So here’s the plan — I’m gonna move back to my college town of Fredericksburg, Virginia, and start a poetry group there.
Gonna call it “Fred Poets Society.”
(I already e-mailed my old writing prof and told him he had to be our Mr. Keating.)
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Throwback Thursday: “The Return of the Living Dead” (1985)!
One of my tragic flaws is that I am consistently late to the party when it comes to cool stuff. (Seriously.) So I never saw “Return of the Living Dead” (1985) in the 80’s. I saw it around … 1993 or 1994, I guess, on VHS tape in the Mary Washington College dorm room of Rhett Carlson and Nickolai Butkevich.
I truly enjoyed it, which is unusual for a horror-comedy. (Movies can either scare me or make me laugh, but they can rarely do both.) Yes, I am one of the people out there who finds “Return of the Living Dead” genuinely creepy. C’mon … it’s got decent makeup effects — and both the “Tarman” zombie and the slab woman, for example, are pretty well executed monsters.
Hey … there’s a remake due out this Christmas. I guess we’ll have to wait and see if it’s any good.
Happy Return of the Living Dead Day!!
Celebrate responsibly. Remember that, in Virginia, it is a Class 4 misdemeanor to enter a cemetery after dark without consent.
Source: Horrorweekly on Facebook
(I’m a man of few words.)
“WORD BLITZ.”
The actual World War II Blitz in London was probably less difficult.
Why do I suck at this? The college friend with whom I play online routinely gets TEN TIMES my score. (Dammit, Janet.) You’d think I’d be good with words, what with all the poemy-type things and the stories and such.
Nope. People who are currently LEARNING the English language are probably better at this than I am.
I’m terrible at Scrabble too. So if we’re at a party together, do NOT pick me for your team!
(I’m kidding, of course. I don’t get invited to parties.)
Anyway, my hair looks grayt.
Grayt.
Bulb Culture Collective features my poem “Contagion is a Despot Poet”
I’m so happy today to see my poem “Contagion is a Despot Poet” featured by Bulb Culture Collective!
Thank you again, Ms. L. M. Cole and Mr. Jared Povanda, for selecting my work. 🙂
So I passed a couple of nice milestones yesterday.
I’ve now been published throughout 60 periodicals in 11 countries and five continents. It’s a good feeling. 🙂
[Update — I edited the headline to correctly read “passed a couple of nice milestones” instead of “hitting” them. Because that’s an entirely different metaphor.]
The Ultramarine Literary Review publishes my horror story, “The Devil and Amanda Ogilvie.”
I am thrilled to see the Ultramarine Literary Review in Chile publish my supernatural horror tale, “The Devil and Amanda Ogilvie.” The story depicts a fateful meeting between a troubled New York City publishing heiress and The Devil himself.
I am grateful to Editor-in-Chief Catalina Bonati for working with me to significantly improve the draft of the story that I originally submitted. And of course I am honored to see my writing showcased in this outstanding South American literary magazine.
Now weight just a minute …
From 159 lbs. on January 1 to 145.8 this morning.
Right — not amazing. (And I am obviously no Chris Hemsworth.) But it’s good for me.
I tried everything — including regularly walking five miles at a stretch. I actually GAINED weight. (There’s this weird, irresistible instinct that makes you EAT more, because you’re going on a long journey. I call it “hobbit syndrome.” Seriously!)
The ONLY way I could lose any weight was with calisthenics. Old school.
“The Beach House, Early Spring” published in cc&d magazine’s 32nd Anniversary Edition.
I am thrilled to share here that cc&d magazine today published my love poem, “The Beach House, Early Spring,” in its 32nd Anniversary Edition!
The easiest way to view the poem is to pull up the online magazine at this link and then click on the poem’s title. Mine is the sixth one down in the table of contents.
You can also purchase a copy of the Anniversary Edition from Amazon right here.
Thank you, Editor Janet Kuypers, for allowing me to see my work showcased again in the pages of cc&d magazine!
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 