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Author: Matt Marrone

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Artwork from Loma's "How Will I Live Without a Body" shows a drawing of a human head blooming from the end of a long, leafy vine.

This is How it Starts to Move Again

By Matt Marrone • January 16th, 2025

How Will I Live Without a Body? is not a record you can fully grasp in one sitting, whether you’re nine years old or 46.

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Three baked good-themed stuffed animals from the Cookeez Makery smile empty-eyed into the distance.

Easy-Bake Coven

By Matt Marrone • December 5th, 2024

These stuffed-pancakes and stuffed-cakes are soft, pillowy demons designed to replace – with an ostensibly innocuous twinkle – not only all baked goods . . . but all of us.

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A bird's eye view of a suburban neighborhood.

Suburbia’s End

By Matt Marrone • November 12th, 2024

We were in our own dimensional rift and saw it all at once – the flashing and clashing lightsabers, the pillars, the darkness, the red eyes, each other.

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Comedian Conan O'Brien onstage at the 2024 Newport Folk Festival.

The Newport Folk Festival Has a New Friend

By Matt Marrone • October 8th, 2024

Conan O’Brien isn’t Pete Seeger or Joni Mitchell, but he did the Newport Folk Festival proud.

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A screenshot from Stardew Valley shows the player's house surrounded by several verdant and lush vegetable plots.

(Couch) Potato Farming

By Matt Marrone • September 6th, 2024

I have no designs on being an actual farmer, but I like how productive I am as a fake one.

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A "no parking" sign used by the production team of the TV show Evil stapled to a telephone pole.

My Neighborhood is Literally Evil

By Matt Marrone • August 9th, 2024

A lot of shows are filmed in my neighborhood, but in the past few years, nothing has made its presence felt as much as Evil.

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A beautiful shot of the diamond at Angel Stadium on a sunny day.

If You Can’t Wed It, Reddit

By Matt Marrone • June 5th, 2024

Reddit seems to actually care when no one else does.

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A trio of Minecraft pandas looks up through a blocky bamboo grove.

Minecraft Menagerie

By Matt Marrone • May 3rd, 2024

So . . . how many pandas does it take to crash Minecraft?

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A sixer of Imperial Classic beer, the box sporting a splashy yellow and red color scheme with a black eagle as the logo.

Beers of the Osa Peninsula

By Matt Marrone • April 4th, 2024

Consumed at any temperature lower than brain-freeze cold, they are uninspiring at best. When found frigid on a deliriously humid day in the rain forest, however, they are a revelation.

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The band U2 plays on a tiny stage just inside the gigantic circular wall of the Sphere, a huge flock of birds projected on its side.

Atomic City: U2 Go Nuclear at the Sphere

By Matt Marrone • March 7th, 2024

If I lived in Las Vegas, I wouldn’t be writing this column at all, because I’d be at the show. Again. (And then again.)

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