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How to avoid New Year’s disappointment ▲ Why NYC is the LAST place to be on New Year’s – or ever ▲ DISCOVERED – a white elephant in the Mojave desert! ▲ Why New Year’s is the holiday that should be eliminated ▲ You KNOW you hate New Year’s – dig this episode and know you are NOT alone!
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Most people think of deserts as barren wastelands. In fact, they host a wide array of wildlife, most visibly, the WHITE ELEPHANT. Some pipe dreams go up in smoke if the busted entrepreneur has the desperation to torch it for insurance. But insurance companies have gotten adept at exposing that chicanery. Most times, broke pipe dreamers just sell whatever crap they can and leave the building to rot.
Once in a great while, desert pipe dreams come true – like Las Vegas. But it’s always at a price. Bugsy Siegel – a true desert visionary, ironically was shot through the eye.
Why do deserts draw pipe dreamers and wantrepeneurs? Because the land is cheap. Its cheap because in summer, the desert is fucking unlivable, at least in daylight. Same as most of Florida. (IMHO, Florida is worse because humidity sucks.)
When exploring the fringes of the Mojave, you see many, many white elephants. Tropical themed motels, space alien/flying saucer restaurants, shit like that. They sit for decades, vandalized, baking in the sun, silently mocking the pipe dreamers who birthed them.
Once in a while, you get to see a White Elephant being born. .
There were about 4 dozen trailers like that, pretty much ass-to-cheek, scattered around a flat and unremarkable parcel of land off route 62, a main road in the high desert, also known as 29 Palms Highway. There isn’t much up there but strip malls and swap meets, motels and meth labs. Somebody obviously thinks people will want to go “glamping” in those Airstream trailers. Seems like a shit-headed idea. Especially in June, July and August, when temperatures in the area average 100 degrees, every fucking day. It will be interesting to see how well the HVAC in those unshaded metal tubes combat the merciless Mojave sun.
Desert people are a hardy breed. They don’t give a fuck what the neighbors think – like this guy.
Just across the street, was a pathetic little lawn sign, stuck in the dry dirt of a small tract home. It said – no, it whimpered…Biden-Harris.
A lot of people up there think they’re artists. Some are. Some just have a knack for scavenging weird shit and arranging it in interesting ways.
Like this disarmed matador. If a bull charges him, he’s fucked – or at a minimum, gored.
There’s a little “art colony” up there that co-opted the Dairy Queen logo. Not sure what that means artistically, but its the desert. Nobody really gives a shit.
Any trash can be art. Like this. I’ve seen far worse at NY’s Guggenheim with a 7-figure price on it. Aesthetics are in the eye of the beholder… or the pretentious art critic/whore.
Anything can be a museum, and is. A bottle-cap collection or those poodle themed crocheted ass-wipe roll covers your grandma – or great grandma used to make. Behold, the World Famous Crochet Museum.
Of all the Art Queen offerings, the next one is best, because it actually does something. You can pop in there and get a hair-do and check out everything having to do with hair. My wife and daughters love the place and the owner, Jeff Hafler, is a really nice guy. I highly recommend you visit the Beauty Bubble when in Joshua Tree. If you do, tell Jeff hello from the guy who asked about Spoolies. He’ll remember.
Happy New Year.
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