Kaleb Horton
@kalebhorton.bsky.social
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.)
For work stuff, I'm kaleb.c.horton at gmail. (I also do photography sometimes.)
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Kaleb Horton
@kalebhorton.bsky.social
· Jun 10
Howdy all. Wanted to come up with a good first post but unfortunately ran out of time so I'll do a bad one instead. I've written for MTV, Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair and I'm looking for a job. This is my biggest piece: https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/22570738/chowchilla-school-bus-kidnapping
David Letterman was a genius for retiring when he did. Perfect timing.
September 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
David Letterman was a genius for retiring when he did. Perfect timing.
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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
September 18, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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
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.)
September 16, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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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Most underrated Clash song? youtu.be/NrODxCsR4og?...
The Clash - Somebody Got Murdered (Remastered) [Official Audio]
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September 11, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Most underrated Clash song? youtu.be/NrODxCsR4og?...
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.
September 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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.
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.
September 10, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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.
Sad and beautiful. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Md0Q...
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - Crawling Back to You (Official Dogs With Wings Rehearsal Video)
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September 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Sad and beautiful. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Md0Q...
The only movie I care about seeing. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
‘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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August 31, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The only movie I care about seeing. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Rewatched Sling Blade. What a picture. John Ritter and Dwight Yoakam are so damn good in it.
August 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Rewatched Sling Blade. What a picture. John Ritter and Dwight Yoakam are so damn good in it.
oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy
August 17, 2025 at 2:40 AM
oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy
Just learned that Jackie Robinson’s widow Rachel, founder of the Jackie Robinson Foundation, is somehow still kicking at 103.
August 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Just learned that Jackie Robinson’s widow Rachel, founder of the Jackie Robinson Foundation, is somehow still kicking at 103.
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.
August 15, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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.
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.
August 15, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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.
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.
August 14, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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.
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.
August 14, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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 Color Fridays
August 8, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Game Boy Color Fridays
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.
August 14, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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.
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
Star Wars The Force Awakens Official Third Trailer Monday Night Football
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August 9, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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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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-...
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-...
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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August 1, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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-...
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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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.
January 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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.
The founder of my favorite restaurant has died at 98. It sucks. kalebhorton.ghost.io/california-c...
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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July 29, 2025 at 12:24 AM
The founder of my favorite restaurant has died at 98. It sucks. kalebhorton.ghost.io/california-c...
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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
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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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July 17, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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
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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.
Watching an episode of Murder She Wrote that's set in New Orleans where they just drove down through Hollywood & Vine, directly past the Capitol Records building. They should start making TV like this again.
July 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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.