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Displaying all articles tagged:
The Approval Matrix
the approval matrix
Nov. 15, 2024
The Approval Matrix: And Now, a Family Thanksgiving
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
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Nov. 1, 2024
The Approval Matrix: Election Eve
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
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Oct. 18, 2024
The Approval Matrix: We’re Hearing Things
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
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Oct. 4, 2024
The Approval Matrix: School-Bus Meltdown, New York’s a Mets Town
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
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Sept. 20, 2024
The Approval Matrix: In the Grimace Seat
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
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Sept. 6, 2024
The Approval Matrix: The Countess, the Spy, and Lana’s Lover
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
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Aug. 23, 2024
The Approval Matrix: A Lively Gossip Week
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
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Aug. 9, 2024
The Approval Matrix: Pink Pommel Club
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
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July 26, 2024
The Approval Matrix: An Honest Woman and the Hypocrite
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
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July 12, 2024
The Approval Matrix: Too Many Cats in Heat
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
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June 28, 2024
The Approval Matrix: Everyone’s a Pundit
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
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June 14, 2024
The Approval Matrix: Kathy and Nathan’s Brat Summer
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
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May 31, 2024
The Approval Matrix: We’re All a Little Guilty
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
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May 20, 2024
The Approval Matrix: Protect the Filthy Portal
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
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May 3, 2024
The Approval Matrix: Ticktock, TikTok
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
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Apr. 19, 2024
The Approval Matrix: The Smallest Matrix Who Ever Lived
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
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Apr. 5, 2024
The Approval Matrix: The Fault Is in Our Lines
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
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Mar. 22, 2024
The Approval Matrix: The Enemy of My People Is My Friend
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
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Mar. 8, 2024
The Approval Matrix: No Thanks, Kathy!
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
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Feb. 23, 2024
The Approval Matrix: Stop Recycling
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
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Feb. 9, 2024
The Approval Matrix: Fast Cars and Dork Goggles
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
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Jan. 26, 2024
The Approval Matrix: Do You Know Where Your Children Are?
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Jan. 12, 2024
Drama in Salt Lake and Under Eastern Parkway
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
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Dec. 27, 2023
The 2023 Approval Matrix Year in Review
Our deliberately oversimplified retrospective of the year that was.
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Dec. 15, 2023
Tommy Cutlets and the Disgruntled Oompa-Loompas
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
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Dec. 1, 2023
And the Most-Delayed Subway of 2023 Is …
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
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Nov. 17, 2023
Cher Believes in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
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Nov. 3, 2023
The One With an Impromptu Matthew Perry Memorial
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
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Oct. 20, 2023
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Chermas
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
the approval matrix
Oct. 6, 2023
We Enjoy All Weather
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
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Sept. 22, 2023
The Sun Sets on WFH
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
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Sept. 8, 2023
All of Us Doppelgangers
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
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Aug. 25, 2023
End-of-Summertime Sadness
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
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Aug. 11, 2023
Good-bye, Incandescent Bulbs
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
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July 28, 2023
Heat Waves and Allan Fever
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
the approval matrix
July 14, 2023
Sweaty, Stormy, Caffeinated, Coked-Up Summer
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
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June 30, 2023
Goats Up, Hamm Down
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
the approval matrix
June 16, 2023
Where There’s Smoke, There’s Also Dead Fish
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
the approval matrix
June 2, 2023
Vengeful Orca Pod and Anna Delvey’s Pod…cast
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
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May 19, 2023
A Big Week for Swifties and Zelda Fans Alike
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
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May 5, 2023
Too Many Cats
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
the approval matrix
Apr. 21, 2023
BK Lobster, Rooftop Bees, and Our Rodent Mayor
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
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Apr. 7, 2023
The Revival of Sweeney Todd, Superiority Burger, and Spring
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
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Mar. 24, 2023
RIP to Dollar Slices and Mike Pence’s Career
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
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Mar. 10, 2023
Ignore Saturn in Pisces, Go Donate Blood
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
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Feb. 24, 2023
The Owl, the Alligator, and the Balloon Dog
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
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Feb. 10, 2023
RIP Stripper Web, Gawker 2.0, and Flamingo the Pigeon
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
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Jan. 27, 2023
Demoralizing Layoffs and Plagiarizing Robots
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
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Jan. 13, 2023
Coolidge Wins, Dr. Dre Disputes, and M3gan Takes Over
Our guide to what’s highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable.
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Dec. 28, 2022
Funny Girls: The 2022 Year-End Approval Matrix
Our guide to what was highbrow, lowbrow, brilliant, and despicable in 2022.
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