Josh Wilker

Great new episode on the MC5 by @andrewhickey.500songs.com
Very insightful, as always, and cumulatively laugh-out-loud funny the way handles keeping the episode clean. Kick out the jams [Mark Fidrych]

Bill Lee smiling as he tells a story

The great Bill Lee holding court after a screening of the excellent recent baseball flick Eephus. Got to say hello afterward, but even better was when Bill's longhaired grandson chased down my son and me as we were leaving to introduce himself and tell my longhaired son to "keep growing the hair"

Grateful for the toy that allows me to start every day with Skip Lockwood, Dock Ellis, Oscar Gamble, Luis Tiant, etc., etc.

Would be really helpful if some MAGA folks have finally entered their "Are we the baddies?" era but I'm not holding my breath

My preorderdered copy showed up this morning, and I can't wait to dive in, knowing that Kate's book is going to help me keep going and growing as a writer.

Photo of Luke Epplin book Our Team recommended by librarian at Evanston library

Sighting of the great book Our Team by @lukeepplin.bsky.social at the Evanston library

"Some Contemporary Characters" by Rick Moody was originally written in 180-character segments and serialized on EL's Twitter account from November 30th to December 2nd, 2009.

In honor of our Twitter exodus, we're reposting it here on Bluesky over the next few days. Pt. 1 of the story begins below👇

Page from The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book, featuring Mike de la Hoz and Bob Del Greco

For me, Immaculate Grid is always a little bit about the guy you can't quite remember. Today, for me, the name just beyond the border of thought was the first mentioned in this, one of the greatest sentences in American Literature: "If Mike de la Hoz is not Bob Del Greco, who, if anybody, is he?"

Last page of The Great American Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book

Immaculate Grid game with players featured in The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book

Today's amazing Immaculate Grid gave me a chance to pay tribute to that classic and hilarious work, The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book

Josh Wilker shooting a jump shot in Roger's Park

My happy place

Five writers who made me:
Jack Kerouac
J.D. Salinger
Denis Johnson
Frederick Exley
Bruce Jay Friedman

Many others and all the time, but those guys got in early and lit my way

Ha! Thank you. I see that book, maybe like all my books, as a little ode to the human and the flawed, the shit that truly belongs only to us, despite our entanglement in the eyeless oligarchic meatwheel

www.saverilawfirm.com/chatgpt-lang...

Screenshot showing results of a search of books by Josh Wilker used without permission by AI companies: Cardboard Gods, Benchwarmer, and The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training

Looks like AI companies stole my (and many others') work. Search authors here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

We participated in a "flood the White House with postcards" action on 3/15 and my sons showed appreciation for my writing for the first time (specifically the phrase "eat shit and die")

Immaculate Grid displaying most used players, including Gaylord Perry, Dwight Evans, Oscar Gamble, and Bobby Bonds

I was just looking at mine today. The top guys, besides Dewey, connect teams I don't know that deeply. No surprise that "expansion team hail mary" Edwin Jackson is in the mix.

My favorite genres are:
5. A sports guy doing a sport amid gnashing American cultural convulsions
4. A music guy doing a music amid [see above]
3. How to not be a dick (by meditating, therapy, as a dad, etc.)
2. How to write
1. Wow, look at that ridiculous hilarious visionary loser

A white woman in glasses and a blue and white striped shirt standing outside on a sunny day holding a book in front of her face. The book’s title is Write Through It: and insider’s guide to publishing and the creative life by Kate McKean.

The horrors persist. But I’m sharing good things where I can. I’ve got a book coming out in June & I’m really proud of it. I wrote it to help writers navigate the long, opaque, frustrating, joyful, wonderful road to publication. Pre-order now & get signed copies at @strandbookstore.bsky.social.

Headshot photo of Steve Balboni, a large, mustachioed man in a white Kansas City Royals uniform and blue cap from the mid-1980s.

Our newest SABR biography just posted: Steve Balboni, who owns four World Series rings and whose glorious mustache stands the test of time. sabr.org/bioproj/pers...

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

Just got fired from being a freshman football coach, if you want to know what MAGA does to communities.

They don’t care about what helps people, because the school is certainly not going to find an ex-NFL player willing to coach there at that level, they only care about trying to hurt people.

US flag hanging upside down in Yosemite National Park

Immaculate Grid from February 22 with Tiant, Seaver, Jenkins, Cone, Clemens, Waddell, Koufax, Pedro, Sutter

I tried to go all Red Sox but had to pull in some ringers (and afterward saw I could have hit my intended mark by adding Sparky Lyle, Cy Young, and Eck to the mix)

YouTube video by Jeff Skversky Former Vikings punter Chris Kluwe removed from City Council + Arrested after anti-MAGA rant!

Resnding: Folks should watch former NFL punter Chris Kluwe make it plain at the city council of fascist oasis Huntington Beach, CA. and then do civil disobedience. Chris is a real one. We need to replicate or send to our Reps and ask them, "Why aren't you doing this?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WZB...

‘Cybertruck Man’
a cartoon in defiance of Musk
#political #cartoonist #cybertruck #elon #musk #democracy #tiananmen

There's several ways of
saying what's on your mind.

And in states and counties
where it ain't too healthy to talk too loud, speak your mind, or even vote like you want to, folks have found other ways of getting
the word around.

One of the mainest ways is by singing.

-woody guthrie

Looks fantastic, Kate. Got my preorder in. Can't wait to read it!