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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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Frankenstein Cinematic Universe
what I assume is the cover for a DVD boxed set of BAD MOMS films, with Mila Kunis, Kathryn Hahn, and Kristen Bell flipping off the camera
November 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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might be at this one, depending on a few things. But West Ridge/Rogers Park/Edgewater/Lincolnwood/Skokie/Bowmanville homies
flyer for an anti-ICE protest at Target on Peterson, Sunday, November 16th 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. warn shoppers at Peterson Target 2112 W Peterson Ave
November 15, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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a perfect record
screenshot of Cloakroom’s Dissolution Wave playing on Apple Music
November 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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I believe we've been changed and I don't think the fascists are going to ultimately like what they've done
I’m not telling you that story to brag. I’m telling you that story because when the kid and I got home, I told Mallory, “I think something about me has changed.” Back in September? I’m not sure I would’ve have helped that man. I would’ve buried my head in my phone. I certainly wasn’t hanging out with half the parents I was hanging out with—one of whom has also begun organizing as a result of ICE invading Chicago. This occupation has changed us, the people of Chicago. We’ve lost thousands of our neighbors, yes. But something’s awakened in the people, too. I don’t think the fascists are going to like what they’ve made us.
November 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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you don't always know if you actually did anything, but sometimes you can guess
There are times when we disrupt those jagoffs, though. Send them away empty-handed. We know they’re empty-handed, because they’re flipping us off from their windows. After someone was taken from Target a few weeks ago, I was on the scene and spoke with an organizer named Javier7. He added me to a Signal group, the most active one I’ve joined so far. That night, he sent a long message of encouragement to everyone, saying “I know we messed them up, I saw them driving out of the parking garage looking mad, they wanted to spend all day here and we chased them off.” He ended his missive by saying we’ll be out there again tomorrow. If I had to guess Javier’s age, it’d be somewhere between 45 and 70. When a Latino man in that age range is saying “back at it tomorrow,” you push your work around and get back at it tomorrow. The other prevention happened a few days later, when a call came through that Signal group. ICE circling some landscapers at an elementary school, during recess hours. Within minutes, at least two people were on every corner. Most stayed for a few hours. There were so many people, in fact, that I went to check other areas. That’s the time that someone said ICE drove back by, flipping patrollers off in frustration. NOW! Are those landscapers still in Chicago? Have other preventative actions that I have witnessed firsthand but won’t write about kept those people safe long-term? I don’t know. I’m not set up to hide the Frank family in my apartment, I’m not part of those organizing circles. Still, preventing any abduction is good, even if you don’t always (or ever, really) get that Hollywoodesque rush of “I saved someone today.” Real work, it turns out, is less definitive than Spider-Man makes it look.
November 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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important to keep the focus where it should be
text from blog: It’s Exhausting, But Nothing Compares To What The Victims Are Going Through The ICE facility at Broadview is a torture facility. There’s no other way to put it, “concentration camp” might be too nice. The water tastes like sewer, there isn’t enough bedding, there’s one bathroom and the lines last all day but they beat you if you wet yourself. That’s just at the facility. Separating families is also torture. Killing a man in his car after he dropped his kids off at school is torture. Dragging a daycare teacher out of her daycare, right after most of the kids have been dropped off, is torturing a lot of people at once. What’s happening to Kilmar Abrego Garcia is basically Franz Kafka’s The Trial. There is no higher decency to appeal to, here. Stephen Miller and Greg Bovino and the slobbering, Kool-Aid-stained, out-of-shape, divorced losers that make up ICE’s ground troops simply believe that people with brown skin should suffer as a matter of course. They are bad, evil people, and we live in the same country as them.
November 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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there’s an action I can’t make today but you should: support @catsharp.bsky.social , @katmabu.bsky.social , and the Broadview Six by showing up to Federal Plaza at 12:30. They’re wearing green to support Cat!
a white man in a green shirt with crabs on it and purple Clark Devon Hardware beanie
November 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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spring seasonal item
covers for Goosebumps book HOW I GOT MY SHRUNKEN HEAD
October 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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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
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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
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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
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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
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the only king
screenshot of Wavves’ King Of The Beach playing on Apple Music
October 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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The Fly (1986)
Mark Zuckerberg wearing an oversize shirt and his stupid pervert glasses
October 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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