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Desert Oracle Radio

Desolation Peak

Desert Oracle Radio

Ken Layne

Places & Travel, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.9852 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

We are back in Joshua Tree with tales of desert creatures, snowy mountains, and the secret journals of Jack Kerouac newly published as Desolation Peak. ALSO: Our last stage show, coming up Nov. 10 (next week!) in Los Angeles, with Ken Layne & RedBlueBlackSilver. PLUS: Campfire Stories in the Utah desert, a benefit for KZMU FM in Moab.

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0:00.0

Transmitting from the Mojave Wilderness in Joshua Tree, California.

0:10.1

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

0:16.9

Night has fallen on the desert.

0:23.6

Uh. Night has fallen on the desert. A cold mojave night,

0:27.6

a wind howling outside, a fire going inside.

0:46.3

The more space between you and the rest of the busy busy frantic world of continual nonsense the better the condition of your soul before we go off in some various directions, I want to tell you about our last Desert Oracle stage show.

1:07.3

One more, one more Desert Oracle Radio live show on stage Thursday, November 10 at the Los Angeles Central Libraries Auditorium.

1:21.5

I did not know it was the last one when I said yes to this booking, but who really knows anything?

1:32.2

The reasons I'm not doing the stage show anymore are pretty simple and ultimately trivial,

1:39.2

and in some part financial, you might have heard about this inflation thing, which has affected everything

1:45.6

but the amount they pay for the entertainment.

1:51.0

But also because it's a lot of hustle, and that's against my religion.

2:07.7

Because it's about 10 hours of dodging Amazon Prime semi-trucks on the interstate

2:17.5

Before a one-hour show followed by empty cities with all the restaurants closed,

2:21.8

and I'm wondering if the neutron bomb finally went off.

2:24.5

I've had my share, thank you.

2:28.4

Supposed to stay on the back roads anyway,

2:33.4

the blue highways, if compelled to leave the desert compound.

2:40.2

So Thursday, November 10, Zebulon presents Desert Oracle Radio at the L.A. Central Library's Mark Taper Auditorium.

2:45.9

Now, whoever Mark Taper is, people have ignorantly put his name

2:50.2

on about seven different public spaces in Los Angeles.

2:55.8

This one's

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