Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Just keep him in there," I say, like DeNiro about Billy Batts in Goodfellas, to my daughter about the daddy-long-legs in her bathroom she needs me to take care of. 000
Reposted by Mike Praskcaptain bleach @blainecapatch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026sad to see DETROITERS is leaving Netflix on October 15, watch it if you've never seen it and watch it again if you have 1221042
Reposted by Mike PraskJared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It is a good day when you can read a @mitchnobis.bsky.social poem. www.porcupineliterary.com/post/these-a...porcupineliterary.comThese Are the Dreams NowMitchell Nobis is a writer and K-12 public school teacher in Metro Detroit where he lives with his family and dog. He is the author of The Size of the Horizon, or, / Explained Everything to the Trees ... 296
Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Proposing a new traffic rule, where whoever's blasting "Cadillac Ranch" on their car stereo at the 4-Way Stop has the right of way. 110
Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Making: Fried Shrimp Po'Boys Drinking: Anti-Hero IPA Listening: Damn the Torpedoes 001
Reposted by Mike PraskMike Prask @mprask.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Keeping this going -- every time I drive by the Ba'hai Temple, I have to remind everyone to read "Orchids" by Stuart Dybek 021
Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social · 04/09/2026My dialect map looks exactly how you'd expect for someone who was born and raised near DC, has spent the next half of his life in Chicago, and staunchly insists on calling all soft drinks "coke". 010
Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I read Waterline by Aram Mrjoian back in June, and even if the rest of my summer hadn't involved the Great Lakes and Grief in some way, it still would have hit all the right buttons. Check it out, it's really good. 020
Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social · 19/08/2026"We were somewhere around Gary, past the edge of the city, when the carsickness began to take hold." 020
Reposted by Mike PraskCharter School Abolitionist 🇮🇷 @maniccage.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Anyone got tips on off-beat Chicago museums or other nerdy type attractions? Stuff like the surgery museum. I wanna check out the public housing museum, but looking to turn it into a multi-stop day tour. 385213
Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social · 18/08/2026A year to the day after my last published story. Pour one out for @publishedbyjake.bsky.social while you're at it. 021
Reposted by Mike PraskHistorical Marker Ahead @historicalmarker.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Southpaw in full vestments is escorted by a guy carrying a Pope Leo cutout 337986
Reposted by Mike PraskJuan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 11/08/2026Chicago’s Colombian consulate just posted the following info for anyone wanting to donate—this link takes you directly to Colombia’s Red Cross, who are leading the aid & rescue efforts following the earthquake: www.cruzrojacolombiana.org/dona-dinero/cruzrojacolombiana.org 164
Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Music From Big Pink The Band Stage Fright I feel like people aren't reading the prompt carefully enough 000
Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Repeating open.spotify.com/track/3HFBqh...open.spotify.comChangeBig Thief · Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You · Song · 2022 000
Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social · 02/08/2026"Think back on the good times together," I tell my son, as he asks what he's supposed to do with his prized Skubal Tigers jersey. 010
Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I recommend the hell out of this book. A wonderful example of going on a ride with the author as they realize their original story has turned into Something Else deeper and more compelling. Also, it gives the All-American Breakfast the in-print tribute it so richly deserves. 100
Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social · 19/07/2026This is a shame. I'm assuming Dali designed one for each of the preceding Bond films, but when they don't use it on the voodoo-themed one, that's just a bummer. 010
Reposted by Mike PraskThe Hounds of Basquiatball @basquiatball.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Sources tell me that LeBron is leaning towards signing with Accenture 1102
Reposted by Mike Praskdillo saint dillo @dillo.media · 18/07/2026lost my shit when he said this 131572278
Reposted by Mike PraskMisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 16/07/2026"I Am Trying to Break Your Lungs" 07418
Reposted by Mike PraskRon Cassie @humanpoweredcity.bsky.social · 10/07/2026It's the middle of baseball season so I did some important and very serious research into the Baltimore origin story of yelling "O" during the National Anthem...baltimoremagazine.comHow Yelling “O!” During the National Anthem Became a Statement of Baltimore PrideUnsurprisingly, the hometown tradition started during the Orioles’ rowdy, it’s-not-over-until-it’s-over summer of 1979. 45120
