Climb aboard a clean, affordable public train and travel with Bob and Chris from the city to the shore. This week, it's all about short poems that take us places. Bob reads "Elegy For Soft Things" by Wendy Xu, Chris reads "If I Wanted A Boat" by Mary Oliver, and then the guys get wistful about—what else? The 1999 New York Knicks.

I'm getting at something I'm struggling to name

Dust off the beret and shave into your best scratching goatee, we're going to the art gallery! This week, Chris Interviews the painter Julian Williams, and talk about life working a 9-5 while trying to get your COVID lockdown habit into galleries. Also, Brendan and Chris talk about ways art informs itself across genres, and give a shoutout to art preservationists. 

Find more Julian Williams: https://www.jewilliamsart.com/
https://www.instagram.com/jewilliams_art/ 

Find more Lazy & Entitled: https://www.lazyandentitled.org/ 
https://bsky.app/profile/lazyandentitled.bsky.social

Mental Floss: 15 Behind-The-Scenes Secrets of Art Restorers by Jane Rose https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/80694/15-behind-scenes-secrets-art-restorers

3.5 - How Did You Find Painting With Julian Williams

This episode has us chatting with Bob Sykora about his new book, The Utopians Are In Love. He also joins us for Life From the Writer's Perspective, reads a poem, and provides our Worker of the Week. What can't he do?

The Utopians Are In Love is available now from Game Over Books.

4 - The Utopians Are In Bob Sykora

Spring is actually here, and we're all taking long walks. But you have to sit down eventually, and we did in front of microphones. Chris and Brendan discuss how getting outside helps creative practice, Chris interviews poet, small press publisher, reading series runner, and Chicagoan Ben Niespodziany, and then Chris and Brendan salute a man who saw the U.S.'s carpocalypse coming back in the 70s. 

ABOUT BEN
Originally from Mishawaka, Indiana, Benjamin Niespodziany is a Chicago-based poet, curator, editor, folklorist, and music marketing manager. A former Peace Corps Volunteer and Olive Garden waiter, his work has appeared in Indiana Review, Fence, Bandcamp, Conduit, Complex, Bennington Review, and elsewhere. He’s been included in the Wigleaf Top 50 and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best Microfiction, and Best of the Net. He hosts a bi-monthly reading series at The Whistler in Chicago and is the founder and editor of Pizama Press. When he doesn’t have poetry on the brain, he assists the music industry with creative campaigns and occasionally releases SoundCloud mixes.

LISTEN TO THE NEW SHIPWRECKED SAILOR RECORD
https://shipwreckedsailor.bandcamp.com/album/burgers-or-tacos-3

MORE L&E
https://www.lazyandentitled.org/



4.5 - Take Long Walks With Ben Niespodziany

Chris has completely lost control of Brendan and now has to appear as a guest on his own podcast. The fellas chat about the new Shipwrecked Sailor record "Burgers or Tacos?" and have a ton of fun reviewing ALLIGATOR.

Buy the album twenty times at shipwreckedsailor.bandcamp.com

Episode 5

This week, we're talking about protests. We're for them! Chris is joined by Dr. Han VanderHart, who, among other things, is in the midst of publishing a Summer Riot-themed issue of Moist Poetry Journal. Later, we salute the service workers who have to put up with irritating questions about gender-neutral bathrooms. 

Support your neighbors, support your communities, support each other. 

Don't forget about the first ever Lazy & Entitled Reading, happening this Monday, June 16, at Rivers & Roads Cafe in Rogers Park. Bob Sykora, Adrian Sobol, Sandra Marchetti, and Micah Mabey will be reading poems, as will Chris. Brendan is providing music. It's going to be a good night, we'd love to see you there. 

Han VanderHart is a queer writer living in Durham, NC. They are the author of Larks (OUP, 2025), winner of the 2024 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, the chapbook Hawk & Moon (Bottlecap Press, 2025), and What Pecan Light (Bull City Press, 2021), and have essays and poetry published in Poetry Daily, The Boston Globe, Kenyon Review, The American Poetry Review, Poetry Foundation, Poetry Northwest, Poet Lore, AGNI, and elsewhere. Han hosts Of Poetry Podcast and, alongside Amorak Huey, co-edits the poetry press River River Books.



Pride is a RIOT with Dr Han VanderHart

The Lazy & Entitled boys were both on the road this week, so this episode is a little different. Twin Peaks, Jordan Peele, poetry, and more in this one!

6-Long Distance Podcast

The Line Break is back! As the poet says, it's been a long time / shouldn't have left you. We didn't mean to, we just had readings to do. Now we're back, reading in your ears. Bob reads "Everything's a Fake" by Fanny Howe, Chris reads"Lupine Nocturne" by Elise Paschen, and then the dudes pine for a Jokic-Giannis Finals in 2026.

poetry against the infection

Today's episode features an old, dear friend, Spencer Blake, discussing the newest release from his project, Pinch Hitter. We chat about writing songs to a template, stealing, shrooms, and so much more! The album is titled "Songs From My Big Brain" and can be streamed everywhere, but you should buy it and help pay some bills.

7 - A Very Spencer Guest

Anything worth doing is better done with other people, to paraphrase Mariame Kaba. This week, we're talking a lot about the collaboration that goes into making art. Brendan and Chris tell some songwriting stories, and later shoutout readers at lit mags. In between, Chris sits down virtually with author Lincoln Michel to talk stealing time to write, reading contemporary novels, and secret focaccia.

Buy Metallic Realms here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Metallic-Realms/Lincoln-Michel/9781668058671

Check out Lincoln's blog: https://countercraft.substack.com/

The L&E website, including the Shipwrecked Sailor blog: https://www.lazyandentitled.org/

The blog Chris referenced about Spencer writing a song: https://www.lazyandentitled.org/?p=152151897

Shipwrecked Sailor music: https://shipwreckedsailor.bandcamp.com/

B & The Shipwrecked Sailor: https://bandtheshipwreckedsailor.bandcamp.com/album/weight-of-an-anchor

B & The Nothingness: https://bandthenothingness.bandcamp.com/

I'm getting at something I'm struggling to name

The Line Break Podcast