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Mike Prask
@mprask.bsky.social
Writing in @havehadhavehad @rejectionLit @WestBranchMag @fivesouth and @cottonxenomorph

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Won't rest till Side 2 of The Wild, the Innocent, and the E St Shuffle is our national anthem.
Definitely worth a read on its own, regardless of your project
October 17, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Go Green!
October 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Following as both a neighbor and a writer...
October 16, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Love this album. Hooked after seeing them do "Blame Etc" on 120 Minutes.
October 15, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Love Maxwell (So Long, See You Tomorrow; They Came Like Swallows). Need to dig into his short stories...
October 2, 2025 at 3:15 AM
I read Cannery Row and Tortilla Flat a few years ago, back-to-back, after not having read him since high school and Grapes of Wrath? Absolutely loved them both, for all the reasons you said above.
October 2, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Keeping this going for the same reasons - never read this by Nick Farriella but can always get behind some food-and-grief writing

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Some Food for Funerals by Nick Farriella
The night before your cousin’s funeral you should eat fried chicken; it comes in striped paper buckets covered by sheets of tin foil with tiny holes poked through the center and rubber bands around th...
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September 25, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Haven't had to resort to that but will file it away. We're usually home and standing on the porch looking annoyed gets the same effect.
September 25, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Same situation, support your thesis.

Flip side: very few things are as potentially entertaining as walking our kids down and watching everything you described from a safe distance
September 24, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Is the baseball equivalent of this calling the shallow pop-up between 2nd and RF (or SS and LF)? Or just hitting the cutoff man?
September 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
One more here for writers' hockeysky (Caps and Ovi chapter)!
September 22, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Also, there wasn’t someone walking by who could take the picture and let Lyle Lovett be in it?
September 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM