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In a Future Far, Far Beyond the Festival
The Ridgecrest Petroglyph Festival is finished. But I have 'concepts for a plan' that maybe aren't impossible.
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Barret Baumgart
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October 2024

Fence Lines of the Rational Mind
Forget "that spooky feeling" and choose good clean thinking (The Heights of Weird Part 4)
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Democrats Control U! (and the weather)
Before you kill yourself, consider reading this fun and informative snippet from America's finest unknown work of nonfiction.
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Barret Baumgart
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September 2024

China Lake Petroglyph Fest Update
Protests and activism inspired by my reporting on the Ridgecrest Petroglyph Festival, sordid appropriator of the sacred Native American artwork …
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Barret Baumgart
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Pagan Vision for the Autumn Season
Read J.A. Baker's masterpiece The Peregrine this fall.
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Barret Baumgart
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August 2024

July 2024

Rain Falls When a Mountain Sheep is Killed
Shamanism, Climate Intervention, and Uncanny Coincidence in the Mojave Desert (The Heights of Weird Part 3)
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June 2024

Scratching the Surface
The shallow, random roots of an abiding obsession (The Heights of Weird Part 2)
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Barret Baumgart
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High Weirdness
"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t."
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Barret Baumgart
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Stress Ruins Flesh
Learning to Embrace the Future in a World of Change - “We are the ones who should ‘Dream dreams and see Visions’—visions of a better City to be.”
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Barret Baumgart
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33:23

May 2024

Solar Geoengineering & Santa Susana
Time to buy your sunblock and Boeing stock (The Heights of Weird Part 1)
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Barret Baumgart
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Special Dumpster News
This depressing blog is now a bad Podcast
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Barret Baumgart
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