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July 8, 2019 |

Dispatches from the Treehouse: Pride Nights

Joseph Horton

In a long baseball season, there’s always the question of whether any one game matters

Dispatches from the Treehouse: Pride Nights photo
Whiskey for my Men, Beer for my Hoopleheads: pt. 4 photo

July 7, 2019 |

Whiskey for my Men, Beer for my Hoopleheads: pt. 4

Kevin Mahler

Read Kevin Mahler's Introduction to his ongoing 5-part "Portrait Series Paralleling Characters in HBO’s Deadwood with Contemporaneous Pop Country Musicians," and check out previous parts 1 and 2 and 3

My First VHS: Rain Man photo

July 6, 2019 |

My First VHS: Rain Man

James Tate Hill

Tom Cruise is one of life’s winners. He felt the need, the need for speed, and singlehandedly saved America from those Soviet planes, or something—honestly you never understood what was going on in the second half of Top Gun. In A Few Good Men, Jack Nicholson told Tom Cruise he couldn’t handle the truth, but Jack Nicholson was quite wrong.

The Bottom of the Order: Dooley Womack photo

July 5, 2019 |

The Bottom of the Order: Dooley Womack

Andrew Forbes

Horace Guy Womack was in the employ of four different Major League teams across five seasons, a serviceable bullpen righty who lost as many games as he won, but managed to keep his lifetime ERA a