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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Illustration from “Die Gartenaube,” 1894

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Publisher —  Ernst Keil’s Nachfolger. Leipzig, Germany.

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A sure thing.

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I noticed this last night.  Ridley Scott is a Cinema God, and I should be cast out for nitpicking his genre-defining masterpiece.  (If you need to ask which movie I am talking about, I’m not sure we can be friends.)

But the word nerd in me needs to point out that the computer here probably meant “ensure” instead of “insure.”

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day, All!!

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Wishing you the luck of the Irish.  (And better luck, generally speaking, than this Irishman, because holy shillelagh.)

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Photo credit: Saint Patrick Catholic Church (Junction City, Ohio), Nheyob, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons

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Poster for “Blade Runner 2049” (2017)

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Warner Bros. Pictures.

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“Ode to a Polish Plum Cake,” by Eric Robert Nolan

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Infused in crumbling crust
is delectable violent violet –
a pounded plum,
a welt of fruit.
Oh, if my lips could peruse
that square and powdered sugar-bruise.

(c) Eric Robert Nolan 2024

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Photo credit: Takeaway, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons

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You’ve heard of Elf on a Shelf. Now get ready for …

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… Falconry on a Balcony.

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“The Falconer,” Thomas Couture

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“Thisbe,” John William Waterhouse, 1909

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Oil on canvas.

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Just gonna leaf this here.

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My artisty-type friends are posting a lot of paintings depicting spring leaves — my mind keeps going to O. Henry’s “The Last Leaf.”  (And of course it takes place in November in New York City.)

You can find it right here at East of the Web, if you’re interested.

And East of the Web, with which I’m only now getting acquainted, seems like a terrific site.

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Everyone’s cracking Ides of March jokes. It makes me want to take a stab at it.

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And why not?  I’m a sharp guy.

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Illustration from “Castle St. Angelo And The Evil Eye: Being Additional Chapters to ‘Roba Di Roma,'” 1877

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