The godmother of folk has emerged from the diamonds and rust to bear some advice: The antidote to watching and reading too much news is immersing yourselves in the fictional Pacific Northwest. Not Frasier. Not Twin Peaks. Ever heard of the Cullens? When asked by Rolling Stone about how she now chooses to get updates about the administration, Joan Baez admitted it’s all a bit of a balancing act while witnessing “the horrible cruelty that takes place every day” in our country. “When I was retired from touring, I thought, ‘I’ll watch once in a while.’ But it wasn’t like this. So, I dole it out,” she said of cable news. “I read Substack and watch Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, and John Oliver. And then I’ll turn on a movie like Twilight. Just terrible. But it’s wonderful to watch. It’s got nothing to do with fucking anything.” (The vampire baseball scene, cinema at its finest, disagrees.) She also may have secretly been in the crowd at the Governors Ball last weekend to check in on her man. “Don’t forget to mention my crush on Hozier,” she added. “Take me to church with that bad boy.” Hozier, if you’re reading this, go shoot your shot.
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