Best bonus episode? No. Best episode, period • Desert heat – a mysterious babe in a ‘63 T-bird inflames Larry • Secrets of the desert • How are we really hardwired? • Why you need an IFZ – that’s Interference Free Zone • Why devices and social made have made us more pissed off than ever • Larry shoots a TV like Elvis • The man who became Kirk Cameron • All this and more!
I lived at the beach – not near the beach – ON the beach, for several years. Loved it.
Now I live in the desert that is Los Angeles. If Robert Mulholland and L.A. poltical thugs hadn’t stolen water from central California, L.A. would be a dust bowl. (See movie Chinatown for details.)
But the stolen water only made the dirt green. In other aspects, L.A. is still a desert – devoid of spirituality, devoid of honesty, devoid of honor, devoid of charity. It attracts narcissistic morons like arc lights attract moths. So what am I doing here? Don’t answer that.
Still, I dig the desert. The real desert; the one that’s honest and open and not made hospitable by stolen water. The desert of sand and rocks and scrub and cactus and scorpions and merciless sun. The desert that says “I think I can kill you – let’s see what you’re made of.” If it doesn’t fry you by day it will freeze you by night. That desert.
Along with threat of death, it lures you with seductive beauty. A landscape that changes by the hour. Secrets. Mystery. Hynotic colors. Moaning winds.
When you meet a woman on a beach, there’s no mystery. Bright sun, brief bikini, all is revealed. It’s a Barbie experience. What you see is what you get. Or not. Nice, but lacking adventure. Zero mystery.
When you meet a woman on a dark, desert highway, and she’s driving a Conocurs grade ’63 drop-top Thunderbird hurtling into the void at 75mph, well; that’s another experience entirely, isn’t it?
This is the best episode I’ve ever done. Yeah, it will cost you $5. That’s less than 1/3 the price of the last ticket your purchased for a movie. A movie you had forgotten before you reached the parking lot.
This episode will linger in your mind for a long time. Guranteed. Get it here.
See you this weekend for Sinners’ Sunday.