Best of the Week!

Top 5 Jokes! + Sci-Fi Fuel #8 + Interviews, Comics, & more!

In This Newsletter:

• Latest Posts:

  • Sci-Fi Fuel #8! + An [EMAIL] Interview With C. Elyse! + A Short Story!

• Top 5 Jokes of the Week!

• Best of the Best!:

  • Vote For Your Favorite!

• Somethin’ Else!:

  • An ‘Uncertain Life’ Comic!

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Hey, happy Saturday! Let’s dive in to some highlights from the week!

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LATEST POSTS:

• An [EMAIL] Conversation With Writer C. Elyse

  I had a lovely email exchange with writer

  C. Elyse
  about family, fiction, secrets, magical realism, parenting, love, & generational divides!

  An [EMAIL] Conversation With Writer C. Elyse

• And over at

  Alternate Timeline
  (my alternate newsletter) I posted a new short story…

  

  …and a new edition of Sci Fi-Fuel!

  

TOP FIVE JOKES OF THE WEEK!

Each weekday, I send five topical jokes. Subscribers (yes, you!) have voted on what made them laugh the most. Here are the top 5!

Note: Whenever there is a tie, I become the deciding vote.

MONDAY: 11-27-2023

• Amazon has surpassed both UPS and FedEx in the number of packages delivered to U.S. homes. However, customers have noticed that the logo has gotten progressively less… excited with all of the extra work:

  

[read other jokes from that day here]

TUESDAY: 11-28-2023

• First lady Jill Biden unveiled this year's White House Christmas decorations. Among them is this section called The White House Sweet Shop:

  

  When ants invaded the gingerbread house during a tour, she quipped to reporters that it was a re-creation of Jan 6.

  Meanwhile… inside of the gingerbread house:

  

[read the other jokes from that day here]

WEDNESDAY: 11-29-2023

• The National Christmas Tree briefly toppled over yesterday amid high winds at the White House. Luckily, Biden has equipped all Christmas trees with a Life Alert system since the beginning of his term.

  

[read the other jokes from that day here]

THURSDAY: 11-30-2023

• Elon Musk shouted ‘Go f--- yourself’ during a live discussion about advertisers fleeing X. To clarify, he didn’t intend on being rude. It happens to be a name he’s testing for the platform. “Don’t want Disney commercials on X? How about Go F—— Yourself instead?!”

[read the other jokes from that day here]

FRIDAY : 12-1-2023

• Woolly mammoths haven't been seen for 4,000 years, but if scientists are successful, they could be walking around Alaska in just five years. “Incredible!” Said one excited Alaskan. “Now, bring back my dad.”

[read the other jokes from that day here]

If you enjoyed those Five Jokes, check out the most recent batch of Top Five Jokes!

BEST OF THE BEST!

Vote on your favorite joke among the top 5 — that way I can email the “Top Jokes of December” in next month’s letter.

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SOMETHIN’ ELSE!

Check out more Uncertain Life comics here!

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See you next week with 25 more jokes!

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