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.

“A chance meeting with someone from the past is in store.”

Which store?  Target?  Victoria’s Secret?  B&D Comic Shop on Elm Avenue?

Not to be a Negative Ned here, but there are some people from my past I wouldn’t want to meet by chance.  That’s why they’re in the past.

Though it’s important to note that my fortune here says the past, not necessarily my past.  Which I suppose could mean I’ll meet William Jennings Bryant at the bait shop or something.

I probably think too much about these things.



2021-05-29

2021

(And a mad king, to boot.)

As I recall, they’d also have a problem with a president acting like a king — and attacking every check on his power, including the press, the courts, term limits, his political opponents and his own justice department. The pure f***ing imbecile even threatened Saturday Night Live with “retribution” for parodying him in a sketch.

The MAGA crowd only invokes the framers when it wants to evoke a vague, romanticized pretext for whatever weird, braindead, id-driven bullshit is on its anti-democratic agenda.



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Moody snow pics.

More old photos from Roanoke, Virginia.  I have no idea why I like blurry photos of inclement weather so much, but I do.

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“Townsfolk Shopping Along The Oude Gracht Utrecht,” Willem Johannes Oppenoorth, 1883

Oil.

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“school shooter” nominated for spillwords Press Publication of the Month

Hey, gang — turns out I’ve been nominated to receive Publication of the Month from Spillwords Press for my poem, “school shooter.”

If you’re feeling so inclined, you can vote for the piece right here.




Italian Poster for “Blade Runner” (1982)

Warner Bros.

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MORE TURKEY VULTURES!!!

I found another picture of Roanoke’s truly enormous turkey vultures!!  (I’m doing that thing where you rediscover those cool old photos when you clean out your computer files.  Snow pics are coming.)



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“Street in Artvin, Armenia,” Richard Karlovich Zommer

Oil on canvas.

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Why am I not this clever?

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