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.

OHMIGOD, THE ANTIVAXXERS WERE ACTUALLY HALF RIGHT!

No, nobody puts a chip in you along with the Covid vaccine — but there’s a side effect where you start to look and sound like Chip Douglas!

Actually … forget it, false alarm.  I just remembered that already look and sound like Chip Douglas.

HEY, UNCLE CHARLEY.

Seriously, the side effects from my first dose of the Pfizer vaccine yesterday have been minor.  My arm is still sore, and I felt BLECH with fatigue last night — but I woke up this morning back to my usual nerdy self.



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A Separate Peace.

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Cover to “Detective Comics” #647, Matt Wagner, 1992

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What a day. I’m shot.

I was incredibly impressed with Virginia’s Covid-19 vaccination program.  The Virginia Department of Health’s sign-up process was easy enough, the VDH FAQ page covered everything, and the Carilion Vaccine Clinic staff at the Berglund Center off Williamson Road in Roanoke were speedy, pleasant and courteous — even by Southern standards.  (I got in and out in no time at all.)

Everyone involved did a truly admirable job.  Way to go, VA.



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“Hamlet Sees the Ghost of His Father,” Eugène Delacroix, 1825

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Got a question about getting the Covid vaccine in Virginia?

The FAQ page over at the Virginia Department of Health is detailed and expansive.  Check it out. 



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I myself am rooting for the new store-brand Captain America.

He just seems so goddamn earnest — like your 11-year-old kid trying out for the team.

And he at least looks better in that uniform than I would.  (Nolan’s got a spare tire.)



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Cover to “Batman” #34, Joëlle Jones & Jordie Bellaire, 2018

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Always.

May be an image of text that says 'I don't know who needs to hear this, but your choice to give up up the ast eleven or so months of your regular life, being careful and socially distancing, could very well be the reason somebody else is alive today -and it will *always* have been worth it.'

“The Executioner” From “Basel’s Dance of Death,” Hieronymus Hess, circa 1649

Lithographic plates. After Matthaeus Merian’s 17th century drawings.

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