Dorothy Von Irony’s Journal of Literary Humor and Humorous Literature

…and the submissions have been rolling in. In whatever sense submissions can “roll.”

All submissions will be read in July, and submitters will receive prompt responses.

You might ask, if you were an inquisitive sort of person: what are a comedian-blogger-person and a small press publisher doing, publishing a literary humor journal in print, in this day and age? After all WordPress is so easy! (Indeed, it is).

There’s just something about pages, though, isn’t there? If you read a funny website, you kind of feel like you’ve squandered minutes or hours of your ephemeral existence; if you read a funny book-like object, you feel as though your minutes or hours have been channeled into the appreciation of something with a lifespan, at least a half-life. You’ve lengthened the reign of Ozymandias.

Those decrying the end of the publishing industry — nay, the end of books! — keep telling us we’re moving towards print-on-demand. Barnes and Noble will consist of a coffee shop and a row of kiosks. Kind of like that row of Metrocard machines. And you’ll search in the kiosk for the book you desire, and it’ll print for you, right there in the bowels of the machine, and be ejected out the bottom — where the Metrocard receipt pops out. Right there. And that’s it. A book! Maybe instead of book signings, authors could digitally store their signatures, inside the machine, and you could pay an extra dollar to have the signature printed right inside the front cover of your made-fresh-just-the-way-you-like-it book!

Or maybe we will write funny things and publish them in book form and then read the funny things at events and sign the books and you’ll get a little bit of beer on your copy, but it will be the beer of gregarious pleasure, so you won’t mind. And then you will stumble, drunkenly, back into the subway holding your beer-loved copy of Dorothy Von Irony’s Journal of Literary Humor and Humorous Literature, and you will think of this post.