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Kaleb Charles Horton, 1988 - 2025
This is the full version of the obituary published in the Los Angeles Times on October 7, 2025.
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I have posted the full version of Kaleb’s obituary to my substack. More remembrance of him to come.
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Both my parents went to high school in Corpus and I have lots of family there. That NYT accent/dialect quiz pegs me as Corpus and it’s so creepy.
December 7, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Both my parents went to high school in Corpus and I have lots of family there. That NYT accent/dialect quiz pegs me as Corpus and it’s so creepy.
I’ve added to my teapot collection. I got this Bauer Pottery Los Angeles bullet teapot with the classic “ring ware” or “beehive” rings. I love this American Modern style.
December 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I’ve added to my teapot collection. I got this Bauer Pottery Los Angeles bullet teapot with the classic “ring ware” or “beehive” rings. I love this American Modern style.
Overwhelmed by the bird feed options for the new bird feeder I just got.
December 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Overwhelmed by the bird feed options for the new bird feeder I just got.
Don’t laugh at my Charlie Brown tree. Kaleb really wanted to decorate for Christmas this year. If he was still alive we’d be living in his apartment and putting this dinky tree up this weekend. I put it up for him even though I didn’t really want to.
December 6, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Don’t laugh at my Charlie Brown tree. Kaleb really wanted to decorate for Christmas this year. If he was still alive we’d be living in his apartment and putting this dinky tree up this weekend. I put it up for him even though I didn’t really want to.
I got this ad again today. It sucks.
Just got this ad which is very offensive. People are allowed to grieve breakups and divorce, don’t act like you can’t. And don’t compare them to a loss. Not the same! Get fucked, lady.
December 5, 2025 at 4:07 AM
I got this ad again today. It sucks.
Reposted by Hank & Townes’s Mom
Please, help and repost. This is a great kid who deserves a Christmas gift
Ok, so my niece's father is not able to help with Christmas this year. The SNAP snafu last month tapped out what reserves I had. I'm asking for help getting anything off her wishlist www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
Check out my list on Amazon
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December 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Please, help and repost. This is a great kid who deserves a Christmas gift
I have to plug @sterlewine.bsky.social’s Substack. He reviews a LOT of albums and is pretty spot-on in his assessments. Check out his top albums of the year list: open.substack.com/pub/sterlewi...
STE's Best Albums of 2025
The 99 Albums That Caught My Attention This Year.
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December 4, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I have to plug @sterlewine.bsky.social’s Substack. He reviews a LOT of albums and is pretty spot-on in his assessments. Check out his top albums of the year list: open.substack.com/pub/sterlewi...
Just got this ad which is very offensive. People are allowed to grieve breakups and divorce, don’t act like you can’t. And don’t compare them to a loss. Not the same! Get fucked, lady.
December 3, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Just got this ad which is very offensive. People are allowed to grieve breakups and divorce, don’t act like you can’t. And don’t compare them to a loss. Not the same! Get fucked, lady.
Kaleb was working on a couple of pieces the week he died. One was for newsjunkie.com. They wrote a brief tribute to him and their artist sketched him. They sent it to his mom with this very nice note that made me cry. I get to touch these things related to him, but he’s gone and it’s terrible.
December 2, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Kaleb was working on a couple of pieces the week he died. One was for newsjunkie.com. They wrote a brief tribute to him and their artist sketched him. They sent it to his mom with this very nice note that made me cry. I get to touch these things related to him, but he’s gone and it’s terrible.
I can’t stop crying tonight because Kaleb has been cremated and so I put on the tv to have some noise. I do not know or care which football teams are playing but I need to not be sitting in silence.
December 2, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I can’t stop crying tonight because Kaleb has been cremated and so I put on the tv to have some noise. I do not know or care which football teams are playing but I need to not be sitting in silence.
Gabe, Daniel, and Scotty all woke up before 8 to hug me goodbye. They tolerate my hugs and calling them sweetie and texted memes and pestering them with questions. It feels like they are as much family as my own brothers, and a relationship with them is something I’m very grateful for.
November 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Gabe, Daniel, and Scotty all woke up before 8 to hug me goodbye. They tolerate my hugs and calling them sweetie and texted memes and pestering them with questions. It feels like they are as much family as my own brothers, and a relationship with them is something I’m very grateful for.
