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.

WEEP FOR MY FALL THROUGH THE AIR.

I’m bookish, awkward, pot-bellied and an easy target for jokes. Now I apparently need prescription glasses? And I can’t understand why people in my age group want to run society like a bunch of savages.

All I need is a conch shell, and I’m Piggy from “Lord of the Flies.”



Throwback Thursday: this 1985 ad for Toaster Strudels!

Enjoy.

(And be sure to check out the Youtube channel for Chuck D’s All-New Classic TV Clubhouse, from which this came.)



Cover to “Kingdom Come,” Alex Ross, 2019

DC Comics.

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Hasn’t he got enough problems lately?

My pal Tara posted this picture of an unimpressive carrot she found this morning.

I think we can all agree the association is inevitable.



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[squints awkwardly]

DON’T be offended if I don’t recognize you — it’s because I don’t have my glasses on.

I can’t see *%$#. You could Henry Goddam Kissinger for all I know.



Poster for “Westworld” Season 3 (2020)

HBO.

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South Jefferson Street tonight.

Roanoke, VA.

Album cover for “Blade Runner” Soundtrack by The New American Orchestra, 1982

The full title is “Blade Runner (Orchestral Adaptation Of Music Composed For The Motion Picture By Vangelis).”

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Northern Roanoke, VA, September 2023

Somewhere in or around Hollins. One of the things you see looking south is the Roanoke — Blacksburg Regional Airport.

Look for a surprise appearance by Mr. Turkey Vulture!



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Graffiti of geese, Poland

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Photo: PawełS, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons