Is it gauche to exclaim "sickos.jpg" about one's own podcast? That's kinda how I felt when @timothymoore.bsky.social came on to talk about Barthelme's 60 STORIES, dramatic-reading some faves and sketching out some big & possibly-surprising connections to other writers & trends:

Venturing a bit further afield this week: musing on speculative-adjacent ideas of irrealism, and mostly just enthusing about Barthelme's 60 STORIES with @timothymoore.bsky.social. A very fun conversation about a remarkable stylist, check it out: ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/10/20/a...

“Ugh! ugh! ugh!—ugh! ugh! ugh!—ugh! ugh! ugh!—ugh! ugh! ugh!—ugh! ugh! ugh!” - Edgar Allen Poe

Dude here trying real hard to make friends in this jury pool…gunning for jury foreman I’m sure. He must be stopped!

Whatchu want me to do about it??

For I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no weevil…eh? I don’t know.

Lesser of two weevils

The banality of weevil(s)

The biggest inaccuracy movies taught us is that villains are cool. Not talking about the moral aspects, just that they would look and act stylishly. Real world evil is so frequently dorky, schlubby and banal.