Tag Archives: Eric Robert Nolan

Come on, Baby, light my fire.

A woman I know is into Wicca (or Druidism, possibly?). I don’t know. She needed a lighter for a candle-light … thing, I dunno. Maybe it’s the Equinox again. Girls like her have an Equinox they can invoke anytime they feel like getting witchy. Last year, there were like seven of them.

Anyway, she asked me to pick her up a lighter. I stopped off at a service station before I met up with her.

This is the lighter the dude behind the counter handed me. I did not request it. Nor did I notice the artwork until I handed it to my friend for her ritual. It was awkward, is all I’m saying.

There were plenty of regular, plain lighters behind the counter! Why did he hand me this one?!



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Weighing in here about Twitter.

I think the user experience on Twitter has definitely deteriorated somewhat since Elon Musk took over the company — at least it has for me.  It just looks like the algorithms have changed for what appears in my newsfeed (or the scroll, whatever).

I seem to be reading far fewer tweets from people I want to hear from, and far fewer tweets that I enjoy.  I’m reading vague yet grandiose religious tweets … if you know me at all, you know that those don’t appeal to me.

And I’m being targeted by spam in tweets for the first time ever.  It’s happened only a couple of times, though — so I shouldn’t complain too much.

Maybe I shouldn’t bitch at all.  Twitter is free.  (And, no, I don’t think I’ve ever made a purchase due to advertising on the site.)

But I will say this — it definitely isn’t as fun as it used to be.



Throwback Thursday: High School Politician Nolan!

This is from 1988 — it was my speech when I ran for president of the International Student Organization at Longwood High School.

I even had buttons made up.  I was quite the extrovert back in those days (and a nerd too, in case you hadn’t noticed).  But I wasn’t exactly Marcus Antonius, even if I wanted to be.

Note the use of a dot matrix printer!  😀



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This just turned up in my Twitter feed. Now I feel ANCIENT.

And “primitive.”

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It’s a Terrable mistake.

My buddy Tara had her name misspelled at Starbucks, and now I can never stop thinking of her as Terra of the Teen Titans.

She’s   also    an  editor, so I occasionally add    extra spaces in sentences to    make her nuts.

Sometimes I think it’s challenging for people to be friends with me.



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I admit it. This was a fowl pun.

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Throwback Thursday: Adventureland in Farmingdale, NY!

My 6th grade classmates and I would have gone to Adventureland even before this ad was made.  (I am linking here to Jay Lifton’s Youtube channel; he writes that this ad aired around 1987 … my friends and I went there after graduating from grade school into middle school.)

I’ll never forget the fun we had.  I rode The Gravitron!  But those giant rotating swings — the kind you can find at just about any carnival — were my favorite.

Adventureland is still around.  It hit its 60th birthday this year.

Tragically, Wikimedia informs me that there were two ride-related deaths — which really surprises me, because I remember the rides as being pretty tame stuff.  Both deaths occurred within a week of each other in 2005, and the details are pretty horrifying.  Wow.



Moon over Roanoke Redux

I actually had a hard time picking out the best shot of the moon yesterday up at the north edge of town.  These might have been the better shots.



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Moon over Roanoke.

Virginia.

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