Blog Posts - Why use the Compliment Sandwich? You’re not 100% happy with the world around you. No one is. There are bosses we dislike, friends who annoy us, significant others who just don’t get it. When it’s too much to handle you...
Podcast: Toys, toys, toys!
Blog Posts - In this, the seventh episode of the Octacast, we discuss everyone’s favorite childhood toys! My only disappointment is that due to shows at iO I was unable to offer my two cents and discuss my favorite toy growing up: a...
Regarding your services on the day after St. Patrick’s day
Blog Posts - Dear Daylight Savings: I must inform you that after 47 work quality counseling sessions with company management and 67 written warning letters about your poor work quality, there has not been an acceptable improvement evident in your work. As we...
Video: BattleProv, McNuggets, and Batman
Blog Posts - Thanks again to everyone who came to the show last Thursday. For those who didn’t make it, here’s the video of our “Do Your Thing” round. For those of you who were at the show. If you watch this, you’ll...
It was worth a shot
Blog Posts - As you may know, last week I emailed Meryl Streep’s agent, Kevin Huvane, and proposed to him that if Meryl is “tired of the usual bullshit” she could quit acting in movies for a little while and join Octavarius. I...
Thank you for making last night magic!
Blog Posts - Dear Everyone in Attendance at Last Night’s Show, Last night rocked. I’m not really sure how to explain all the little wonderful moments that made it magical, but somewhere between chicken nuggets with Billy Murray carved into them, and last...
Ten Haiku Written By Trees
Blog Posts - I wrote these all yesterday afternoon. If you didn’t think it was possible to write ten different tree haiku, then I guess I just proved you wrong. Eat those words. Om nom nom. Anyway, enjoy.
Regarding your services in Chicago
Blog Posts - Dear Chicago Winter: I must inform you that after 47 work quality counseling sessions with company management and 67 written warning letters about your poor work quality, there has not been an acceptable improvement evident in your work. As we...
Conversations With a Crazy Man
Blog Posts - That title is a little misleading. I didn’t have a conversation with a crazy man. A crazy man had a conversation with himself, and I happened to be sitting next to him. Picture yourself at 7:30 this morning. You’re tired,...
BattleProv’s Torture Round
Blog Posts - This top secret footage is so top secret that they actually asked us to stop filming right in the middle. What we did capture though, shows the “Torture Round” of the BattleProv show. If you missed the last BattleProv show...