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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“Donauwellen,” Koloman Moser, 1901

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Color lithograph.

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Neologism needed.

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If a group of cows is called a herd, and a group of crows is called a murder, then a group of nerdy reading glasses is called a … syllabus?

A calculus course?

An AV club?

(If anyone gets offended by this, it’s worth noting that these are MY reading glasses.  Yeah, I buy ’em in bulk.  I’m HARDCORE.  ALL MY SONNETS ARE *GHETTO,* YO.)

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Cover to “Grendel Tales: Devil’s Hammer” #3, Matt Wagner, 1994

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Dark Horse Comics.

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quit or

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(You’ll get to Denver, at the very least.)

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“Calinerie,” Leon François Comerre

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Oil on canvas.

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CAFFEINE IS A SUPERFOOD.

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That is all.  That is my advice for today.

Update — just try, if anyone should even touch you on the shoulder, not to FREAK THE #@$% OUT and start speaking in tongues.

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Cover to “Grendel: War Child” Paperback, Matt Wagner, 2001

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Dark Horse Comics.

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“there is a loneliness in this world so great …”

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there is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movements of
the hands of a clock

there is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it blinking in neon signs
in Vegas, in Baltimore, in Munich

there are people so tired
so strafed
so mutilated by love or no
love
that buying a bargain can of tuna
in a supermarket
is their greatest moment
their greatest victory

— from Charles Bukowski’s “the crunch”*

* There are multiple different versions of this poem in which the text varies.

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Photo credit: By Theo Crazzolara – Waiting, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=54570965

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(Kinda like me with my jokes, in other words …)

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