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.

People who say “I don’t trust the polls” are just being racist.

Polish people are just as honest as anybody else.




“The Temptation of Saint Anthony,” Hieronymus Bosch, Early 16th Century

Oil on panel.

(I never really did anything with my psych major anyway.)

Gonna start a Pink Floyd cover band with a couple of other psych majors, gonna call it “Jung Lust.”

My buddy Gary Monte saw me posting this on Facebook and chimed in with this: “I started one called ‘Run Like Hell’ and we were so bad, that’s exactly what the audience did!”



Poster for “Terminator Genisyis” (2015)

Paramount Pictures.

Gen X’ers know how serious this is.

There’s something fishy going on in my kitchen.

Salmon burgers!  Two for $5 at Kroger.

If you need to save money on groceries, you can’t beat those in-store deals.  They had similar deals for chicken and pork.

I know that I’m Shanty Irish, and that my foodie friends are typically aghast at the choices I make but …a little ketchup on salmon really does the trick.



At last, I’ve seen “Shadow of the Vampire” (2000)

I finally got around to seeing 2000’s “Shadow of the Vampire,” after it has been recommended to me so often by people I trust.  I had fun with it.

It’s a what-if story that asks what might have occurred during the filming of the classic “Nosferatu” (1922), if actor Max Schreck really had been a vampire (and if director F. W. Murnau was fully aware of the fact).

It’s fun stuff with a stellar cast, and it might make a cool double-feature with the original silent film.  🙂



Happy Halloween!

Have fun and be safe.  If you are going out partying, then designate a driver.  Or, better yet, BE the designated driver.

Photo credit: ChloeAmandinekaren, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0&gt;, via Wikimedia Commons

(I’m heading out in a t-shirt in just a couple of minutes.)

Cover to “Night Force” #7, Gene Colan, 1983

DC Comics.