philmaggitti, Author at Postcards from The Pug Bus

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The Great Gummy Grift

Americans are chewing their way through a wellness revolution – and getting played by the great gummy grift in the process. Never has so much… Read More

A sook of daze illustration of a sepia-toned pig in a suit writing in a book labeled 'Ig-Pay Atin-Lay,' with a speech bubble saying 'Ello-Hay' and a calendar showing the number 13.

When your inner pig insists on speaking in code — and refuses to be translated.

Book of Daze

Book of Daze Pig Latin Day

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ðŸ· Origin StoryBook of Daze Pig Latin Day traces its roots to the mid-1800s, when children with too much free time and too little TikTok… Read More

Image of a cartoon Jennifer Anniston in a white bikini.

When your body develops a mind of its own, suddenly the red carpet gets a lot more interesting.

Celebrity Shockers

Jennifer Aniston’s New Body Confident with Jennifer Aniston

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Editor’s Note: This masterwork first dropped in 2005, back when Jennifer Aniston and her love life was a national sport and low-rise jeans were a… Read More

The stars are throwing a block party.

Horoscopes

Harebrained Horoscopes

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Welcome to Harebrained Horoscopes, where the stars are drunk, the planets are on strike, and the moon is texting you at 3 a.m. just to… Read More

Sony software llustration of an angry gatekeeper holding a barred gate locked with a DRM padlock, symbolizing control and restriction of music playback.

Sony as the self-appointed warden of your music, guarding every one of your 100 precious plays.

Technology

Sony Software Will Limit CD Plays (Tech Satire)

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Editor’s Note: This relic from our digital catacombs proves that some jokes never go out of date, even when the jokes were on us. Consider it… Read More

In tech satire Bill Gates dressed as a preacher, holding a glowing laptop with a cross on the screen as binary code rains from a golden sky, satirical tech sermon vibe

Bill Gates delivering the gospel of Windows, one patch at a time.

Technology

Tech Satire from the Bible Belt (Microsoft Buys Christian Software)

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Editor’s Note: This relic from our digital Bible Belt catacombs proves that some jokes never go out of date–unlike Internet Explorer. Microsoft may have moved… Read More

Top ten reasons for avoiding jury duty illustration of a woman seated beside a colony of red-capped mushrooms, transcribing their dreams.

My mushrooms are deep in REM. I archive their dreams while justice naps.

Top Ten Lists

Ten Reasons for Avoiding Jury Duty

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Jury duty: the sacred civic rite where one’s fate is decided not by gods or algorithms, but by twelve strangers who once Googled “how to… Read More

Illustration for Return-to-Sender Day, Surreal space post office returning cosmic junk mail through a glowing wormhole

When life ships you junk, ship it back to the cosmos—no restocking fee

Book of Daze

Book of Daze Return-to-Sender Day: How to Reject Life’s Cosmic Junk

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Origin StoryThe Book of Daze Return-to-Sender Day was created in response to the cosmos’ disturbing habit of hurling unsolicited life events our way. flat tires,… Read More