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 desert.

And I was just driving by some of the

mostly abandoned churches out here in the

California desert.

A lot of good community real estate, mostly, if not totally, abandoned.

How do you take over a church?

I don't mean the big, powerful ones, whether the suburban mega church or the Vatican or whatever.

I mean just a little church, a religious non-profit, just sitting there, nobody's using it.

I guess all you've got to do is find the person who runs the joint

maybe it's down to the last person

the organist or whoever

the fourth junior deacon

and maybe you show up in a black suit

with a briefcase and pretend to be an angel or something

the angels could disguise themselves as anything in the Bible days.

Like the men in black, back in the 1950s, these odd balls pretending to be some kind of government agents.

Speaking, Tough Guy talk from old movies.

Listen, smart guy.

Plenty of stuff could go wrong for you real quick.

Maybe keep it zippered.

When you get in the itch to tell your buddies about the Martians wearing diving helmets and

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