16 thoughts on “Desert Area Man Band

  1. Hey gang! I was reminiscing earlier tonight at that one mommyblog about desert area man Ken Layne, and Zippy told me to swing by here and wave my fusty p-ness around, for old times' sake. Also, too, I upfisted everyone while I was at it – I'm ambisextrous – and it felt like the first time.

    It felt like the very first time.

    I still find it hard to reconcile Ken's speaking voice and amiable one-on-one demeanor with his saguaro-like behind-the-mic persona, which I guess is actually closer to how one might expect him to sound based upon much of his pre-Desert Oracle writings.

    What makes it even weirder is that when he goes out for drinks, he wears a suit and tie, but when he goes out on stage, he wears a black ten-gallon hat and old timey train engineer overalls.

    1. Hey! Careful with that fusty p-ness. You could put somebody's eye out!

      Desert Area Man is a complex character, of complex complexity.

      1. Put somebody's eye out? At best, I might hope for a couple cases of fust-related moderate to severe asthma attacks.

        Desert Area Man is a character complex, of uncharacteristically characteristic character, which is his most characteristically complex characteristic, complexly.

    2. Fusty P. Ness is my new hotel pseudonym sign-in.

      Good to see you and you're always welcome to join the general debauchery here.

      Most people run away from a stage persona; Desert Area Man runs towards a stage persona.

      1. That "nom de where" will undoubtedly serve you splendidly as you embark upon your noble quest to circumambuleight the globe in ninety-six hours shy of a half-dozen fortnights.

        Desert Area Man runs towards everything now, because in retrospect, riding a horse with no name that was impossible to call for when it inevitably went maverick was maybe not the best idea to ever shake out of someone's bootcut 501s.

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