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Postcards from The Pug Bus

Lifting a satirical leg on pop culture since 2004

Persons in the Ether

Question of the Week

Pasta or rice?

Judith Mercer, 64, retired dental-office receptionist

Allegedly twirling responsibly at 28 Rotini Lane, Scranton, PA

Pasta. Rice is perfectly respectable, but nobody has ever brought out a steaming bowl of rice and made me feel that the evening had suddenly improved. Pasta has occasion to it. Rice feels like somebody remembered we needed a side dish.

Raymond Givens, 57, commercial awning estimator

Allegedly measuring portions at 311 Long Grain Road, Tulsa, OK

Rice. It knows its job and doesn't make a production out of it. You put something on rice, and rice gets out of the way. Pasta wants sauce, cheese, garlic bread and everybody's attention. I already have relatives like that.

Brenda Kessler, 46, assistant manager at a self-storage facility

Allegedly keeping both options available at 9 Starch Crossing, Peoria, IL

Pasta on weekdays, rice on weekends. I realize most people would do that the other way around, but most people have never successfully managed three hundred and twelve storage units. Systems matter. Once you start improvising with carbohydrates, other standards begin to slip.

Photobomb Attacks celebration turns a wedding photo into comic chaos as uninvited faces, flamingos, props, and determined strangers invade the frame.

The bride and groom were later identified.

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Book of Daze: Photobomb Attacks Day

T.J. Eckleburg bookof-daze 9 hours

The irrepressible human desire to notice somebody taking a picture and immediately want to ruin it is what we celebrate on Photobomb Attacks Day. The… Read More

Free Will Is Real Day illustration shows a grocery shopper weighing two jars of pickles, proving mankind can turn even a trivial choice into philosophy.

Free will survives another grueling test in the pickle aisle.

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Book of Daze: Free Will Is for Real Day

T.J. Eckleburg bookof-daze 1 week

Free Will Is for Real Day honors ordinary people who have somehow managed to choose spouses, careers, houses, dogs, religions, hairstyles, pizza toppings, and whether… Read More

Return the shopping cart scene shows shoppers glaring at a man abandoning his cart just steps from the supermarket cart corral.

The jury had seen enough.

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Book of Daze: Return the Shopping Cart Day

Chip Hilton bookof-daze 4 weeks

The steps between an abandoned shopping cart and its galvanized steel enclosure are the only thing keeping humankind from eating the bark off trees. Hence… Read More

Mind your own business day. A postal worker kicks a vending machine dispensing soup while a determined bystander stares away and refuses to notice.

The soup was none of his business, and he intended to keep it that way.

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Book of Daze: Mind Your Own Business Day

T.J. Eckleburg bookof-daze 1 month

Mind Your Own Business Day traces its origins to August 14, 1974, in Ames, Iowa, when town assessor Eugene Vane, 58, who owned fourteen corduroy… Read More

AI disclosure day office cartoon shows workers identifying AI-written emails, deliberate typos, suspicious punctuation, and other supposed signs of AI.

Human-written emails must contain at least one typo, two regrets, and an unnecessary “anyway.”

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Book of Daze: AI Disclosure Day

As told to The Pug Bus 1 month

AI Disclosure Day began two years ago in a Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, office park, when a mid-level compliance officer noticed that four consecutive “personal” emails from a… Read More

A cluttered kitchen scene as a bulging junk drawer flies off its rails, nearly toppling a startled homeowner during organize your junk drawer day.

Authorities concluded the junk drawer acted without premeditation.

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Book of Daze: Organize Your Junk Drawer Day

T.J. Eckleburg bookof-daze 2 months

No one knows when Organize Your Junk Drawer Day first appeared on the Pug Bus calendar, though historians suspect it was created by someone who… Read More

A solitary person stands before a fading strip mall with weary storefronts and a nearly empty parking lot, capturing the quiet nostalgia and melancholy of Hauntology.

Where have all the futures gone?

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Book of Daze: Hauntology Day

T.J. Eckleburg bookof-daze 3 months

For reasons no one can explain, Hauntology Day is observed the third Friday of July. It was established in 1987 by a Radio Shack in… Read More

Unread Sunday Newspaper serves as a breakfast placemat beneath eggs and hash browns, its headlines stained with grease after fulfilling its true Sunday purpose.

The news can wait. Those hash browns have deadlines.

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Book of Daze: Unread Sunday Newspaper Day

philmaggitti bookof-daze 3 months

Unread Sunday Newspaper Day commemorates one of our most enduring acts of optimism: buying an enormous Sunday newspaper while sincerely believing there will be time… Read More

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