November 30, 2012
Running rampage this week: Brain hackers, Andrew W.K. the diplomat, and the onslaught of surprisingly good holiday music.
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Running rampage this week: Brain hackers, Andrew W.K. the diplomat, and the onslaught of surprisingly good holiday music.
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 MoreWelcome to Clementine’s Weekly Reading Series, where Clem the hedgehog talks about whatever she is currently reading. This week: Paris, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down by Rosecrans Baldwin.
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 MoreWhen Japanese animes get dubbed into English, it’s hit or miss. Nudity is covered up, violence is dumbed down, and (most) bestiality is glossed over. It’s the theme songs, though, that truly suffer. We’ve collected the most awful English dubs and made a list of artists — from Taylor Swift to GWAR — who could come up with epic alternatives.
Read MoreConsidering Skyfall and the recent MoMA retrospective 50 Years of James Bond, I was pretty stoked to pick up Ian McEwan's Sweet Tooth. It's ostensibly a spy novel, but the book's layered betrayal and intrigue originate less from espionage than the sticky reality of love.
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.
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