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Voice of the Desert: After Making a Name at Gawker and Wonkette, Ken Layne Created the ‘Desert Oracle’ to Showcase the Wacky, Weird and Wonderful of the High Desert

It was early 2018. I’d just become a desert resident and was shopping at the Cactus Mart in Morongo Valley. A small yellow booklet with an illustration of a Joshua Tree and the title “DESERT ORACLE” in stark black letters caught my eye. “A pocket field guide to the strange and mysterious Mojave,” it said […]

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