“you thought a grocery bag needed *handles*??” - Giant
@thecorlew
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 https://www.lazyandentitled.org/?page_id=41
“you thought a grocery bag needed *handles*??” - Giant
the paper bags at Giant: for when you want to contemplate whether bags are helpful at all
this has been a dream of @lazyandentitled.bsky.social for a long time!
oh you and me BOTH
what helps writing more, poetry or contacts
thank you! So I probably don’t need to ask my neighbor to check on my apartment?
“the fuck is happening with Chicago weather rn,” he wondered from Baltimore
a book cover, black with a bloody knife slashing through the title, BEHIND WITH KNIFE by Chris Corlew and Brendan Johnson, a slasher selection from lazy & entitled
a book cover, red with a Chicago-starred chef’s knife down the middle , reading BEHIND WITH KNIFE by Chris Corlew and Brendan Johnson
anyway read BEHIND WITH KNIFE
(initial cover by @bnothing.bsky.social , variant by @yoadrianididit.bsky.social )
there is a type of chef who is incredibly dedicated, talented, hardworking, and innovative…
…and has completely lost the plot of what food is, is totally servile to Empire, and is a prisoner without knowing that they’re a prisoner
remember that THE MENU is partially inspired by this guy, and THE MENU had a perfect ending
“I’m sorry about this but I’m not sorry about this. I’m already lighting the candles. I’m drawing a circle in the dirt with salt. I’m taking off my shoes. I’m already feeing the dirt beneath my feet dance.”
- Melissa Lozada-Oliva, ‘Dreaming Of You’
*strums E minor 7*
any time you feel the r&b desire rising within you, picture me as both angel and devil on yr shoulder, telling you to lean in more
calling israel a white settler colonial project isn't antisemitic
calling israel a genocidal apartheid state isn't antisemitic
calling for palestine to be free from the river to the sea isn't antisemitic
saying that israel 'owns' america or that america is a 'zionist occupied government is.'
💜💜💜LOVE beestung!
that reading was packed! great first night tho
oh man that would rip
a book, The World We Make by NK Jemisin, on a shelf
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aight I gotta get outta bed and be a poet
Death to America
the United States of America would cease to exist and we’d be so much better off
neeeeeeed the corporate death penalty
yeah you just sat back and let the people put themselves in harm’s way until her and Bovino got the ax
maybe fight harder, ordinary people are always stepping up. What’s your salary for?
only so much time! I’ll be around the book fair tomorrow, lessening the amount of inventory you have to take home
you know he’d love to pass some of those
WHY is this at the same time as a reading I’ve already committed to nooooooo
1) high-fructose corn syrup is not useful, it's a profit-driven substance that has wrecked our bodies (asymmetrically)
2) humans are not "question machines", or indeed machines
3) genAI is not an "answer machine", it's a Magic 8-ball frequency algorithm
Framing matters. Language matters.
damn Walt Whitman wrote about me 🥲
eh, stock images, you know? Although when I make burgers at home, I am a lettuce and condiment on under the meat guy, then onions directly on patty, cheese over that, pickles over that
"BOTH parties are trash" malcontents stay vindicated for all time