If By Whiskey – On Campaign Speeches
If alcohol is a crutch, then Jack Daniel’s is the wheelchair. Eight glasses and you forget the English language. You just have one massive vowel movement.–Robin Williams Political Oratory Before the bloom of the campaign is off the rose of the election, it’s worth recalling the finest example of political […]
Sweet Home Omaha – New York Times
The fourth installment of The New York Times Home Economics series: Sweet Home Omaha – New York Times, by Richard Dooling. “HOUSING prices are falling on both coasts, and bubble panic is around the corner. The financial magazines are already grabbing their readers by the throat and taunting them with […]
Home Economics – Sunday New York Times
The third Economic Postcard from Omaha: “Immigration Beefs Up Nebraska,” by Richard Dooling is at the New York Times site, with links to the first two dispatches in the series. “Unemployment’s down, inflation’s up and consumer confidence blows with the wind. Just how are Americans actually doing? Last fall, the […]
Python On XP: 7 Minutes To “Hello World!”
“Python Foot” graphic by David Day. How To Install Python On Windows XP Instead of being all things to all users, this little how-to assumes the following: You are a Windows user who is curious about computer programming; You would like to install the Python computer language on your Windows […]
Why Python on Windows XP?
If you don’t know any computer languages, I recommend starting with Python. It is cleanly designed, well documented, and relatively kind to beginners. Despite being a good first language, it is not just a toy; it is very powerful and flexible and well suited for large projects. From How To […]
Genesys: EULA For The Universe
“Hands” graphic Copyright © 2008 by David Day. Excerpted from Rapture For The Geeks, by Richard Dooling. Genesys: EULA For The Universe Copyright © 2008 Richard Dooling – All Rights Reserved In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Software and hardware He created them. The earth was […]
Would My Book Make A Good Movie?
Books and movies are two different languages. To compare the two is like comparing pottery and stained glass. –Russel Banks Probably half the movies made in Hollywood are adaptations of stories that originally appeared as novels, nonfiction books, comic books, graphic novels, short stories, plays, poems, or what have you. […]
Diary of an Immortal Man
Short Fiction by Richard Dooling Diary Of An Immortal Man was a cover story for Esquire Magazine and was nominated for a National Magazine Award. The full text appears online at Kurzweil AI. Diary Of An Immortal Man is kinky science fiction and black comedy, inspired in part by Ray […]
Nebraska’s Nostalgia Trap
For all of today’s up-to-the-second economic analysis, how are Americans actually doing? The New York Times Op-Ed page asked writers to provide snapshots of their local economies over the course of the year. Here is Richard Dooling’s second dispatch on the state of the economy in Nebraska: Nebraska’s Nostalgia Trap. […]
Revenge of the Cornhuskers
For all of today’s up-to-the-second economic analysis, how are Americans actually doing? The New York Times Op-Ed page asked writers to provide snapshots of their local economies over the course of the year. Richard Dooling’s first economic postcard from Omaha: Revenge of the Cornhuskers, published Sunday, 2 October 2005.
User Interfaces Should Teach, Not Hide
Here’s a fresh look at the age-old tension between those who prefer the Command Line Interface (CLI) to the Graphical User Interface (GUI), by way of an example from my favorite text editor, Vim 7.0. Writing in the Free Software Magazine, Terry Hancock argues that user interfaces should teach, not […]
Good Books On Screenwriting
“In Hollywood, writers are considered only the first draft of human beings.” –Frank Deford On Screenwriting The best resource for screenwriters seeking “official information” about Hollywood is the Writers’ Guild Of America website. If you want inside information about how writers survive in the business, you are in luck. A […]
Stephen King’s Kingdom Hospital
Stephen King’s Kingdom Hospital Richard Dooling served as producer, writer, and medical consultant for Stephen King’s Kingdom Hospital. Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment has released Stephen King’s Kingdom Hospital on DVD. Order your copy of Stephen King’s Kingdom Hospital from Amazon. For more information visit Stephen King’s Official Website. For a […]
The Journals of Eleanor Druse
A Novel by Richard Dooling Read the first chapter of The Journals of Eleanor Druse at Amazon. I wrote this book as a tie-in to the Stephen King’s Kingdom Hospital project. Eleanor Druse, inspired by the original character from Lars Von Trier’s mini-series and played by Diane Ladd in our […]
Bet Your Life
A Novel by Richard Dooling New York Times Notable Book of 2002 Read the first chapter of Bet Your Life at the New York Times site. Set in Omaha, Nebraska, the author’s hometown, Bet Your Life turns the death of Lenny Stillmach–a young insurance investigator, a scam buster who may […]
Bush Pigs
Short Fiction by Richard Dooling Bush Pigs, a short story by Richard Dooling, is now available on an audio CD-ROM from Amazon. Originally published in The New Yorker, Bush Pigs is a cult favorite of returned Peace Corps volunteers, or anyone else suffering from “reverse culture shock.” Actor Mark Nelson […]