I had to think for a long while how best to remember that remarkable writer and good soul, Kaleb Horton. I have done what I could. "An Absent Friend," via my Tumblr.

(fingers crossed) gwar ... gwar ... gwar ... gwar ... gwar ...

I wonder if Chotiner has plans to interview Klein.

Four (!) hours of new music from Tuluum Shimmering tuluumshimmering.bandcamp.com/album/leapin...

To be honest, I don’t understand how any of them are going to say anything funnier than “Riyadh comedy festival”

Awhile back, @quartzcity.bsky.social and @kalebhorton.bsky.social and I shared a group project about a damned ship on a damned voyage, over on Twitter. I've been motivated to clean it up (twitter cut/paste is ugly) and post it. www.highway62press.com/single-post/...

Well this is weird

I hold many grudges against "Artificial Intelligence", but perhaps the biggest one is how confusing this era is for all us Weird Al Yankovic fans.

I had to think for a long while how best to remember that remarkable writer and good soul, Kaleb Horton. I have done what I could. "An Absent Friend," via my Tumblr.

Just a quick note to say that, unsurprisingly, @sparksofficial.bsky.social did it again last night in SF, my fourteenth time seeing them in almost three decades of catching them as often as I can. (Living near LA helped during a lot of that time.) More in this Friday's Patreon.

If anyone else wasn’t aware of Kaleb Horton until he died, you need to read this thread.

There he is! This was a real dream to do, I grew up on 80s Banshees / Creatures, Budgie's rhythms are etched into my soul, and it was amazing to find out his outlook and way of being somehow explain those rhythms. Thx @kasimiira.bsky.social and obvs @briandavidstevens.bsky.social for lush pics

Doing some self care tonight.

One last Kaleb Horton tribute for today: He and Sean McTiernan gave us maybe the best one-stop breakdown of "Twin Peaks: The Return." it's long but worth it. lastexit.libsyn.com/episode-103-...

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I’m never going to stop being mad that hedge funds and tech middlemen siphoned off all the money that should’ve let someone like Kaleb Horton have the career he deserved

I got sent this last night by @nochorus.bsky.social and it was the first thing I listened to this morning and I laughed and laughed, thanks Kaleb Horton, you madman, only you could have made this wonderful object.

Let’s improve this day with some @sparksofficial.bsky.social

Fuck he was so fucking good at eulogizing things that the only fitting eulogy we have for him is sharing his words about others.

Gorgeous writing It’s a melancholy eulogy for the 20th century There are three images with Alt-text It’s worth reading Don’t miss it

Thinking about how this is how Kaleb Horton lives on is so depressing and enraging. How little value his work was shown by the bastards who hold the money and make the choices. Thank you for posting this, upsetting a reminder it might be ❤️

I always admired Kaleb Horton's writing so much and am terribly sorry to hear of his death. It's a long list of singular writers who didn't have the careers they should have because of the people, places, and things that killed online media, but his name is right at the very top. I hate all of it.

“I have met crows that should be in jail.” Yeah, this is great. Kaleb Horton could write. (Thing is, they’d escape. And not always by crafting a lockpick from a bit of wire. Sometimes they’d just trick the jailer into letting them waltz right out. With his sandwich, too.)

Remembering Kaleb Horton by getting dinner from Burger Town, a place I sent him to when he passed through my corner of northwest Montana a couple of years ago.

Kaleb Horton wrote one of the most powerful things I’ve ever read about memory and nostalgia. kalebhorton.ghost.io/memory-nosta...

I keep learning more and more about what Kaleb Horton did that somehow I’d missed, like this Tumblr he and @quartzcity.bsky.social had going on.

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

Kaleb and JD/Keith would say there's value in celebrating things in the moment. So I'm happy to say I've picked up my preordered copy of this, from one of America's finest writers. I have no doubt all 400 pages of it will be something and a half, another example of @zentronix.bsky.social's genius.

Absolute bullshit Kaleb Horton died. His was the sort of writing that 200 years from now will be studied to understand the culture and politics of our era.

I read Charles Portis’ entire oeuvre during the pandemic and it occurs to me now that it was because of this Kaleb Horton piece. RIP.

always felt like kaleb horton was self-evidently one of the best writers of his generation. that my generation overlapped slightly with his is one reason i feel it as a more personal loss than i might otherwise (he was only ever mutuals of mutuals).

RIP Kaleb Horton, one of the most dazzling, funny, kind, & truly original writers to ever grace this endangered medium. I was lucky enough to edit him for the most popular piece we ever did theLAnd. A strange poultry odyssey of true brilliance. thelandmag.com/pioneer-frie...

I'd never heard of Kaleb Horton until just now. The only words of his I've ever read are these. They sure make me want to go out and find everything he ever wrote.

Just read the news about Kaleb Horton. Absolutely devastating. I never had the pleasure of meeting him in person, but we were friendly online pals in the days when Twitter was not yet a hellscape. Kaleb was simply... cool, in the way that only someone who is wholly true to themselves can be.

I was not a close friend of Kaleb Horton by any means, but pretty much any time I’d joke about Huell Howser, another devotee of the weird parts of our beautiful Golden State, he’d riff along with me. I can only hope they’re together in a better place talking about the Calaveras Jumping Frog Jubilee.

Merely a Facebook post but it’s as evocative and emotional as a magazine piece. I miss Kaleb already.

Also, as I hope plenty of Kaleb Horton writing examples have also shown throughout the day...goddamn the man was funny. His Twitter stretch showed that but when he wanted to go longform, my god. Thus:

Kaleb had the keenest sense of what the death of monoculture meant - and both the good and bad things that came with that death.

Like … damn. What set him apart wasn’t just his way with words, although he was prodigiously skilled. It was his eye. He had a way of perceiving truths that lurked behind realities that most of us found easy to pass through, untroubled by thought.

completely beside the point, but in my mind he was my only contender on twitter for “will like tens of thousands of tweets and cannot be stopped therein”

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.

And, as so many have noted, Kaleb Horton was amazing on Twitter, much like the also recently departed John Whitson. Funny as hell -- but the ire, when raised and delivered for damn good reason? Consider this whole thread on Louis CK in 2017. That's how you spell it out, plain. x.com/kalebhorton/...

Did some other searching on how back in 2013 Kaleb Horton was as obsessed with the Lewis _L'Amour_ mystery album as much as anyone for a bit. He posted this during his relatively brief time on ILX -- very him:

It’s rare to find a writer who gets quietness and jaggedness of Bakersfield, which is to California what the West Texas is to Texas, if that makes any sense. What a loss.

Took a little time, went out and about, ran some errands. Thought some more about Kaleb Horton. Thought to myself, "Wait...didn't he do some amazing post about Lemmy when he passed as well?" Sure did. Sure did.

The dumbest most craven people alive are being paid 6 figure salaries to be actively dangerously wrong about things and Kaleb Horton, a better writer than pretty much anyone, couldn't find work and now he's dead. Just upsetting

This final post from Kaleb Horton is very beautiful and hits hard. This is just so sad. RIP.

This is the Kaleb Horton piece that deserved to make him the defining voice of today. He was an poet, a comic, and a cultural anthropologist who understood America on a soul-deep level. It's his 2016 road trip to the Constitution Party's election convention in Utah. web.archive.org/web/20160918...

“I’ve seen so much more F Troop than a normal person should see.” —Kaleb Horton

"Hardscrabble joints, places where bars are called saloons or honky-tonks. Places that feel different, like the 21st century hasn’t quite happened to them yet. That’s because in a way, it hasn’t." Followed up with a historical materialist explanation of *why* it hasn't; god damn, Kaleb Horton!