf or just run a good old G-gle search for "e unibus pluram" and you should find it. Sorry for the confusion.

Instead of Answering, Citing

I've been gathering my thoughts on post-irony, but as I seem to be that type of writer least amicable to blog-writing (i.e. the hording-every-thought to be finally-and-exactly-expressed type) I'm going to just pass along a great article by David Foster Wallace (hereafter in my entries "DFW," or perhaps "Wallace"). The article's going on twenty years old now but I still think it has some interesting ideas on irony in American society and entertainment (read: TV). Though it may not be the easiest thing to follow on an LCD (or perhaps CRT) screen (and is reprinted in DFW wonderful collection A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again) here we go: http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-5495526_ITM