Larry: Picture this. You’re a prince. A princely prince. And your dad, the King of All Cosmos, has gone on (yet another) drunken bender, and destroyed all the stars in the sky. And now it’s your job (typical) to put them back.

I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking: “How the hell am I going to replace the stars in the sky?” Well, Daddy’s got a great solution: the katamari. For those who are interested, katamari means “ball of stuff” in Japanese. (Damacy means soul. And no, I don’t understand why they named the game that way either. That’s why I said it was weird.) So the katamari starts out as this nobbly ball, which must be pretty sticky, because it picks up whatever it touches. The idea of the game (a PS2 game, if you didn’t know) is for you, the prince, to roll the katamari around and pick up stuff, making the ball bigger and bigger until you’ve reached a target goal. And once you have, your katamari will become a star in the recently denuded sky.

But there’s a catch. You can only pick up stuff that’s smaller than your katamari. If, for example, your katamari starts out as 5 cm across, you can’t pick up much more than thumbtacks and erasers. If you run into a pencil, you’ll just bounce off, and stuff you’ve picked up will fall off your katamari besides. So stay away from the bigger stuff (especially the cats!) until your ball of stuff is big enough. And eventually, you’ll be able to pick up those cats, the kids playing baseball at the park, the trees in the park, cars passing by, the gas station down the street, the hotel on the other side of town, the town itself, clouds, islands, giant squid, rainbows…the possibilities are endless.

So if you haven’t played KD or its sequel, the recently released We ♥ Katamari, I suggest you drop whatever you’re doing, go rent or buy the game, and start playing! Go. Go forthwith. Your boss doesn’t need you at that meeting, not really.

I must mention that there are many tech-savvy, gadget-oriented people who have no clue what any of this means.