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.

Just some more fun with filters — trees in Salem, VA.

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“Buchenhain,” Gustav Klimt, 1902

Oil on canvas.

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“Alone I Set Out on the Road,” Mikhail Lermontov

*  translated from the original Russian

Alone I set out on the road;
The flinty path is sparkling in the mist;
The night is still. The desert harks to god,
And star with star converses.

The vault is overwhelmed with solemn wonder
The earth in cobalt aura sleeps. . .
Why do I feel so pained and troubled?
What do I harbor: hope, regrets?

I see no hope in years to come,
Have no regrets for things gone by.
All that I seek is peace and freedom!
To lose myself and sleep!

But not the frozen slumber of the grave …
I’d like eternal sleep to leave
My life force dozing in my breast
Gently with my breath to rise and fall;

By night and day, my hearing would be soothed
By voices sweet, singing to me of love.
And over me, forever green,
A dark oak tree would bend and rustle.

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M. Kurushin, “Alone I Set Out on the road.” Illustration for the poem of M. Lermontov from the book “… And the star speaks with the star.” S. 35

THIS SPACE FOR RENT.

So my latest get-rich-quick scheme is to rent out billboard space on my truly immense damned forehead.  Seriously. Look at that thing.  I do believe that it is actually getting bigger by the year, but I don’t want to follow that thought through to its logical conclusion, because it would mean that I have a receding hairline.

Anyway, the price is negotiable.  No pro-Trump messages, of course.  (And I’m sure the president will be disappointed, because my forehead is the possibly the only space large enough to fit the word “HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE” in big bold letters.)  I cannot ethically advertise any product that exposes credulous white people to questionable chemicals.  So neither will I promote either Essential Oils nor Pumpkin Spice Latte.  When it comes to my giant forehead, With great power comes great responsibility.

Or maybe I could rent the space out as a movie screen, what with drive-ins bouncing back during the pandemic.  You could throw some Alfred Hitchcock up there.

 

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Winedrunk Sidewalk features “I Am Going To Drive Drunk Tonight”

I’m honored today to see my satirical essay, “I Am Going To Drive Drunk Tonight” appear over at Winedrunk Sidewalk: Shipwrecked in Trumpland.  You can find the piece right here.

As always, thanks to Editor John Grochalski for allowing me to add my voice at Winedrunk Sidewalk!

 

 

Cover to “The Question” #34, Denys Cowan, 1990

DC Comics.

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Illustration of a Solar Eclipse from “The Young Folks’ Astronomy,” 1881

New York, H. Holt and Company.

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“One tongue is silent, Prospero, My language is my own.”

One tongue is silent, Prospero,

My language is my own;

Decayed Gonzalo does not know

The shadow that Antonio

Talks to, at noon, alone.

— Antonio’s refrain. from W. H. Auden’s The Sea and the Mirror

 

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Photo credit: By Kenny Louie from Vancouver, Canada – Form, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24336137

To a Friend Who Unfriended Me on Facebook:

To a Friend Who Unfriended Me on Facebook:

Sorry I employed the Socratic method to deflate your position and illustrate for the world how poorly you conceived it. I’m also sorry I posted evidence on your wall that vividly contradicts your argument. Finally, I’m sorry that I made fun of your spelling and grammar.

Get smarter, #$%^&*@#$%^&.

Sincerely,

Eric Robert Nolan

 

 

Variant Cover to “Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man” #9, Wood Dae Shim, 2019

“Carnage-ized” variant.  Marvel Comics.

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