Reposted by Mike PraskDaniel A. Hoyt @danhoyt.bsky.social · 09/07/2026It's not too early to get the 14th Annual Rock and Roll Reading, an AWP off-site, on your calendar: March 17 — St. Patrick's Day! — in Wrigleyville @gmantavern.com. Readings to start at 6. The room holds about 100—we will fill it! Be there or be a parallelogram with four equal sides. #AWP27 #AWP 0122
Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Keeping this going -- every time I drive by the Ba'hai Temple, I have to remind everyone to read "Orchids" by Stuart Dybek 021
Reposted by Mike PraskThe Onion @theonion.com · 04/07/2026Nation Turns 250 Despite Presence Of Irish theonion.com/nation-turns-250-despi… 674346603
Reposted by Mike Praskdan sinker @dansinker.com · 02/07/2026Honestly, everyone in America should experience America like World Cup fans have. Go to places you haven't been, eat the local food, have a blast. This country is huge and most people barely ever see any of it. 619238
Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social · 25/06/2026"I thought you were supposed to be AI," my daughter heckles her iPad, when it refuses to tell her it's warm enough to go swimming today. 010
Reposted by Mike Praskthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 23/06/2026from my own perspective this is one of the greatest harms done by this government and plotting a course to reverse this damage is must be a very priority in our speech and our activism 543115801
Reposted by Mike PraskCertified Illinois Expert @mrillinois.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Evening at the gorgeous St. Mary of the lake in Chicago 0659
Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Honoring the day the only way I know: driving my kids around and making them listen to The River in its entirety. 000
Reposted by Mike PraskThe Onion @theonion.com · 15/06/2026Study: Majority Of Middle-Aged Men Lack Support Network They’ll Need To Handle Neil Young’s Death theonion.com/study-majority-of-midd… 582136326
Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Same kid, different ailment. Different hospital, no UNO game. Create the UNO game you want to see in the world and read this old piece from @rejectionlit.bsky.social about our medically fragile kids. rejection-letters.com/2023/04/05/i...rejection-letters.comI Didn’t Hear Your Mom Call “UNO” (Mike Prask)There’s a whole family around the big table in this hospital’s lounge area. They have an UNO game going, and I’m out-and-out spying on the proceedings. They’re funny, the only people here who stay … 010
Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Five bucks for Lee Klein's "Thanks and Sorry and Good Luck" may be the best investment you can make in improving your own writing (and it's entertaining as hell). Get on it! 142
Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social · 07/06/2026We run a far-from-perfect household, but -- for our 19-yr-old who may have been overserved at a family party -- we provide an environment that is nothing if not Hangover Sensitive (meaning I brought her a Gatorade and a cup of ice before she was fully awake). 010
Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social · 01/06/2026I'm choosing to mis-read that author name as "Elmore Leonard" and spending the rest of the week chasing down a copy 020
Reposted by Mike PraskBen Rock @benrock.com · 31/05/2026The most amazing thing you’ll see today I guarantee is this frame-by-frame animated remake of “Sabotage”. youtu.be/lgXSDPmOWCE?...youtu.beStop Motion Sabotage - A Stop Motion Recreation of Beastie Boys "Sabotage" videoYouTube video by Corduroy Frames 5287106
Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Nice to see @greatplacebooks.bsky.social get a little representation in the latest alumni newsletter from my HS. Will keep an eye out for Devin at the next reunion... 020
Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Introduce yourself with 10 bands / artists you've seen live Guns n' Roses Beastie Boys Tom Petty Springsteen Bob Dylan Elvis Costello Wilco Los Lobos Drive-by Truckers / Isbell My Morning Jacket 241
Reposted by Mike PraskSteve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Hi friends: I'm excited to offer an online course for Larksong Writers Place on Saturdays this June. These intimate gatherings are capped at 12. Our work will be to write, share, and reclaim our writing practices. Hope to see you there! larksongwritersplace.org/Classes/Onli... 044
Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social · 13/05/2026RIP to the man who co-owned the bar where I met my wife, and who then pretended he had the power to marry us while we all stood inside a fake boat in the courtyard of said bar, when we returned the night of our rehearsal dinner. 020
Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Happy 9th Anniversary to me keeping the bones in my right hand intact by opting not to stretch all the way out and barehand this bomb of a home run from Kyle Schwarber 030
Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Muppet Show Taxi Cheers NBC-era Letterman The Simpsons Sports Night Arrested Development 30 Rock Terriers Mad Men Breaking Bad Top Chef Drunk History Reservation Dogs Andor 061
Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social · 01/05/2026If this doesn't lead to a "Last Night at the Lobster" prequel, then I don't know what we're doing here 010