The Strange World of Thomas P. Coombe

Goodbye, "Tom On TV."

"Tom On TV." Looking back, it's an unfortunate name for the blog. I couldn't even stand it as a Twitter handle for very long, which is why I've been @TomCoombe for several months now.

But recently, I've come to realize something: as passionate as I can get about TV shows and movies, I just don't have the time to write about them anymore, at least not on a weekly basis. Back when I had a job with fewer responsibilities -- and later, when I had no job at all -- it was nothing for me to follow The Office, or Lost, or Breaking Bad from week to week.

These days, I just don't have the energy to sit with a notebook in front of the latest Fringe or Community and try to craft something interesting to say about what I just watched. There's a lot of people on the internet doing that already, and doing it much better than I ever did.

I'm not shutting this blog down. I like having it, and like being able to have an outlet for non-journalistic writings. So, sometimes I'll write about TV, or a movie, or a book, or just something weird that I witness. 

Thank you, to my handful of readers. I hope you'll enjoy where I take things.

I'm Still Writing

 Really, I am, despite not having posted anything for nearly two weeks. Here's the proof: a short essay I wrote for Crunchable, a site edited by my former colleague Michael Duck. And there's more to come this week: a review of Pixar's wonderful Up, and a look at two new nurse-related shows: Showtime's Nurse Jackie (yay!) and TNT's HawthoRNe (that's how the title is spelled, because she's an RN, get it?). The piece on crunchable covers some of the same ground I've gone over here about the end of my reporting career, but from a slightly different angle.

 Tom Coombe