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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The main thing I’ve discovered about being over 40 years old is that you’re gonna stub a toe on something everyday. This isn’t a metaphor. You’re gonna physically slam your actual foot into a big thing that was just sitting where it is all the time. This happens every day.

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This is why the full saying is “get back on the horse that threw you.” You have to get back on that horse, right then; not just any horse at some later time.

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

No, I just think it’s a good song and I know most other Jones fans do too. I would have to dig deep into some boxes right now to be sure if I even made a note of that “cosmically moronic” comment. But also I know I said similar things about other Jones songs that many people love.

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

New test for whether a band sucks or not is could they do a good cover of “I Need You” by The Kinks. If they can’t, straight garbage.

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

me emceeing a live event in 2026: “Alright, how we doin?! Everyone having a bad time tonight!?! Good, good…”

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

idk, have you tried putting "Computer Love" by Kraftwerk on repeat about it?

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Every time I hear “Far Away Eyes” it makes me want to administer the Ludovico technique to Mick Jagger.

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Excerpts from today’s Patreon post, up now. Wrestling with how to save the world through a podcast about country music. You know, the usual.

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Other day I was in a Lyft, very nice and new with a strong scent of cinnamon and actual butthole. Driver was an older guy with lots of jewelry blasting rave music so I couldn’t tell if the butthole smell was something that had happened in the car or a just a note he liked in the air freshener.

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Ever since I figured out how to make my own ringtones, like 15 years ago, “I Wanna Be Adored” has been the ringtone on my phone. I’ve never gotten sick of it. RIP Mani

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

It’s entirely insane that “stars” became a term we use to refer to celebrities. If I go outside and look up on a clear night, I am reminded of the scale of the universe and it puts my problems in perspective. None of that happens when former Mickey Mouse Club cast members do a pap walk.

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Oh this song is called “I Shot the Sheriff” that sounds cool I hope the guy in the song doesn’t turn out to be a total bitch about it

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Democrats Concede to Republican Demands of Throwing Newborns into Volcano, Citing Need for Return to Bipartisan Normalcy

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Got a haircut so, regrettably, it is once again over for you hoes

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

In a world that made any sense the average prices of an album and a concert ticket would be the inverse of what they are now.

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Can’t wait for SexGPT to start convincing guys it would be hot to self castrate

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I wish I had a supercut video of the past ten years showing clips of whatever Lyft drivers were listening to before they saw me wearing cowboy boots while walking to their vehicle and assumed I have the worst taste in music

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

it is actually hilarious that Taylor Swift has decided this is a good time to release a new album

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

A quick reminder that this thread is turning into the best overall place collating Kaleb's longer-form work; Jake's been steadily adding to it, with the latest entries just today. (And the tweets and the photography and the podcast and etc. are all out there too.)

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Some important info on Kaleb Horton and his writing for MTV: as I learned, he'd reupped the Merle piece on his site earlier this year, but otherwise his 2016-2017 work there was scrubbed and long unavailable. Happily, I was able to find a Wayback link with them all. Share, read, and remember.

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Just logged in to Twitter to read all of my DMs with Kaleb and now I am really, really sad. This is a person who was unquestionably fumbled by American media. I feel like making a list of people who should have been forced to hand it all over to him. I might even fucking be one of them.

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

And now I'm just spelunking around and here's this Facebook post by Kaleb Horton from September 2017. It was three months after MTV dumped its freelancers. I'm sure it would have been a piece there; instead he posted this on FB just to have it written out: Toys 'R' Us as societal microcosm.

$The ghost sightings happen in stupid places, unexpected places, and uncool places. A few months ago, I went with Marie to the Toys R Us on Victory Blvd. in Burbank, which still looks exactly like it did in Back to the Future in 1985 somehow. It's not nostalgia that you see there, it's just a customer base and economic model that's aging and won't be around a lot longer, and it's *boring.* There's no reason for anyone to ever go to Lancer's, the little diner by that Toys R Us. Because it's not good. People go there out of tradition, and old habits. 80 and 90 year olds go there. We were lining up for a Nintendo, which is still a hard thing to keep stocked in stores. Toys R Us was actually the best place to obtain one, because it's no longer a place children beg their parents to take them to. When we went in, wham, there it was. The ghost of 1996. I was 8 years old, for a fraction of a second. The feeling wasn't nostalgia, it was a kind of temporal dislocation. A confusion. But it wasn't an immaculate 1996, it was a fading 1996. It was lonelier than I remember it. It's time for Toys R Us to go out of business. It was time ten years ago, fifteen. There are reasons to be nostalgic about the 20th century. We weren't plugged into so many wires, so many screens. We were a little bit closer to the process of manufacturing and agriculture than we are now. We made more things by hand, and our goals as people were uniquely audacious and driven by mad, desperate power that was temporary and had to end.$

