Mike Prask

If you can't make this, go read more Dan Hornsby. Not enough people talk about Via Negativa, if you ask me.

Heartened by the good crowds at the early voting site on a beautiful Chicago Saturday. Disheartened, as always, that the campaign ads have not disappeared from my TV because I, personally, have now voted.

Baseball poetry doesn't have to stop when the Series is over, but it won't feel the same. Read some now...

Me: Zoo's haunted My kids: What? Me: *grabs my zookeeper net and throws it in the back of our minivan* Zoo's haunted

I've been gone for 30 years, but no one in Maryland likes Virginia, even a little. It was basically our South Suburbs.

Our 13-yr-old will be in his school production of Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars in a couple weeks and needs to work on his British accent, so we're letting our copy of Attack the Block be his dialect coach.

Really interesting profile. Very excited for Lowdown Season 2 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/m...

you literally never need to tell me why you're canceling a meeting or asking for a meeting to be canceled. Yes, we can do that, and I am sorry and/or happy for you about whatever happened

It's wild to me that the Orioles looked at what happened this year, kept the GM and manager in place, and fired the mascot. www.nytimes.com/athletic/766...

Just passed the most meaningful cognitive test possible: still knowing all the words to Paul's Boutique 35 years later.

"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.

sad to see DETROITERS is leaving Netflix on October 15, watch it if you've never seen it and watch it again if you have

Proposing a new traffic rule, where whoever's blasting "Cadillac Ranch" on their car stereo at the 4-Way Stop has the right of way.

Making: Fried Shrimp Po'Boys Drinking: Anti-Hero IPA Listening: Damn the Torpedoes

Ode to Parenting a 13-year-old Boy

Keeping this going -- every time I drive by the Ba'hai Temple, I have to remind everyone to read "Orchids" by Stuart Dybek

My 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".

I 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.

Great Laking it for the next few days

"We were somewhere around Gary, past the edge of the city, when the carsickness began to take hold."

A year to the day after my last published story. Pour one out for @publishedbyjake.bsky.social while you're at it.

Southpaw in full vestments is escorted by a guy carrying a Pope Leo cutout

Chicago’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/

Music From Big Pink The Band Stage Fright I feel like people aren't reading the prompt carefully enough

Repeating open.spotify.com/track/3HFBqh...

"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.

Defending my title: Saddest Boy in the PICU

I 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.

This 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.

Sources tell me that LeBron is leaning towards signing with Accenture

"I Am Trying to Break Your Lungs"

This Messi guy might be pretty good

It'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...

It'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

Keeping this going -- every time I drive by the Ba'hai Temple, I have to remind everyone to read "Orchids" by Stuart Dybek

Nation Turns 250 Despite Presence Of Irish https://theonion.com/nation-turns-250-despite-presence-of-irish/

Honestly, 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.

"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.

Evening at the gorgeous St. Mary of the lake in Chicago

Honoring the day the only way I know: driving my kids around and making them listen to The River in its entirety.

Study: Majority Of Middle-Aged Men Lack Support Network They’ll Need To Handle Neil Young’s Death https://theonion.com/study-majority-of-middle-aged-men-lack-support-network-theyll-need-to-handle-neil-youngs-death/