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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.

Mushroom Port-a-Potty cartoon: a port-a-potty topped with a giant mushroom cap, white mycelium roots spreading into the soil, a tie-dyed fan juggling glow sticks beside it under a bright sky.

“Best seat in the house—hope it’s not tripping too.”

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Book of Daze: Mushroom Port-a-Potty Day

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Move over, composting toilets. Step aside, blue-chemical porta-johns that smell like a Smurf’s hangover. The future of human waste management has sprouted in a plastic… Read More

Lose Your Remote day illustration of a cartoon-realistic living-room battlefield: a frazzled adult on all fours pries up a sofa cushion with one hand, flashlight in the other; popcorn kernels tumble out like relics; a smug cat perches on the armrest with tail curled around the missing remote, pretending to nap.

The cat knows exactly where the remote is. It is enjoying your suffering almost as much as the popcorn crumbs.

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Book of Daze: Lose Your Remote Day

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Once upon a time, the remote control was a badge of household sovereignty. Today it is a fugitive. On National Lose Your Remote Day, we… Read More

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Book of Daze: Boycott ESPN Day

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Join the annual ritual of resistance with Book of Daze: Boycott ESPN Day–a satirical celebration for fans who have had enough of sermons, scandals, race… Read More

DIY Reality Show Audition Day illustration of a pajama-clad wannabe reality-show contestant glaring into a bathroom mirror, clutching a hairbrush like a microphone under a harsh ring-light.

“I did not come here to make friends,” he whispers to the toothbrush army and the judgmental rubber duck.

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Book of Daze: DIY Reality Show Audition Day

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Pascal warned that all of humanity’s problems stem from our inability to sit quietly in a room alone. Pascal never saw a season of The… Read More

llustration for Hug a Carnivore Day: A radiant rib eye steak floats above a crowd of ecstatic meat lovers, bathed in golden light, while a lone vegan protests with a wilting celery stalk.”

On Hug a Carnivore Day, meat lovers rejoice and celery wilts in protest.

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Book of Daze: Hug a Carnivore Day

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Let us dispense with the kale-stained sentimentality of Hug a Vegetarian Day and inaugurate a far more primal and satisfying observance: Hug a Carnivore Day.… Read More

A casually dressed man sits in a recliner wearing a paper crown, holding a remote control like a scepter and balancing a pizza box on his lap, illustrating the theme of stay quietly in your room.

Proof that you can stay quietly in your room and still rule your kingdom with pizza and a remote.

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Book of Daze: Stay Quietly in Your Room Day

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Pascal, bless his gloomy little French heart, once remarked that humanity’s wretched condition stemmed from the inability to sit quietly in your room. He was… Read More

Go big or go home illustration. a split panel artwork showing contrast between extremes: a rocket blasting off with flames and smoke on one side, and a person snoozing peacefully in a recliner with a cat on their lap on the other.

“Go Big or Go Home: either launch a rocket or take a nap with the cat —it's your call.”

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Book of Daze: Go Big or Go Home Day

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It is difficult to say precisely when “Go big or go home” wriggled out of the primordial ooze of marketing slogans and frat-house chants, but… Read More

In this middle name day illustration, a pudgy boy in a schoolyard wears a green shirt labeled "Horace Moisture Puddington" as three other kids laugh and point at him.

Spare a thought for Horace Moisture Puddington, patron saint of playground ridicule.

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Book of Daze: Middle Name Day

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Somewhere between the christening font and the DMV counter lies the cruelest prank ever played on humanity: the middle name. Ostensibly created as a dignified… Read More