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Announcing Y.P.R.'s New Book: Underrated: The Yankee Pot Roast Book of Awesome Underappreciated Stuff
Yes, folks, your humble Yankee Pot Roasters proudly announce their new 224-page book, published by the good people of Citadel Press, the imprint of Kensington Books, printed, bound, and available in finer bookstores everywhere on June 24, 2008.
April Listicles
Dryer than April showers.
March Listicles
In lionlike, out lamblike.
A Half Decade of Pot Roast (Pt. V)
... Aaand some more vintage Y.P.R.
A Half Decade of Pot Roast (Pt. IV)
Still more classic Y.P.R. ha-has ...
A Half Decade of Pot Roast (Pt. III)
Yet more Y.P.R. classics: Part I | Part II | Part IV | Part V...
A Half Decade of Pot Roast (Pt. II)
Presenting more gems unearthed from Y.P.R.'s five-year-deep archives.
A Half Decade of Pot Roast
That's right, this week marks five (5) long years that this humble journal has been publishing a daily(-ish) dose of the finest literary satire money can buy. To celebrate, we're republishing some of our favorite past pieces ...
That Was the Year That Was: Y.P.R.'s Best of 2007
Selections from the past year in Y.P.R.
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The Ghosts of Christmas Past
Some Christmas features from the Y.P.aRchives.
Gobble, Gobble
The sporadic posts of late probably tell you everything that you're about to read. We've taken Thanksgiving a little early this year. We need the break to clean up all of these goddamn batons. We hope that you all have...
Wedding Weekend ... Sha La La La
I realize that you come to Yankee Pot Roast not to hear about our daily lives, which involve day jobs and other such nonsense. Instead you seek us out, or stumble across us, to get a daily dose of humor...
Tell ’Em How You Really Feel
Has your son or daughter found that special someone? Have you spent endless hours and days with your in-law to be planning the “perfect wedding”? Have you had to swallow your own opinions because you know you have to spend...
Celebrate Your Independence, Take Care of Your Digits
The founding fathers of Y.P.R. would like to take this moment to celebrate long weekends with no day jobs, literary tomfoolery, and the last call for submissions for Y.P.R. Print! Bring us your tired, your dirty, your utterly hilarious....
Knock, Knock
Who's there? Website that has gone on vacation for a bit and won't be posting until Tuesday. Website that has gone on vacation for a bit and won't be posting until Tuesday who? Website that has gone on vacation for...
Extra! Extra! Read All About It! Moronic Online Lit Journal to Go Print! Unsinkable Boat Hits Iceberg! Extra!
Ladies, gentlemen, and those of indeterminate origin: Yankee Pot Roast, the literary journal of humor and satire (and the website at which you're currently looking), is preparing for the introductory issue of our brand-spanking-new PRINT EDITION (tentatively titled, Yankee Pot...
Dear Kind and Patient Readers
While one-third of our editorial juggernaut begins principal shooting on his first motion picture, two-thirds of us were away on a long vacation, and as such, you've noticed things have been reasonably bare around here. As always, we're sorry for...
Hail To The Chief
Hey Y.P.R. faithful, Just dropping a quick note to let you know that we haven't upped and gone. We're just taking a short breather in honor of Presidents' Day. We've got a lot of respect for most of them. Anyway,...
Y.P.R.'s WLIR/WDRE Shreek-of-the-Week of the Day
Two years ago today, WLIR ((f.k.a. WDRE) 92.7 FM, from Garden City, Long Island) signed off the airways the last time, its parent company switching its playlist to Spanish music. By that time, WLIR had evolved into a Top 40...
MMV
The annual wrapup.
Wherefore Art Thou, Y.P.R.?
Well, it appears we've pulled one of our trademark disappearing acts again. We do this from time to time without warning and for no apparent reason. This serves one of two purposes: 1) To create an abuser/enabler relationship with our...
Happy Hallowe'en!
Y.P.R HQ has had a bag of dog crap thrown on its door by our former best friend. After screaming, "You shit on my house, man! You shit on my house" at him, we've taken to the task of cleaning...
Doing Our Part
Y.P.R. faithful, We're rarely serious (ask our parents, bosses, wives, fiancées, roommates and the people at Starbucks who correct us when we insist upon ordering a "large" coffee rather than bow to their needlessly complicated coffee-ordering nomenclature), but there are...
A Pleasing Labor Day to You All
Propaganda by the War Production Board, 1943, courtesy World War II History....
We'll Be Right Back after a Quick Word from Our Sponsors . . .
Hello Y.P.R-keteers! We just wanted to poke our heads in the room for a moment to let you know that Y.P.R. will be back with brand-spanking-new content on August 15, 2005. For now, please peruse our copious archives of content...
MMIV Wrap-Up
In January of this year, as this humble journal was approaching its first anniversary, our pioneering colleagues at Haypenny announced that the time had come to close its imaginary doors forever. Y.P.R. was shocked and saddened by this news,...
Freeze! This Is a Bust!
The buxom broads at Bust magazine have had the good taste to select Y.P.R.'s Bea Arthur T-shirt as part of its 2004 Holiday Gift Guide. Yup, there we are: right under "Gifts for Your Gay Boyfriend." Huh. Um. Available in...
Suggested Reading for Psychopaths
[The morning after the election . . . ]...
