Fun posts, observations, shared videos and other fun by Octavarius, friends, and members of the invasion.
Art Institute Modern Wing: Good signs for modern art
Blog Posts - I visited the new Art Institute Modern Wing last weekend during the Lollapalooza-esque fervor that surrounded it’s opening. And if art holds a mirror up to nature, then the Art Institute is the fun house of art mirrors. I have...
Happy Memorial Day from Octavarius
Blog Posts - I don’t have a balcony or patio to grill on, so I’ll be boiling my hot dogs today. What is everyone’s facvorite hot dog place? Are any of them near Lakeview in Chicago, IL? Happy Memorial Day.
In a tough job market
Blog Posts - Some people have sucked up their pride and dirtied their hands with this job. I don’t know how they live with themselves.
A B C D, Follow me!
Blog Posts - In one of my challenges to youtube in finding the obscure, I typed in ‘The Letter People.’ Not only did it show me what I was typing before I could finish, but even directed me to a profile dedicated to...
Nick Mikula: Go Outside.
Blog Posts - (while you are reading this post, feel free to enjoy some wonderful background music.) We all have a friend in need. Nick Mikula. We once knew a strong, vibrant, young man that could take on the world. But recently, he...
Dear Kevin Costner, worship at my sweat!
Blog Posts - (while you are reading this post, feel free to enjoy some wonderful background music.) Last night I had the amazing oppurtunity to watch the origional Adventures of Robin Hood starring the incredibly cocky yet brilliant Errol Flynn. Then it occurred...
McDonalds Ads Are The Window to Our Souls
Blog Posts - Although this commercial aired in the mid-1980s, I feel like its transcendental themes translate perfectly to today’s world. As a young child viewing this commercial, I identified with these young folks struggling to get through their first day in high...
Polish politician outraged over gay elephant in zoo
Blog Posts - Michal Grzes, a Polish city concilor was outraged last weekend, by the Poznan Zoo’s acquisition of Ninio, a 10 year old gay Elephant. We didn’t pay 37 million zlotys ($11 million) for the largest elephant house in Europe to have...
Octavarius, now officially a winner
Blog Posts - In Monday night’s rumble, we tied for first out of two total teams; and took home half of the grand prize, a bottle of Boon’s Farm. Our suggestion was not peanuts, as we thought, but we went with the actual...
Lonely Want adds
Blog Posts - HELLO LADIES!!! My name is Yak-Face and you might have seen me in the hit film “Return of the Jedi.” I am a single Yak-Man looking for a lovely woman. I recently relocated to your Earth System and am living...
