Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Terrible Holiday Tour Hits the Roxie Curators of all things VHS, tacky, awkward/ironic, and marvelous, Everything Is Terrible, are doing two simultaneous holiday tours with their show Holiday Special 2012: Cataclysmic Transformation. They'll be screening it at the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Wait' by M83 This new video, the third in a trilogy of videos for the band M83, from their album Hurry Up, We're Dreaming, by French art directors Fleur & Manu, just dropped today. It's sort
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Enlightened,' the Season 2 Trailer "Maybe I'm a little pissed but that has nothing to do with this," says Laura Dern in the upcoming second season of Enlightened, the HBO show we think you all should be watching.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: '8 to Go' Curl up with a blanket and some popcorn, cat lovers. This little (parody) film is just for you. It stars comedian Heather McDonald and Acatemy Award winner Captain Cuddles in a tale of
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Muppets Doing Blow Well, isn't this... cute? It's a video for a song featuring a lot of kazoos called "Your Parents' Cocaine," by Oakland-based outfit The Coup. And it features some shoddily made muppets, a bouncy
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Santigold's 'The Keepers' Santigold, a.k.a. Santi White, is coming to the Fox, ladies and gents, on December 12, and there are still tickets. Above, her video for "The Keepers," off her 2012 release, Masters
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Doing the Charleston to Daft Punk This has been making the rounds today, and it's kind of an amazing cleanser for your palate. Someone only needed to slow down the Daft Punk track ("Around the World") just slightly to
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Blue' a New R.E.M. Video By James Franco, Starring Lindsay Lohan R.E.M. released their fifteenth and final studio album last year, Collapse Into Now. It's the only album of songs that the band has never performed live, since they broke up right
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Kittens Watching Tennis Doesn't get much better than this, folks, and it needs no introduction. You're quite welcome. [Death and Taxes via Laughing Squid]
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: French Twisters So, this trippy little video by French artists Adrien M/Claire B was done using time remapping and the slit-scan photographic process something that was once hugely labor intensive and only possible from
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Little Piece of Amazing This is art, folks. Behold. It's a video of deaf Jehovah's Witnesses signing scripture to discourage others in their flock from masturbating. There are some colorful gestures. Oh, and it's been overdubbed with
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Cat Bounce OK, for your post-election pleasure today's palate cleanser is interactive. Open a new tab and play this song. Then click on the link below, click and drag on a few cats, and then,
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Tips for Coping With Facebook/Twitter Crap This Election Day You probably could have used this weeks ago, but the Onion News Network today brings you some words of advice for "surviving this onslaught of unbearable garbage" you'll be subjected today all Election
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Rupaul Calls Romney 'Unspookable' Logo and NewNowNext are airing an election special tonight (10:30 p.m., after Rupaul's Drag Race All-Stars: Untucked), hosted by out lesbian comedian Wanda Sykes, and featuring Ru him/herself. Listen as
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Ellen Goes as Sofia Vergara for Halloween Here's Ellen DeGeneres on her show today, dressed up as Sofia Vergara for Halloween, hip pads, ass crack and all. She gets the accent pretty well down, and Ellen looks pretty good in
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Melissa Etheridge's Halloween Plans Funny guys Brian Safi and Jeffery Self have been doing a web series called "What Do You Think ___ Is Doing Right Now" in which they comically imagine what various actresses like Madeline Stowe
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Family Restaurant Here's a trailer for a new film for children called Family Restaurant, which is geared toward kids with gay or lesbian parents. It features restaurant objects come to life, like talking ketchup and
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Parade of Conservative Paradoxes Here's a little moment in which we preach to the choir. That's you, San Francisco, and we even mean those of you who might call yourselves conservative but you aren't really because, well,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Onion Talks (a Parody of TED Talks) If you're like us, you're pretty fed-up with all the optimism, pomposity, and theoretical jibbajabba that derive from the "brain spa" that is the TED Conference, which now happens three times a year
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Ice Jumper We know this is totally weather-inappropriate, but check it out! It might make you feel a little cooler. A German guy attempts to cannonball into a semi-frozen pool in the dead of German
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Happy Birthday to Sugar Pie DeSanto Today's the 77th birthday of Bay Area soul singer Sugar Pie DeSanto. She was born Umpeylia Marsema Balinton in Brooklyn but grew up in San Francisco, and was a girlhood friend of Etta
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Sexy' Halloween Costumes That Are Just Wrong What's that? You're a female/gay male/metrosexual who likes to show off his body and you're not sure what to be for Halloween this year? Allow us to advise you to please,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Christopher Walken Does 'Honey Boo Boo' Actually, he reads the part of Honey Boo Boo Child's mom, June Shannon, and Screen Junkies manages to get him to say the words "vajiggle jaggle." Also, Colin Farrel is there and reads
Arts & Entertainment Video: Young Woman Elaborates on Why She's Voting for Mitt Romney Meet Trisha Paytas. She describes herself as "a mix between Woody Allen and your local hooker," by which we think she means she fancies herself an intellectual, or maybe just a nebbishy hypochondriac,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Mumford & Sons' 'I Will Wait' In honor of the fact that British folk rockers Mumford & Sons just became the first band since the Beatles to have so many concurrent Hot 100 singles at one time (they have
