Maybe you had to be in the right mood for it. I found it very entertaining, though long. I liked the neophilia vs neophobia with mushrooms. Referring back to

Maybe you had to be in the right mood for it. I found it very entertaining, though long. I liked the neophilia vs neophobia with mushrooms. Referring back to the white-on-yellow highlighting several paragraphs along is a clever way to unify the piece. I suspect the author spent quite some time writing this -- it only appears to be a disorganized rambling rant.