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See Y'all in MMX Y.P.R. will return in 2010.

R.I.P., William Safire Remembering the conservative wordsmith.

A Note to Our Dear Readers As you may have noticed, 2009 has found your humble journal moving at a snail's pace ...

Beatrice "Bea" Arthur, R.I.P. May 13, 1922 – April 25, 2009

Oh, Yes. We Can. Hail to the Chief.

Your President-Elect
Left, exotic, elitist President-Elect Barry Obama, in a straw fedora w/ cigarette, circa 1980, courtesy The New York Post. Right, the exotic, elitist mascot for Bambú rolling papers, since 1764.

What the Hey? For the duration of Aught Eight, the Y.P.R. machine will be steered by the very capable (?) hands of Mr. Jimmy Chen and Mr. Fortunato Salazar

Signed, Sealed, Delivered He's Ours! Yes we can.

Live (Sort of) Coverage (Well, Jokes) of the Presidential Town-Hall Debate Y.P.R.'s experiment in "live-blogging" the "town-hall" "presidential" "debate."

Dog Poll Results, 2008 Sit, Zogby, sit. Good dog.

Sex and the City: Miami

This Thing Looks Like That Thing, and Also, This Other Thing Also Looks Like That Other Thing from the Same Thing Can you tell which cheeky Chanel ad was designed by Chip Kidd, the legendary book-coverer and noted cheese monkey, and which was done by freelance commenter José?

The Giants Win the Pennant! The Giants Win the Pennant! Wear your pride on your chest with Yankee Pot Roast's commemorative Super Bowl XLII T-shirt.

Mailer Meets Maker Mr. Norman Kingsley Mailer, the legendary writer and pugilist, now punching God in the face.

How to Be Productive During a Writers' Strike Hey, striking screenwriters: Why not turn off Final Draft and flip open Microsoft Word for NaNoWriMo?
NOVELIZATIONS, people!

The Y.P.R. Gift Shop Inspired by the inexplicably popular Ché Guevara T-shirt, Yankee Pot Roast proudly presents The Beatrice Arthur T-Shirt. Now, you too can proudly wear a portrait of acerbic countercultural revolutionary icon Bea Arthur on your chest. Shirts are available in Men's S, M, L, XL, for just $15 (shipping & handling included). Please send an e-mail to nick@yankeepotroast.org for order inquiries.

Coming Soon(-ish) Mr. Josh Abraham, your humble coëditor, had been mostly absent from this site for much of the past year, busy making a moving picture (or "talkie" as the kids are calling them these days)...

Will Pimp for Props Got a band, a Web site, a book, a store, a clothing line, or anything else to promote? We need to dress dozens of N.Y.C. apartments for our film, American Standard, and would be happy to feature whatever props you...

Selected Words and Phrases from William Safire's "On Words" Column That Reveal a Libertine Heart Beating within the Conservative Wordsmith's Bosom Perhaps he's just extra saucy this morn from New Year's Eve revelry, but today's column is simply engorged with innocent-but-suggestive terms: * jaws of coming * snatched * plucked * snatched * snatching (not plucking) * phrasedicks * plucked *...

Three Concerns about This Caption "Study: 11M Americans Can't Read This Story," by Ben Feller (AP), Metro New York, Dec. 16-18, 2005...

The Complete Radar Collected in two handsome, leather-bound volumes, with raised spine, gilt edges, and over 2,300 illustrations, The Complete Radar is yours for only $289.00.

May We Use Your Loo? Your humble coëditor, Josh Abraham, will be directing an independent feature film. It's called American Standard, and will star these extraoridnarily talented, funny, beautiful people. But we need places in which to put them! In The Can Production is seeking...

Transmogrify This

"New Orleans is not fast or energetic or efficient, not a go-get-’em Calvinist well-ordered city."

--from "What It Means to Miss New Orleans" by Mark Childress, in The New York Times, Sunday, September 4, 2005.

"There will be pictures of bodies falling from the twin towers, beheaded kidnapping victims in Iraq and corpses still floating in the waterways of New Orleans five days after the disaster that caused them. It's already clear this will be known as the grueling decade, the Hobbesian decade."

--from "The Bursting Point," an Op-Ed column by David Brooks in The New York Times, Sunday, September 4, 2005.

Attn: N.Y.C.-Area Actors There's a casting call for an independent film seeking your dramatic talents and pretty faces. Plus: the chance to be directed by your humble Y.P.R. coëditor, Josh Abraham.

Who Wants to Watch "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" Hey, kids! Do you like the TV? As many of you know by now, Geoff Wolinetz, your humble coëditor, taped an episode of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" in December of last year. The show is no longer hosted...

J.S.F., Loud & Close This month (um, circa) the Y.P.R. Book Club solicited your clever tricks satirizing or inspired by Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, whether you’ve read the book or not. Extremely Long and Incredibly Bad Writer’s Blockby Angela Genusa...

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Dowd, Untouchable Mutant If she seems cold and standoffish, it's because her slightest touch will siphon your energy and consciousness.

E-mail: liberties@nytimes.com "I try to think of myself as Emma Peel in a black leather catsuit ..."

Arrrrrtwork Behold "Three Jokes about Pirates," a short piece of humor writing, and a digital painting, and a short film, sort of, via arrrrt.com's artPad, by Dennis DiClaudio, (who really ought to get the lead out). (Viewing tip: Set the...

R.I.P., H.S.T.

Y.P.R. 3.0 Folks, Welcome. As you can see, we've finally caught up with late-20th Century technology. Our upgrade is still underway, and you'll notice most of our archive links go nowhere. Please be patient with us as we rejigger our gears over...