Transmitting from the Mojave Wilderness in Joshua Tree, California.

Now is the time for Desert Oracle Radio, the voice of the desert.

Night has fallen on the Mojave Desert, and it sure is a pretty night out there under the full moon.

Well, it has been a weird summer, and now we are back on the radio.

Welcome to the third season of Desert Oracle Radio.

It might be the last season, too, because we probably aren't

really going to have seasons any longer. Now, I was up in Elgo a couple of years ago in January

at the Cowboy Poetry thing. Very exciting.

And that great basin chill just gets in your bones.

And the woman at the Western Ware store

tells me,

we've only got two seasons here.

Too damn cold and too damn hot.

We don't want to get too precious about these things. Let's just do the show every week, maybe take a two-week unpaid vacation every couple of years that we

live that long. The American dream.

So we come down to the station here in Joshua Tree and do the show live now.

Live and crackling through a radio as radio should be a live broadcast in the beautiful darkness.

You want to hear something poetic?

Here's something poetic.

The radio's on, feeling all right, cruising the strip on a Saturday night.

Those lyrics were by David Berman, who left in this world over the summer.

And it turns out that David Berman was here in Joshua Tree for a while,

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