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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Cover to “House of Secrets” #88, Neal Adams, 1970

December 29, 2021 Eric Robert Nolan Leave a comment

DC Comics.

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“Whoa.”

December 27, 2021 Eric Robert Nolan Leave a comment

I really want to see that “Matrix Insurrections” movie where thousands of would-be “patriots” fight for their carefully constructed, shared artificial reality …

… but in the real world they’re actually terrorists having their minds controlled by machines and the Internet. And they’re a fully disposable resource to the system that uses them to retain power.

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Photo credit: Marc Nozell from Merrimack, New Hampshire, USA, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

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I survived #Whamageddon 2021!

December 27, 2021 Eric Robert Nolan Leave a comment

Can I social distance or what?

Yeah, I do realize that Wham!’s “Last Christmas” is the least of 2021’s existential threats, but it’s an existential threat nonetheless. Take your victories where you can.

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It’s a replicant Christmas!

December 27, 2021 Eric Robert Nolan Leave a comment

Hot damn, my best friend gave me the coolest presents for a writer! What you see are “Poe-ka Dots” socks, sculpted raven bookends from the New York Public Library and the piece de resistance …

… a lapel pin fashioned after the origami unicorn from “Blade Runner” (1982). I didn’t even know such a thing existed, so I wouldn’t have even known to ask for it. I can’t believe she found it!

“‘MORE HUMAN THAN HUMAN’ IS OUR MOTTO.”

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“Glade Jul,” Viggo Johansen, 1891

December 27, 2021 Eric Robert Nolan Leave a comment

“Joyful Christmas.” Oil on canvas.

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My dudes, this looks like the ghost train I was trying to find out by Brandon Avenue!

December 25, 2021 Eric Robert Nolan Leave a comment

Full disclosure — there is no ghost train in Roanoke, Virginia … at least as far as I am aware. In our Propaganda Era, I am loathe to start even a harmless urban legend. (Santa Claus is quite real, however.)

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