The interview transcript: Orin on the Moms, on JOI's "monstrous practical joke"

texture · Nov YDAU

• When: November YDAU (the taped interview series, n234)
• What: In the transcript-fragments Orin refuses to explain "why I don't talk to the Moms anymore" or discuss "The Mad Stork's adventures in the mental-health community," yet maunders at length on Avril's functional Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder ("Traversion is character, according to Schtitt"), on Bain's crippling O.C.D., and on the Weston mold incident (event 2) as a specimen of the Moms's "emotional weather." Two cryptic verdicts recur: that he "never once saw the two of them fight" in eighteen years, and that "The late Stork was the victim of the most monstrous practical joke ever played." Threaded throughout: his escalating, self-aware flirtation with Steeply. Rich mother-son-lattice material.