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Rookie of the Year

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?

The Cranberries Baseball Association: Remembering Dolores O’Riordan

By Matt Marrone • January 16th, 2018

Matt Marrone shares an unusual memory of Dolores O’Riordan, the Cranberries and baseball videogames.

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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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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.

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Nintendo Switch FAQ

By Matt Marrone • July 12th, 2017

Q. Should I buy a Nintendo Switch? A. Reply hazy, try again.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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Hack to the Future

By Matt Marrone • April 11th, 2017

There are secrets to be unearthed in Back to the Future, Part II.

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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.

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Whichworld?

By Matt Marrone • February 4th, 2017

Which robot-populated historical simulation theme park would you visit?

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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.”

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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.”

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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.

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All Things Must Pass

By Matt Marrone • July 8th, 2016

Matt is wrestling with letting his beloveds go.

Food Issue – Thoughts Recap Part 1 of 3

By Stu Horvath, Matt Marrone and Gavin Craig • June 6th, 2016

Let’s take a look at some defining childhood moments, drinking the day away at a children’s park and not finishing what you start. Those are three separate stories, by the way.

True Love Leaves

By Matt Marrone • May 9th, 2016

And so that time and that loss informs, too, the new “True Love Waits.” No longer is it a Hail-Mary plea, but a postmortem.

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