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Kaleb Horton

@kalebhorton.bsky.social
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A writer from Bakersfield, based in Los Angeles. GQ, MTV, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, Vanity Fair, Vice, Vox. Looking for work. Subscribe to my newsletter: kalebhorton.ghost.io For work stuff, I'm kaleb.c.horton at gmail. (I also do photography sometimes.)

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Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
David Letterman was a genius for retiring when he did. Perfect timing.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 18/09/2025
great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system
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Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
I won’t pretend to have any Big Thoughts about Robert Redford, but his last movie, The Old Man & The Gun, was really cute. I felt good when I left the theater, and that almost never happens. (Plus, Tom Waits in a supporting role.)
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Retro Commercial Screens @retrocommercials.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
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Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Most underrated Clash song? youtu.be/NrODxCsR4og?...
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The Clash - Somebody Got Murdered (Remastered) [Official Audio]
YouTube video by theclashVEVO
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Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
A moment of silence now to commemorate the tragic loss of John Ritter, who died this day in 2003 and should have won the Oscar for Sling Blade.
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Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I’m almost positive that the new Spinal Tap will be terrible and it bums me out so bad. Reminds me of the Zoolander sequel that was just a string of celebrity cameos.
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Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Sad and beautiful. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Md0Q...
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Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - Crawling Back to You (Official Dogs With Wings Rehearsal Video)
YouTube video by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
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Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
The only movie I care about seeing. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ Review: Cate Blanchett and Adam Driver in Jim Jarmusch’s Funny, Tender, Astutely Observed Jewel of a Family Triptych
Tom Waits, Indya Moore and Charlotte Rampling are also part of the ensemble in three minor-key stories about adult siblings and their parents, set in the Northeast U.S., Dublin and Paris.
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Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Rewatched Sling Blade. What a picture. John Ritter and Dwight Yoakam are so damn good in it.
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Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy
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Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Just learned that Jackie Robinson’s widow Rachel, founder of the Jackie Robinson Foundation, is somehow still kicking at 103.
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Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Any woman who stays with me needs to know that I have Dick Cavett reruns on twenty. four. hours. a. day. And I'm gonna try and talk about every single episode, even if I was in the other room.
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Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Hey, just to be clear, if anybody wants me to write something with them for money, I'm actually not bad at collaborating. I'm not some weird recluse.
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Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
I know this is old man stuff, but it's so funny that Robert Plant does one reunion show with Led Zeppelin, it works great, they threaten a tour that would make a billion dollars, he says nah, then he promptly runs away to make slowcore bluegrass for the rest of his life.
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Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
My review of the very good King of the Hill revival is that it needlessly makes me miss Tom Petty again. I was right there at the Hollywood Bowl and then snap. It was like ten minutes ago and it’s always gonna be ten minutes ago. Probably how people felt about Elvis. I get that now.
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Game Boy Ain't Right @gb-aint-right.vampirefriday.org · 09/08/2025
Game Boy Color Fridays
A screenshot from King of the Hill stylized as Game Boy Color graphics using the rusty brown color palette. Hank Hill is reading a note in his living room. Text at the bottom of the screen says "Mr. Hill, I just got my first period."A screenshot from King of the Hill stylized as Game Boy Color graphics using the rusty brown color palette. Hank Hill looks terrified with his mouth agape. Text on the bottom reads "BWAAAAAAH!"
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Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
I know I’m the second or third person to say this, but the script to The Producers is one of the funniest I’ve ever seen, and it boggles the mind that it came out in the 60s, an unfunny decade.
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Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Thinking about a dumb old thing I did. I can’t believe I didn’t get a copyright strike on this. youtu.be/xx9V-7TPW3U
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Star Wars The Force Awakens Official Third Trailer Monday Night Football
YouTube video by Kaleb Horton
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Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Sky.
A picture of clouds at sunset.
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Joseph Bien-Kahn @josephbienkahn.com · 01/08/2025
The great @kalebhorton.bsky.social wrote my favorite story from @essesmag.com Issue 02. It's online! And please watch the Instagram Reel in which noted GeorgeHead Kaleb correctly ID's "Faster" as "such a generic 1979 piece of cocaine Los Angeles session-guy pop." 👇 www.essesmag.com/articles/do-...
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Do or Die: On George Harrison, Living, Dying, and Formula 1
George Harrison may be thought of as a holy man, but the primordial ooze his career emerges from is made of cars.
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Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Need to cheer myself up so here's the best Twitter post ever. It spawned one billion bad ripoffs but it's a beautiful magic trick. You don't just read it in his voice: he said it now. This quote is real.
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Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
The founder of my favorite restaurant has died at 98. It sucks. kalebhorton.ghost.io/california-c...
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Road Food
So I did the math on this. Sat down, got out the legal pad, crunched the numbers. I have been to In-N-Out one billion times. I’ve spent so much of my life there that I have to earnestly say it’s part ...
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Brian Stack @brianstack153.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Thanks again to musician/host extraordinaire Chris Slusarenko for asking me to talk about the late, great Townes Van Zandt and other stuff on his “Revolutions Per Movie” podcast. I had a great time. @revpermovie.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
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'BE HERE TO LOVE ME - A FILM ABOUT TOWNES VAN ZANDT' w/ Brian Stack
Podcast Episode · REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE · 07/17/2025 · 1h 5m
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Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
This is a career-length fixation for me, because I want production to come back and because it’s awesome. Justified definitely did this if you pay attention but even that’s not egregious enough.
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Brie Hubble @briehubble.com · 09/07/2025
Finally ate some Pioneer Chicken and remembered the great @kalebhorton.bsky.social piece for the dearly departed The LAnd mag thelandmag.com/pioneer-frie...
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The Rise and Fall of Pioneer Chicken, the Last Great L.A. Chicken Shack
There are two Pioneer Chickens left in Los Angeles: One in Boyle Heights and one in Bell Gardens. I made it my mission to see both.
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Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Gonna write a Charles Bukowski poem. I call it "los angeles winter." whiskey, good women bad but maybe it's the other way around
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Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Route 66.
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Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
My pal Dave with the best 4th of July song anyone will ever write: youtu.be/1BtzpaCZnjA?...
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Dave Alvin - Fourth of July (Live From Austin TX)
YouTube video by Live From Austin TX
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Huge get, here. I know a lot of people will tell you to "eat shit" and "get fucked" but I think it's a good lesson in why it's important for a science reporter to be sourced up in the Anonymous Twitter Eugenicist community. So you can write important stories like this in the New York Times.
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Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Speaking as someone from California who has never been to any part of New York and probably never will, I hear way too much about the New York Times. It sounds like they’re run by fascist weirdos, but it shouldn’t be any of my business either.
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RJ “Quantity Over Quality” White @rjwhite.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Thank you, @kalebhorton.bsky.social, for reminding me of one of my favorite Swartzwelder gags.
JOLLY COMEDYJOKES
by John Swartzwelder

