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Fake Holidays List illustration featuring a woman with a quizzical look on her face and a calendar on the wall next to her.

Is it September or November that has thirty days?

The Book of Daze: Fake Holidays List

This here is The Book of Daze, Fake Holidays List, a curated collection of bogus holidays for people who have had it with the “real”… Read More

A weary adult sits on a couch surrounded by phones, spreadsheets, and streaming app icons, visually representing streaming service cancellation chaos and subscription fatigue.

You cancelled three services, upgraded two more, and somehow still ended up back at Netflix.

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Book of Daze: Streaming Service Cancellation Day

T.J. Eckleburg bookof-daze 9 months

Streaming service cancellation day was born on February 12, 2019, when Portland resident Marcus Chen received his fourth consecutive monthly charge from Netflix, which he… Read More

A despairing office worker sits in a grey cubicle with his face in his hand, paralyzed by the suspicion that he did forget to lock the front door. A vivid thought cloud above his head illustrates the inevitable consequence: three European badgers wearing floral aprons have invaded his home kitchen. The badgers stand on stools to reach the stove, where one ruins a non-stick skillet with a metal spatula while another pours a box of premium risotto rice into the mix, confirming that the house now belongs to the woodland creatures.

The productivity of the modern worker plummets to zero the moment the brain decides to simulate a culinary takeover by local wildlife.

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Book of Daze: Did You Forget to Lock the Front Door Day?

philmaggitti bookof-daze 10 months

You begin to wonder did you forget to lock the front door the second you are too far away to turn back. This observance is… Read More

A censored illustration of Saint Arthur standing in a town square wearing a lightweight sweater and no pants while extending both middle fingers toward the lens of the CCTV spies monitoring the area.

Celebrate Flip Off the CCTV Day with our comprehensive guide to saluting the CCTV spies in your neighborhood.

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Book of Daze: Flip Off the CCTV Spies

philmaggitti bookof-daze 10 months

CCTV spies are watching. Always watching. They have eyes in the sky, eyes in the supermarket, eyes in the bank and the shopping mall, too.… Read More

Young attractive woman in tan blazer sitting at her desk in an office staring at a computer screen in horror after discovering her autocorrect blooper.

"OMG! I meant "meeting" not "mating."

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Book of Daze: Apologize for Autocorrect Bloopers Day

philmaggitti bookof-daze 10 months

Apologize for Autocorrect Bloopers Day is observed annually on the third Tuesday in March. Ironic, isn’t it, that our phones have so many days to… Read More

The image captures a Temporal Hangover as Arthur experiences a total collapse of personal synchronicity while his physical form deserts his consciousness in the bathroom. While his mind struggles to process the cold porcelain of the sink, his body has already committed to the next twenty-seven minutes of his morning routine. He is a man haunted by his own momentum, watching himself vanish into a future that he is not yet ready to inhabit.

A secular holy trinity?

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Book of Daze: Temporal Hangover Day

T.J. Eckleburg bookof-daze 10 months

The sun storms through the curtains and hits Arthur like a physical assault. The real problem, however, of this temporal hangover day, is that Arthur’s… Read More

A close-up shot of a crispy, deep-fried pope's nose seasoned with sea salt, held aloft on a golden three-pronged fork. In the blurred background, a crowd celebrates at an outdoor festival under a large burlap banner that reads "Book of Daze: Pope's Nose Day."

One bite of the pope's nose and you will finally understand why the bird was trying to fly away from you.

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Book of Daze: Pope’s Nose Turkey Day

T.J. Eckleburg bookof-daze 10 months

Pope’s Nose turkey day honors the butt-end of a turkey–that triangular, fatty little nub that people fight over like starving wolves or treat like a… Read More

Artificial Nostalgia Day illustration featuring inside a television screen a black Alexa dot with its circular red light on and a frown-y face drawn inside it.

She sees you when you're sleeping.

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Book of Daze: Artificial Nostalgia Day

T.J. Eckleburg bookof-daze 10 months

Today you celebrate the memories you never had but feel guilty about forgetting. Artificial nostalgia day honors the ache for a past that never happened,… Read More