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Drag Riffing On Music and Guns
Just another way to stay sane amidst the crazy
I forgot to watch the CMT Music Awards on Sunday night, mainly because I’ve become obsessed with Under the Banner of Heaven, the Hulu/FX original series based on Jon Krakauer’s book, which I should have read but which I’m not sure I will read now, because just how deep in the fundamentalist crazy land can I stand to wade?
I have one episode in the series left to watch, so no spoiler alerts from me or anyone else, except to note that there are Mormons in this show who are awfully cruel to dogs, and each other, which makes them more mainstream than maybe they want to be.
So it took me a few days to hear about that CMT show, which was hosted by Kelsea Ballerini, who also hosted SNL a few weeks ago, proving that she’s this moment’s IT woman in a good way, as opposed to another blond-headed woman, from Georgia, who is certainly another form of “it” all right, as in that old sci-fi cultie film from the 50’s It Came From Outer Space (and I don’t mean anything like “Space Cowboy,” either).
I mean, did you read the morning news or watch the little scene in the park across from the courthouse yesterday where the seeming fascist and clearly white supremacist MAGA pinup girl made some…curious comparisons between “saviors”: