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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.

Satirical collage for Do Not Push the Envelope day featuring a giant torn envelope surrounded by scenes of American excess: a turkey fire, a balloon-lifted lawn chair, a DIY rocket crash, the Challenger shuttle launch, a chrome Ford Edsel, and icons like hot dogs, baseball, and deep-fried Oreos orbiting in absurd tribute.

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Book of Daze: Do Not Push the Envelope Day

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Pushing the envelope is as American as baseball, hot dogs, deep-fried Oreos, and elective surgery. It is also not for amateurs. The envelope, it is… Read More

Large orange prescription pill bottle crossed out by a red prohibition circle and slash, symbolizing Skip Your Medication Day on a light background.”

“Because what could possibly go wrong?”

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Book of Daze: Skip Your Medication Day

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Every year, like clockwork, our culture manufactures a new holiday to celebrate the triumph of impulse over reason. Thus we arrive at Skip Your Medication… Read More

Misheard lyrics illustration, featuring a retro karaoke crowd singing with heroic confidence and utter inaccuracy, microphone glowing under disco lights.

"Hold me close, Tony Danza."

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Book of Daze: Misheard Lyrics Day

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Every November 3 (or whatever date looks least credible on a calendar), we pause to celebrate the eternal struggle between sound and sense: Book of… Read More

A crowd takes selfies in front of the U.S. Capitol building reflected in a distorted carnival mirror, where the warped, glowing image contrasts with the real, weathered structure—symbolizing the truth-adjacent nature of modern politics.

A nation gazes lovingly at its own truth-adjacent distortion.

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Book of Daze: Truth-Adjacent Day

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For at least two decades now, adjacency has wormed its way into the public discourse, gnawing holes in it like a caffeinated termite. What used… Read More

"Vintage-style black and white ink illustration of two jitterbug dancers mid-air in a dynamic swing pose, surrounded by musical notes, phonograph horns, and bowtie-wearing insects orbiting a central vinyl record, evoking 1930s jazz energy and kinetic motion."

"Ii we survive this spin, we achieve enlightenment and a free root beer float.”

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Book of Daze: Jitterbug Day

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Let it be known throughout the land that October 25th is Book of Daze: Jitterbug Day, a sacred observance commemorating the only dance that can… Read More

Surreal illustration for unsent email day showing a man in pajamas sitting at a laptop , whose screen glow is the only illumination in the image.

Will he hit send or won't he?

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Book of Daze: Unsent Email Day

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At last, a holiday for the emotionally literate and professionally repressed: Unsent Email Day, a sacred observance for all who have typed their truth at… Read More

Commuter on a subway pretending to read classic literature, holding an upside-down copy of War and Peace while passengers nod admiringly

"Proving that good posture can pass for intellect in public transit

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Book of Daze: Pretend You Read Classic Literature

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Once a year, the nation celebrates the noble art of literary bluffing. On Pretend You Read Classic Literature Day, ordinary citizens dust off the unread… Read More

Alt text: A fashionable man and woman wearing high-end quilted vests and goggles pose beside a green dumpster behind a Whole Foods, parodying luxury dumpster diving culture.

“I told you, Trevor—if it is not organic, we do not salvage it.”

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Book of Daze: Competitive Dumpster Diving

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A game for the truly resourceful, competitive dumpster diving is the fastest growing sport in America. More demanding than extreme ironing, more elegant than wife… Read More