Best of the Week!

Best Jokes of The Week + Sci-Fi Fuel & A Text Interview

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• Latest Posts:

  • Sci-Fi Fuel #9! + Story Stuff

• Top 5 Jokes of the Week!

• Best of the Best!:

  • Vote For Your Favorite!

• Somethin’ Else!:

  • A Text Interview!

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

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LATEST POSTS:

• Over at

  Alternate Timeline
  (my alternate newsletter) I revealed the name of topic of the short story I’ll be releasing at the end of the month + 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: 12-4-2023

• Spotify will lay off 17% of its global workforce. Employees were informed via hidden codes in their end of year Spotify Wrapped updates:

  • YOUR TOP SONGS WERE:

    • "I'm Sorry" by Brenda Lee

    • “You’re Fired” by Hans Zimmer and Steve Mazzaro

    • “Don't Worry Be Happy” by Bobby McFerrin

[read other jokes from that day here]

TUESDAY: 12-5-2023

• Florida’s government argues that school districts have a First Amendment right to remove LGBTQ books. But after many attempts at defining “LGBTQ literature” the state will likely avoid books with letters altogether (despite growing concern that odd numbers are… you know… funny).

[read the other jokes from that day here]

WEDNESDAY: 12-6-2023

• A Kremlin-Linked network used fake Taylor Swift quotes to push anti-Ukraine propaganda. Taylor vehemently condemns this use and demands that any new quotes falsely attributed to her be labelled “Kremlin’s Version” at the end.

[read the other jokes from that day here]

THURSDAY: 12-7-2023

• Celebrities including Elijah Wood and Priscilla Presley were duped into recording videos to support the information war against Ukraine by Russia-aligned trolls. Upon learning this, agents were inundated with calls from their other celebrity clients demanding to know why the Russian trolls weren’t aware of them. “Should I send in a tape? I can do accents!”

[read the other jokes from that day here]

FRIDAY : 12-8-2023

• The winner of Squid Game: The Challenge says they are still yet to receive their $4.56 million prize despite the show ending in February. Turns out explaining to friends and family why you’re taking the bus to work after winning a Netflix game show is the biggest challenge of them all.

[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.

Ready? Set… Go! (You Have A Full Week To Vote)

SOMETHIN’ ELSE!

A text interview throwback with writer/director Alexis Wilkinson:

A [TEXT MESSAGE] Conversation With Writer/Director Alexis Wilkinson

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