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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good)

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · Jan 14

I want it on record that I only came over here, not for reasons of morality, but bc Elon finally broke Twitter to the point that it just doesn't work

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 7d

it is actually hilarious that Taylor Swift has decided this is a good time to release a new album

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 9d

A quick reminder that this thread is turning into the best overall place collating Kaleb's longer-form work; Jake's been steadily adding to it, with the latest entries just today. (And the tweets and the photography and the podcast and etc. are all out there too.)

Jake-o-lantern @gloriousnoise.bsky.social · 12d

Here’s Kaleb Horton on Charles Portis.

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The American Anthropology of Charles Portis

Arkansas is a state of mind and Portis was peerless at capturing it.

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 12d

Some important info on Kaleb Horton and his writing for MTV: as I learned, he'd reupped the Merle piece on his site earlier this year, but otherwise his 2016-2017 work there was scrubbed and long unavailable. Happily, I was able to find a Wayback link with them all. Share, read, and remember.

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 12d

Just logged in to Twitter to read all of my DMs with Kaleb and now I am really, really sad. This is a person who was unquestionably fumbled by American media. I feel like making a list of people who should have been forced to hand it all over to him. I might even fucking be one of them.

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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 12d

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.

$The ghost sightings happen in stupid places, unexpected places, and uncool places. A few months ago, I went with Marie to the Toys R Us on Victory Blvd. in Burbank, which still looks exactly like it did in Back to the Future in 1985 somehow. It's not nostalgia that you see there, it's just a customer base and economic model that's aging and won't be around a lot longer, and it's *boring.* There's no reason for anyone to ever go to Lancer's, the little diner by that Toys R Us. Because it's not good. People go there out of tradition, and old habits. 80 and 90 year olds go there. We were lining up for a Nintendo, which is still a hard thing to keep stocked in stores. Toys R Us was actually the best place to obtain one, because it's no longer a place children beg their parents to take them to. When we went in, wham, there it was. The ghost of 1996. I was 8 years old, for a fraction of a second. The feeling wasn't nostalgia, it was a kind of temporal dislocation. A confusion. But it wasn't an immaculate 1996, it was a fading 1996. It was lonelier than I remember it. It's time for Toys R Us to go out of business. It was time ten years ago, fifteen. There are reasons to be nostalgic about the 20th century. We weren't plugged into so many wires, so many screens. We were a little bit closer to the process of manufacturing and agriculture than we are now. We made more things by hand, and our goals as people were uniquely audacious and driven by mad, desperate power that was temporary and had to end.$

But the 20th century was hopelessly cruel and soaked in blood. The 20th century gave us flight, but it also gave us bombs that can end the world and Richard Nixon and his evil sidekick Kissinger and it gave us new mutations of slavery and race and class subjugation and it gave us useless, disgusting monuments to Confederate slavers and traitors and cowards. It gave us President Trump, who wouldn't exist today without New York City's collective cocaine addiction in the 1980s.
I want to find the ghosts, not because I miss the past -- the good old days can't return because they're imaginary and what you really miss is youth and if you're lucky a warm feeling of safety -- but because I don't even know what things we'll lose, or when we'll lose them, or how long we have to document them. I know ghosts when I see them. Toys R Us for the mundane side and the Salton Sea for the widescreen wasteland side. But I have absolutely no idea how many there are.
I figure people go first, then places. Those are the things we have a limited time to physically document and historically examine and preserve on film. The ideas will go away much slower, and some of them may be eternal, like cold wars. But those are a lot less fun because you don't get to drive to them.

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 13d

I failed to consider pharmaceuticals

Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 13d

I was thinking about this earlier and imagined a guy in his fifties getting into metal and hardcore for the first time in his life. Doesn’t even really seem possible.

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 13d

Failing to get into metal and hardcore as a teenager is fundamentally doing youth incorrectly.

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 15d

can someone play Aphex Twin for RFK Jr?

I just want to see what happens

Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 15d

This is like the third time that’s happened to me by the way

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 15d

Just for the record, I was raptured but when nobody else was I decided to come back

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 25d

I’m pretty sure you would find a well-used copy on the shelves of every member of Swervedriver.

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 25d

Alright, I thought about just not saying anything (because that’s always an option, believe it or not) but ultimately decided I do have a responsibility to point out that Blow is the best Red Lorry Yellow Lorry album.

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 27d

Wait, what happened. I thought we were doing a civil war to eradicate the ideology of the shooter. What haaaaaaaaappened

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27d

Q: My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. How are you holding up?

TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 28d

Hell yeah

Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · 29d

“Uh..”

*turning to look behind me while keeping mouth on mic because I’m a pro*

“…I guess… I guess not counting gang violence?”

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · Sep 9

I’m glad I got into music before streaming services because I just looked at Ennio Morricone’s album discography on Tidal and what in the fuck

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · Sep 8

I support Tyler Childers in his Try Singing Along to This One era

Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · Aug 23

very happy for you

Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · Jul 24

A bunch of assholes are mad that Rogan isn't on this list and my show's artwork appears in the preview image every time it gets shared to social media, so I'm prob about to get review-bombed.

If you've ever enjoyed C&R but haven't left a review, now would be a great time.

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Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · Jul 21

I really reconnected with Space Ritual around the beginning of this year and I’ve been listening to it several times a week, sometimes several times a day. It is indestructible.

Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · Jun 30

This month’s Patreon post went up last night.

Tried to talk about one reason the world looks broken, so it’s a bit more than usual.

Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · Jun 26

Say

Tyler Mahan Coe (chaotic good) @tylermahancoe.bsky.social · Jun 26

When please

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