philmaggitti, Author at Postcards from The Pug Bus

Silhouettes performing exaggerated interpretive walking poses on a pale cream background, illustrating the surreal motion and expressive gestures of Interpretive Walking.

Getting there is all the fun.

Book of Daze: Interpretive Walking Day

Interpretive Walking Day honors the simple act of getting from one place to another while refusing to do it in a sensible manner. On this… Read More

Celebrity hotline illustration: golden labyrinth emerging from a stylized printer, set against a starry black background. The maze symbolizes a jammed printer as a cosmic trial.

Please hold while your celebrity hotline rep consults the stars… and jams your paper again.”

Celebrity Shockers

Celebrity Hotline Volunteer Tech Support

philmaggitti celebrity shockers 11 months

When the Wi”‘Fi flickers or the printer jams, we expect technicians to bail us out. Imagine, instead, a volunteer celebrity hotline staffed by those stars… Read More

A large red capital N with wings attached, symbolizing content flying away or departing from the Netflix streaming platform, representing shows leaving Netflix soon.

Netflix is removing these shows before you even knew they existed.

Top Ten Lists

Ten Best Satirical Shows Leaving Netflix Soon

philmaggitti top ten lists 11 months

Netflix, your bestiehome companion, does not ghost content without warning. Each month the Big N reveals ten shows that are slated to disappear into the… Read More

Surreal mirrored twin figures stirring floating zodiac symbols against a pale background, suggesting horoscope mischief.

Gemini denied everything, which only proved they did it.

Horoscopes

Gemini Commits Horoscope Mischief

philmaggitti horoscopes 11 months

Today at 3:33 a.m. Eastern, Mercury (Gemini’s ruling planet) turned a cartwheel through the 9th House of Meaning, landing squarely on Jupiter’s monocle and committing… Read More

Santa's workshop image in the snow under a full moon with a horse tethered outside one of the the two buildings.

Is this on stolen land?

News

North Pole Land Dispute: Frostbite Tribe Demands Return of Santa’s Workshop

philmaggitti news 11 months

NORTH POLE – In a gobsmacking legal development, the indigenous Frostbite Tribe has filed a claim with the International Arctic Court alleging that Santa Claus… Read More

Male and female students together in a grand college hall with Gothic arches, singing their college songs with exaggerated emotional expression.

Nothing says "I just spent $200,000 on an education" quite like being forced to sing a depressing 19th-century hymn about fellowship while pretending not to cry.

Music Top Ten Lists

Ten Worst College Songs Ever

philmaggitti music, top ten lists 11 months

There exists a special circle of auditory hell reserved for college alma mater songs, those funereal dirges that transform thousands of otherwise rational young adults… Read More

A colorful surreal illustration for horoscope puzzles featuring a floating 3D maze surrounded by bright geometric shapes in red, blue, green, yellow, and orange on a pale background.

The stars outsourced your destiny to a cosmic puzzle department and this is what you get.

Horoscopes

Horoscope Puzzles: Satirical Forecasts You Must Solve Yourself

philmaggitti horoscopes 11 months

The stars have grown tired of making up stuff. They called in sick and left this lesson plan for today. In horoscope puzzles, each sign… Read More

In this illustration for Norman Rockwell paintings we see Mr. Rockwell sitting at an easel pointing a cell phone at himself as though to take a selfie.

What's a pixel?

Culture

Ten Worst Norman Rockwell Paintings

philmaggitti cultural commentary 11 months

Norman Rockwell, that gentle purveyor of impossible nostalgia, gave us hundreds of paintings during his career. Most of them depicted a version of America that… Read More