Don't you just hate it when your gritty hideout becomes cool

One of my desert pals sent me this horrific article from the LA Times Home section yammering about how chic the Morongo basin is becoming. Everything gets gentrified eventually, even the weird desert out beyond. My pals all live 20 miles east of Joshua Tree, on the other side of Twentynine Palms, but 20 miles is not nearly far enough. My friend's comment, sent with the email, was simply: "WHAT"S HAPPENING???" The answer's in the article, in which a musician is quoted: "We'd seen enough galleries and been to enough gigs and I didn't want to see or hear anything else. All I wanted to do was work."