Hi!  You guys are AWESOME.

Anyway, yes — I have been googling the location of US military bases and oil reserves, as well as major east-west highways in the eastern United States.  It has been suggested to me that you guys keep track of google searches like that from time to time.

I am NOT one of the bad guys.  I PROMISE.  I am a science fiction writer trying to imagine a fictional future war.  I am trying to write the next novel in my book series.

PLEASE do not send me to Guantanamo Bay.  OR Room 101.

Please do not have Jack Bauer torture me for answers.  Yes, I now he is a fictional character on a television program.  But that Dude is so badass that I think he is actually capable of breaking the fourth wall, and invading our reality, using the superpowers of American pluck and just straight-up murdering everyone.

Oh!  I was perusing the ACLU website the other day only because I was making fun of those liberal clowns!  They say “Fourth Amendment;” I say “DORK Amendment!”  Hahahahaha!  You guys totally know where I’m coming from, amiright?!

Anyway, you guys are doing a GREAT JOB.  You guys are AWESOME.  Seriously.  Shine ON, you crazy diamonds!

Legally yours,

Eric Robert Nolan

That’s how I’ve been describing the four kittens that arrived via stork last night to the MamaCat that inhabits the parking lot behind my building.  Either that, or “TINYCATS!,” with all the exuberance of age six.

It’s been brought to my attention that I am gaining a reputation as Crazy Cat Man, but I don’t care.

Pictured below are MamaCat and three of my new friends.  The fourth is actually a little black cat (who presumably takes after his father).  I actually only discovered him about an hour ago, because he … hides in the shadows like the tiniest little ninja that ever was.

If I ever succeed in photographing the finger-length assassin, I will post it.

My buddy Russell Morgan had this to say on Facebook this morning:

“I decided to give mangoes a second chance. While these did taste better than the last one I had, it still tasted a bit like soap to me. Still not a major fan.”

I read “MAGPIES” and was wierded out.  I thought that maybe somewhere Heckle was mourning Jeckle.

Gonna call it “The Dorks of Perception.”

What a terrific review by Michael Patrick Hicks for J.S. Collyer’s “Zero!”  (And this gentleman should not be confused with my old sportswriter pal, Mike Hicks.)

“Zero” will be released by Dagda Publishing on August 16th.

REVIEW: Zero.

I had the wonderful opportunity to be interviewed by Laura Enright, a talented and successful indie author in the Chicago area, whose first vampire novel, “To Touch the Sun,” is garnering rave reviews after its recent release by Dagda Publishing.

Laura invited me over at her blog to chat about my own horror novel, “The Dogs Don’t Bark In Brooklyn Any More.”  Her questions were great fun, and she even ran a picture of Elijah Wood in “Sin City” (2005), so that people finally might understand what I mean when I say Wood would do well playing my character, Francis Lestrade, in a film version of the novel.  (Eventual movie adaptations are a fond dream of many a first-time novelist.)

The interview can be found at her blog, “Literally Laura,” right here:

http://lauraenright.blogspot.com/2014/07/an-interview-with-erik-robert-nolan.html

Thanks, Laura!

From the University of Mary Washington website:

[“I can’t wait to get back to see all the things that have happened since I was there and to take time to walk through the amphitheater,” said Alice Jepson. “When President Hurley told us that students still love the amphitheater, we decided our money would be well invested in helping to restore this area of campus that holds so many special memories for alumni and students alike.”]

Jepsons Give $1 Million to Restore UMW Amphitheater