philmaggitti, Author at Postcards from The Pug Bus

Satirical retro propaganda poster for WW III readiness day featuring world leaders at podiums, canceled evacuation flights, emergency alerts, survival kits, missiles, and anxious citizens preparing for global crisis.

Stay calm. Panic responsibly.

Book of Daze: WW III Readiness Day

Nations once marked the calendar with harvest festivals, saints’ days, and commemorations of battles they insisted were victories. Now, in a gesture of global unity,… Read More

A massive, looming gratitude journal with rusted, razor-sharp wire spirals terrifies an office worker.

Do not try this at home.

Blog

Gratitude Journals Are a National Health Threat

philmaggitti blog 8 months

Gratitude journals began, like most national emergencies, with a pastel notebook and a suggestion from a morning talk show host. “Three bullet points a day,”… Read More

Pope Leo XIV reads two homilies submitted by The Pug Bus, challenging him to distinguish between one written by a priest and one written by artificial intelligence.

"His Holiness studies the evidence. The machine wins on points."

Religion

Pope Leo XIV, Fails to Distinguish AI Sermon from Actual Priest’s Sermon

philmaggitti religion 8 months

Pope Leo XIV, though not as insufferably woke as his predecessor, Francis the Whatever, shows signs of a leftward draw nonetheless. Recently Leo scolded priests… Read More

A woman surrounded by dozens of storage bins and totes in assorted colors and sizes bends to retrieve a lid, navigating a floor covered in open containers filled with tools, documents, CDs, and miscellaneous items — confronting the to be or not to be of household organization one bin at a time.

To be organized, or not to be organized — and the answer, apparently, is: more bins.

Horoscopes

To Be or Not to Be: Horoscopes by Shakespeare

philmaggitti horoscopes 8 months

To be or not to be is the question Shakespeare put to the universe in 1600, and the universe has been dodging it ever since.… Read More

Epic Fury satirical illustration of a massive cartoon missile with a snarling shark face blasting through smoke and fire over a burning city skyline, fighter jets streaking overhead and explosions lighting the sky in a dramatic, exaggerated military scene.

Because nothing says restraint like calling it Epic Fury.

Blog

Epic Fury: What’s in a Name?

philmaggitti blog 8 months

Nothing says “measured geopolitical response” like a name–Epic Fury, for example–that sounds as if it was brainstormed between a Monster Energy tasting and a focus… Read More

Tested. Reviewed. Abandoned.

Horoscopes

🎬 Daily Television Horoscopes: Pilot Season Casualties

philmaggitti horoscopes 8 months

According to sometimes reliable industry sources, every life is now part of a long-running experiment in television horoscopes, with each personality pitched as a series… Read More

Satirical image of a crowd of men in a Turkish airport. All are sporting head bandages, and two of them are holding a sign about Turkish Hair Transplants.

One million men, one dream, and enough gauze to wrap The Fairy Chimneys of Cappadocia.

Culture

Turkish Hair Transplants Are the Mane Event

philmaggitti cultural commentary 8 months

More than one million balding men per year make a pilgrimage to Turkey. Their destination–one of the five thousand clinics that specialize in Turkish hair… Read More

A satirical cartoon illustrating the risks of Florida English-Only Driving laws, featuring a bewildered man in a floral shirt attempting to feed a ham sandwich to a large alligator while standing next to a sign that reads "ALLIGATOR: DO NOT PET" and a red "STOP" sign, as a frustrated police officer looks on.

Local man discovers that 'Stop' and 'Lunch' are not synonyms.

News

Florida’s English-only Driving Exam

philmaggitti news 8 months

The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles has determined that the ability to operate a multi-ton motorized vehicle rests entirely upon one’s mastery… Read More