If you happen to enjoy my mad scribblings, all of my poetry and commentary for 2021 can be found right here.
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Tag Archives: Eric Robert Nolan
“Whoa.”
I really want to see that “Matrix Insurrections” movie where thousands of would-be “patriots” fight for their carefully constructed, shared artificial reality …
… but in the real world they’re actually terrorists having their minds controlled by machines and the Internet. And they’re a fully disposable resource to the system that uses them to retain power.
Photo credit: Marc Nozell from Merrimack, New Hampshire, USA, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.
It’s a replicant Christmas!
Hot damn, my best friend gave me the coolest presents for a writer! What you see are “Poe-ka Dots” socks, sculpted raven bookends from the New York Public Library and the piece de resistance …
… a lapel pin fashioned after the origami unicorn from “Blade Runner” (1982). I didn’t even know such a thing existed, so I wouldn’t have even known to ask for it. I can’t believe she found it!
“‘MORE HUMAN THAN HUMAN’ IS OUR MOTTO.”
My dudes, this looks like the ghost train I was trying to find out by Brandon Avenue!
Full disclosure — there is no ghost train in Roanoke, Virginia … at least as far as I am aware. In our Propaganda Era, I am loathe to start even a harmless urban legend. (Santa Claus is quite real, however.)
Christmas card, Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company, 1899. Commercial color lithograph.
Merry Christmas, All!!!
I hope that my friends near and far have lovely Christmas.
Photo credit: By aussiegall from sydney, Australia – Merry Christmas, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24660654
Christmastime in Market Square, 2021
Roanoke, Virginia.
I’m taking up Crossfit.
And by that I mean I’m gonna cross the kitchen to fit more pizza onto that microwave dish.
(I told this joke on Facebook and people really seemed to enjoy it.)
My friend Wednesday Lee Friday commented, “Well, you’re already telling everyone about it. That’s a good start.”
The first three episodes of “Station 11” (2021) are utterly engrossing.
Think of what Stephen King’s “The Stand” would be like if you removed Randall Flagg and all of its supernatural elements — then told character-focused stories with an intertwining mystery in the manner of “Lost” (2004-2010). And then maybe peppered it with a little “Dead Poets Society” (1989).
I know that sounds weird, but if you pay attention, it totally works.
(I’m sorry for waging this war on Christmas.)
The Peeking Cat 40 anthology is now available on Amazon.
If you’d like to check out the work of 64 writers from around the world (including my poem “The Rough, Violet Stone,”) you can order the book right here.
Happy holidays!!
