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.
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“A Kolkhoz Celebration,” Sergey Gerasimov, 1937

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Oil on canvas.  The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.

Source: http://russianartgallery.org/

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“A Metaphor Crosses the Road,” by Martha McFerren

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This is just a cute amateur video for Martha McFerren’s “A Metaphor Crosses the Road,” created by Cici Lyn.

 

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If you’re cold, they’re cold. Bring them inside.

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That’s some Thing you always need to remember on a cold night, right?

Anyway, this fan-made movie poster for John Carpenter’s “The Thing” (1982) is absolutely incredible.  I am unaware of its creator, but it’s all over the Pinterest boards for similar fan-made posters.

 

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“Not of Byzantium,” by Eric Robert Nolan

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“Not of Byzantium”

Awakening at one AM after dreaming
not of Byzantium,
not of Babylon, but better —
Not Shangri-La, but shaded limb —
The pine I climbed when I was nine.

No Acropolis, only
fallow farm and rising sun.
Across, a distant treeline
ascends to render Athens’
Parthenon prosaic.

Exceeding empires, exceeding
even Elysium, is
This slumber’s ordinary boyhood field.

(c) Eric Robert Nolan 2015

Originally published in Dead Snakes.

 

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Photo credit: kallerna [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons

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Detail from Vimy Ridge World War I Memorial

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Vimy, France.  Memorial designed by  Walter Seymour Allward, circa 1936.

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Photo credit: By Cbone (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons

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Using Amazon Prime to deliver to the homeless?

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Like a lot of brilliant ideas, this is a simple one that even seems obvious in retrospect.  What a smart, kind soul it takes to come up with something like this.

This video is from the “Action” Facebook page.

 

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Cover to “The Uncanny X-Men” #467, Tim Townsend and Chris Bachalo, 2006

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Marvel Comics.

 

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Check out “Adam” over at Oats Studios.

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I won’t lie to you — not all of the sci-fi short films that Oats Studios produces are fantastic.  Writer-Director Neill Blomkamp’s cutting-edge online creative project does produce its share of duds.  But when it’s good, it’s very, very good, and “Adam” is proof of that.

Like Blomkamp’s “Rakka” and “Firebase” before it, “Adam” is an unfinished serialized tale that mixes raw emotion and disturbing imagery with hints of brilliance — all set within a detailed and truly creative sci-fi universe.  I highly recommend it.

 

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Cover to “Game of Thrones” comic (mobile app variant) #7, 2013

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I’m not 100 percent sue of the artist here, but I believe it is Tommy Patterson.

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The Long Halloween?

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So this is slightly weird …

I bought this pumpkin a week before Halloween.  It is now January 5.  It’s as firm as the day I bought it, without a hint of rot.  That’s got to be some kind of record, right?

I’m tempted to think it was chemically treated somehow by the seller.  But I bought another pumpkin from the same batch that soured pretty predictably.  It had to go out on the porch after a couple of weeks.  (Come to think of it … I don’t actually remember putting that one in the garbage pails.  Did a raccoon carry it off?)

 

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