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Reading. Drinking. Friday. Brooklyn.
Friday, October 3rd, 7 p.m., at the Barnes & Noble in Park Slope. And then come drink with us at The Gate, a nearby watering hole.
Yankee Pot Roast Hits Up Rockland
This evening, at the Barnes & Noble bookstore in glorious Rockland County, the Yankee Pot Roasters will be signing copies of their new book, Underrated, and helping readers determine with absolute confidence their underrated/overrated quotients.
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Y.P.R. on the Radio Tonight!
Tonight, your Yankee Pot Roasters will commandeering the earth's radiowaves (via The Joey Reynolds Show on WOR in N.Y.C. (710 AM); syndicated nationally) to promote their new book, How Awesome Will It Be: A Teen Guide to the Second Coming Underrated: The Yankee Pot Roast Book of Awesome, Underappreciated Stuff.
Tonight, your Yankee Pot Roasters will commandeering the earth's radiowaves (via The Joey Reynolds Show on WOR in N.Y.C. (710 AM); syndicated nationally) to promote their new book,
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The Underrated Book and the State of Oregon Declare Mutual Appreciation.
Underrated scored a brief mention in The Oregonian's Pop Talk feature, in which we are referred to as "waggish satirists." Um, hooray for the Hazelnut State!
Also, an equally brief but equally positive note from The Sacramento News & Review, in which our calculations are called "complicated, Freakonomics-style." Well, SN&R is half-right, although it looks like the Freaky Steves used legitimate math. We just made up numbers. (Shh!)
Underrated scored a brief mention in The Oregonian's Pop Talk feature, in which we are referred to as "waggish satirists." Um, hooray for the Hazelnut State! Also, an equally brief but equally positive note from The Sacramento News & Review, in which our calculations are called "complicated, Freakonomics-style." Well, SN&R is half-right, although it looks like the Freaky Steves used legitimate math. We just made up numbers. (Shh!)
Met the Authors
Richard Grayson reviews Y.P.R.'s Underrated book signing and discussion.
Underrated Book Signing Tonight!
This evening, at the Borders bookstore in Columbus Circle, the Yankee Pot Roasters will be signing copies of their new book, Underrated.
Deadspun
Huzzah and kudos to Y.P.R.'s sports-loving pals and erstwhile Black Tablers: Mr. Will Leitch is retiring his jersey as editor of Deadspin to columnize for New York magazine, and Mr. A.J. Daulerio will be sitting in the vacant Leitch-shaped ass crater on the Deadspin chair in his absence. Mazel tov, boys.
Underrated Hits Bookstores Today!
That's right, folks--Y.P.R.'s big, orange, 224-page book arrives in finer bookstores today. Look for us in the Humor section, reluctantly sharing shelf space with Truly Tasteless Jokes Vol. II and Garfield Takes the Cake.
That's right, folks--Y.P.R.'s big, orange, 224-page book arrives in finer bookstores today. Look for us in the Humor section, reluctantly sharing shelf space with Truly Tasteless Jokes Vol. II and Garfield Takes the Cake.
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.
Tales to Admonish
In which Y.P.R. for the first time ever breaks a news story!.
You Mean They Have Humor on the Internet Now?
Y.P.R.'s pal Matt Tobey, now blogging for corporate overlords at Viacom.
Family Hour w/ Auntie Sara (... w/ Geoff!)
Your humble coëditor, Mr. Geoff Wolinetz, will regale you with tales of the Wolinetz clan this Friday night when he joins other prodigal sons and daughters at Family Hour w/ Auntie Sara, New York City's most dysfunctional comedy night.
Y.P.R. on the Radio
If you caught Car Talk this weekend on NPR, you heard Click and Clack cackling over a Y.P.R. listicle--Michael Richardson-Bryan's "Suggested Names for Racehorses Expected to Have Undistinguished Careers," which was recently included in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007. Congrats to Mr. Richardson-Bryan, whose wit for this website has now been printed on paper and broadcast through the airwaves. Surely the celluloid adaptation awaits ...
If you caught Car Talk this weekend on NPR, you heard Click and Clack cackling over a Y.P.R. listicle--Michael Richardson-Bryan's "Suggested Names for Racehorses Expected to Have Undistinguished Careers," which was recently included in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007. Congrats to Mr. Richardson-Bryan, whose wit for this website has now been printed on paper and broadcast through the airwaves. Surely the celluloid adaptation awaits ...
