Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Chris P. Bacon, Piglet On Wheels We hope you appreciate this quiet time alone with a painfully adorable baby pig, who was born without the use of his hind legs. He's got himself a wheelie contraption, and half the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Nina Simone Covering 'Suzanne,' Live in 1969 We love, love Nina Simone. Always have. Even the slightly crazy-lady version of her we saw performing several times in the Bay Area prior to her death in 2003, swatting around a big
Arts & Entertainment Video: R.I.P. Stewie, World's Longest Cat Stewie, a Maine Coon cat who hailed from Reno who at 48.5 inches from nose to tail was the Guinness record holder for world's longest cat, died Monday after a battle with
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Our Two Favorite Super Bowl Ads, GoDaddy and Audi Yep, commercialism. Few times of the year is the whole country totally gung ho to get pitched at by a commercial, but the Super Bowl is one of those coveted times. This year's
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Upside Downton Abbey' Yes! In the vein of Birdwalk Empire, the brilliant folks at Sesame Street have done a Downton Abbey spoof, clearly aimed (partly) at adults, and it's kind of funny.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Fresh Guacamole,' Another Oscar-Nominated Short Again from the animated category of Oscar-nominated short films comes this brief delight from filmmaker PES, who previously made the similarly stop-motion, culinary-dysmorphia piece http://www.eatpes.com/">Western Spaghetti. It's called
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Paperman', A Partly Hand-Drawn, Oscar-Nominated Animated Short From Disney 'Paperman,' done in (mostly) black and white, has been nominated for the Oscar for Best Animated Short. It tells the story of a mid-century commuter who falls in love with a woman
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Old Dog-With-Stick Meets Fence Chestnut There are things in this world, even in the YouTube world, that will never get old. One of them is the confusion of a dog, long stick in mouth, faced with having to
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Sign Flipping Mastery On the Ellen show Friday, she flew out Atlanta-based sign-flipper extraordinaire Julian Falkenstein and Nonstop (a.k.a. Marquese Scott), after their YouTube video racked up 5 million views in the last two
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Gay Men Talking About Vaginas For a cleansing bit of hilarity (?) this mid-afternoon we bring you this video from Canadian gay-internet-famous vlogger Davey Wavey, in which he asks a bunch of gay men to describe, and discuss their
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Dogs Who Skype-Howl This is funny. Dog owner Ali Wasel has found that her wire-haired fox terrier Gaytor enjoys Skyping with other dogs. Then she decided to show him a video of another dog howling. Enjoyment
Arts & Entertainment The 'Weekly' Does Not Get One Direction At All! SF Weekly's music team has been doing this "Worst New Song of the Week" feature, and this week's honoree is the new single and video from the wildly popular British boy group One
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'F&%@in Cruise Ship' We'd never heard of this guy Greg Benson, but we think we love him. If you like this little video in which he wanders around a Princess Cruise ship and shows us all
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Wet Modeling This one goes out to the gays and ladies, trying to make it through that last hour of work. That would be male model Henny Seroeyen being pelted with water balloons in slow
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Contortionist Vogue-ing Check it out. This is a remix of a new single by Rupaul's Drag Race stars Manila Luzon and Latrice Royale called "The Chop," and the video features a member of famed ballroom
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: James Franco Lip Syncs to, and Mocks, Justin Bieber If it seems that we're obsessed with James Franco here at SFist, it's only partly true. The fact of the matter is the man is a whore for the internet, and attention, and
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Frank Ocean Song Cut From 'Django Unchained' First off, if you haven't seen Django Unchained, run, don't walk. It's a terrific, shocking, beautifully crafted, wildly entertaining, Tarantino-esque fantasy about life in the pre-Civil War south. The soundtrack, like those from
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Diamond Dave Hosley Word arrived today that Petar's Restaurant & Lounge in Lafayette, with its dancefloor and hipster-approved karaoke-DJ-emcee Diamond Dave Hosley singing his own versions of today's pop hits on weekends, is closing as of
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Pet Sights It's been quite the year for pet photography on wide world of the internet, and as Buzzfeed shows us, it's especially been a banner year for pet photos that make you go "Hmm.
Arts & Entertainment Xmas Eve Palate Cleanser: Give This Boy Some Ho Ho Hos JRandall, a highly heterosexual recording artist who bestowed a song unto the Step Up 3D soundtrack, unveiled this Xmas ditty last year. He doesn't want any stockings, or presents, or cozy fireplaces for
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Apocalypse Edition The world is ending tomorrow, everyone, isn't that GREAT?! No more bills! No more cancer! No more trips to the post office!! We should be so lucky. (Have you heard about the Michigan
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: God and Puppets This is a condensed, two-minute version of (clearly) a classic of Christian family films of the early 1980s. It involves Christian puppeteer who comes to a school, and some pissed off teens who
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Hard Candy Christmas' by Tracey Thorn Tracey Thorn, of Everything But the Girl fame, has put out a Christmas album called Tinsel and Lights, and we have to say it's pretty good. It has a few originals on it,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Drag Queen Prank Featuring Sharon Needles and Latrice Royale Fans of Rupaul's Drag Race will appreciate this one. On board the Drag Stars at Sea cruise organized by AlandChuck.Travel the same cruise on which Carnival Cruise lines forbid drag queens to
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Basset Hound Dressed As Sherlock Holmes Running In Slow Motion Apropos of nothing, here is a criminally under-viewed video of a Basset Hound dressed as Sherlock Holmes running in slow motion. The title says it all, really. Delightful. For more Sherlock Holmes, try
