Those God damn squirrels
Dodging in front of my car …
Next time, I won’t swerve!
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All posts by Eric Robert Nolan
“Batman: the Dark Knight Returns” #3, Frank Miller and Lynn Varley, 1986
DC Comics.
We have a third-rate celebrity with no qualifications serving as president, because he trash-talked everyone — and a third of the electorate thought that made him sound cool or tough.
Our constitutional republic has been hijacked by emotionally disturbed middle-school students.
And there are consequences for that.
Cover to “Aliens: Earth War” #4, John Bolton, 1990
Dark Horse Comics.
Eric Robert Nolan to be featured by the Piker Press
I’m honored to share here today that the Piker Press will feature five submissions of my writing in the coming months.
Editor Sand Pilarski has informed me that my horror/science fiction story, “Shine Now, Fiercely, Forever,” will appear at the weekly online literary magazine on December 10th. This story was originally published in January 2017 by The Bees Are Dead.
Four poems of mine will also be featured between January and May of 2019: “Confession,” “This Windy Morning,” “Roanoke Summer Midnight” and “My Mother’s Apartment.” These poems appeared over the last several years in the pages of Peeking Cat Poetry Magazine.
The Piker Press is a journal for arts, sciences, fiction and non-fiction that its creators like to think of it as “the illegitimate, online child of Analog and National Geographic, but funnier.” It’s a great online periodical featuring fun and thought-provoking material from a range of voices. You can find it right here at http://www.pikerpress.com/.
Cover to “Hack/Slash New Reader Halloween Treat” #1, Tim Seeley, 2008
Devil’s Due Publishing.
Throwback Thursday: “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” (1973)
I was only a baby when ABC debuted the original “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” in 1973, but I caught it when it was rebroadcast around the end of the decade, when I was … six or seven years old? And dear GOD did it scare the crap out of me.
Since then, it’s become a minor legend in the horror fan community as one of the rare made-for-television movies that is easily as scary as something you’d see in a theater. This was the film that was remade in 2010, produced by Guillermo del Toro and with Katie Holmes in the lead role. (And I thought that the remake was a fun horror fantasy, even if it wasn’t terribly scary.)
I actually caught the film again about ten years ago, courtesy of Netflix’ DVD-by-mail service. And it was still creepy enough.
Cover to “Detective Comics” #587, Norm Breyfogle, 1988
DC Comics.
“My own opinion is enough for me.”
“My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line, and kiss my ass.”
Barnhill, in the Scottish Hebrides.
House on the island of Jura occupied by George Orwell when writing the novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four.”
