Book of Daze – postcards from the pug bus

"It's OK as long as you don't inhale."

National THC Rules Day

| 7 days

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The average American pick-up truck has gained 1,142 pounds since 1990. The average American, about the same. The average Phish tune, in concert, added nearly two minutes around its middle, and personal pizzas got 25 percent larger. Go big or go home: The 11th Commandment writ large. Could the engine driving this Brobdingnagian mindset be tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive, I-wanna-take-you-higher ingredient in weed? Read More

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National Penultimate Day

| 1 week

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Our culture is obsessed with going the extra mile, giving 110 percent, leaving it all on the field. Supermarkets are open 24/7/365 to satisfy our shopping needs from A-to-Z, while athletes routinely crow about taking their games “to a whole ‘nother level.” In the midst of this maelstrom, like the voice of one hand clapping Read More

"When going through hell, keep going." (W. Churchill)

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National Hell Is Other People Day

| 2 weeks

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Jean-Paul Sartre observed that hell is other people. Who can disagree? Anyone whose dinner conversation was drowned out by louts sitting three tables away? Anyone stuck in the 15-items-or-fewer supermarket line behind somebody with 24 items in her cart? Anyone needing to use a port-o-potty at a rock concert? Anyone?

"I've got the whole world in my hands."

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National Solipsism Day

| 2 weeks

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In these postmodern times, where civility, not to mention consensus, is a battered artifact of the past, America needs a new vision, a singular, unified point of view. Enter National Solipism Day, a celebration of self in an uncertain world, a holiday dedicated to the proposition that the one truly reliable perspective is your own. Read More

"Starting next week we will no longer provide tech support for your current software. Sorry."

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National Refuse-the-Upgrade Day

| 1 month

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Welcome to the stubborn, dig-your-heels-in celebration of defiance against corporate peer pressure and the tyranny of the “new and improved.” Today we stand tall, defending our perfectly functional cell phones, air fryers, tablets, laptops, desktops, and motor vehicles, refusing to be suckered into an endless cycle of unnecessary upgrades, secure in the knowledge that newer Read More

"First my wife and I walk out on stage. We take our clothes off ..."

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National Aristocrats Joke Day℠

| 10 months

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The most offensive joke in history, “The Aristocrats,” was celebrated in a documentary film directed by Paul Provenza and Penn Jillette, the talking member of Penn and Teller. By then “The Aristocrats” was at least fifty years old, and was a legendary after-hours joke that comedians shared but never performed in public, usually vying to Read More

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Flash Fiction

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Most articles, books, movies, TV shows, and foreplay are twice as long as they need to be. Therefore, Postcards from the Pug Bus is devoted to promoting flash fiction. If you ask ten different people what flash fiction is, you'll get twelve different answers. At the Pug Bus all of our flash-fiction pieces are 50 words: full stop. Anything longer is longer than it needs to be. Read on

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The Pug Bus Blog

Wherein our fearless editor in briefs, who turned eighty-two this year, holds forth and cracks wise about his disdain for soccer moms, feminists of both sexes, the evil that is Mick Jagger, the sorry-ass WNBA, the trans tyranny, the pronoun police, climate scolds, and other blots on the fucking landscape. Read on