Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A History of the World in 2 Minutes This video, created by a young genius named Joe Bush for a high-school video production class, gives you a quick overview of life on earth from the dawn of time until the not
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Cartoon Network Celebrates 20th Birthday Yay! The stoners of America have kept the Cartoon Network monstrously successful (no pun intended) since its inception in 1992, and this week the network celebrates is 20th anniversary with this fun and
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Somebody That I Used to Know' on Antiquated Devices A musical obsessive/genius with a fair amount of time on his hands just put up this version of 2012's inescapable hit "Somebody That I Used to Know" by Gotye. He's done similar
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Leaving' by the Pet Shop Boys The Pet Shop Boys have a new album, you guys. It's called Elysium, and they're returning to their true, moody, 80s form with the help of L.A.-based producer Andrew Dawson. They
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Honey Boo Boo, Auto-Tuned Please don't watch that suicide video. Watch this instead. It's from Jimmy Kimmel last night, and features Honey Boo Boo fighting for equality in her own special way.
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Future Map of the United States' Speaking of earthquakes, we once knew a dude who claimed to have visions and things, and he had this "Future Map of the United States" hanging in the living room. It's a map
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Father Sends Boy's Toy Train to Space We hope this isn't just another viral promotional tool for a video camera (we think not, because there are no brand names mentioned), but here's a stunning, kind of moving little HD video
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The 'Vamps' Trailer from Amy Heckerling Thank god for Amy Heckerling. Her new comedy Vamps is due out November 2, and it looks kind of fantastic. It's like True Blood meets Clueless meets Fight Club, or something like that.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Sarah Silverman's Voter Disenfranchisement Screed Sarah Silverman just put out this very funny, fairly NSFW (audio-wise anyway) video railing against Republican efforts at voter suppression across the country. Basically, they're requiring students, the elderly, and many a black
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: One Direction's 'Live While We're Young' We hope it's not too saccharine for your palate cleansing (we don't think so!), but here's the new video from teen pop sensation One Direction, which was released days earlier than expected OMG!
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Best Word Ever Is Diphthong Some nerds got together, via the blog Questionable Skills, and just went through the dictionary and created a sports-style bracket for every letter of the alphabet, trying to determine the best words in
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The 'Rupaul's Drag Race All-Stars' Trailer Get More: Watch RuPaul's All Stars Drag Race Full Episodes, Logo TV Speaking of drag, the very first all-stars season of Rupaul's Drag Race kicks off October 22 on Logo, and the trailer
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Virgo Song by Harvey Sid Fisher Please excuse us if you're a blog-consuming vet and you saw the wonders of Harvey Sid Fisher and his astrology songs years ago. We did too. Don't scoff. But for those just joining
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Tigers Not Attacking People Attacking Them With Bags What in the huh? Are these people beating tigers with bags of trash? How are the tigers not mauling them to death? And where is the location of this horrible place? (According to
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Only Rap Video Ever Made About Wine Country This video, produced by and for "connoisseurs of fine wine with a gangsta sensibility," has all the rap video tropes we could ask for: gold chains, babes writhing sensually, unnecessary black-and-white shots, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Bear Pit BBQ Touting themselves as "the best BBQ this side of the San Fernando Valley," The Bear Pit recently made this little advertisement for themselves, complete with a rapping lady and the phrase, "If you
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Little Fanny Fart-Fart Maybe this will be less cleansing than grossly amusing, but anyway, here's a Korean babydoll that farts, loudly, and appears to poop little smiley-faced turds, flushing toilet included. Unlike Baby Wee-Wee and other
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Academic Tim Gunn Today we have an amusing little slideshow for you to cleanse that internet palate with this afternoon. It's a Tumblr thingy, actually, called Academic Tim Gunn. They take images of the great Project
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Clint Eastwood Talking to a Chair (the Song) It took the internet all of about eighteen hours to cough up this little ditty, in which one verse has Clint Eastwood "talking to a pterodactyl" and also "talkin' to a bucket a
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Drawer and Mouse and Maru It's the return of Maru! The Japanese cat who loves boxes! Yay! In today's episode, Maru's owner covers a toy mouse in catnip, puts the mouse in a Container Store plastic drawer, and
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Cloud Atlas,' the Extended Trailer This movie looks amazing, you guys. We are actually in the middle of this very acclaimed, rather difficult book, Cloud Atlas, published in 2004 by David Mitchell, and therefore we can barely stand
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Bulldog Puppy Whines, Growls, Pains Us With Adorableness Bentley the bulldog puppy just wants some attention, or a nap, and he's feeling fussy and unhappy as his owner heartlessly takes this video of him. His cuteness is almost painful. The end.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Gay iPhone Ad for the Castro This guy made a little spoof of the iPhone 4S/Siri ads, featuring stuff in the Castro. And it's mildly amusing. In case you didn't know, Hand Job is actually a nail salon
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Phyllis Diller Roasts Joan Collins We just heard the news about Phyllis Diller's passing at age 95, and we're heartbroken. She was a pioneering female comedian who inspired pretty much every other funny woman who's taken the stage
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Madonna Turns 54 Haters would say that Madonna hasn't been relevant since the era in which she made this video for the hit song from the Desperately Seeking Susan soundtrack. In that 1985 film, Madonna, at
