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 “Arkham Asylum: Living Hell,” Ryan Sook, 2014

DC Comics.

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Be smart guys. Use your brain….

You wake up with a terrible cough, a fever, and severe body aches. Immediately, you run to the doctor, unfortunately you’re diagnosed with coronavirus. For the last two weeks, you’ve been unaware that you were infected. For the last two weeks, you’ve “followed the rules”🤔, got together with some close friends for pizza, had a few people over, even visited some parks and beaches. You figured, “I don’t feel sick”, “I’m safe!”, “I wash my hands all the time” and “I can’t stop living my life!”

You spend a few days home on the couch sick, feeling pretty crappy but then you’re well again because you’re young, healthy and strong!

But, your friend caught it from you and she visited her 82-year-old grandfather, who uses oxygen tanks daily to help him breath because he has COPD and heart failure. Now, he’s dead!

Your co-worker, who has asthma, caught it too, during your little pizza get together. Now, he’s in the ICU.

The cashier at the restaurant where you picked up the pizza, carried the infection home on his clothes to his wife, who has MS, which makes her immuno-suppressed. She’s not as lucky as you, so she’s admitted to the hospital because she’s having trouble breathing.

#SocialDistancing = It’s not about you!

#ThisIsSerious Please Please Stop!!!!We love our Family and Friends but We must recognize this is REAL!!!!✔✔✔💯💯💯💯💯💯

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Poster for “Nie Ma Powrotu Johnny” (1970)

North Vietnam, Poland.

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We are better than this.

The President of the United States appears to be inciting anti-government violence, via tweet, in the middle of a pandemic.

If you support this man, I am asking you to please stop. He is not a “conservative” or a savior or a man who is being “used by God.”

He is simply a madman.

This goes beyond “conservative” or “liberal.”  We — all of us — are better than this.

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Stinkbug on my coffeecup. Fits right in with my damned day.

I’d bitch about having to wash the cup, if I wasn’t already at the sink 20 times a day washing my hands to avoid a potentially fatal contagion anyway.

THIS IS NOT THE FUTURE WESTWORLD PROMISED US. It contains 100 percent less Dom Dolores Dangerbot and 100 percent more stinkbug-on-my-coffee-cup.

WE GOT ROBBED.

 

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“Solitude /Became his flattered duchess in the dark.”

“The First Temptation,” by W. H. Auden (Part VI. of “The Quest”)

Ashamed to be the darling of his grief,
He joined a gang of rowdy stories where
His gift for magic quickly made him chief
Of all these boyish powers of the air;

Who turned his hungers into Roman food,
The town’s asymmetry into a park;
All hours took taxis; any solitude
Became his flattered duchess in the dark.

But, if he wished for anything less grand,
The nights came padding after him like wild
Beasts that meant harm, and all the doors cried Thief;

And when Truth had met him and put out her hand,
He clung in panic to his tall belief
And shrank away like an ill-treated child.

 

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Here’s a thought —

You can probably find your local fire/EMS departments on Facebook. (I’m not sure about Twitter and other platforms.) It’s quick and easy to comment with a thank you or some encouraging words for first responders.

It isn’t much, I guess, but it’s something.

 

 

“Marine Baths in Gdynia,” Tadeusz Gronowski, 1938

Tourism poster.  Poland.

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(I’m so funny.)

Girl on Twitter: “Why does Trump insist on saying that we are in a “war”?”

Me: “He thinks it makes him sound tough. (If it were really a war, he would have gotten a deferment due to bone spurs.)”

 

 

Cover to “Aliens: Dead Orbit,” James Stokoe, 2018

Dark Horse Comics.

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