KG Hutchins
@songsforhorses.com
Cultural anthropologist and literary translator from NC Blue Ridge. Music and Animals in Mongolia. Монголоор ярьна. He/Him.
On the web at songsforhorses.com
What's time to a hog?
Book out now! https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/a-song-for-the-horses
On the web at songsforhorses.com
What's time to a hog?
Book out now! https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/a-song-for-the-horses
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KG Hutchins
@songsforhorses.com
· Oct 24
Song for the Horses | UAPress
uapress.arizona.edu
Out now - for those interested in Mongolian music, animals, and what worlds are possible after this one ends, A Song for the Horses is available in all the usual places as well as directly from the publisher here:
uapress.arizona.edu/book/a-song-...
uapress.arizona.edu/book/a-song-...
I was thinking of doing a top picks of 2025 thing but I don't really watch movies that are less than 40 years old, feel like it would be weird to say my own book is my pick of the year but also weird not to, and my video game of the year Dread Delusion actually came out in 2024 as it turns out
December 29, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I was thinking of doing a top picks of 2025 thing but I don't really watch movies that are less than 40 years old, feel like it would be weird to say my own book is my pick of the year but also weird not to, and my video game of the year Dread Delusion actually came out in 2024 as it turns out
The one exception I can think of is like half of the people in Tyler Childers songs seem to be some kind of archaeologist
do country music protagonists even have jobs these days? “Site managing data-center construction” (in fake nasal inflection “hnnraww” sound made by some fucker born and raised in suburban Indianapolis)
December 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The one exception I can think of is like half of the people in Tyler Childers songs seem to be some kind of archaeologist
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if you haven't been laid low by a beautiful woman then spent your last dime on misery and beer, I.don't.wanna.hear.it.
Country music started being unlistenable when they stopped writing songs about being a bartender, gas station attendant, janitor etc. I don't want to hear a country song about a big party on a boat I want to hear about being a substitute teacher
December 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
if you haven't been laid low by a beautiful woman then spent your last dime on misery and beer, I.don't.wanna.hear.it.
Country music started being unlistenable when they stopped writing songs about being a bartender, gas station attendant, janitor etc. I don't want to hear a country song about a big party on a boat I want to hear about being a substitute teacher
December 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Country music started being unlistenable when they stopped writing songs about being a bartender, gas station attendant, janitor etc. I don't want to hear a country song about a big party on a boat I want to hear about being a substitute teacher
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On this day 114 years ago - 29 December 1911 -, the Bogd Khaan declared the independence of Mongolia in Urga (now Ulaanbaatar). 3 days before the proclamation of the Republic of China, it was the first new state to emerge from the collapsing Daicing 大清 Empire. /
December 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
On this day 114 years ago - 29 December 1911 -, the Bogd Khaan declared the independence of Mongolia in Urga (now Ulaanbaatar). 3 days before the proclamation of the Republic of China, it was the first new state to emerge from the collapsing Daicing 大清 Empire. /
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The 1911 Dec 29 must be seen as the formal end of the Manchu DaiQing Empire.
From this greeting by Prime Minister of Mongolia Zandanshatar Gombojav we also see how Norwegian traveller Oscar Mamen's archives documenting the period, have quickly become part of modern Mongolian nation building project.
From this greeting by Prime Minister of Mongolia Zandanshatar Gombojav we also see how Norwegian traveller Oscar Mamen's archives documenting the period, have quickly become part of modern Mongolian nation building project.
December 29, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The 1911 Dec 29 must be seen as the formal end of the Manchu DaiQing Empire.
From this greeting by Prime Minister of Mongolia Zandanshatar Gombojav we also see how Norwegian traveller Oscar Mamen's archives documenting the period, have quickly become part of modern Mongolian nation building project.
From this greeting by Prime Minister of Mongolia Zandanshatar Gombojav we also see how Norwegian traveller Oscar Mamen's archives documenting the period, have quickly become part of modern Mongolian nation building project.
Having found out the hard way I can tell you that unfortunately there is only one way to find out: the hard way
How does one find out if one has academic nemeses?
