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EPISODE #215: AMONG THE STATELY TREES

Where’s the beautiful part, anyway? Well, start by walking about a mile past the last parking lot or dirt road or residential car-parts dump or informal halfway house or accidental pit-bull breeding farm, and keep going in the direction of the difficult terrain: the hills and the mountains and the boulders. Not the hills covered in radio relay towers, but the ones with nothing up there at all,…

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[kenlayne]

Feb. 17 episode on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2FhBmdZDIvEc0FWDvsJLm7?si=ReuLSQu1QsOhANvH41x8sA

[desert-oracle]

EPISODE #205: ODE TO HARRY OLIVER, KING OF THE DESERT RATS

From the World War II years to 1965, the artist and humorist and hugely influential architect Harry Oliver published his Desert Rat Scrap Book from a hand-built adobe in the California desert. He called it “the only newspaper you can read in the wind,” because the whole thing was printed on a single sheet of sturdy colored cardstock, folded down to mailing size. UFO & Fortean author and Radio…

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[kenlayne]

‎Desert Oracle Radio: The Witch Beat on Apple Podcasts

‎Show Desert Oracle Radio, Ep The Witch Beat - Jul 14, 2023

Loved doing this episode with Deborah Netburn, who covers Faith/Spirituality/Joy for the Los Angeles Times.

[desert-oracle]

EPISODE #188: THRU-HIKING WITH TAHQUITZ

Where is she, tonight? It has been a month and ten days since she mailed this postcard from Idyllwild to Joshua Tree. All we can do is hope that the monster did not put an early end to her Pacific Crest Trail adventure, as so often happens in those movies with Reese Witherspoon. Because there’s a real monster in the mountains around San Jacinto Peak, a real monster who murders people & eats their…

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[kenlayne]

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/thru-hiking-with-tahquitz/id1251197422?i=1000613727572

[batteredshoes]

Mentalphysical History Lesson

[desert-oracle]

DESERT ORACLE #10

We’ve got a couple of classic episodes on the radio in Joshua Tree/Yucca Valley/29 Palms tonight, as we’ve been mailing & otherwise distributing Desert Oracle #10, the latest of our pocket-sized periodicals all about the strange & mysterious desert lands. Listen to these episodes tonight 10-11 p.m. on Z107.7 FM in the Mojave High Desert, streaming online if you’re out of range: “Owl’s Eye View…

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[kenlayne]

They fired Smokey Bear, and humiliated him in public.

[kenlayne]

Louisiana, 2018.

[kenlayne]

This is how people used to post online:

That's right, we posted with IBM Selectric typewriters, hooked up to many wires and various systems, like old What's His Name pictured above, Joan Didion?

Then we might put in a link or two, something like Maybe not a great time to go on a desert hike. #posting

[kenlayne]

The audiobook version of Desert Oracle Vol. 1 is out now!

[kenlayne]

Oráculo del desierto Volumen 1. Leyendas sorprendentes del suroeste de Estados Unidos

Ken Layne

Traducción de Albert Fuentes

[kenlayne]

Four dates remaining on the Desert Oracle tour. Be there if you can.

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EPISODE #141: THE JAWS OF DARKNESS DO DEVOUR

EPISODE #141: THE JAWS OF DARKNESS DO DEVOUR

The ill counsel of a desert place, that would be howl’d out in the desert air . . . . Night has fallen on the desert, in this spookiest of seasons. Tonight we travel by the power of darkness and disinformation to Archuleta Mesa, in the Jicarilla Apache town of Dulce, New Mexico. We’re going down, beneath the mountain, to see if the reptilian aliens and the gray aliens and the Air Force disinfo…

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[desert-oracle]

CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS to our Saturday, July 10 & Sunday, July 11 shows at Theater29, Twentynine Palms, Calif. Night has fallen on the desert, the desert at its most brutal. The punishing desert, the earthly purgatory, the sun-blasted wilderness so many heroes had to get across alive. Or die trying: Moses, Laurence of Arabia, C-3PO and R2D2, Beavis and Butthead, Allan Quartermain, Priscilla,…

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[kenlayne]

What happened to radio episode #92?

It's an hourlong Campfire Stories as a Patreon extra.

[kenlayne]

Hi from Oklahoma! A few years ago I went on an extended solo road trip through SE CA, up through the deserts and zig zagged the Sierras. It was the best. I picked up my 1st copy of DOR & since, your podcast has become the soundtrack of my daily walks. Question: Next time you're in Joshua Tree Saloon, could you please find the artist of the cowboy "5 aces" poker game print by the door? I would be forever indebted to you! Patreon for life! Thanks if you're able. You're my only hope! Terri Sadler

This we shall attempt to do! The saloon is once again open for "inside dining" (day drinking) and we will soon return to our beloved JT bar. The only bar, in fact.

[kenlayne]

I emailed you from Patreon about something else and forgot to ask why I haven't received the latest issue yet, I'm 100% sure my subscription is up to date. My subscription address is at my SF place - 247 Central Avenue San Francisco CA 94117. Many Thanks,Juliette Page 650.642.5931

We promise your subscription is up to date. It's the *editor* who's late. We hope to have the next issue in the mail by early July. Thank you for your patience!