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 Piker Press publishes my review of “28 Years Later” (2025)

I’m so happy to see my review of “28 Years Later” (2025) appear today over at The Piker Press.

You can find it right here.

Thanks, as always, to Managing Editor Sand Pilarski for allowing me to be a part of this fun creative community!



Kurse you, Kroger!

This is the face I make when the supermarket is out of liverwurst.  Oh, the humanity.

“August,” Alfons Mucha, 1898

From  Les Douze Mois (The 12 Months), published in Cocorico magazine.

(Alas, I am Eric. And my brilliance is strictly pun-based.)

If my name was Brad, I would totally learn to make cakes and things.

Because then I could open a bakery and call it “Baking Brad.”



Cover to “House of Secrets” #22, Dick Dillin & Sheldon Moldoff, 1959

DC Comics.

“August is the border between summer and autumn.”

“Midtown Skyline at Sunset – View from Long Island, New York, USA,” photo by Romain Pontida, 2023

4-picture panorama stitched with Hugin, rectilinear projection

“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool …”

“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.”

― Ursula K. Le Guin



Photo credit: Marian Wood Kolisch, Oregon State University, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons

This post has mad “Pontypool” energy and I’m totally here for it.

IYKYK.