Defame This.
Y.P.R. extends a great big bucket of mazel tov to Mr. Mark Grahahm (the once-and-always Uncle Grambo), now defaming Hollywood alongside Mr. Mark Lisanti (the erstwhile Bunsen).
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And now you're the hit of every wedding or bar mitzvah to come.
Rocking the WGA Strike, Pt. II
Presenting some of Y.P.R.'s archive of screenplays, treatments, pitches, and script coverage.
Y.P.R.: Offically Nonrequired
Suggested names for The Best American Nonrequired Reading.
Potty Cam
Mr. Josh Abraham, humble coëditor of this journal and director of the film American Standard, is featured in a short behind-the-scenes article in the Movies section of this week's New York Magazine, where he describes the challenges of shooting...
Ruined Music
Our friend and frequent Y.P.R. contributor Mary Phillips-Sandy is in the news for offering a place to share stories of music once beloved and now forsaken. Check it out. The scoop... Everyone has a song that's been ruined by an...
This Monday--A Very Special Evening Full of Fright, Bea, and Literary Buffoonery
Monday, October 30th 8:00 p.m. Ace of Clubs 9 Great Jones Street $5 Once again, Yankee Pot Roast is teaming up with the comedic genius lunatics at Drink at Work to bring you a night of short comic readings,...
Y.P.R. Print Update
Many, many inquiries... too few fingers. Here's the update you've all been waiting for. We're nailing down the specifics for Issue #1, and we'll be opening up the floodgates for Issue #2 shortly. Bear with us....
Better Buy a Bea. They're Buttah!
Do you love Bea Arthur--the idea of her, the curliness of her mop, her vapid approach to both comedy and life? Then wear your heart on your chest with these first runs. The first non-CafePressed Bea Arthur T-shirts are...
Send the Kids to the Neighbors and Lock the Doors!
That's right, the deadline has come and gone for submissions for Y.P.R.'s first ever print edition. Now it's time for us to lock ourselves in a room with all this paper and summon the courage to read through everything without...
Hear Ye, Hear Ye!
Please make a note: Print Submissions are due June 30th and that's sooner than you think. The days fly by. It's true; we checked....
What Real Salads Are Made Of
In this week's installment of Tangential Stupidity at Drink at Work, Y.P.R.'s Nick Jezarian discusses why Field Greens salads are nothing but a crock--a crock of leafy, greeny, bitter leaves. Shame on you chefs, shame on you!...
Street Meats, It's the Meats of the Streets
O.K., the cat is out of the bag: 2/3 of the Y.P.R. squadron are actually rabid New York sports fans. The third doesn't know a football from a knish. For those of our followers that loathe professional sports, we're...
Gutenberg? Spinning In His Grave
Y.P.R. is expanding into the world of print. Want to be a part of it? Go ahead and read this. Then, submit....
Tangential Stupidity
Your humble editor Nick Jezarian has been a contributor for Drink at Work but recently the site's masterminds, Ces Marciuliano and Carol Hartsell, mistook him for someone who deserves a weekly column. Don't tell the Drink at Work fools about...
Crafty Like a Fox
Fair & Allegient!Fox News, circa 1776 Over yonder at Cracked....
Out for Justice
"A Golfer Rings Steven Seagal's Doorbell ..." by Geoff Wolinetz over at Cracked....
Video Killed The Y.P.R. Star
"The Ausherman Stories" by Stephen Ausherman have been filmed, edited and posted over at Mr. Ausherman's site. Please head over and check them out. Bring a kugel. And tuck your shirt in....
Read to the Death
Tonight your humble coëditor, Geoff Wolinetz, will read to the death at The Sweet Fancy Moses Literary Death Match Monday, March 13, 2006, 7:30 p.m. The Back Room, New York City, N.Y. 102 Norfolk St. @ Delancey St. (212) 228-5098...
Make That "Borrow"
"Other Overwrought Acceptance Speeches" by Teddy Wayne "Thank You, Thank You, Thank You" by Zev Borow, The New York Times, Sunday, March 5, 2006 . . . Anyway, more Academy Award related stuff: "Acceptance Speech" by Michael J. Ewing "The...
