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.
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“The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters,” Francisco Goya, 1799

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Etching, aquatint, drypoint and burin.

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Move over, pineapple pizza. It’s time for OCTOPUS PIZZA.

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I am a man who is loathe to tamper with a classic.  And every slice of pizza from Benny Marconi’s in Roanoke, Virginia is a damned artwork.

Still … they did not offer octopus as a topping.  (I searched their website pretty thoroughly.)  And then I realized that I had NEVER seen the most sublime of foods offered as a pizza topping.

Innovation built this country, and I have a flair for the culinary.  So I went home and concocted the brilliance you see below.

Update — Damn.  I just realized I wrote this whole post ignoring the potential for an “octupie” pun.

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Cover to “Carnage: It’s a Wonderful Life” #1, Kyle Hotz, 1996

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Marvel Comics.

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Memoirs of a Geisha Smoked Octopus.

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Taste Test — Geisha Smoked Octopus in Sunflower Oil.

MMmmmmmmm.  I give it two thumbs up.  Or two tentacles.

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Variant cover to “America” #1, Jamie McKelvie, 2017

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Marvel Comics.

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“You discover that your longings are universal longings …”

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“That is part of the beauty of all literature.  You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone.  You belong.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald

Photo: Photographer unknown. The publicity photo was distributed by Fitzgerald’s publisher, Scribner’s., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Hurricane? More like a hurrican’t.

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And I’m thankful for that.  There were none of the high winds and flooding in my neighborhood that people were worried about.  And today the skies were sunny and blue.

Sure, we got loads of rain yesterday.  But that just seems to be the baseline for this summer.

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Falling rain in downtown Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico, photo by Tomas Castelazo, 2012

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© Tomas Castelazo, http://www.tomascastelazo.com / Wikimedia Commons