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.

Cover to “Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight” #60, Norm Breyfogle, 1994

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Weighing in here about Twitter.

I think the user experience on Twitter has definitely deteriorated somewhat since Elon Musk took over the company — at least it has for me.  It just looks like the algorithms have changed for what appears in my newsfeed (or the scroll, whatever).

I seem to be reading far fewer tweets from people I want to hear from, and far fewer tweets that I enjoy.  I’m reading vague yet grandiose religious tweets … if you know me at all, you know that those don’t appeal to me.

And I’m being targeted by spam in tweets for the first time ever.  It’s happened only a couple of times, though — so I shouldn’t complain too much.

Maybe I shouldn’t bitch at all.  Twitter is free.  (And, no, I don’t think I’ve ever made a purchase due to advertising on the site.)

But I will say this — it definitely isn’t as fun as it used to be.



“Abtei im Eichwald,” Caspar David Friedrich, circa 1810

“The Abbey in the Oakwood.”  Oil on canvas.

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Throwback Thursday: High School Politician Nolan!

This is from 1988 — it was my speech when I ran for president of the International Student Organization at Longwood High School.

I even had buttons made up.  I was quite the extrovert back in those days (and a nerd too, in case you hadn’t noticed).  But I wasn’t exactly Marcus Antonius, even if I wanted to be.

Note the use of a dot matrix printer!  😀



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Illustration from the “Les Fleurs du Mal,” Odilon Redon, 1923

“The Flowers of Evil.”  Etching.

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This is from The New York Post.

The conservative New York Post.

(Pic taken from Facebook.)



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This just turned up in my Twitter feed. Now I feel ANCIENT.

And “primitive.”

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Cover to “House of Mystery” #129, Mort Meskin & George Roussos, 1962

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It’s a Terrable mistake.

My buddy Tara had her name misspelled at Starbucks, and now I can never stop thinking of her as Terra of the Teen Titans.

She’s   also    an  editor, so I occasionally add    extra spaces in sentences to    make her nuts.

Sometimes I think it’s challenging for people to be friends with me.



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Cover to “House of Mystery” #76, Jack Kirby, 1958

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