Tom Coombe

@calmtomb.bsky.social

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Horror writer, occasionally funny

Add for the series The Westies billed as “Peaky Blinders meets The Sopranos”
Scene from the new Avengers trailer. Professor X shielding his face from a really bright glare
The Personal History of David Copperfield
The Jerry Bruckheimer Films logo
DESCRIBE YOUR FAVORITE MOVIE AS BORING AS POSSIBLE
Carnival of Souls
Also, this movie has had the phrase "time to Eileen, time to Eiclean" stuck in my head all day.
News headline: Is Mitch McConnell secretly deceased?
From Prometheus: The Engineer vs. tentacled creature
"Gotta Jibboo" by the band Phish
Package from a business called “Dermstore”
Daily Beast headline: Why the Mitch McConnell Mystery Is Even Worse Than We Think
Astel of the Void
A Qunck Doctor Jailed. Squire Plint, of Girardville, brought James Welden, a middle aged quack doctor to prison this morning in defialt of 5000 bail Jaree years ago Weldon, then living at Locost Sam-mit, Northumberland county, contracted with George Kachel, • resident of Preston Hill, SehuyIkill county, to remove tumor from the latter's wife for $50, The tumor was situated on the side of the body tumor was situated on the side of the body under one of the arms. The treatment had progressed some time and elden had received $25 on account when the woman died. A warrant was issued, but the wily doctor had escaped. He also contracted to cure the wife of James Brazel, of Preston Hill for $10, and had received $5 on account. A Mr. Flood, of Girardrille, also paid him large sums money. Welden is the man who pointed pistol at Constable Garner, and escaped when arrested for en unnamable offense committed at Fountain Springs,
silica sand
Obsession, Maternal Instinct, The Voices of Our Mother, Marama
"A quarter-Cherokee country singer named Marvin Rainwater shamelessly traded on his Native American pedigree to make himself a name on the country music circuit. But backing up this charade was..."
FOX news report about the "thousands" of people at the Great American State Fair, with a shot of a mostly empty field, maybe a few dozen attendees.
… Yankee detectives are always on the TV Because killers in America work seven days a week
Post about elections: The last time the Dems swung wildly left over a war George McGovern lost all but one state (plus Washington, D.C.) to Nixon in the 1972 election primarily because his Vietnam anti-war platform was viewed as too far-left for the broader electorate
Scene from Green Room, also about a right wing punk rock gathering
The Mother's Memorial, Ashland, PA
There Will Be Blood
Your weird friend FROM THE 80S WHO KNEW WAY TOO MUCH ABOUT VIETNAM
From the "Kamp Krusty" episode of the Simpsons, where the camp director trying to pass off Barney as Krusty the Clown
Ruth’s trip down memory lane on Widows Bay: “…but he got bit by an animal and became that animal.”
Edward Gorey's illustrations for "The House With a Clock in its Walls," from a 2018 Reactor magazine article on the book.
1980s Bible-themed kids cartoon called The Flying House
People magazine headline: Jelly Roll's Daughter Bailee, 18, Speaks Out After Singer Files for Divorce from Bunnie Xo After Nearly 10 Years of Marriage
Clytie Jessop as Miss Jessel in "The Innocents"
I would not delete a single second from « Ghosts of Mars » ! Or from any other movie for that matter... This is fascism 101. That being said, Burton's Planet of the Apes is no masterpiece for sure but the ending scene still haunts me
The ending of the Simpsons’ “And Maggie Makes Three” episode, Homer’s workstation. He’s placed pictures of Maggie so that Mr. Burns’ demotivational plaque (“don’t forget, you’re here forever”) now reads “do it for her”
The cover of the forthcoming Saturday Mourning Television anthology
Letterboxd entry NFT: Cursed Images 2026 • DIRECTED BY Jonas Odenheimer YOU ARE NGMI. A group of crypto savvy friends begin experiencing strange occurrences after buying into a cursed NFT collection.
Poster for a movie called Carolina Caroline
The top five performing films at the domestic box office so far are: 1. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (Universal) - $427.9 million 2. Michael (Lionsgate) - $346.5 million 3. Project Hail Mary (Amazon MGM) - $342.9 million 4. The Devil Wears Prada 2 (Disney) - $212.1 million 5. Hoppers (Disney) - $166 million • Box Office Mojo
The final showdown in Metroid
News story from 1900: TAUNTS MADE THIS BOY A LUNATIC Raverius Voci. wrecked in mind, the | He became a dangerous maniac and Palt of derisive jeers and ridicule from asked his tather to put him to death or erican people was discharged from he would kill him. The elder Voci e Schuyikill county prison and will be!became alarmed and fled. Young Voci taken by his father to another part of the then went to the mountains where he state. was met one day by Thomas Jones, of Voci lived at Big Mine Run and untor. Girardville. The latter stopped him and tunately became a mark tor the Ameri tried to hold a conversation but Voci can residents there who found great struck Jones a terrible biow on the head sport in teasing the young Italian and and he fell to the ground unconscious calling him all sorts of insulting names. Voci was arrested and taken to jail. He Sensitive in nature the boy was deeply was declared insane and served several Brrievedover the taunts hurled at him months in prison and at the county antinually and under the severe strain hospital. His Italian friends say his
Paul Giamatti in The Ides of March
Poster for the movie Shelby Oaks
The "It's all for you, Damien!" scene in The Omen
Bob Odenkirk in Stephen Spielberg's The Post
Denzel Washington in the Taking of Pelham 123 remake
The opening credits for Watchmen
Emily Watston and Ralph Fiennes in Red Dragon
In the Mouth of Madness
Andy Griffith reading from a piece of paper.
Headline: On its 40th anniversary, we reassess 1986’s SpaceCamp
A Toy Story-themed Scrub Mommy sponge, only it makes Buzz Lightyear look like a skull.
Mr. Spacely and a hapless George Jetson
LinkedIn post: AI writing is forgiveable. Sounding like AI isn’t. Got it? This is why HITL (human in the loop) editing services will explode in the next 2 years. Want AI to write your stuff? NBD. But if you’re not passing it through a human eye and ear before publishing, you’re threatening your credibility long before anyone reads your stuff. AI writing is forgiveable. Sounding like AI isn’t.
The group from I Think You Should Leave's " “The Day That Robert Palins Murdered Me” sketch
Mason Verger, as depicted in the excellent Hannibal TV series
News headline Peter Jackson defends the use of Al in movies: "I don't dislike it at all"
Krusty the Clown telling reporters "to prove that this metal 'O' is harmless, I will personally eat one."
Liver Complaint. Girardville, Schuylkill Co, Pa.--Dear Sir: I was troubled with Liver Complaint and Fits and tried various medicines without effect. At last I began the use of your Indian Blood Syrup, which soon er-ectually releved me. Lucy Greene.