Everyone from Galileo to Jim Morrison to countless Scrabble wordsmiths have played around with letters to form their perfect anagrams. We take literary-minded words and anagram them to find ... well, that's up to you. A deeper meaning? A hidden truth? Or just a happy coincidence?
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Read MoreDisusage presents the contradictions and foibles of usage manuals, style guides, and the quirky folks who love them. This week: “fiscal cliff” notwithstanding, we can still chuckle at the nonsense heritage of political labels.
Read MoreIf brevity is truly the soul of wit, then your Twitter feed is the Algonquin round table of today's digital Dorothy Parkers and Ogden Nashes. Here's a selection of our favorite tweets from the week; nominate yours by submitting to @blackballoonpub with #twitwit.
Read MoreThis week, MishMash ventures out of the Mission District to idyllic Santa Cruz, California ... and runs across a couple guys known in local parlance as "dad hippies."
Read MoreA weekly series that celebrates everyone’s favorite part of the author
reading: the Q&A. This week, Jami Attenberg, author of The Middlesteins, talks about the emotional attachments of writing about food.
Barely two years after the Arab Spring, Egypt's Tahrir Square has again filled with protestors.
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