There was nothing better this week than Willie Nelson by accident with the Republicans

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A few dozen Texas Conservatives have apparently decided this week that they hate Willie Nelson because the country music star is planning to attend a rally with MP Beto O'Rourke, the Democrat who is running against Senator Ted Cruz. November.

It's not so good that he's deeply rich and hilarious – the idea of ​​people discovering, after all these years, that Willie Effing Nelson might not be a Texan Republican like them. Willie, of course, is a hero of the weed legalization movement and sits on the board of directors of an animal welfare organization. He is friends with the Clinton and the Obama, and he recorded protest songs and tunes of the Iraq war on gay cowboys: In 2005, Willie made an appearance on the soundtrack of "Brokeback Mountain" . The following year, he recorded a cover of Ned Sublette's Cowboys Are Freently, Secretly Fond of Secret, which began with these words:

Well, there are a lot of strange impulses in the plains of West Texas.

There are many young people who feel things they do not understand.

And a small town does not like when someone falls between the sexes.

No, a small town does not like when a cowboy has feelings for men.

My man was not subtle about his political convictions, and the false indignation (these people will always listen to Willie Nelson, become real) immediately reminded me of what Sturgill Simpson had said after calling our president "a fucking fascist pig Last year: "Anyone who is surprised to hear that it's going to bother me or stop buying my records, it probably was not listening to him anyway. It's time to spend the weekend putting a little something in the air for old Willie, I guess. – Travis Waldron

I can not stop looking at this outrageously happy photo of Alessandra Biaggi, the 32-year-old lawyer who beat Senator Jeffrey D. Klein on Thursday at the Democratic New York primary. Biaggi, who will likely be going to the Legislature after the November general election, not only becomes another millennial woman to lead and win, but she also toppled the head of the Independent Democratic Conference, a group of Senate Democrats. the state of New York.

In the photo above, captured by the New York Times, Biaggi has a wide open-mouthed smile (is she screaming "yes"?) And her eyes crumpled, her fist lifted powerfully up into the sky. For many people on the left, there have been few festive moments since November 2016, so when they happen, it's just delicious to see them unfold. – Emma Gray

"A Simple Favor" is the perfect summer mailing: a vampy, poppy "Gone Girl" that twists and turns in the hands of a devilish Blake Lively, Anna Kendrick, a grumpy mom, and a smoking Henry Golding. What should not benefit? It's both a comedy of mates, a mystery of murder, a saga of revenge and a slice of black camp, and it's more fun than two-thirds of the movies that aired in July and August.

Paul Feig – him of "Freaks and Geeks" and "Bridesmaids" – expands his warehouse to deconstruct a well-appointed Connecticut suburb where the wealth of the schoolyard turns everyone into a caricature. The performances of "A Simple Favor" are important, as is the plot, as it should be. Kendrick is Stephanie, a healthy housewife who shares recipes ("my famous meatballs without meat!") And platitudes on a blog with a few hundred viewers. This number skyrockets when Stephanie is immersed in the disappearance of a comrade (Lively) who becomes an unlikely friend. Suddenly, she documents the investigation online, fueling the plot of suspect and armchair detective. The salacious attraction is strong.

As the riddle deepens, the film becomes more intense. It's a caricature in treatment but not in practice: Kendrick gives his dog shy Instagram a loneliness that accentuates his enslavement understandable to Lively sneers. But Stephanie's facade fades as the plot turns into a victim and a culprit.

The husband of the writer (Golding, abs and all), local vultures obsessed by the drama (including those of Andrew Rannells and Aparna Nancherla), and the famous Jean Smart and Linda Cardellini are welcome. The back half is a bit too long, but it's so much of a surprise that it has helped us get there. Do yourself a favor and eat all that. – Matt Jacobs

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo won the Democratic primary on Thursday, which we all knew for the most part, and for me, personally, I hate it. His victory was not bad, however, because it reminded me of this:

In December 2016, as part of his tireless quarrel with New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, Cuomo took it upon himself to ensure that only one deer lost was tortured to death because he wanted the loss of the mayor. Here are four more years of this classic practical governance of Cuomo. – Ashley Feinberg

I'll just let you into this exchange between a Jamaican flag and a producer of "Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story," a series of docu describing Martin's death in the hands of a white vigilante in Florida. and the consequences.

White guy: The vast majority of people think that it is a heritage symbol. It is a symbol of our history that people think they are associated with the South and that the South is fighting for slavery. This is a common misconception about what really happened. When you study history, it was one thing about the war. People do not go to war for a problem.

Producer: Name three other things about the war.

Cognitive dissonance: I mean, I am not a historian. I mean, you put me up for something you – you know.

Producer: So we had one thing about the war: slavery. What are the other two things about the war?

Racist statement: Um, uh, the confederate – The, uh … In general, the war was linked to tyranny.

