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thecorlew.bsky.social
the corlew always rings chris
@thecorlew.bsky.social
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writer | musician | co-host, The Line Break podcast | fiction reader, Cotton Xenomorph | 1/2 Lazy & Entitled | basketball junkie | Chicago Over Everything | exhausted dad | he/him

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children’s birthday party at ClimbZone today
Tim Robinson in I Think You Should Leave on a zip line
November 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
thecorlew.bsky.social
all my heroes are groovy
an old magazine ad for a young Mark Hamill, long-haired and 70s fashion, saying MEET MARK his name is mark hamill and you asked to know more about him after his dynamite appearance on Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law.” Now, for the first time, here are some facts on groovy Mark!
November 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
thecorlew.bsky.social
here’s a flyer
flyer for ICE OUT OF OUR SCHOOLS Wednesday November 5th 6:30 pm join us to protect our schools and communities from ICE attacks. Our educators and children deserve to be safe!
November 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM
thecorlew.bsky.social
Chicago Man is here to yell at ICE and eat all yr ribs tips
a mustachioed man in a white Sox hat, Chicago flag shirt, boomer dad leather jacket over thick hoodie, anti-ICE whistle, and holding a can of adult beverage stands next to a railroad
October 31, 2025 at 10:19 PM
thecorlew.bsky.social
I am forever waiting for an Old God to possess Patsy the alligator snapping turtle at the Peggy Noebart Nature Museum. Patsy will awaken and remake the world

#ChicagoCryptids
Patsy the alligator snapping turtle in her tank, mouth open underwater like some ancient monster Patsy the alligator snapping turtle in her tank, looking out the walls and plotting
October 31, 2025 at 12:14 PM
thecorlew.bsky.social
spring seasonal item
covers for Goosebumps book HOW I GOT MY SHRUNKEN HEAD
October 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
thecorlew.bsky.social
not trying to put anyone on blast but you cannot respond like this, you just cannot

if you are scared of a confrontation with ICE, then find something else to do. If you don’t have extra money to throw around, then find something else to do
quote post from me saying if you’re scared about confronting ICE you can pay extra at street vendor carts, responded too by someone saying “great I can barely afford groceries as is”
October 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
thecorlew.bsky.social
just listened to Brown Sugar, what should we do now, oh I know
screenshot of Lauryn Hill’s The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill playing on Apple Music
October 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
thecorlew.bsky.social
so if you haven’t been reading BEHIND WITH KNIFE

it’s such a hit that we got a variant cover

the great @yoadrianididit.bsky.social designed this and it rules

who needs UK publishers when you got homies

chapter one right here www.lazyandentitled.org?p=162657621
a book cover, gradient red like diluted blood, with a chef’s knife slicing through the title BEHIND WITH KNIFE by Chris Corlew & Brendan Johnson. The knife has Chicago-style six-pointed stars on the handle
October 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
thecorlew.bsky.social
I don’t like to do this but for your blocking needs
post from user @dianh5.bsky.social saying “it’s NOT a genocide! It’s a war! Israel gives evacuation warnings. Hamas does everything possible to stop possible from evacuating” and me replying “oh you can shut the fuck up with that shit get the fuck outta my mentions with genocide denial”
October 20, 2025 at 10:10 PM
thecorlew.bsky.social
the only king
screenshot of Wavves’ King Of The Beach playing on Apple Music
October 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
thecorlew.bsky.social
The Fly (1986)
Mark Zuckerberg wearing an oversize shirt and his stupid pervert glasses
October 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
thecorlew.bsky.social
it me
The Fish by Lydia Davis She stands over a fish, thinking about certain irrevocable mistakes she has made today. Now the fish has been cooked, and she is alone with it. The fish is for her—there is no one else in the house. But she has had a troubling day. How can she eat this fish, cooling on a slab of marble? And yet the fish, too, motionless as it is, and dismantled from its bones, and fleeced of its silver skin, has never been so completely alone as it is now: violated in a final manner and regarded with a weary eyes by this woman who has made the latest mistake of her day and done this to it.
October 13, 2025 at 11:28 PM
thecorlew.bsky.social
reminder that the cover is sick as hell, Brendan designed it
a black book cover with a bloody knife slashing through the center of the title BEHIND WITH KNIFE Chris Corlew and Brendan Johnson a slasher selection Lazy & Entitled
October 11, 2025 at 12:54 AM
thecorlew.bsky.social
hey if you want to take public transit you can get off at the Loyola red line stop

or you can take the 22, 36, 147, 151, or 155 busses

whatever you do we wanna see you tonight
a flyer reading Lazy & Entitled Presents Scary Stories To Tell In Rogers Park October 8th 7 PM celebrating new books from Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. Lauren Bolger additional readings by Chris Corlew and Brendan Johnson Rivers & Roads Cafe espresso bar and snacks available 1259 W Devon Ave
October 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
thecorlew.bsky.social
in an attempt to not have bags under my eyes at the reading I slept all the way to 6:23

come see a “rested” me, @bnothing.bsky.social @renbolger.bsky.social & @tvayyyy.bsky.social at Rivers & Roads on Devon tonight!
a flyer reading Lazy & Entitled presents scary stories to tell in rogers park 9ctober 8th 7 pm celebrating new books from Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. and Lauren Bolger additional readings and music by Chris Corlew & Brendan Johnson Rivers & Roads Cafe espresso bar & snacks available 1259 w Devon Ave
October 8, 2025 at 11:31 AM
thecorlew.bsky.social
reminder for the reading tomorrow!

