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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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Dali does Wolverine.

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I found this on Facebook; it was just too good not to share.  That maple leaf representing Wolverine’s Canadian heritage is an especially nice touch.  I am unaware of the (actual) artist.

When I was 10 years old, I would argue at length with the kid next door about who would win in a fight — Wolverine or Silver Surfer.

Sigh … okay, I was actually 20 years old, and a college junior, and I was arguing in Mary Washington College’s New Hall with senior John Mathias.

“But he has the Power Cosmic!” John endlessly asserted about Silver Surfer.

If Wolverine’s adamantium claws could cut through anything, I astutely countered, “then they could cut through the Power Cosmic!”  Then I took another swig of my beer.

I had a well rounded education.

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“Nicole, ” de la Résistance Française

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Sur la photo, “Nicole,” une Partisan Française qui a capturé 25 Nazis dans la région de Chartres dans le Août 1944.

“Nicole,” of the French Resistance

Pictured is “Nicole,” a French Partisan who captured 25 Nazis in the Chartres area in the August of 1944.

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“Here’s how you can help victims of the Paris terror attacks.”

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There’s a terrific set of links and resources over at Mashable.com, and it’s updated continuously:

http://mashable.com/2015/11/14/paris-attacks-how-to-help/#HcMKlkEchkqT

For a little perspective, we Americans should remember the support and friendship the French people showed us after September 11, 2001.

L’Amérique se tient avec la France.
 

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Publication Notice: Dead Snakes features “Graceless Ravens Envy You”

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I am honored yet again to see one of my poems published by Dead Snakes.  Thanks to Editor Stephen Jarrell Williams for allowing me to share “Graceless Ravens Envy You” at the link below:

http://deadsnakes.blogspot.com/2015/11/eric-robert-nolan-poem.html

And, by the way, my friend Tejal Jhaveri Moen has also published a new piece at Dead Snakes!  Click the link below to read “A Tearless Cry.”

http://deadsnakes.blogspot.com/2015/11/tejal-jhaveri-moen-poem_13.html

Anyway … in searching Wikimedia Commons for a public domain photo for this post, I learned that there is such a thing as a “Chihuahua Raven” (corvus cryptoleucus). That’s just wrong on several levels.  I suggest that we hunt it to extinction.

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Photo credit: by Shahnoor Habib Munmun (Own work) [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons.

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“Tonight, all good people sing this song.”

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Someone named Eric McConnell posted this in a comment on Trace Beaulieu’s Facebook wall.  I thought it was a particularly nice idea.

Greg Camp said in the comments for this Youtube video, “Tonight, all good people sing this song.”

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A combats partisans français aux côtés de soldats alliés de reprendre les villes de France, vers 1944.

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Pour les gens de France:

Comme un garçon en Amérique, je entendu des histoires de mon père à propos de la bravoure de la résistance française.  Je me souviens clairement; mon père a lu beaucoup de livres sur la Guerre Mondiale Deux.

Vos amis aux États-Unis savent ce soir que vous allez convoquer à nouveau la même bravoure.

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Au peuple de Paris …

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Godspeed à nos amis et alliés dans la grande nation de la France.  Vous avez de l’amour vient à vous à travers l’Atlantique.

La France est une grande nation. Ses habitants sont forts.

Vous prévaloir contre les criminels et les terroristes qui sous-estiment le caractère du peuple français.

Liberté, égalité, fraternité!

L’Amérique se tient avec vous.

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The six-word sci-fi story challenge.

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Okay, mine kinda sucks:

“Parallel universe,” explained the other me.

How about this one?

“Warning: Rabies Virus Airborne.  Flee Infected.”

Let me try again:

“Remember when cats were OUR pets?”

My obligatory wolf entry:

“GenetiClaw Inc.: Now, werewolves CAN exist.””

One more:

“Trump is a poorly programmed robot!”

 

[UPDATE: Pete Harrison just came up with one!]

“Nolan and Woods: the perfect clones.”

And another!

“NO MORE GAMES!!!” cried the android.

 

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Thank a Veteran.

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Speaking of veterans today, I’d like to mention that our own little online circle is honored to have one among us.  Blog Correspondent Pete Harrison is not only our expert on all things horror-related, but also someone who has served his country with distinction.

Pictured below before an HH-60G PAVEHAWK are members of the United States Air Force 55th Expeditionary Rescue Squadron, in the summer of 2004, in Kandahar, Afghanistan.  Pete is first left in the top row, with his arms folded.

If you enjoy the movies, books and comics that we chat about here at the blog or on Facebook, then thank a guy like Pete or one of his colleagues.  Constitutional freedoms of Speech and Press would be absent without those to defend them — not to mention our lives and our safety.

Thanks, Petey!

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Veterans Day 2015

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To all the good men and women who have served our country in the highest manner possible, thank you.

 

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