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.

Today’s portmanteau:

Snacks + accident = snacksident.

Why did I inhale those peanut butter M&M’s?  It was a SNACKSIDENT.



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

1869 illustration from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”

I’m puzzled by this piece — I think this is the work of Gustave Dore, but I can’t seem to confirm that.  My neophyte’s experience with art has shown me that some of Dore’s contemporaries appeared to illustrate with the same style.

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New-Haircut Nolan sez hello.

I’m kinda like Herman Munster crossed with Conan O’Brien.

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The new building facing Campbell Avenue is coming along nicely.

This video was shot from Salem Avenue to the north.  (Roanoke, Virginia.)



Depiction of “The Ninth Plague: Darkness (Exodus 10:21-23),” Gustave Dore, 1866

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(My teacher friends will like this one.)

Today’s portmanteau:

Slacker + academic = Slackademic.



“At our age we know that nothing lasts forever.”

“At our age we know that nothing lasts forever. We fall in love but we know it won’t be forever. That’s why we take risks, that’s why we give ourselves until we are empty.”

—  Alejandra Pizarnik



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Photo credit: Rachel Samanyi from Seattle.WA, USA, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons

Image from the opening title sequence of “The Outer Limits” (1995-2002)

Showtime, SyFy.

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“The longer I live, the more deeply I learn …”

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I see Christmas trees.

Franklin Road in Roanoke, Virginia.

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