Tom Coombe
@calmtomb.bsky.social
Horror writer, occasionally funny
I always kind of give this stuff a sidelong glance.
December 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I always kind of give this stuff a sidelong glance.
I discovered the Onion my final year in college and used/abused my position as editor of the school paper to do a highly-reminsicent April fool's edition. One of our stories was about Destro giving the annual "Furphy" lecture.
December 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I discovered the Onion my final year in college and used/abused my position as editor of the school paper to do a highly-reminsicent April fool's edition. One of our stories was about Destro giving the annual "Furphy" lecture.
If you're a TV reporter covering a shooting or stabbing at the Pine View Motel across the street, we'll throw you $50 to stand so our sign is in the shot.
December 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Getting older is realizing that all conversations about music might as well be the girls from A Clockwork Orange talking in the record store:
“Who you getting, bratty? Goggly Gogol? Johnny Zhivago? The Heaven Seventeen?”
“Who you getting, bratty? Goggly Gogol? Johnny Zhivago? The Heaven Seventeen?”
December 2, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Getting older is realizing that all conversations about music might as well be the girls from A Clockwork Orange talking in the record store:
“Who you getting, bratty? Goggly Gogol? Johnny Zhivago? The Heaven Seventeen?”
“Who you getting, bratty? Goggly Gogol? Johnny Zhivago? The Heaven Seventeen?”
Yeah...I remember how unenthused I was when I saw the basic premise, thinking "Oh great, another Homeland." But it's clear from the start it's a whole different animal.
December 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Yeah...I remember how unenthused I was when I saw the basic premise, thinking "Oh great, another Homeland." But it's clear from the start it's a whole different animal.