Why start a venture with stories about poop? It’s a terrible idea, it’s unprofessional, it’s juvenile, it’s gross.
Todos hacemos caca, so the saying goes. Everyone poops. Kurt Vonnegut speculates that a million years from now, the one thread that connects humans then with the humans of our time is that when someone farts, everyone giggles. The Fool of Tarot laughs as he sets off under his own steam, bound for adventure, showing his ass to the past. Stink and poop are always in the trickster’s arsenal because we first experience and understand the world through our bodies, which excrete and eliminate in all kinds of hilariously smelly ways.
There’s a reason Coyote of the legend is stereotyped as being constantly ravenous: they seem to enjoy eating everything. And it stands to reason with a diet made up of everything that the end product is equally mythical.
I have always loved trickster tales and for the most part this podcast will be about the scammers and politicians and conmen who populate New Mexico’s history so richly. But just like any academic study starts with the Greeks, it seems right that this podcast should start with my favorite trickster, showing his whole ass.
Desert Abundance is a very personal project, born out of decades loving the lands and people of New Mexico. Perhaps these are not my stories to tell, and for that I’m sorry. I love these stories a lot, and hope I do them justice.
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