Rookie of the Year The Half-Baked Book Review: 1Q84 By Matt Marrone • April 12th, 2019 Matt Marrone had a brilliant idea for a series: Reviews of half-read books. Written for parents of small children.
Rookie of the Year Cosmic Dancer By Matt Marrone • March 14th, 2019 Is a 115-minute movie worth watching only for a single scene? Yes.
Rookie of the Year Falling Hard for the Bent-Neck Lady By Matt Marrone • February 12th, 2019 Matt Marrone may not be scared of the Bent-Neck Lady, but her iconic scene proves so horrifying it’s poetic.
Rookie of the Year 2018 and Everything After By Matt Marrone • December 28th, 2018 Matt Marrone’s picks his favorite album of 2018 and celebrates 25 years of friendship.
Rookie of the Year Let’s Go Paisley By Matt Marrone • November 27th, 2018 Not everything about Paisley Park is weird.
Rookie of the Year I’ve Joined the Blue Rose Task Force By Matt Marrone • November 7th, 2018 Matt Marrone has a Twin Peaks-related announcement to make.
Rookie of the Year The Running Matt By Matt Marrone • September 25th, 2018 Matt Marrone muses where he’d escape to if faced with the dilemma of Stephen King’s The Running Man.
Rookie of the Year Cheap Wine By Matt Marrone • September 14th, 2018 A hootenanny revival becomes a gothic short story after a song about booze and memories best forgotten.
Rookie of the Year Snake Vs. Writer’s Block By Matt Marrone • August 22nd, 2018 Some people have real addictions. Some succumb to them. I’m terrified of developing a real addiction because I can’t shake Snake Vs. Block.
Rookie of the Year Finding the Holy Grail. Again. By Matt Marrone • July 6th, 2018 The folk rock band The Innocence Mission has faded into obscurity, but its small, cult-like following continues to do some crazy things in the name of fandom. Or maybe it’s just me.
Rookie of the Year A Time To Kill By Matt Marrone • June 9th, 2018 Where does Dexter Morgan find the time?
Rookie of the Year Four Days With First Aid Kit By Matt Marrone • April 26th, 2018 Through analytics, Matt Marrone discovers a favorite album he didn’t realize he had.
Rookie of the Year Halt and Catch Death By Matt Marrone • March 29th, 2018 I used to believe I was immune to regret. I wore it like a tacky t-shirt. Now I know I have a virtually endless string of regret. Not bad choices, necessarily. Just so much taken for granted.
Rookie of the Year I Fought the PAW and the PAW Won By Matt Marrone • February 5th, 2018 With Twin Peaks over, Matt Marrone turns his obsessive TV watching mind to…PAW Patrol?
Rookie of the Year Music Loves, Too By Matt Marrone • December 29th, 2017 You’d think for Twin Peaks super fan Matt Marrone, the soundtrack to the third season would be a shoo-in for his favorite album of the year, but that isn’t the case.
Rookie of the Year The Last Word on When to Quit By Matt Marrone • December 4th, 2017 Matt Marrone finds a faint glimmer of hope for Agent Cooper and Laura Palmer in the final Twin Peaks novel by Mark Frost.
Rookie of the Year The ‘Oh!’ Sound That Means Yes By Matt Marrone • October 25th, 2017 You wave goodbye and it’s early and it hurts and you’re working from home today.
Rookie of the Year It’s 2017, Coop By Matt Marrone • October 9th, 2017 Matt attempts to piece together his brain after the finale of Twin Peaks blew it apart.
Rookie of the Year Folk Yea, Twitter! By Matt Marrone • September 6th, 2017 The Rookie of the Year has the time of his life pestering performers at the Newport Folk Festival on Twitter.
Rookie of the Year The Bob Bang Theory By Matt Marrone • August 11th, 2017 This is the water. And this is the well. Drink full and descend. The horse is the white of the eyes and dark within.
Rookie of the Year Nintendo Switch FAQ By Matt Marrone • July 12th, 2017 Q. Should I buy a Nintendo Switch? A. Reply hazy, try again.
