David Letterman was a genius for retiring when he did. Perfect timing.
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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.)
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.)
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.
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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Rewatched Sling Blade. What a picture. John Ritter and Dwight Yoakam are so damn good in it.
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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.
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.
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.
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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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-...
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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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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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...
'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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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.
Alex Fernie@ferniecommaalex.bsky.social · last yr.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.
Finally ate some Pioneer Chicken and remembered the great @kalebhorton.bsky.social piece for the dearly departed The LAnd mag thelandmag.com/pioneer-frie...
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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Gonna write a Charles Bukowski poem. I call it "los angeles winter." whiskey, good women bad but maybe it's the other way around
My pal Dave with the best 4th of July song anyone will ever write: youtu.be/1BtzpaCZnjA?...
Dave Alvin - Fourth of July (Live From Austin TX)
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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.