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joined me on the You Are The Genre podcast this week! Learn how ‘Late Night with David Letterman,' ‘The Twilight Zone' and the work of Stephen King helped Mike Sacks become his own genre.Paid subscribers can listen ahead to the next episode with Saturday Night Live writer Steven Castillo now!
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Over at
(my alternate newsletter), I send weekly updates to fuel your imagination. Check out the latest edition of Sci-Fi Fuel here!
And my latest sci-fi short story The Assistant here!
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: 1-29-2024
Chipotle wants to hire 19,000 workers for what it calls 'burrito season.' Which is actually Chipotle speak for ‘The End Times.’ Burritos now either come in bowls or wraptures.
[read other jokes from that day here]
TUESDAY: 1-30-2024
Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands. Damn. Cap’n Crunch hits a little different when you know he’s steering a slave ship.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
WEDNESDAY: 1-31-2024
Britain’s pubs are struggling to survive in an increasingly atomized, remote-work world. Worse: Former patrons have started doing something called “room crawls” where they drink a pint in every section of their house and get into fights with their children’s stuffed animals for looking at them funny.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
THURSDAY: 2-1-2024
Amazon is backing out of its deal to buy iRobot due to regulatory issues — which is a win for privacy advocates, but could be a death knell for the Roomba robot vacuum as we know it. Worst case scenario: Roomba rebrands to Broomba.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
FRIDAY : 2-3-2024
Brazilian film-goers were locked in a theater during a screening of ‘The Holdovers’ after employees forgot about them. And though they initially didn’t get along, the movie-goers slowly bonded and have promised to never leave.
[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 February” in next month’s letter.
Ready? Set… Go! (You Have A Full Week To Vote)
SOMETHIN’ ELSE!
Yub Nub (the Star Wars podcast that I co-host) is back again with an episode where Jim Fagan and I discuss Jim’s time at a screening of the Daisy Ridley film ‘Sometimes I Think About Dying,’ NEW tidbits about the sequel trilogy and looking at ‘Star Wars’ through the lens of race with inspiration from the book ‘Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film’
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I chose Capn Crunch, but I can see a lot of possibilities with Broomba for a certain demographic...