Rookie of the Year Stand Clear of the Closing Doors, Please By Matt Marrone • June 5th, 2017 The Rookie of the Year’s subway entrance was shuttered in 2015. It just reopened last month. Hooray?
Rookie of the Year Deliver the Message By Matt Marrone • May 17th, 2017 In another timeline, Twin Peaks wasn’t cancelled and The X-Files was it’s spin-off. The connections are there if you look for them.
Rookie of the Year Phil Connors Sees His Shadow By Matt Marrone • May 5th, 2017 Matt goes to see the very first performance of Groundhog Day the Musical, which is a thing that exists. Hijinx ensue.
Rookie of the Year Hack to the Future By Matt Marrone • April 11th, 2017 There are secrets to be unearthed in Back to the Future, Part II.
Rookie of the Year Shit Show By Matt Marrone • March 31st, 2017 What the opening segment of S-Town, the podcast everyone loves this week, should have told us.
Rookie of the Year Whichworld? By Matt Marrone • February 4th, 2017 Which robot-populated historical simulation theme park would you visit?
Rookie of the Year The Song Doesn’t Remain the Same By Matt Marrone • December 27th, 2016 “That long November 8 night has already had a notable aesthetic effect: the way we hear the music of 2016 has changed, perhaps forever.”
Rookie of the Year The 1-Year-Old’s Guide to Gaming By Matt Marrone • November 24th, 2016 “As we track his progress from infancy into full-blown toddlerhood, we’ve seen him come up with some pretty awesome [game] titles.”
Rookie of the Year If You Want to View Paradise By Matt Marrone • October 10th, 2016 “In high school, I wrote a musical.” Matt Marrone recalls a glorious time and pays tribute to Gene Wilder.
Rookie of the Year The Message, Received By Matt Marrone • December 18th, 2015 Matt Marrone recounts his history with fiction podcasts, starting with Welles’ 1938 War of the Worlds and ending with the 2015 The Message.
Rookie of the Year Rookie of the Year: The Scariest, Saddest Song of 2016 By Matt Marrone • November 5th, 2015 “What happens when you can’t even remember those favorite things that make you not feel so bad?” Matt Marrone on the horror of Daughter’s first track of 2016.
Rookie of the Year Rookie of the Year: I am Google Cardboard By Matt Marrone • October 22nd, 2015 “I am Google Cardboard. I come to this realization slowly.” Matt Marrone explores VR, horror, and childhood with a cardboard case and an expensive smartphone.
Rookie of the Year Rookie of the Year: Jesus Stalks By Matt Marrone • October 5th, 2015 “When I go to church, it’s not to worship. It’s to stalk musicians.” Matt Marrone finds a way to enjoy his favorite off-tour band live.
Rookie of the Year Rookie of the Year: A Matter of Time By Matt Marrone • September 22nd, 2015 “Why am I floating above the city of Toronto?” Matt Marrone gets creative with a suite of CG geometric iOS photography additives.
Rookie of the Year Your Game Just Wants Some Space By Matt Marrone • September 7th, 2015 “We all know what it’s like to need a videogame. But what about when a videogame no longer needs you?” Matt Marrone on Fallout Shelter and the self-playing game
Rookie of the Year Rookie of the Year: Breaking Up With My Xbox By Matt Marrone • August 25th, 2015 “I have come to the end of an era – I am finished with the gaming consoles that inspired me to begin this column in the first place.” The Rookie of the Year begins a new chapter.
Rookie of the Year Rookie of the Year: Not So Empty Nest By Matt Marrone • July 21st, 2015 To prep for the Newborn of the Year, Matt Marrone spies on his family with a new surveillance camera.
Rookie of the Year The Seinfeld OASIS By Matt Marrone • July 6th, 2015 The Rookie of the Year visits Seinfeld’s apartment after reading Ready Player One. Surreal? Not as much as you’d think.
Rookie of the Year: Ace of Vase By Matt Marrone • June 25th, 2015 “Where do iOS games come from, anyway?” Matt Marrone talks with iOS dev Geoff Gruetzmacher.
