Best of the Week!
New 'Alternate Timeline' Series, A Letter For October, Top 5 Jokes of the Week!
In This Newsletter:
Latest Posts: New Alternate Timeline series + October’s Letter
Somethin’ Else!: An Interview with Alexis Wilkinson!
(this post may be too long for your email — if so, read the web version!)
Hey, happy Saturday! BIG NEWS: As of yesterday — Letters from African America has reached its 200th subscriber! It’s been a while since a digital milestone has excited me, and I appreciate you all sticking around for my daily, weekly, and monthly organized chaos.
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Let’s dive in to some highlights from the week!
LATEST POSTS:
My other newsletter, Alternate Timeline, has a new weekly series called Sci-Fi Fuel. It’s sure to evolve in the coming weeks as it finds its own groove. Alternate Timeline started as an excuse for me to write semi-weekly sci-fi stories. But I’ve decided it’s more practical for me to write one story for the end of each month — allowing more time for me to bring elements like Sci-Fi Fuel into play. I hope you dig it!
Welcome to October, 2023
At the start of each month I send a letter to subscribers with a sliver of intel on what’s going on in my personal life + a few recommendations! Here’s the letter for October:
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: 10-2-2023
Catholic bishops will discuss priestly celibacy and the blessing of gay couples at an assembly at the Vatican known as the synod. Also being discussed: Why a certain someone keeps eating the leftover pasta in the fridge that is clearly labelled “For The Pope Only.”
[read the other jokes from that day here]
TUESDAY: 10-3-2023
Elon Musk’s X has forged a video partnership with Paris Hilton. Good for her. Feels like just yesterday, she had three Xs associated with her name. But through hard work a perseverance, she’s whittled it down to one.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
WEDNESDAY: 10-4-2023
Paramount released ‘Mean Girls’ for free on TikTok in 23 parts.Jealous of its massive Gen Z viewership, Ken Burns plans on releasing his latest documentary, The American Buffalo, frame by fame on BeReal.
“Frame 11217 — The buffalo completes its third blink.”
[read the other jokes from that day here]
THURSDAY: 10-5-2023
Bars of gold from Costco are selling out. An odd consequence: Leprechaun pots are now filled with Costco hot dogs.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
FRIDAY : 10-6-2023
Chris Rock is directing a Martin Luther King Jr. biopic. The working title is Selma: Bigger and Blacker.
[read the other jokes from that day here]
If you enjoyed those Five Jokes, check out the most recent batch of Top Five Jokes!
NEW THING!
This month I’m experimenting with having you vote on your favorite joke among the top 5 — that was I can email the “Top 5 Jokes of October” in my November letter.
Ready? Set… Go! (You Have A Full Week To Vote)
SOMETHIN’ ELSE!
Like my text interview with writer/filmmaker Alexis Wilkinson!
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See you next week with 25 more jokes!
