Ken Layne's Blog, page 2
May 6, 2023
desert-oracle:DESERT ORACLE #10We’ve got a couple of clas...
DESERT ORACLE #10We’ve got a couple of classic episodes on the radio in Joshua Tree/Yucca Valley/29 Palms tonight, as we’ve been mailing & otherwise distributing Desert Oracle #10, the latest of our pocket-sized periodicals all about the strange & mysterious desert lands.
Listen to these episodes tonight 10-11 p.m. on Z107.7 FM in the Mojave High Desert, streaming online if you’re out of range: “Owl’s Eye View…
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February 25, 2023
They fired Smokey Bear, and humiliated him in public.


They fired Smokey Bear, and humiliated him in public.
February 7, 2023
January 1, 2023
This is how people used to post online:

That’s right, we posted with IBM Selectric typewriters, hooked up to many wires and various systems, like old What’s His Name pictured above, Joan Didion?
Then we might put in a link or two, something like Maybe not a great time to go on a desert hike. #posting
September 5, 2022
The audiobook version of Desert Oracle Vol. 1 is out now!
January 3, 2022
Oráculo del desiertoVolumen 1. Leyendas sorprendentes del...

Oráculo del desierto
Volumen 1. Leyendas sorprendentes del suroeste de Estados Unidos
Traducción de Albert Fuentes
December 13, 2021
Four dates remaining on the Desert Oracle tour. Be there if you...
October 18, 2021
desert-oracle:EPISODE #141: THE JAWS OF DARKNESS DO DEVOU...
EPISODE #141: THE JAWS OF DARKNESS DO DEVOUREPISODE #141: THE JAWS OF DARKNESS DO DEVOUR
The ill counsel of a desert place, that would be howl’d out in the desert air … .
Night has fallen on the desert, in this spookiest of seasons. Tonight we travel by the power of darkness and disinformation to Archuleta Mesa, in the Jicarilla Apache town of Dulce, New Mexico. We’re going down, beneath the mountain, to see if the reptilian aliens and the gray aliens and the Air Force disinfo…
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June 20, 2021
desert-oracle:
CLICK HERE FOR TICKETSto our Saturday, Jul...
CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS
to our Saturday, July 10 & Sunday, July 11 shows
at Theater29, Twentynine Palms, Calif.
Night has fallen on the desert, the desert at its most brutal. The punishing desert, the earthly purgatory, the sun-blasted wilderness so many heroes had to get across alive. Or die trying: Moses, Laurence of Arabia, C-3PO and R2D2, Beavis and Butthead, Allan Quartermain, Priscilla,…
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desert-oracle:CLICK HERE FOR TICKETSto our Saturday, July 10 & Sunday, July 11 showsat...
CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS
to our Saturday, July 10 & Sunday, July 11 shows
at Theater29, Twentynine Palms, Calif.
Night has fallen on the desert, the desert at its most brutal. The punishing desert, the earthly purgatory, the sun-blasted wilderness so many heroes had to get across alive. Or die trying: Moses, Laurence of Arabia, C-3PO and R2D2, Beavis and Butthead, Allan Quartermain, Priscilla,…
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