Prewritten Excuses for Cancelling Plans This Winter

Plus: a new cartoon from Brooke Bourgeois.

View in your browser | Update your preferences   Today's cartoon, by Brooke Bourgeois: "Colorado removes me from their ballot? I remove them from my special map!" Open in browser to share this cartoon » Buy a print » More in Humor Dumb Luck A new transplant to New York City encounters omens, good and bad. By Emily Flake Prewritten Excuses for Cancelling Plans This Winter I must skip your _____. My lips are so chapped that I look like one of those creepy little kids with permanent fruit-punch lip. By Susanna Wolff Things That Would Be More Effective Than N.Y.C. Street-Sweeper Trucks Pub-crawl broom bikes, or hundreds of passionate trash-picking clones of David Sedaris. By Timothy Cahill, Ryan Walls, and Olivia de Recat This Week's Caption Contest Submit a caption. Play to win. You be the judge. Help us pick three finalists by rating submissions. The final three. Help select the winning caption.   The winner. See who won (finally). One More from the Cartoon Archives . . . See cartoons for purchase in our store » Name Drop Name Drop Name Drop, The New Yorker's Trivia Game Play a quiz from our archive: Can you guess the identity of a notable person—contemporary or historical—in six clues? More from The New Yorker The Theatre Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, on Broadway at Last Starring a Peak TV supercast, the playwright's "Appropriate" investigates a dysfunctional Southern family's buried secrets. By Helen Shaw U.S. Journal An Unpermitted Shooting Range Upends Life in a Quiet Town Residents of Pawlet, Vermont, were accustomed to calm and neighborly interactions. Then a new resident moved in. By Paige Williams Letter from the U.K. The Disturbing Impact of the Cyberattack at the British Library The library has been incapacitated since October, and the effects have spread beyond researchers and book lovers. By Sam Knight The Front Row In "Maestro," Bradley Cooper Leaves Out All the Good Stuff The co-writer, director, and star of the Leonard Bernstein bio-pic omits crucial events, context, and characterization, resulting in an emotionally hollow film. By Richard Brody You're receiving this e-mail because you signed up for Daily Humor from The New Yorker. Was this e-mail forwarded to you? Sign up.   Manage your preferences | View our privacy policy | Unsubscribe  Send feedback | Share e-mail   Copyright © Condé Nast 2023. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.