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.

Graffiti in Melbourne, Australia, 2011

Melbourne Grafitti
http://www.melbournegraffiti.com/

Photo credit: cogdogblog, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Gonna make myself a superhero, gonna call myself “The Gray Ghost.”

That’s “Grey” for the BritBuds.

Nobody tell me if the name is already taken.  If it is, I don’t want to know.

I know that “Gentleman Ghost” is an obscure DC Comics supervillain, and he can keep his schtick because, seriously, look at that guy.

And then there was Dark Horse Comics’ “Ghost” from my college years; she at least had a great sense of style.

But “The Gray Ghost” is mine.  I declare it.

UPDATE –I did not know at the time that I wrote this that it was the moniker of a Confederate General!  I will have to come up with another name.



“AI entices those people who fetishize ideas but dismiss the work.”

Photo of Otto Wegener by Edward Steichen, 1906

You know you’re a sci-fi/horror fan if the term “Winter Storm Blair” immediately makes you think of this person.

Two snowfalls within a week?

This feels like a normal winter.

And normalcy, my friends, was not on my 2025 bingo card.



“Paris Sous la Neige,” Luigi Loir

Gouache.

I’m confused about how this will lower grocery prices.

 

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