Transmitting from the Mahavie Wilderness in Joshua Tree, California, now is the time for Desert Oracle Radio, the voice of the desert.

Night has fallen on the desert.

A little bit of relief at the end of a late summer day.

In the year of our peculiar misery, 2020.

A few times in recent weeks, I've had to cut my evening walk short because the air was too bad.

Getting that hour or so outside at sundown is about the only thing that makes life tolerable

In the dumb pandemic and dumb August at the height of monsoon season

Most people who live in the desert of monsoon season.

Most people who live in the desert by choice simply do not care for perspiring. No thank you.

Here's how to know if there's too much humidity.

You need an air conditioner. Here's how to know if there's too much humidity.

You need an air conditioner instead of just a good old cheap evaporative cooler, the

swamp box, temple of cool air on a hot summer day.

Watch the people gathered all around it.

Their heads tilted skyward.

Unless is mounted on the wall,

in which case they aren't looking skyward.

Anyway, it's a better god than most of them.

At least it does something.

Some of the time, when conditions are right, well, how are things in your part of the world?

If you're a part of the world, isn't the Mojave High Desert, the Morongo Basin, you know why they call it Marongo?

Because that's where the morons go.

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