And the Winner Is ...
Your humble coëditor, Geoff Wolinetz, will be reading with Dennis DiClaudio at the Me Three Oscar Bash this Sunday, March 5 at 7 p.m. It will take place at Croxley's Ale House at 28 Avenue B in Manhattan. If you...
Aaron Burr and Dick Cheney
Who are two vice presidents who've shot someone? Recycled but relevant: "Excerpts from Dick Cheney's Duck-Hunting Journal" by Vince LiCata...
Elsewhere
"More Cartoons That Might Offend in the Middle East" by Matt Tobey and Josh Abraham, over at Cracked....
Prediction: 17 Posts and He's Outta There
Ducky Magazine (on "hiatus") (parenthtetical note) (on "hiatus") I Am the Stallion (defunct) Dostoevsky Is Dead (defunct) Behold: Dennis DiClaudio dot com...
Opium.Weekend
All-Star Gala & Battle of the Literary Gladiators...
Kindling
The Black Table Roast Live and in color. And don't miss Ms. Amy Blair's contribution, "Week in Craig"....
Bringing You the Best New Music of 1982
The literary journal begets an MP3 blog: Y.P.R.'s WLIR/WDRE Shreek-of-the-Week of the Day Right click, Save Target/Link As....
Last Christmas, I Gave You My Heart
(But the very next day, you gave it away.) Christmastime Is HereY.P.R.'s Xmas Cards, 2004 A Holiday Update from the Kinsleys by Julianne Flynn Season's Greetings by Stephen Loomis The Stanton Family Christmas Newsletter by Jonathan Shipley The Annual Holiday...
The Alarmist's Reference Book of Miserable Maladies That Are Possibly Infecting Your Body at This Very Moment
Dennis DiClaudio, the noted writer of fact and fiction, playwright (The Writer's Mind), improvisational performer (Waitstaffer and Caballist), editor ((parenthetical note) and Ducky magazine), Philadelphian (for now), and researcher of interesting infectious diseases (not to mention frequent contributor to...
Instantly Karmic
My Continued Conversation with the Ghost of John Lennon by Corey Mesler...
This Will Be The Week That Will Be
Your humble coëditor, Geoff Wolinetz, makes a mockery of the coming week. "Incoming! December 5, 2005," at The Black Table....
Listen:
The Y.P.R. Book Club skeweres Kurt Vonnegut Jr....
Y.P.R Is Kind of Crazy with a Spooky Little Reader Like You
Recycled, but relevant: Please check out The Bone-Chilling, Spine-Tingling, Hair-Raising, Bloodcurdling Hallowe'en House of Horror from way back in 2003. Oooooooooh! Mwhahahahahahah....
Listen: The Y.P.R. Book Club hereby selects the entire canon of Kurt Vonnegut Jr. including the new collection, A Man without a Country. Please send forth your Kilgore Troutisms, your sketchy doodles, your decrepit old-man ramblings, your liberal, humanist, psuedo-socialist,...
Cracked Baby
Cracked magazine, relaunching in January 2006, has gone online. Sylvester P. Smythe is already a-mopping....
Following the Trail Blazed by Margaret Truman
Y.P.R. contributor Frank Lesser, the crafty creator of DannyBot ("So sad, even your robot will cry") and the Lie Girls, presents: Flora Bush: The Child Left Behind --an album recorded by the forgotten daughter of your president. Read: Curriculum Fraudium...
Rosh Hashanah Head Rush
Happy 5766 to our Hebrew friends. Blow that ram's horn, baby....
Does the Appropriation by Target of Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back" Disquiet You?
Your Disquieting Modern Trendsetters request the pleasure of your commentary. Is Target's recent "Baby Got Back (Pack)" advertisement a modern trend that sparks disquitude? Please drop Messers Layman and Osmond an e-mail....
Belabor Day
VH1’s “I Love Christopher Monks’s Labor Day Weekend 1986” by the eponymous idle thinker, Mr. C. Monks....
More Graydonesque Haha
Pitching to Cousin Graydon by K. Robinson Carter, part of last year's Writers-on-Writing Series, and Postmodern Irony Final Exam by Josh Abraham....
