Tom Dooley (editor)
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Tom Dooley was the founder of Eclectica Magazine
along with Chris Lott in 1996. Dooley was born on an island in the Aleutian Chain and attended high school in Tok, Alaska
, graduating in 1988. He went to college in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and Chicago, Illinois, studying creative writing under Tom Churchill and Richard Stern.
For the next eleven years, he taught and coached a variety of subjects and grades in Alaska, Arizona, and Wisconsin before taking a degree in public administration and settling in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He lives there today and works for the federal government, continuing to edit Eclectica in his spare time.
Dooley also contributes to Eclectica as an op-ed writer in the magazine's Salon section, has done the occasional music review, and once interviewed well-known conspiracy theorist Michael Ruppert
. His review of Willis Alan Ramsey
's self-titled debut album and his discussion of John D. MacDonald
's Travis McGee
character are popular links.
Dooley has been known to take strong political stands in his Salon articles, once comparing the second President Bush to an elderly man who drove through a street fair in Santa Monica, killing ten and injuring 63 people:
George W. Bush
and the current administration is our George Russell Weller
. We elected him, put him at the wheel of a very large Buick LeSabre, and with a good ol' Texas "Yee-haw," sent him into traffic. It may have been gross negligence on our part as American citizens to do it, but most of the people who elected Bush and who even now continue to support him are the farthest thing from evil. Just the opposite. They mean well. They think of themselves as the good guys, the way all well-rounded characters, heroes and villains alike, are trained to do in these days of relativist enlightenment. (http://www.eclectica.org/v8n2/dooley_salon.html)
Eclectica Magazine
Eclectica is one of the oldest surviving online literary publications. Founded in 1996 by Chris Lott and Tom Dooley, Eclectica's extensive and growing archives features poetry, fiction, nonfiction, miscellany, travel, opinion, and reviews by hundreds of authors from around the world...
along with Chris Lott in 1996. Dooley was born on an island in the Aleutian Chain and attended high school in Tok, Alaska
Tok, Alaska
Tok is a census-designated place in Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska, United States. The population was 1,393 at the 2000 census.-Geography:...
, graduating in 1988. He went to college in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and Chicago, Illinois, studying creative writing under Tom Churchill and Richard Stern.
For the next eleven years, he taught and coached a variety of subjects and grades in Alaska, Arizona, and Wisconsin before taking a degree in public administration and settling in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He lives there today and works for the federal government, continuing to edit Eclectica in his spare time.
Dooley also contributes to Eclectica as an op-ed writer in the magazine's Salon section, has done the occasional music review, and once interviewed well-known conspiracy theorist Michael Ruppert
Michael Ruppert
Michael C. Ruppert is an American author, a former Los Angeles Police Department officer, and investigative journalist and peak oil theorist....
. His review of Willis Alan Ramsey
Willis Alan Ramsey
Willis Alan Ramsey is an American singer/songwriter, a cult legend among fans of Americana and Texas country. He was born in Birmingham, Alabama and raised in Dallas, Texas. Ramsey graduated from Highland Park High School in 1969, and was a prominent baritone in the High School's Lads and Lassies...
's self-titled debut album and his discussion of John D. MacDonald
John D. MacDonald
John Dann MacDonald was an American crime and suspense novelist and short story writer.MacDonald was a prolific author of crime and suspense novels, many of them set in his adopted home of Florida...
's Travis McGee
Travis McGee
Travis McGee is a fictional character, created by prolific American mystery writer John D. MacDonald. Unlike most detectives in crime fiction, McGee is neither a police officer nor a licensed private investigator; instead, he is a self-described "salvage consultant" who recovers others' property...
character are popular links.
Dooley has been known to take strong political stands in his Salon articles, once comparing the second President Bush to an elderly man who drove through a street fair in Santa Monica, killing ten and injuring 63 people:
George W. Bush
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
and the current administration is our George Russell Weller
George Russell Weller
George Russell Weller was a retired salesman from Santa Monica, California, who gained notoriety as the motorist in a fatal car accident, fueling a national debate in the United States on safety risks posed by elderly drivers.On October 20, 2006, Weller was found guilty of 10 counts of vehicular...
. We elected him, put him at the wheel of a very large Buick LeSabre, and with a good ol' Texas "Yee-haw," sent him into traffic. It may have been gross negligence on our part as American citizens to do it, but most of the people who elected Bush and who even now continue to support him are the farthest thing from evil. Just the opposite. They mean well. They think of themselves as the good guys, the way all well-rounded characters, heroes and villains alike, are trained to do in these days of relativist enlightenment. (http://www.eclectica.org/v8n2/dooley_salon.html)