BRIDE: (QUIETLY, TEARFUL) Ladies and gentlemen...I'm afraid there won't be a wedding after all. Because, you see... my fiance has... has died.
HECKLER FROM BACK PEW: Louder!
BRIDE: (LOUDER, ALMOST HYSTERICAL) My fiance has
died!
ANOTHER HECKLER: Funnier!
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Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Okay, enough moping. I'm back to the newsletter. It's about how great Army Man is. kalebhorton.ghost.io/army-man-ame...
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Army Man: America's Only Magazine.
A note from the editor: We offer our sincere apologies for taking a brief hiatus from this newsletter while Kaleb “Spike” Horton recovered from injuries sustained during an altercation that forced hi...
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Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Earnest post: I've been really ~going through it~ lately, lots of stress and upheaval, and I'm really thankful to everybody who's supported me here. Life is bewildering but other people help it almost make sense.
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Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Beverly Hills, California.
Midcentury 76 station in Beverly Hills, designed by Gin Wong.
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Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Still on my Army Man bullshit. “Perhaps we’ve become inured to it” has been stuck in my head since before I was allowed to vote, and it’s still stuck there after.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
When a drug-sniffing dog retires they should let the dog finally take drugs
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Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
I love reading this Swartzwelder joke aloud, but it helps to pronounce it “vahz.”
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Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Tossing and turning through endless sleepless nights wondering what happened to the guy who made Space Moose and why I can't buy a physical copy of the strips.
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Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Double-checked yesterday and Bill’s Burgers is still definitely the best burger in Los Angeles. I respect Apple Pan defenders but regrettably I have to dock it several points for being on the westside.
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Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
I don't like science fiction because why send a person into space when you can send computers that don't die, but the original Star Wars is like watching American Graffiti on the best drugs of all time. Every revision made that worse. What an awful headline. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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‘Star Wars’ “Looks Terrible” in Screening of Long Lost Original 1977 Version
The years have not been kind to the oft-romanticized original print of the sci-fi classic, which lacks all of George Lucas' post-release tweaks and polishes and looks "like a completely different film...
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Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
One of life’s simple pleasures: pouring a big glass of cool clean water and slamming the whole stupid thing in two seconds.
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Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
It’s always funny to look up any historical, whimsical American thing and find out it was from the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. That’s where all of it happened.
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Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Rewatching an SNL sketch that is, despite its popularity, somehow better than advertised. Perfect premise, perfect execution. youtu.be/rImxuuD_kwM?...
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What's That Name - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Politics Opinion: Los Angeles should have at least one convenient Arby’s location. I want those fries so bad but I am not driving to Ontario.
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Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Damn it. youtu.be/oPEIFMSAkcQ?...
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Underdog
YouTube video by Sly and the Family Stone - Topic
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Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
It’s *hilarious* how much work they put into this. They treated it like a lost Orson Welles film. youtu.be/neDdNOxjH7U?...
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Restoring Dirty Work's Lost Cut
YouTube video by Vinegar Syndrome
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Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
I know it's been contentious but I really like the plot decision in the King of the Hill reboot that the Hills move to Saudi Arabia for oil industry reasons non-Texans know nothing about.
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Kaleb Horton @kalebhorton.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
The new Mission Impossible: a 100 minute movie that's three hours long and lousy with people just staring at each other, but good Lord the aerial stunts at the end are unbelievable. It's like Tom Cruise thinks he actually can't die. Worth the IMAX ticket just for airplane stuff.
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