Kaleb made this little book when he was 12 or so. He loved these jokes his whole life.
November 30, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Kaleb made this little book when he was 12 or so. He loved these jokes his whole life.
Kaleb’s mom and dad got his records and I just went through to get artists in the same crates…I didn’t bother to alphabetize or group like with like, just get all the Petty with Petty and Haggard with Haggard. My baby had great taste.
November 29, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Kaleb’s mom and dad got his records and I just went through to get artists in the same crates…I didn’t bother to alphabetize or group like with like, just get all the Petty with Petty and Haggard with Haggard. My baby had great taste.
Kaleb. I received the call from his mother that he was gone two months ago tonight. It’s been a living nightmare every day since. I’m with his mom and dad and brothers now, but he’s missing and it hurts.
November 27, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Kaleb. I received the call from his mother that he was gone two months ago tonight. It’s been a living nightmare every day since. I’m with his mom and dad and brothers now, but he’s missing and it hurts.
I keep wanting to ask Kaleb things and then I cry because I can’t. I’m so angry he’s gone. Not at him because he didn’t choose to die during a seizure.
November 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I keep wanting to ask Kaleb things and then I cry because I can’t. I’m so angry he’s gone. Not at him because he didn’t choose to die during a seizure.
The hat, the boy. Thomas had this Ford hat for a while and it became Kaleb’s when he died in 2023. Kaleb’s parents just asked me to have it.
November 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The hat, the boy. Thomas had this Ford hat for a while and it became Kaleb’s when he died in 2023. Kaleb’s parents just asked me to have it.
Reposted by Hank & Townes’s Mom
few people have ever made America look more beautiful to me
Kaleb Horton was an incredible writer with each new piece appointment reading, but I personally was so inspired by his photography. I had an album of his photos saved on my phone that I’d use as inspiration when writing myself. I needed him to put out that book.
September 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
few people have ever made America look more beautiful to me
It’s strange to stay in the home Kaleb lived in throughout high school and see some of his belongings here but not him. I miss him every moment of every day. Sometimes I’m amazed I can function at all (or that I’m still breathing).
November 24, 2025 at 10:34 AM
It’s strange to stay in the home Kaleb lived in throughout high school and see some of his belongings here but not him. I miss him every moment of every day. Sometimes I’m amazed I can function at all (or that I’m still breathing).
Kaleb died exactly two months ago. I’m in an airport and can’t cry
November 24, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Kaleb died exactly two months ago. I’m in an airport and can’t cry
Tomorrow I will lay in the grass in the sunshine in Redding, CA and three German shepherds will cuddle me.
November 23, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Tomorrow I will lay in the grass in the sunshine in Redding, CA and three German shepherds will cuddle me.
Videoing them is only to make clips for social media to advertise the podcast
*banging a metal pot with a wooden spoon very loudly*
people want to LISTEN to podcasts!!!!!!!!!!!!
*hitting you on the forehead with the spoon*
STOP PIVOTING TO VIDEO
www.westwoodone.com/blog/2025/11...
people want to LISTEN to podcasts!!!!!!!!!!!!
*hitting you on the forehead with the spoon*
STOP PIVOTING TO VIDEO
www.westwoodone.com/blog/2025/11...
November 22, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Videoing them is only to make clips for social media to advertise the podcast
A baby with his mom and younger brothers and cousin. The actual baby brother was not here. Debbie, Gabe, Kaleb, their cousin Brett, and Daniel. Daniel is doing the thumbs up Kaleb did in every photo he took with a celebrity.
November 22, 2025 at 4:26 AM
A baby with his mom and younger brothers and cousin. The actual baby brother was not here. Debbie, Gabe, Kaleb, their cousin Brett, and Daniel. Daniel is doing the thumbs up Kaleb did in every photo he took with a celebrity.
I’m choosing complete and total self-absorption in my grief. Nothing else matters. Life will generally be worse or harder but it only makes the mountain I’m on rockier. It won’t make a new mountain.
Lots of people choosing either tepid idealism or wised-up social media Leninism. Not me though
November 22, 2025 at 4:13 AM
I’m choosing complete and total self-absorption in my grief. Nothing else matters. Life will generally be worse or harder but it only makes the mountain I’m on rockier. It won’t make a new mountain.