Transmitting from the Mojave Wilderness in Joshua Tree, California.

Now is the time for Desert Oracle Radio, the voice on the desert

And the nighttime is when the hidden creatures emerge from their dens and their burrows.

The badger, the desert kit fox, the kangaroo rat, the mountain lion, the scorpion,

out they come into the cool dark night.

A cooler dark night anyway.

I still sorta scratch my head and wonder.

I wonder why Woden cursed me to live amongst the humans

when I hear one of them say something like, well, isn't the desert just a bunch of sand, desolate, wasteland. I hardly hear anybody say that anymore, because the one good thing that

has come from Mark Zoron, the interdimensional Hell Virus Zuckerberg, is that

because his evil company bought a little phone app

called Instagram?

Lots of people today know that

the desert is a wild and beautiful place.

Okay. a wild and beautiful place. Some of it, anyways, the parts that don't have a hundred miles square of tract homes and Walmarts

dumped atop it.

When you look out on the desert, even on a hot, miserable early September day when it's

110 degrees and even the birds seem tired of it, well, consider the ground.

Ask the dust.

Look on the ground and you will see footprints or snake prints in the case of snakes

or the long lines of lizard tail tracks through the sand.

Bobcat Prince, the dainty little prince of innumerable desert rodents and insects.

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