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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Cover to “Batman” #203, Neal Adams, 1968

April 3, 2025 Eric Robert Nolan Leave a comment

DC Comics.

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Rest easy, Val Kilmer.

April 2, 2025 Eric Robert Nolan Leave a comment

News broke this morning that the actor passed away at age 65.

Photo credit: Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

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No, there was no escaped tiger running around Cave Spring yesterday.

April 2, 2025 Eric Robert Nolan Leave a comment

That was an April Fool’s joke.

I’ve gotta hand it to you people — you’re sharp. There were verrrry few people who fell for my ruse this year. (You distinguished believers know who you are.)

Maybe I went too far in naming the fictional “Jowicker” zoological agency. Or maybe my citing of witness “April Flanagan” was a little too on the nose.

Oh, well. I can still reminisce with pride about last year’s gem of a hoax. That one actually worked a little too well — I spent days afterward clarifying for people that I had not joined a traveling dance company for middle-aged performers.

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Congratulations to Eamon O’Leary and to Hikari!

April 2, 2025 Eric Robert Nolan Leave a comment

I hope you will join me in congratulating Eamon O’Leary for being named Spillwords Press Author of the Month for March 2025. Mr. O’Leary’s wonderful essay, Chance a Change, appeared on March 4th. (And I do thank those of you who voted for me, by the way.)

Let’s also congratulate Hikari for being awarded for Post of the Month. Her poem “Prayer to the Sea” was published on March 15th.

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Variant Cover to “Ragman” #1, Guillem March, 2017

April 2, 2025 Eric Robert Nolan Leave a comment

Cover A. DC Comics.

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Escaped tiger in southern Roanoke.

April 1, 2025 Eric Robert Nolan Leave a comment

People, 2025 could not get any weirder than this. There is now an escaped tiger in the vicinity of Cave Spring/southern Roanoke. Check the local news. The radio station is doing better than TV in keeping up with the story, I think, even if there isn’t much detail yet.

Supposedly the animal escaped from its temporary enclosure on Mill Mountain — it was being transported by Jowicker Large Game Farm between Knoxville, TN and the Smithsonian National Zoological Park. It apparently a “juvenile,” which means it isn’t full-sized, but the news is saying it could easily kill a person. So don’t mess with it.

There is a Cave Spring resident, April Flanagan, who told the radio that she spotted the animal walking north alongside North Jefferson Street.

I will keep you posted when I learn more. Please be safe.