I am a part of a book club in which you do not have to read to take part in. The books are more of an excuse to get together than a reason. So far we have read or not read 16 books. Since it is more about the company than the reading i decided to try an experiment, a book club field trip to the Reanimation Library Joshua Tree Branch.
What is the Reanimation Library? Well it is a project to repurpose books that have fallen out of circulation. Read more about it here.
When I was volunteering at the last bookstore I helped a friend cull the labyrinth for interesting books like facercize for the Joshua Tree outpost and I was excited to see a new purpose for these books. I tried to enlist as many of the bookclubbers as i could, but alas there were only 2 that were game and one of those is not a member of bookclub.
There are a couple of desert traditions we always abide by whenever we take to trip out east we always get Date Shakes at Hadley's by the Cabazon dinosaurs and outlets and we alway eat at Pappy and Harriet's. This time we went into Pioneertown to see what that is all about. It reminded me the Forest History Center in my hometown, but this was definitely during off season there was no one there to teach us how to tie rope, there was no staged stampede at high noon. Oh well. Unfortunately the Jack Cass saloon was closed.
Pappy and Harriet's is a very interesting place and has the best people watching in the desert and has strangely big name bands that come through. That night Les Claypools duo de Twang was playing. I know you are probably who is that, but he was in a band called Primus who was big during the grunge time, also Cat Power, Queens of the Stone Age, Rufus Wainwright and his sister, etc. If you are ever out there check out their concert listings. It is outside where there are a million stars.
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