December 24, 2012
Last Wednesday, we rounded out a very busy year with some cathartic table tennis...
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This week we're avoiding mistletoe at all costs, considering hobbit homes, and appreciating our old-fashioned baby names.
Whether you're wedged into a coach-class seat or sprawled on your parents' couch, here are my recommendations for gargantuan books — from Homer to Pynchon — that'll get you through the next couple weeks.
Read MoreWelcome to Clementine’s Weekly Reading Series, where Clem the hedgehog talks about whatever she is currently reading. This week: The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis.
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 MoreLast Sunday, I ventured through a pair of glass doors whose red handles formed the shape of the number pi. A numeral was on the loose, somewhere inside the newly opened Museum of Mathematics. By forming teams and solving a series of puzzles, we could compete to recover it.
Read MoreEveryone 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?
Read MoreThe good, the bad, and the geeky ... My year in evolving books, from coded poetry to cartoon journalism to plain old rock-and-roll.
Read MoreSights, scenes, and sounds from San Francisco's Mission District. This week, our unwitting subjects discuss the best place to post a racy 2013 wall calendar.
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