Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Mr. Rogers, Auto-Tuned Never forget! "You can grow ideas in the garden of your mind." No, seriously, this is really pretty awesome. And we got kind of choked up! [PBS Digital Studios via WOW]
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Lazuli' by Beach House Have you heard the new Beach House album? It's good. Anyway, this video is more than good. It is rad. We miss videos. Nobody makes awesome videos anymore. Be advised that Beach House
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Adorable Tiny Pig Climbs Down Stairs for Oatmeal Oh god. We couldn't resist. He's so tiny! He's some kind of teacup potbelly pig, and his name is Hamlet, and in this video he overcomes his fear of stairs to dive into
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Catlandia' So, it's a PSA for the SPCA, but it's also meant to be a funny viral video. It's two San Franciscans, you see, engaging in a bit of San Frandlandia/Portlandia-style one-upsmanship ("I
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Club-Dancing Tutorial Hopefully none of you need this little viral how-to. And what this guy calls "The Disco" is actually called "The Swim," or "The Pulp Fiction," are we wrong? Also: He's already done a
Arts & Entertainment Holiday Weekend Palate Cleanser: Famous Faces In Their Screen Debuts We love a good montage! Here's one showing 36 Hollywood actors in their very first film roles, including a young Jack Nicholson in 1960s Little Shop of Horrors (the original Roger Corman film
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Watch Pretty Celebs Turn Into Ogres Here's a little optical illusion thing that might make you crosseyed by should be amusing. You're supposed to stare at the cross in the center as these unaltered photos of celebrities flip by.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Facebook IPO Parody Rap In the vein of Funny or Die, this new video from American Hipster is only kinda funny. But it features a fake Zuckerberg getting a piggy back ride from a fake Sean Parker,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Condom Music This was a spec ad/pitch for some sort of safe-sex organization in Sweden that was ultimately rejected. But it's such fun! Yay, condoms! [The Daily What via WOW]
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: An AT&T Infomercial from 1961 We've come a long way, folks. They thought they'd come a long way in 1961 when they had things like automatic dialing phone, the first video phones, and satellite communications. But imagine having
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Zooey & Siri, Continued By now you've all probably seen that grating ad in which the insufferably content (and quirky!) Zooey Deschanel spends a rainy day at home talking to her iPhone and dancing around the house.
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: MENSA Toddler Really Needs to Poop Hilarious: This genius child, 3-year-old Emmy-Lynn Retger, who became the youngest person ever to be admitted into MENSA for scoring 135 on an IQ test, was on the Today Show yesterday with her
Arts & Entertainment Video: <em>30 Rock</em>'s Louboutin Skullcrusher Moment [Updated] San Francisco's public enemy #2, got a bizarre shout-out from popular culture last Thursday night, courtesy of the award-winning writers of NBC's 30 Rock. As Jenna Maroney attempts to find a sponsor for
Arts & Entertainment Video: Amazing Nebraska Woman's Crazy Homophobic Rant The most amazing video you'll see all day, hands down, will definitely be this footage of a woman named Jane Swoboda getting up to speak at a city council meeting this week in
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: R.I.P. Baby Pygmy Hippo Prince Harry Aww. This six-week-old baby pygmy hippo, which was hoped would boost tourism at a South African wild animal park, has died. They named him Prince Harry, and he was incredibly cute. There are
Arts & Entertainment Weekend Palate Cleanser: A Capella Dubstep Somebody give these kids an award. It truly is just as offensive and assaultive as real dubstep.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Dance Magick' The only difference between this video and a Saturday night in SoMa is a) it features someone underage, and b) furries don't tend to prefer flower costumes. [Everything Is Terrible]
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Dizzying View From Sutro Tower This video shot from high atop Sutro Tower was uploaded to YouTube a couple months ago, but judging by it's lowly 450 plays not many of you have gotten to enjoy this acrophobia-inducing
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Adorable Puppy In Box We do love ourselves some funny pet tricks, and cats in boxes. Now comes an adorable dog in a box which we just had to share. [via The Soup]
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Your Food, Rapping This little stop-motion animation short just arrived, produced by these guys and featuring music by DJ Nick Castle. (It's a compilation of the "best culinary lines in rap history.") And check out them
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: John Waters' 'A Dirty Shame' Part-time San Francisco resident John Waters is screening his 2004 film A Dirty Shame tonight at 7 p.m. at CCA, and doing a Q&A afterward. It's free, and he'll probably
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: What It's Like To Be A Dog Toy This lovely video shot at Ocean Beach Crissy Field with a dog toy-mounted camera is just the thing to get high and stare at enjoy soberly from the comfort of your climate-controlled cubicle
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Justin Bieber Covered By Marina & The Diamonds It's a Justin Bieber song. But this version, obviously, is way better. The singer is up-and-coming British singer-songwriter Marina Lambrini Diamandis, a.k.a. Marina and the Diamonds. [WOW]
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Monkey Vs. Cat Battle A very tenacious little monkey plays with, and pokes, a very patient feline in this viral vid that's been making the rounds. The cat actually seems to not mind being prodded and pushed
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Safe Sex For Seniors Did you know that STDs were on the rise among elderly people in Florida? Yeah, it's kind of been a thing. The Daily Show even covered it. Rates of STDs are up 70%