The Televisionary Oracle is the mostly-true story of the kidnap of a marginally successful rockstar (curiously resembling Rob Brezsny in his other career as a musician) by the Menstrual Temple of the Funky Grail. This ancient mystery school is hell-bent on "killing the apocalypse" in the most enjoyable ways
possible. The chief shamanatrix of the Menstrual Temple is Rapunzel Blavatsky, who might be the pranksterish reincarnation of Mary Magdalene and the time-traveling
possessor of a sixty-six-million-year-old television--or else maybe just a foxy, jive-talking babe with delusions of grandeur.
To accomplish their aims, Rapunzel and her crew employ countless tricks that reside on the borderline between wacky performance art and sacred, kick-ass
ritual. All Rockstar knows is that they intend to begin initiating certain selected men--maybe even him--into the mysteries of menstruation. But how does
a testosterone-possessed Dionysian idol prepare for the menarche? And is there really a possibility, as he suspects, that navigating his way through the
intriguing ordeal will arouse the lusty interest of the enigmatic Rapunzel?
