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.

Throwback Thursday: this ad for the WOR-TV Channel 9 Thanksgiving monster movie marathon!

Here’s just a nifty newspaper advertisement for WOR-TV Channel 9’s annual Thanksgiving monster movie marathon — about which I’ve posted once or twice before.

I actually remember nearly all of this lineup from watching in the 1980’s!  The three big-gorilla flicks came first, in glorious black and white, with the Godzilla entries after.  (The only movie below that doesn’t ring a bell for me is “Godzilla vs. The Bionic Monster.”  I must have missed that one.



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Variant cover to “Detective Comics” #1076, Christopher Mitten, 2023

DC Comics.  Cover C, card stock variant.

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“You cannot tell yourself you’ll write when there is more time …”

“You cannot tell yourself you’ll write when there is more time, less responsibility, or an abundance of silence.   It will never happen.  Begin your practice here and now in the frustration and heat and cold and imperfection of it all.  Do exactly what you can with what you have.”

—  Victoria Erickson



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

Cover to “Alien Volume 3: Icarus,” Bjorn Barends, 2023

Marvel Entertainment.

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“The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover.”

“The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.”


― James Baldwin



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Photo credit: R. L. Oliver, Los Angeles Times, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons

Veterans Day, 2023

Thank you to all who served.

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A sentinel from the 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) walks the mat at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Nov. 11, 2022. (DoD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Alexander Kubitza)

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Hungarian chess set, circa 1885

Wood and leather.  Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Word of the Day — “Pluviophile”

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Source: Live & Learn