however, danielle would like to appoint beau the title of “official dream reader.”

However: Beau should read the essay by David Foster Wallace called “E Unibus Pluram.” It addresses irony and it’s import in television and US fiction today. This essay can be found in the book “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again.”

He says, “All US irony is based on an implicit ‘I don’t really mean what I’m saying.’ So what does irony as a cultural norm meant to say? That’s it’s impossible to mean what you say? That maybe it’s too bad it’s impossible, but wake up and smell the coffee already? Most likely, I think, today’s irony ends up saying: ‘How totally banal of you to ask what I really mean.’ Anyone with the heretical gall to ask an ironist what he actually stands for ends up looking like an hysteric or a prig. And herein lies the oppressiveness of the institutionalized irony, the too-successful rebel: the ability to interdict the question without attending to its subject is, when exercised, tyranny. It is the new junta, using the very tool that exposed its enemy to insulate itself.”

Suck on that, mortals.

1. wes anderson when to my high school.
2. i like you’re writing. you’re good at it, and you have a fantastic vocabulary.