I logged into online chat with DISH Network this morning with the intent of canceling my service and going cable free. The plan was the use the $80 a month savings to fund the $300+ I would need to put a antenna on the roof. I live over 50 miles from the TV towers, so [...]
Sometimes a bubble gum pop song is exactly what you want to hear. Pair it with Harry Potter inspired lyrics and you get this.
The first song from the new Butch Walker album. I hope he tours in my neighborhood again this time. If you haven’t been to a Butch Walker show you are missing out. Big time.
My Queensryche roots go deep. Real deep. As in I owned a cassette copy of their EP before their first full length album was even available. (1983?) I have all their records, so there was never any doubt that I would buy Dedicated to Chaos on day 1. So trust me when I say I [...]
Do You Want It by Beautiful Beast This week’s featured Friday tune is from Beautiful Beast, a German band that clearly was started in the wrong century. Had this record been released in 1989, it would have sold 3 million copies and the video would have featured a collection of hot sports cars and even [...]
The August hail from Chicago, although they are currently hanging out in Nashville. They mashup a sexy take on Chicago folk and blues with some country twang to produce tunes that I really dig. This one is off their new album, Dear Chicago, Love Nashville, which is available from all the usual online retailers. Featued [...]
The new project from Pogo, formerly the keyboardist for Marilyn Manson. He also is a school buddy of one of my imaginary Internet friends, which is how I got introduced to his new project. Enjoy!
In Fuzzy Nation, Scalzi combines his usual quick witted take on sci-fi with a legal thriller to produce a totally fun book to read. Even though the book is loads of fun, it takes on a very serious issue. What would happen if corporate America were mining a distant planet and stumbled into a sentient [...]
This week’s featured record is by The Record, which would be confusing if kids today had any idea what a record was. The Record hails from NC, and emerged from the ashes of Gossip Grows on Trees, which has the distinction of being the last music I ever bought on Aime Street, before Amazon killed [...]
Welcome to a new feature on O’DonnellWeb. I’ll be posting a review of a newish rock record every Friday. Even I’m getting bored with all the serious education theory around here. This week, we are talking about This is Gonna Hurt, the new record from Sixx AM, which is the side project from Motley Crue [...]
The word unschooling is never used in this book, but trust me, this is a book about unschooling. The author’s 16 year old son is flunking out of high school. School just doesn’t work for him. So he makes a deal with the kid. He can drop out, but he has to watch 3 movies [...]
I did not overcharge people to get more money. I overcharged people because they were dicks and deserved it. Vengeance is mine. The 2nd feature in the documentary double feature today was The Parking Lot Movie. This movie you absolutely want to see. If you enjoyed the movie Clerks, this is essentially the real life [...]
Being stuck home on beagle sitting duty today, I decided it was a good day for a documentary double feature. The first feature was an odd flick, produced by Morgan Spurlock, that follows street performer, activist Rev. Billy across the country as he and his gospel choir showed up at malls and shopping centers to [...]
A study at Stanford suggests that encountering all our happy friends and their perfect lives on Facebook is making us feel like crap, when we realize our lives don’t measure up. I can believe that on some intuitive level. If you are trying to start a family and are confronted daily by the blow by [...]
Last weekend we (the whole family) wrapped up watching all seven seasons of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, in a little less than 365 days. Yay us! So I’m now qualified to write a very long winded post about how Buffy is a mirror on life, or an allegory for the Bible, or whatever. But I’m [...]