Chicago come get scared!
a flyer reading Lazy & Entitled Presents Scary Stories To Tell In Rogers Park October 8th 7 PM celebrating new books from Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. Lauren Bolger additional readings by Chris Corlew and Brendan Johnson Rivers & Roads Cafe espresso bar and snacks available 1259 W Devon Ave
October 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
thecorlew.bsky.social
blessed art thou amongst fish, O ye salmon
a grilled salmon fillet that has grill marks looking like the cross
October 6, 2025 at 10:53 PM
thecorlew.bsky.social
REMINDER FOR THE MORNING CROWD

ON WEDNESDAY @lazyandentitled.bsky.social HAS A READING

COME TO ROGERS PARK
flyer for a reading saying Lazy & Entitled presents Scary Stories To Tell In Rogers Park October 8th 7 PM celebrating new books from Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. and Lauren Bolger additional readings and music by Chris Corlew & Brendan Johnson Rivers & Roads Cafe espresso bar and snacks available 1259 W Devon Ave
October 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
thecorlew.bsky.social
this is gonna be such a good reading man y'all I cannot WAIT

@bnothing.bsky.social
@renbolger.bsky.social
@tvayyyy.bsky.social

scary as hell! new books from two incredible authors!
flyer for a reading saying Lazy & Entitled presents Scary Stories To Tell In Rogers Park October 8th 7 PM celebrating new books from Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. and Lauren Bolger additional readings and music by Chris Corlew & Brendan Johnson Rivers & Roads Cafe espresso bar and snacks available 1259 W Devon Ave
October 2, 2025 at 11:19 PM
thecorlew.bsky.social
RIP Jane Goodall, you were cool as hell for lots of things, but especially for liking this
that The Far Side comic with two gorillas in a tree, one grooming the other, saying "Well, well—another blonde hair...Conducting a little more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp?"
October 1, 2025 at 6:41 PM
thecorlew.bsky.social
for #smallpoemsunday, here’s Isaac Pickell @isaacpickell.bsky.social
poem, “THINGS YOU OUGHT TO TAKE SITTING DOWN” they tell us to just hang / in there and even // though we’re all born / with a handle we are not // all born with a string.
September 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
thecorlew.bsky.social
one more Sandy Marchetti for #smallpoemsunday
poem, “Dreams Only” The lake a lilac cube. Lilacs suffer the air bare in the noon heat. I smell their rum and sneeze in the sun, run from the pollen drowsing at their square pits, the split of a fist. Each one, four. No more petals on the face, one mirrored length
September 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
thecorlew.bsky.social
for #SmallPoemSunday, here’s @sandrapoetry.bsky.social
poem, “Married Pairs” epigraph “…I mount the…tunnel sunken night in search of you.” - Li-Young Lee poem reads The last time, snow / fell from under the El / tracks like glitter, / like sugar, like fire, / or the rain. // I raised my / hands parallel to the side- / walk, to the tracks, and when / the flakes came, I knew I could / do nothing to hold you. poem, “Sunset” I turn to park my car somewhere / you would have found it, prop // my feet on the dash and listen / for the white throated songbird, // flexing its own chords. Like a cyclist / who clips beneath a branch at speed // or the softball field that’s been seeded, / the diamond still a lighter green, // I’ve sunk back, not expecting to be seen. / In your traveling century, // it’s impossible id still be / here, roaming like the ghost of me, // me at 13, then 23. I listen for you / in the lot, but can no longer see.
September 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
thecorlew.bsky.social
in case you’re wondering if I follow my own directives, here’s my current situation, plus a great poem from my friend @sandrapoetry.bsky.social
the book Aisle 228 by Sandra Marchetti, atop my weighted blanket-covered legs poem, “Maddux Listens To The Game On Tape” by Sandra Marchetti: He recalls the mound / behind his eyes, // neck tilted slightly / and mouth ajar. // He floats back to hear / what caught the black, // for the scene between / himself and the catcher: // a shiver of light / his arm shuffles through. // When Uncle Mo spins, / the sigh of a career // near done, he with Wrigley, / the crowd a choir // on the tape catching, / spooling, and righting / itself again.
September 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM