All posts by Eric Robert Nolan

Eric Robert Nolan graduated from Mary Washington College in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. He spent several years a news reporter and editorial writer for the Culpeper Star Exponent in Culpeper, Virginia. His work has also appeared on the front pages of numerous newspapers in Virginia, including The Free Lance – Star and The Daily Progress. Eric entered the field of philanthropy in 1996, as a grant writer for nonprofit healthcare organizations. Eric’s poetry has been featured by Dead Beats Literary Blog, Dagda Publishing, The International War Veterans’ Poetry Archive, and elsewhere. His poetry will also be published by Illumen Magazine in its Spring 2014 issue.

I swear I am not making this up.

Irony is when you exit the dry cleaner and a HUGE flock of birds IMMEDIATELY takes flight and poop-bombs you like you were Dresden — which could NECESSITATE A SUBSEQUENT DRY CLEANING.  (I actually do need to throw my jacket in the washer now.)

This is collusion.  That lady feeds the birds with a portion of her profits.  I’ll bet there are rows of feeders on the roof.



Cover to “Horror From The Tomb” #1, 1954

Premier Magazines.  I am unable to ascertain the cover artist.

Apocrypha Now.

This quote is often attributed online to a letter from Emily Dickinson to her sister-in-law, Catherine May Scott.  But that might be apocryphal — and the felicitation might date as far back as Plato.

Ali Jane Smith gives us an excellent breakdown here at the Sydney Review of Books.



Cover to “The Red Mother” #2, Jeremy Haun, 2020

BOOM! Studios.

“Tis not too late to seek a newer world …”

1408?

Is this the haunted Nail Salon & Spa?  It’s even named for NYC, which is where Stephen King’s dooming eponymous hotel room tormented poor Mike Enslin.

That’s some synchronicity worthy of The Dark Tower.  FOLLOW THE PATH OF THE BEAM.




Cover to “MAD Magazine” #152, Nick Meglin, 1972

EC Comics.

“Clever girl.”

You KNOW how I love puns and portmanteaus, etc., etc.

Someone just called me “Nolandsman” and I am over the moon.



“Das Eismeer,” Caspar David Friedrich, circa 1824

“The Sea of Ice.”  Oil on canvas.