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.

“The world needs a wash and a week’s rest.”

“The world needs a wash and a week’s rest.”

― W.H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue

 

 

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By TorontoPeter – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4144022

Cover to “House of Mystery” #222, Luis Dominguez, 1974

DC Comics.

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Donald Trump Limerick #6

And now the disordered goon
is hell-bent on mining the moon.
The strange new digression
leaves us the impression
that he’s a distractible loon.

 

 

If loving pickle loaf is wrong, then I don’t wanna be right.

CAROLINA PRIDE, *****es!

They mocked me once for favoring specialty meats. NOW WHOSE HABITUAL VICE IS CONSISTENTLY STOCKED EVEN IS TIMES OF APOCALYPSE-INDUCED SUPERMARKET SHORTAGES?

TODAY, THE MEAT AISLE. TOMORROW, THE WORLD.

 

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In the not-too-distant future — this country, A.D.

This meme is making the rounds on Facebook.  (As always, I’ll cheerfully credit its creator if he or she steps forward.)

Joel and the Bots might just make these televised farces bearable.

 

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Throwback Thursday: Milton Bradley’s Connect Four!

I loved this game.  Just about the only drawback to it was that if two kids got reasonably proficient at Connect Four, they would somewhat consistently reach a draw every time they played.

If you glance at the comments section for the video (I’m linking here to panbiscuit’s Youtube channel), you can see that plenty of people still remember the “Pretty sneaky, Sis” line at the end.

Weird world — when I was a little kid in the late 1970’s, I totally had that kid’s haircut.

Hey — you can actually play an online version of Connect Four for free if you’ve got Adobe Flash.

 

Cover to “House of Mystery” #236, Bernie Wrightson, 1975

DC Comics.

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Wash your hands.

Wash your hands.

Wash your hands.

Wash your hands.

Wash your hands.

Wash your hands.

Wash your hands.

Wash your hands.

 

 

Poster for “10 Cloverfield Lane” (2016)

Paramount Pictures.

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Another Donald Trump Limerick …

The #Dimericks hashtag has died down a bit on Twitter, but I couldn’t resist just one more limerick at Donald Trump’s expense …

There once was a doltish aggressor
who lied at his pandemic presser.
He figured he’d use
his tried-and-true ruse
of blaming his black predecessor.