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Rookie of the Year

365 Days of Halloween

By Matt Marrone • December 29th, 2020

Practically every time we saw Phoebe Bridgers in 2020, she was wearing a full-body skeleton costume. 

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I’m Slowly Cracking Under the Weight of Tap Sports Baseball

By Matt Marrone • December 9th, 2020

Now I live in fear that my favorite player of all time will show up in a mystery box.

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It’s Complicated

By Matt Marrone • October 29th, 2020

After five years, my original Series 0 Apple Watch broke.

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Neighborhood Must-Watch

By Matt Marrone • October 2nd, 2020

“I was both there and not there during a gunfight that both did and did not tear through my quiet slice of Astoria.”

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Parallel AIs

By Matt Marrone • September 10th, 2020

Person of Interest > Westworld

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Dark’s Last Supper

By Matt Marrone • August 11th, 2020

The show’s final scene is a world unto itself, which is why Matt’s assembled a timestamped breakdown of whatever the hell that was.

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America is Under the Dome

By Matt Marrone • July 8th, 2020

Watching what feels like an endless newsfeed of new acts of police brutality every day, Matt can feel the Dome closing in.

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The Sleepover

By Matt Marrone • June 11th, 2020

A 4-year-old’s request makes the insanity of the world fade for a bit.

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The New York Times Bestseller List, July 25, 2021

By Matt Marrone • May 9th, 2020

If we make it through all this craziness, Matt predicts that next summer’s must-reads will definitely have a running theme.

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Bite Club Episode 1: Mangia Ninja!

By Matt Marrone • April 12th, 2020

Matt begins a pilgrimage to the most bizarre restaurants the world has to offer.

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Abducted in Plain Stupidity

By Matt Marrone • March 8th, 2020

And the award for worst parents of the century goes to . . .

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GOAT vs. Block

By Matt Marrone • February 11th, 2020

How could you suddenly be twice as good at a game you’ve played so often there’s simply no conceivable room for improvement?

It’s Us Or Them

By Matt Marrone • December 29th, 2019

The Lumineers’ album III is a stunning record with beauty and tragedy and hope – and hooks.

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#Monster25

By Matt Marrone • December 10th, 2019

With the re-release of REM’s Monster, Matt Marrone is 16 again.

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Remember. Every. Moment.

By Matt Marrone • November 1st, 2019

Matt shares a story of R.E.M.’s Monster and parenting on the album’s 25th anniversary.

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Star Trek: The Sex Generation

By Matt Marrone • October 8th, 2019

The ladies of the USS Enterprise want to get it on. Badly.

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Live From a Picnic Bench at the 2019 Newport Folk Festival

By Matt Marrone • September 13th, 2019

In the words of Caamp: Woo-hoooooooo.Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo …

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Am I Dead?

By Matt Marrone • August 13th, 2019

Do you ever wonder what happens to those Words with Friends rivals when you move on to other apps?

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I Beat Bethesda

By Matt Marrone • July 10th, 2019

Matt achieved just about everything in the “Early Access” version of The Elder Scrolls: Blades without paying a cent.

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Not. Today.

By Matt Marrone • May 23rd, 2019

Fact: Arya Stark is the most badass character in the history of television.

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That Olivia Colman Look

By Matt Marrone • May 11th, 2019

Unmissable: The Official Unwinnable Podcast forgot one important role in their chat about Olivia Colman: She’s the chick from Numberwang.

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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.

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Cosmic Dancer

By Matt Marrone • March 14th, 2019

Is a 115-minute movie worth watching only for a single scene? Yes.

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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.

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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.

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Let’s Go Paisley

By Matt Marrone • November 27th, 2018

Not everything about Paisley Park is weird. 

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I’ve Joined the Blue Rose Task Force

By Matt Marrone • November 7th, 2018

Matt Marrone has a Twin Peaks-related announcement to make.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The Innocence Mission, a folk-rock band with a cult-like following in Pennsylvania despite their lack of recent records.

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.

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A Time To Kill

By Matt Marrone • June 9th, 2018

Where does Dexter Morgan find the time?

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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