I did not realize you had such a deep sense of humor (and that is also a joke...). In edit and just jumped back in TASR here at $40.73, even managed to get a mild discount.
Holy cow.You must be a big fan of 'Being John Malkovich',the Austin Powers trilogy,some of the Coens' stuff,'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' would be old skool pmi comedy,no...
PatrickBateman- PM irony is self-reflexive in that the agency of self (as author) might be diminished. You were being tongue-in-cheek. The only thing ironical about what you wrote is that you believed that you were being ironic.