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.

Heyyyyyyyy, it’s Fake Friend Request Day on Facebook!!

Tip of the hat to the nonexistent pretty girls!!

Welcome to Facebook, which you just joined an hour ago!! And good luck at the new job, which … you apparently just started and hour ago … at MacDonald’s.

MacDonlad’s? That’s an interesting choice. Usually you ladies are all veterinarians and personal trainers and scuba instructors and such. Maybe you failed to prepare adequately in your fake school to prepare for your first choice of a fake job. Good luck with that.

I feel lucky, by the way, to be among the first six friends that you sought out on social media.  It’s a select group — just me and five other unmarried men whose immutably credulous and feckless expressions are apparent even in their profile pictures.

Do *I* have that expression?  (Probably.)

 

 

 

Cover to “Amazing Stories,” Walter Popp, September 1952

This art is so bad it’s good. (Why is the scientist HUGE?)

Ziff-Davis Publishing.

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Selections from Dennis Villelmi’s “Fretensis,” read by Eric Robert Nolan

If you didn’t catch these recordings last week over at The Bees Are Dead, I was honored to read from Dennis Villelmi’s superb book of cosmic horror poetry, “Fretensis: In the Image of a Blind God” (2014).  The Bees Are Dead has graciously allowed me to release them here again at the blog.

Thanks again, Dennis, for allowing me to share your Gothic visions this way.

 

 

 

“View of Delft,” Johannes Vermeer, circa 1660

Oil on canvas.

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Happy Independence Day!

Have fun and be safe.

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I am nearing completion of a vampire apocalypse story.

I hope to have it completed … soon? (I’m currently at 11,000 words; I’m guessing it should be maybe … 16,000.)

I’ll be releasing it for free right here on the blog. I’ll keep you guys posted.

 

 

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Cover to “Batman: The Long Halloween” #10, Tim Sale, 1997

DC Comics.

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A Holocaust survivor reacts to the Nazis at Charlottesville. (Huffington Post)

And here I have been reading that one third of Americans don’t even believe that six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust.

Tomorrow is July Fourth.  In addition to celebrating, let’s remember what America should be fighting against.

 

“Wind from the Sea,” Andrew Wyeth, 1947

Tempera on hardboard.

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This is perfectly logical. (Cory Booker on Trump’s prospective Supreme Court pick)

Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) on Donald Trump’s prospective United States Supreme Court nomination:

“I think it’s questionable we should be considering a nominee from a president who has a history of demanding these loyalty tests and we could be responsible for participating in something that could undermine that investigation.  I do not believe this committee should, or can in good conscience, consider a nominee put forward by this president until that investigation is concluded.”

Watch the entire video below — it’s just over three and a half minutes long.