Producer: What is tyranny?

Racist caught in lighthouse: Tyranny is always a government beyond and they control too much life.

Confederate flag at the back of my truck: Lean back, look at the producer silently.

I should not laugh, but I am because it's funny to see how people can not intellectually defend their racist views, because there is no big and deep argument that justifies the protection of the Confederate flag. You are just racist. And this racist bombarded everyone in this 54-second exchange. It was great to watch. That made me feel even better about being black – something I already take a lot of pride from. – Julia Craven

People, it's not closed this time around: The best thing I saw this week was "Minding the Gap," a relatively new documentary now available on Hulu. The film traces the lives of three teenagers – an Asian, a Black and a White – who share the love of skateboarding as they grow up in the economically ravaged town of Rockford, Illinois. One of them, Bing Liu, is the creator of the film. And with "Minding the Gap," Liu moves away from his childhood hobby of making skateboarding movies to making one of the best movies – let alone documentaries – I've seen in years. Like any good documentary, "Minding the Gap" does not really concern the outward-looking subject, skateboarding. What really matters is class and race, spousal abuse and broken homes, drugs and alcohol, love and friendship – and how our experiences with these kids never leave us. Watch this movie You will not regret it. – Maxwell Strachan

The Beatles were in the news this week for reasons of masturbation. Good for them! I smile at myself knowing that these soft-haired poets, instead of saying good night, could really shake them up.

This news story was good, but what I really recommend is this, from a thread of writer Nicole Cliffe on the Beatles songs that are directed against an "Antagonist" That No One Else Cares About ":

What?? The Beatles wrote a song about Eric Clapton's teeth and no one has told me so far?

Look, it's also about me. I liked the Beatles. But "Savoy Truffle" was not a song that marked me, and I never really listened to the lyrics.

In revisiting them, it's not quite subtle: "You know that what you eat is / But what is sweet now becomes so bitter," says a verse after the Fab Four have explored a list of candies. The chorus is disturbing: "We must make them all out / after the truffle of Savoy".

George Harrison confirmed that he had written the song for their dear friend Clapton, to whom his dentist had asked him to give up the candy because his teeth were dissolving more and more under the constant onslaught of sugar. "He still had a toothache, but he ate a lot of chocolates – he could not resist them, "Harrison recalled.

After getting armed with this research, I again listened to "Savoy Truffle", and the gain was as sweet as a tangerine candy. I did not stop laughing. Nobody could get away now. Aaron Carter, ten years old, would have been embarrassed to record a song about candies by offering you cavities in fact on the candies giving you cavities. L & # 39; audacity! L & # 39; ego! I have never been so happy. – Claire Fallon

All chapters in the graphic memory of Liana Finck Passage for the man are labeled Chapter 1; each is a false start, a new point of origin for the creation myth detailing the arrival of Finck and the book itself. Finck – whose drawings appear in The New Yorker and who worship on Instagram – is very much appreciated for his nerve-sketching style, which makes his painful and painful drawings seem to have butterflies themselves. His visual explorations of loneliness, creative helplessness and the feeling of being a total nutty often seem to have been ripped off at the entrance of the newspaper that you would like to be eloquent enough to create. This beautifully unorthodox narrative, grappling with the themes above, blends childhood memories with family folklore and sinuous reveries into Finck's quest to tell his story as an extraordinary artist. If you have ever felt like a strange bird more than a human being, read it. – Priscilla Frank

There's nothing better this week than country artist Tyler Childers, who screams, everyone and everything. Childers won the Emerging Artist of the Year Award at the 17th annual Americana Awards and Recognition Awards on Wednesday.

"I do not know how it happened, but the best, I can say, you left the back door open and now there is a furious hilljack in your living room, covered with goat blood and dying Want to know how "Americana" hits them in the same places as the words "Appalachia" and "Childers," said Childers, pointing out the pronunciation errors of "Appalachia" (Apple-at-cha, do not Appa-lay-sha) and his own name, which Anthony Mason of CBS News massacred by introducing Childers (Chill-derse, not Child-ers) with his prize.

"He's dragging along my spine. I'm calling Tyler Childers. I am an Appalachian artist from the foothills of eastern Kentucky and I play country music. As a man who identifies as a country music singer, I think Americana is not a part of anything, diverting attention from the problems we face as country music singers. It's like being in purgatory, "said Childers, citing his most recent album, which deserves a listen. – Paige Lavender

How do you follow a show that everyone says is poop? Obviously, you make Season 2 all about poo.

In the new season 2 "American Vandal", documentary filmmaker Peter Maldonado (Tyler Alvarez) is back to find out who falsified lunch at St. Bernardine High School. Will he find out who forced the students to rank second, or will his investigation leave him in a deep doo-doo? Idk, but poo poo is crap. – Bill Bradley

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