December 29, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Having found out the hard way I can tell you that unfortunately there is only one way to find out: the hard way
Hard to imagine anyone in 2025 still taking moral guidance from Jon Stewart but yeah when that first big covid wave hit NYC a bunch of rich people like him flooded into rural Southern Appalachia, overtaxed the hell out of our hospitals, and then afterwards acted like covid's "not even that bad"
December 28, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Hard to imagine anyone in 2025 still taking moral guidance from Jon Stewart but yeah when that first big covid wave hit NYC a bunch of rich people like him flooded into rural Southern Appalachia, overtaxed the hell out of our hospitals, and then afterwards acted like covid's "not even that bad"
Modern day version of the Orville Hicks Mountain Dew story
child on the bus excited as HELL when he saw a Raising Cane's and demanded of his father if they could go, and the flat cap'd dad intoned "who's cain and what do you wanna raise him for"
December 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Modern day version of the Orville Hicks Mountain Dew story
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child on the bus excited as HELL when he saw a Raising Cane's and demanded of his father if they could go, and the flat cap'd dad intoned "who's cain and what do you wanna raise him for"
December 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
child on the bus excited as HELL when he saw a Raising Cane's and demanded of his father if they could go, and the flat cap'd dad intoned "who's cain and what do you wanna raise him for"
Hillbilly Elegy solidified a racial archetype in the Hillbilly - theorized as a depraved white who lost the mandate of whiteness through our cultural devolution. They have now introduced Heritage American as the logical corollary - "good" whites who are the true and pure inheritors of the country
December 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Hillbilly Elegy solidified a racial archetype in the Hillbilly - theorized as a depraved white who lost the mandate of whiteness through our cultural devolution. They have now introduced Heritage American as the logical corollary - "good" whites who are the true and pure inheritors of the country
Adding to "I'm just an old chunk of coal (but I'll be a diamond one day)", here's another of baby's music picks: youtu.be/KLJA-srM_yM?...
Amr Diab - Nour El Ein | Official Music Video - HD Version | عمرو دياب - نور العين
YouTube video by Mazzika - مزيكا
youtu.be
December 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Adding to "I'm just an old chunk of coal (but I'll be a diamond one day)", here's another of baby's music picks: youtu.be/KLJA-srM_yM?...
I feel a deep thrum that tells me this is in Govi-Altai province
December 27, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I feel a deep thrum that tells me this is in Govi-Altai province
As long as we are talking about Dean Martin in addition to being Italian he's also Appalachian (Steubenville, OH)
December 26, 2025 at 10:11 PM
As long as we are talking about Dean Martin in addition to being Italian he's also Appalachian (Steubenville, OH)
Nothing fills me with more Christmas spirit than that clip of the guy from Red State Update telling Pinhead from Hellraiser he looks like "Cracker Barrel Game"
December 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Nothing fills me with more Christmas spirit than that clip of the guy from Red State Update telling Pinhead from Hellraiser he looks like "Cracker Barrel Game"
I feel like it is kind of going unsaid that the people losing their jobs because a student said they didn't praise the Bible enough or whatever are all contingent - VAPs, lectures, instructor, graduate teaching assistants
December 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I feel like it is kind of going unsaid that the people losing their jobs because a student said they didn't praise the Bible enough or whatever are all contingent - VAPs, lectures, instructor, graduate teaching assistants
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Looks like somebody did get me your book for Christmas @songsforhorses.com \o/ Merry Christmas.
December 25, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Looks like somebody did get me your book for Christmas @songsforhorses.com \o/ Merry Christmas.
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ty for reminding me it's time to hit the @dollarcountry.org bummer christmas mix
Dec 2025 Updates: A Bummer Country Mix and Full Time Daycare – Dollar Country Blog
blog.dollarcountry.org
December 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
ty for reminding me it's time to hit the @dollarcountry.org bummer christmas mix
Unrionically enjoy the Merry Christmas Lil Mama albums and feel like there should be more regional dance themed contemporary holiday music
December 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Unrionically enjoy the Merry Christmas Lil Mama albums and feel like there should be more regional dance themed contemporary holiday music
Googling "Bone Thugs Christmas album" and crossing my fingers
Googling "Waxahatchee Christmas album when"
December 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Googling "Bone Thugs Christmas album" and crossing my fingers
Hillbilly Elegy 2, ladies and gentlemen
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Hillbilly Elegy 2, ladies and gentlemen
Much of 20th century country music is preoccupied with the question "what if Christmas was sad?"
December 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Much of 20th century country music is preoccupied with the question "what if Christmas was sad?"
Khusugtun - The Camel / Хөсөгтөн - Тэмээ минь
YouTube video by Khusugtun Official
youtu.be
December 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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I just want everyone to look at this majestic Bactrian Camel 🐫
December 24, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I just want everyone to look at this majestic Bactrian Camel 🐫