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The Bigger Picture: Film and the Age of Facebook
We live in a self-absorbed culture. Everything we do is shared through blogs, status updates, and tweets. Now that people have the Internet on their phones, nobody is more than a second away from
Read More »Numberscruncher: Perfectly Imperfect Information
Eugene Fama is the Susan Lucci of the Nobel Prize world. He not only developed the Efficient Markets Hypothesis, which sits beneath almost every theory in finance, but he also is on faculty at
Read More »Popdose Interview: The Man Behind Green Lantern’s (Fan-Made) Power Ring
An incredible-looking fan-made trailer for Warner Bros.' upcoming Green Lantern adaptation has had the Web all aflutter recently -- and now its maker, Jaron Pitts, talks about it in a new interview with Lance
Read More »Bootleg City: David Bowie in Baton Rouge, April ’78 (Pt. 2)
Late last summer a DVD of August, which features David Bowie in a cameo, showed up at the office where I used to work. If you haven’t heard of this movie, you’re not alone:
Read More »SXSW ’09: Off to Austin
As I write this, I’m sitting at the gate at Newark Liberty Airport, waiting for my flight to Austin. The ungodly hour is 6:20 a.m. As you read this, hopefully I’m jetting over America,
Read More »Unsolicited Career Advice for… Tupac Shakur
Hip-hop music is not typically Uncle Donnie’s thing, nor is hip-hop slang, nor hip-hop fashion. Basically, Uncle Donnie doesn’t understand hip-hop, though he does try. Apparently, he doesn’t read much about it, either, because
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