A good "point."

Last night, when I was playing darts with Ross McSweeney, He brought up a good "point." He was doing some pretty deep thinking about the plastic-encasing contest for an outsider to the contest, and he pointed out that the challenge was not merely to find the most ironic thing to encase, but to find something which would have its ironic value increased by being encased in plastic. For example: a mohawk or a mullet are both very ironic haircuts. But would they be the most ironic haircuts to encase in plastic? I would argue that no, though they may be a very ironic haircut on someone's head, once encased in plastic, they may not be the most ironic. For example, I think it might be more ironic to encase a very stiff newscaster's haircut in plastic, because the newscaster's haircut already has the stiff properties of plastic, that once it was encased in plastic it wouldn't actually be all that much different than it was un-plastic-encased, and then someone who saw it would be like, "why did they encase that haircut in plastic? It was already so plastic-like?" And then as soon as those words had escaped the utterer of them's mouth the person would be like, "oh," as they realized that they were looking at an extremely ironic encasing of a haircut. Notice: it is the extremely ironic encasing of a haircut, not the encasing of an extremely ironic haircut.

The harder you look, the deeper this shit gets. Wish me luck.

No- wish us both luck.

Take care,

David