Three TVs, all playing at the same time. You'll get the gist.

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.”

Pedantic box office worker gets memo from HR after spending the weekend telling customers “You mean ‘Lee Cronin’s The Mummy’?”

My first one definitely was. Constant toxic storms. I was ducking into my ship every 5 minutes until I figured out how to build a shelter.

The super-rich are not worried about their car dying, or if they can afford daycare, how to feed a family & clothe growing children. They don't consider skipping a medication b/c of its cost.
But the rich want to feel oppressed, so they pretend slightly higher taxes is life or death. How dare they

It’s so good. She has yet to miss.

Way too many to list so I’ll just say that the best horror books I read last year came from Gretchen Felker-Martin and Sam Rebelin.

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If I’m going very far back I’ll read a book about a history of that period. Sometimes I’ll talk to my dad, an amateur historian.

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I write professionally for my 9-5 job, but it’s very dry stuff. I think where my horror DNA shines through is here, contributing to @sorrowscopes.bsky.social and @riversidecasino.bsky.social

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I’m Tom Coombe, author of several short horror stories.

This week I’m reading “Nowhere Burning” by Catriona Ward, watching the FX series “The Lowdown” and enjoying them both.

I love that the first gif that comes up when you search "The Empty Man" is the first image I picture when I think of this movie.

Not to be outdone, Anthropic announces it will now make stylish-yet-affordable merino wool shoes.

I'm turning 50 later this year and one of the upsides is that the inner voice that says "You don't need to know or care about this pop culture thing, and no one expects you to" is more powerful than ever.

I was in college when this first aired and we watched it in our dorm TV lounge, and it felt like seeing someone do a high-wire act or something.

I understand why this has become sort of the crown jewel of this episode, but let's not forget some of its other finest moments.

This is like a detail tucked into a Bosch painting.

Such a great scene. I knew like 50 Gordon Pratt types between high school and Boy Scouts, so seeing that moment at 18 was pretty awesome. (as evidenced by the fact that I can still remember the name "Gordon Pratt")

Me too. That was the first thing I thought of because I'd been listening to that song.

The midway point to "Transmission" by Joy Division

"...big, strong men, they come up to me, tears in their eyes, and they say 'Sir, can you cure my daughter's leprosy?'"

I have to say that one of the upsides of turning 50 later this year is that the world will no longer expect me to have an opinion or even an awareness of stuff like this.

it’s upsetting how these arrogant CEOs will stand in front of people and say things that should get them dragged off the stage and beaten, but more upsetting that no one drags them off the stage and beats them

This is making me a little uneasy about seeing JD Vance talking with my mechanic last week.

The Devil Continues to Wear Prada

I got the meaning. Plus it's nice to think I had a "storied" childhood.

Yep. We didn't even have a microwave until we were a two-income household. (I also kind of wish I could have remembered details like this yesterday in a conversation with a baby boomer who seemed to be arguing that they somehow lived through Depression-era childhood.)

Taurus: It turns out your neighbor wasn't re-enacting the Stations of the Cross in his yard last week.