Preview of the week comes from Pat Slye who wrote about “Evan ’n’ Elle in Heaven ’n’ Hell … “This is the most irreverent, satirical book I believe I have ever read. What a delight in the midst of all the news that drags us down. I consider it a real privilege to help and encourage you any way I can. Good luck!”
Promo video, “Now who’s the incompetent?”
Blog post of the Week. “Let’s extend marriage by making it by the numbers”
I wouldn’t exactly call it a groundswell, but there’s a gentle uptick in the number of people who are willing to do something others clearly consider irrational. They’re actually paying to subscribe to this newsletter, bless their hearts. Yours, too, but their’s first.
To be clear, when I say I need money, the community reaction is supposed to be akin to what happens on Christmas Eve when Bedford Falls learns George Bailey is in a bit of a pinch. They give and give and give until there’s nothing left and it’s time for Sam Wainwright to telegraph George a blank check.
Hee-Haw!
I apologize for not reaching out to you supporters, but Stripe doesn’t reveal donor identities, which seems strange. Or maybe I’m missing something.
Planets
• May not be in our lifetimes but at some point some high school band'll road trip to Mars. They're going to have to sell lots of hoagies.
• What do they call earthquakes on other planets?
• NASA probes continue to scan the cosmos for evidence of planets with life-sustaining water. Life-sustaining? Listen, I'm not going anywhere until they find a planet with life-sustaining pizza.
• NASA deserves ridicule for saying there are 8.8 billion Earth-like planets. Wrong! None of them have Trump!
• I wonder how long it'll be before the number of earthlings living in space outnumber the number of earthlings living on earth.
• I’d like to see Bruno Mars and Venus Williams get together and have a kid who could be described as earthy.
• Men are from Mars, women from Venus, but Venus Williams is from Lynwood, California.
Randoms
• What would happen if the police ever charge The Energizer Bunny with battery?
• Many people say they want to be writers when what they mean is they want to be either John Grisham or J.K. Rowling.
• How massive is my ego? When daughter, 15, is in car texting to friends I believe she is writing, "My Daddy is the greatest!”
Did you miss the lovely page 1 Latrobe Bulletin story about me and my new book? You can check it out here.
Want to read an e-preview version? For Free? I’m eager to have a bunch of reviews ready to go when the book launches at the end of May. I’m sending out finished drafts to any reader who wants one. No obligation. My hope is that readers will write even a short review for amazon, but it’s not expected. storyteller@chrisrodell.com
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