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

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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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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

‎Desert Oracle Radio: The Witch Beat on Apple Podcasts

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

‎Desert Oracle Radio: The Witch Beat on Apple Podcasts

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

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

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

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Mentalphysical History Lesson

desert-oracle:

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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desert-oracle:

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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