The Puck Stops Here
Your humble coëditor, Geoff Wolinetz, breaks down the new N.H.L. in "They're Puttin' On the Foil!" over at "La Mesa Negra." Lace up your skates and have a read....
This Isn't Working
Our friends over at Drink at Work will be débuting their new play, This Isn't Working, part of the 2005 New York International Fringe Festival, starting this Saturday, August 13th. You can catch all the times, dates, and other extraneous...
Welcome to the Dog Days
Your humble coëditor, Geoff Wolinetz, tackles the first week of August. "Incoming! August 1, 2005," at The Black Table. Read it and sweat....
Muggles, Mudbloods, & Morons
The Y.P.R. Book Club hereby declares Harry Potter and the Half-Baked Clam by J. K. Rowling its next selection. We'd like to see your magical parodies, deleted chapters, musical adaptations, illustrations, etc., whether you've read the book or not. Please...
Everlasting Gobstopper
In light of topical humor, may we present you with some recycled material? "Wonka'ed" by Geoff Wolinetz...
Sally Forth
Hey, remember The Fourth of July, 2003? We don't, but found this in our archives: Fourth of July Fourthiness. Independence is on the march, patriots....
Pussyknickers!
If we may say so, that cat is wearing some fancy, schmancy pants....
Ankommend!
Your humble coëditor, Josh Abraham, will tell you what to do all week long. "Incoming! May 23, 2005," at Der Schwarze Tisch....
¡Flashback de Mayo!
Hey, remember Cinco de Mayo, 2003? Neither do we! ¡Cinco de Mayo! A Message from the Mexican Minister of Tourism ¿What Are We Doing with Our Empty Corona Bottles? ¡Don't Want No Mexican Radio! ¡How We're Celebrating Cinco de...
Dos de Mayo--Seis de Mayo
Your humble coëditor, Geoff Wolinetz, will hold your hand as you cross the week: "Incoming! May 2, 2005," a La Mesa Negra.
Your humble coëditor, Geoff Wolinetz, will hold your hand as you cross the week: "Incoming! May 2, 2005," a La Mesa Negra.
Exceedingly Cagey and Awfully Precocious
This month (um, circa) the Y.P.R. Book Club solicits your clever tricks satirizing or inspired by Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, whether you've read the book or not. Please point your ingenuity this-a-way: hasselhoff@yankeepotroast.org. Recycled but relevant:...
Hidden Affikomen
"Lo! Bread of Affliction: How to Flirt with a Guest at the Seder" "Some Things You Ought to Have Mentioned before You Brought Me, Your Irish-Catholic Boyfriend, to Meet Your Parents at My First Seder Ever with Your Orthodox Family"...
The Y.P.R. Mass Communiqué
will be infrequent, irregular, and unorthodox. Please do subscribe. Here. Name: E-mail: Something interesting: -->...
Calling All Catamounts
Guten tag, Valley Cats! Y.P.R. solicits your alumni updates, yearbook scribblings, and passed-notes to high-school crushes along with the usual reviews, parodies, deleted chapters, etc., for this month's Book Club selection: Sam Lipsyte's Home Land. K.I.T.! ypr-@-yankeepotroast-.-org...
The Way We Live Now
Incoming! March 7, 2005 by your humble coëditor, Josh Abraham, over at The Black Table....
Y.P.R. 3.1
O.K., Y.P.R.keteers, we're back again and this time everything's more or less working smoothly. The site's archives are being built up quite slowly, and you may find some links or pages to be working screwy. Wally, our tech assistant, is...
Get Yr Blink On.
The Y.P.R. Book Club solicits your spur-of-the-moment, off-the-cuff, split-second, ad-lib snap judgements regarding Malcolm Gladwell's Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking. Send us your reviews, parodies, deleted chapters, etc. by February 28th, 2005. Blink! 100 bonus points if...
This Is the Week That Is
Incoming! February 14, 2005 by your humble coëditor, Geoff Wolinetz, over at The Black Table....
Music for the Masses
Hey, kids! Do you like the rock 'n' roll? If so, head on over to Matthew Tobey's City of Floating Blogs to check out the O.C.D.-enabled megalist of 500 bestest songs ever, compiled from suggestions by the Internet's finest...
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