Y.PRediction for Election Day
President George W. Bush, the incumbent, will end the night with 232 electoral votes. Senator John F. Kerry, the challenger, will tally 269 electoral votes. Ohio and Florida's votes will be disputed through December. * * * Why are you wasting...
Blurbs
"...they're just working class dudes who happen to be pants-down funny." --The Black Table "charming guttersnipes" --Gawker "pithy and always entertaining" --Maud Newton "cheeky young lads" --TMFTML "totally McSwys without the air of condescension." --whatevs (dot org) "no-foolin', laugh-inducin' literary...
Why Cheese?
byCheese-Fancying Readers of Y.P.R. In our (now antiquated) submissions guidelines, we asked writers to include with their work a list of three reasons why they liked to eat cheese. There was no good reason for asking this—or if there...
The Scrolling Book Club
Welcome to the Y.P.R. Scrolling Book Club--a forum wherein classical works of literature are presented in linear fashion. The texts of these great books by long-dead authors (surely spinning triple lutzes within their coffins) are now in the public domain...
Exclusive Gear for Faraway Republicans Visiting Our Liberal Blue City
With much exhilaration, Yankee Pot Roast is preparing for the swarms of rightwing conservatives from America’s heartland who will descend upon our liberal, heathen Jew city in just a fortnight. Welcome, O Christian overlords! Enjoy our delicious sidewalk knishes, served...
Oh, What a Fortnight!
Sorry, ladies: 1/3 of Yankee Pot Roast’s council of editorial elders is now off the market. As the tin cans clank down the street in the wake of Nick and Wendy’s limousine, Y.P.R. reflects upon what it has missed in...
Speed Reader
From TimeOut New York, April 22---29, 2004"Speed Reader" by Matthew ShepatinFeaturing an embarrassing picture of your humble coëditor, Josh Abraham (photographed and published without his knowledge), reading aloud his piece, 'Who's the Pop-Diva Queen Now, Bitch?' by Christina Aguilera, with...
Fact-Checking The Village Voice
On March 24th, 2004, the "alternative" newsweekly The Village Voice (a.k.a. "New York's freest newspaper") ran an item in Cynthia Cotts's "Press Clips" column that caught the collective eye of this humble journal (thanks to the pathological clicking of the...
Imitations of Anonymity (2nd Item)
From The Village Voice, March 24-30, 2004: "Press Clips" by Cynthia Cotts California, Ho! Once parochial, The New Yorker has discovered that more people read its pages on the West Coast One of the most famous New Yorker covers of...
Courtney Love Has Come Undone
Miss Courtney Love is having a wild week! Help put this downwardly spiralling demimondaine back together! Make this Hole lady whole! [This feature requires Java. If you see a Courtney Love-less gray box above, then your computer is likely...
This Is the Ultimate Y.P.R.*
*”Ultimate” doesn’t always mean ‘best’; sometimes it means ‘last.’ Goodbye, mama and papa Goodbye, Jack and JillThe grass ain’t greener The wine ain’t sweeterEither side of the hill. “Ramble On Rose,” the Grateful Dead Friends, Romans, carniefolk: Life is...
MMIII: The Whole Kit & Caboodle
This is the year that was....
Tidings of Joy
Folks, Yankee Pot Roast is calling it a year. In 2003, we had many good times and only a few bad. We made many new friends and some enemies, too. We thank all our readers, all our writers, all our...
Requiem for "Snark"
Following this week's concurrent presentations of Ken Krimstein's snappy short story, "I Was a Teenage Snarkist" and the Y.P.R. Book Club's The Scrolling Snark by Lewis Carroll (a hump-breaking straw and an ultimate coffin nail, respectively), this humble journal believes...
The Apology
Regarding yesterday's posting of “Hollywood Interruption,” written by Y.P.R. coëditor, Josh Abraham: First and foremost, the author wishes to apologize for wasting your precious, precious time by forcing upon you a rambling, incoherent outburst about his tired and tiresome day....
Y.P.R.’s Cheap & Stupid Stunt for Shameless Self-Promotion That Nonetheless Guarantees a Good Time for One and All
This week, the writer Shelley Jackson* announced her rather macabre plans for the “alternative press” printing of her new short story, “Skin”: each of its 2000 words will be tattooed on a different reader’s body. Afterward, the completed work will...
Una Lettera Aperta Alla Gente Che Cerca “Piedi di Monica Bellucci”
Dear foot fetishists, Bellucci enthusiasts, celebrity podiatrists, assorted freaks and weirdoes, Nearly every day one of you oddballs curiously seeks results for some variant of the phrase “Monica Bellucci’s feet” from Google and, thanks to the vast intricacies of search-engine...
Six Months
Well, folks, it's been a long six months.* It's been a blast for us and we hope you've had some fun too. We're taking a much-needed "personal day" to sleep off this vicious hangover. We'd like to thank our...
Geoff Wolinetz, Guest Bartender
Last night, Yankee Pot Roast coëditor Geoff Wolinetz tended bar at New York City's Tin Lizzie. Y.P.R. was there to observe and imbibe. Nick Jezarian took notes: [9:08 p.m.] G.W.: What? Yes, I am the bartender . . . Do...
Le Jour d'Imbécile d'Avril
[ Ha ha! Pour une traduction, cliquetez svp ici.1 ] Imbécile d'Avril! Nous espérons que vous avez apprécié notre petit polisson. Avez-vous pensé, même pendant un moment, que les rôtis de pot d'Yankee s'étaient rendus réellement au Français? Ah,...
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