Jason Roeder

In 2005, I wrote a critique of my laundromat for the humor site Yankee Pot Roast. For example, I described the dryers thusly:

“Generally speaking, you can think of these as you would the porridge bowls from ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’—sometimes they’re too hot, sometimes they’re too cold, and sometimes they have food in them.”

Some people rage against the Chinese government; others, lint filters. Anyway, I recently received a solicitation from something called the Taj Mahal Review: “We would like to publish this one or such type of story in Dec. 2007 12th Issue of Taj Mahal Review, International Literary Journal. I invite you to contribute your short story so that it may be published.”

I cannot begin to imagine the how a journal that’s based in Govindpur Colony, Allahabad, India, and that stipulates in its guidelines that “Haikus can be rhyming and non-rhyming” found its way into the archives of a humor website named after a butchered, browned, and simmered cow. But if I can get the rights from Yankee Pot Roast, I’m doing it.

Posted October 10th, 2007 | Comments are open