DESERT ORACLE editor Ken Layne will be presenting a spooky talk on desert folklore & various monsters at the Hi-Desert Nature Museum on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 5:30 p.m. This is the Morongo Basin Historical Society’s “Second Wednesday Lecture Series.” $5 donation to MBHS at the door, get there early to get a seat!
Many wonders over the desert skies—both known and unknown—give reason to be out on cool autumn nights, celebrating rituals. Tonight we address the real reason for Halloween (and how you can celebrate it on Nov. 21), tell monster stories around the campfire, and share the glad tidings of Oumuamua, the alien space probe that shot by Earth last year.
EVENT ALERT: Host & DESERT ORACLE editor Ken Layne will be presenting a spooky talk on desert monsters at the Hi-Desert Nature Museum on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 5:30 p.m. This is the Morongo Basin Historical Society’s “Second Wednesday Lecture Series.” $5 donation to MBHS at the door, get there early to get a seat!
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We are still digging out from the Great Hi-Desert Deluge of October 2018. In fact, officials at Joshua Tree Town Hall are considering renaming the village “Dirt-Pile City,” in honor of the scenic and massive dirt piles piled alongside every road, as the bulldozers and earth-movers work all day every day to try to patch the hundreds of miles of gullies and ditches and death holes created by the violent storm.
The dirt and sand and grit and boulders and dead animals had previously been located in the mountains surrounding town, but one insane all-night thunderstorm managed to move quite a lot of the stuff in the mountains to the middle on Highway 62 through what we charitably call “Downtown Joshua Tree.”
We tell our own version of the local legend of Private Dirt and Sgt. Sand, and we hear from Phoenix schoolteacher Jenny Russell talking about a graveyard she discovered in South Phoenix—from her appearance at our Valley Bar show in Phoenix put on last summer by Aquarium Drunkard.
Subscribe at iTunes or wherever you choose to get your podcasts. Or better yet: Listen live at 10 p.m. on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree, Yucca Valley, Pioneertown, Landers, Morongo Valley, Flamingo Heights, Wonder Valley—”from Amboy to Zzyzx,” and across the Great Mojave Wilderness!
We are back with strange & unusual tales from Death Valley, where the Mojave meets the Great Basin and mysterious subterranean cities of gold were supposedly found by various explorers. Did giant beings travel the skies over our deserts in sky-ships? Some Shoshone legends say Yes.
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New soundscapes tonight by Joshua Tree’s own RedBlueBlackSilver.
EVENT NOTICE: Our host & editor Ken Layne will be presenting Halloween Campfire Stories at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs, 7 p.m. on Wednesday, October 31.
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What if Crowleyan magick is bad? The Solar Lodge outpost in the California Desert is what we’re talking about. Also: Brendan Maze calling in from Arizona on a bad line. And: A very short desert-noir collaboration via Twitter with John Lurie.
Subscribe at iTunes or wherever you choose to get your podcasts. Or better yet: Listen live at 10 p.m. on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree, Yucca Valley, Pioneertown, Landers, Morongo Valley, Flamingo Heights, Wonder Valley—”from Amboy to Zzyzx,” and across the Great Mojave Wilderness!
Deep new soundscapes tonight by Joshua Tree’s own RedBlueBlackSilver. (Have you heard his moody soundtrack to Hunt for the Skinwalker?
Now is the time for DESERT ORACLE RADIO, and this time we’re all going to Skinwalker Ranch. And we’re going with Jeremy Corbell, director of the new documentary Hunt for the Skinwalker. Listen live on KCDZ 107.7 FM in the High Desert, or subscribe to the podcast and get new episodes on Friday nights.
The strange sounds you hear tonight are by RedBlueBlackSilver, including sounds from his moody soundtrack to Hunt for the Skinwalker.
PS—You can get Desert Oracle Radio on your community radio station. We’re distributed through Public Radio Exchange (PRX) or write to us at radio@desertoracle.com.
And speaking of Halloween (?), we will be presenting Halloween Campfire Stories at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs, 7 p.m. on Wednesday, October 31.
Season 2 premiere, 10 p.m. tonight in the California desert. Listen live on KCDZ 107.7 FM in Joshua Tree and across the Mojave High Desert—from Amboy to Zzyzx and everywhere via podcast. Subscribe at iTunes or wherever you choose to get your podcasts.
New soundscapes tonight by Joshua Tree’s own RedBlueBlackSilver.
What is DESERT ORACLE? You might find out from this article in Palm Springs Life magazine.
And don’t forget: Desert Oracle Campfire Stories with Ken Layne at the Ace Hotel & Swim Club on Halloween Night, starting at 7 p.m, Wednesday October 31 around the campfire.
Tune in this Friday night: KCDZ 107.7 FM in the High Desert. Check your Desert Oracle Radio podcast subscription; new episode will be there Friday evening.
Finally, organized and titled for your research & listening pleasure:
Our final show of the yearlong first season will broadcast tonight at 10 p.m. Joshua Tree Time, across the Mojave Wilderness on Z107.7 FM and everywhere on your podcast device. The desert may be popular with elaborately costumed visitors and weekenders these days, but in time it will go back to the desert of the Bible: a place of banishment and horror, where ostriches and demons dance in the abandoned cabins.
Three new tracks by RedBlueBlackSilver tonight, and do visit his website for news on his Hunt For the Skinwalker soundtrack.
And do not forget: Friday, July 13, 7 p.m. at Valley Bar Phoenix, it’s DESERT ORACLE RADIO live on stage!
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