But the 20th century was hopelessly cruel and soaked in blood. The 20th century gave us flight, but it also gave us bombs that can end the world and Richard Nixon and his evil sidekick Kissinger and it gave us new mutations of slavery and race and class subjugation and it gave us useless, disgusting monuments to Confederate slavers and traitors and cowards. It gave us President Trump, who wouldn't exist today without New York City's collective cocaine addiction in the 1980s.
I want to find the ghosts, not because I miss the past -- the good old days can't return because they're imaginary and what you really miss is youth and if you're lucky a warm feeling of safety -- but because I don't even know what things we'll lose, or when we'll lose them, or how long we have to document them. I know ghosts when I see them. Toys R Us for the mundane side and the Salton Sea for the widescreen wasteland side. But I have absolutely no idea how many there are.
I figure people go first, then places. Those are the things we have a limited time to physically document and historically examine and preserve on film. The ideas will go away much slower, and some of them may be eternal, like cold wars. But those are a lot less fun because you don't get to drive to them.

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Failing to get into metal and hardcore as a teenager is fundamentally doing youth incorrectly.

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

can someone play Aphex Twin for RFK Jr? I just want to see what happens

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Just for the record, I was raptured but when nobody else was I decided to come back

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Alright, I thought about just not saying anything (because that’s always an option, believe it or not) but ultimately decided I do have a responsibility to point out that Blow is the best Red Lorry Yellow Lorry album.

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Wait, what happened. I thought we were doing a civil war to eradicate the ideology of the shooter. What haaaaaaaaappened

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/09/2025

Q: My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. How are you holding up? TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

“Uh..” *turning to look behind me while keeping mouth on mic because I’m a pro* “…I guess… I guess not counting gang violence?”

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I’m glad I got into music before streaming services because I just looked at Ennio Morricone’s album discography on Tidal and what in the fuck

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I support Tyler Childers in his Try Singing Along to This One era

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

A bunch of assholes are mad that Rogan isn't on this list and my show's artwork appears in the preview image every time it gets shared to social media, so I'm prob about to get review-bombed. If you've ever enjoyed C&R but haven't left a review, now would be a great time. time.com/collections/...

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

This month’s Patreon post went up last night. Tried to talk about one reason the world looks broken, so it’s a bit more than usual.

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Interesting how many “love it or leave it” guys flip out when their wife wants a divorce

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

It’s amazing that the Grammy’s think they’ve found a solution by inventing Best Contemporary Country and Best Traditional Country categories rather than opening themselves up to approximately 450% more drama.

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

I like the A.I. CEOs whining about not being able to do copyright infringement for their "world-fixer" tech because the implication is that the cure for cancer is in some fucking Tom Waits lyrics somewhere or something and we've all just been too stupid to realize it

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Someone should stand outside holding a sign about all of this.

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Maybe the coolest looking book I’ve ever seen?

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 07/05/2025

FFS. Spotify are now making the number of plays each episode of each podcast has had (on Spotify, not on the myriad other, better, podcast apps which you should use instead) publicly visible. I don't even track my own stats, I don't want random people seeing them.

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I believe in the death penalty but only for people who park their car in front of your driveway or mailbox

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Bedlam in Goliath > Frances the Mute > self-titled > Amputechture > Deloused > Lucro sucio > Noctourniquet > Octahedron None of them are bad but that’s the ranking.

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Been taking a lot of doctor-prescribed walks around the neighborhood (apparently I need to calm down?) and East Nashville’s mural game has really gone to shit in the past five years

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 12/04/2025

“There’s a button that the President can push that will get everyone to pay attention to him, and he’s going to keep pressing it because it makes him feel important” is as important to understanding what’s going on as “he actually thinks that tariffs work”

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Everything I said about Herbert Hoover in S1 was a warning about Donald Trump bringing us to where we are right now. The class politics of S2 should be blatantly obvious to anyone operating at better than a fourth-grade reading level.

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Sorry, neither Kendrick nor Drake won the beef because neither of them based a whole diss track around a sample of the intro of "A Pox on You" by Silver Apples.

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