After a decade of Ribbonfarm, and with Venkatesh Rao an auspicious 42, this collection of essays has Rao responding to four decades of culture having been done to him by turning around to do culture at others. Guided throughout by the twin saints James Carse (Finite and Infinite Games) and Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), Rao takes his two minutes on life's stage to speak weirdness to truth, communicating to the few listeners still in his light cone before the expanding universe makes contact impossible.
