Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Dog That Says 'Oh No' It's been a while since we had a simple, pet-related palate cleanser. And this dog expresses an emotion we experience every hour on the hour. Cheers, pooch. After-work drinks on us. [BuzzFeed]
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Sh*t Girls Say, Episode 2 What? You haven't seen Episode 1 of the Internet-acclaimed short film masterpiece Shit Girls Say? (Or it's gay spinoff, for that matter.) You should have your Internet privileges revoked, clearly. As an early
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Hot Damn' by Serious Business Serious Business is a Portland-based duo (Jason Mampel and Danny Diana-Peebles), one gay, one straight, with a fun, electro-rap thing going on. Their debut single "Hot Damn" features Jason and Danny each talking
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Glow-In-The-Dark Night Surfing Like a clash between Tron and Endless Summer, these surfers zipped up electroluminescent wetsuits and hit some tasty waves in Bondi Beach in Australia this past November. According to Laughing Squid, the night
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'The Dictator' Preview Sacha Baron Cohen and director Larry Charles, who worked together on such gems as Borat and Bruno, just released a preview to The Dictator. According to the film's team, "The film tells the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Whiskey Christmas' We've got an audio cleanser for you today: "Whiskey Christmas," a song off the 2007 album Christmas Songs for Drunken Atheists by Irish folk-punk band Darby O'Gill and the Little People. San Francisco
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: SNL's Meth-Filled Holiday Short Yay! SNL's Digital Shorts are often the only reason to watch the show, and this weekend's episode included one that's not exception. It's a holiday-themed ditty called "Best Friends" featuring Katy Perry and
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Mr. Belvedere' AIDS Joke We have a mid-80s sitcom zinger for you here about having AIDS, delivered by a child (the delivery could have used a little more rehearsal, we think). This was probably a real uncomfortable
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Club Med Dance School! Can you do the tequila boom-boom? [Everything is Terrible]
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Justin Bieber's Steampunk Xmas Every lesbian's dream girlfriend is back with a new Christmas video, and it's for a funk-i-fied version of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town." Also, this means the steampunk aesthetic has officially, once
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Two Songs About The Grubstake Diner Many of you are probably intimately familiar with the Grubstake at Pine and Polk, which serves burgers to the drunken masses every night until 4 a.m. Well, long before Polk Street became
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Steve Jobs And Jesus Bless Pippa Middleton Stalker Ok, so there's this guy in England named Barry Kooperschmidt. He makes art devoted to Pippa Middleton which is sort of scary looking, but may be totally ironic and he's in on the
Arts & Entertainment Pre-Holiday Palate Cleanser: Larry David's Thanksgiving [Updated] "One thing I could count on every Thanksgiving, and you could bank on it, was at the beginning of the meal my mother saying, 'Larry and I like the dark meat.' It's
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Terrific/Terrible Doll That Calls You A Crazy B**ch Because there's nothing quite like obscenities from the mouths of children's toys: behold, the You & Me Interactive Triplets doll, which may or may not be teaching children ages two and up how
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Most Adorable Owl Video You've Ever Seen It doesn't get much cuter than that l'il one that likes being pet on the head. [via HuffPo]
Arts & Entertainment Weekend Palate Cleanser: 'Against the Grain' by Hudson Check out this rad stop-motion animation video for a song by a Melbourne-based indie-folk artist called Hudson (download the track at that link). It totally makes us want to go draw, and reminds
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Muppets Parody 'Saw' In a new effort at viral-video promotion for the new movie The Muppets, the gang has just put out this hilarious parody of the Saw franchise, featuring Piggy as that creepy doll and
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Amazing Film 'Dream Trap' In 3 Minutes The always astonishing Everything Is Terrible occasionally takes a forgotten flick from the VHS bin and condenses it to a three-minute YouTube version. Today's victim: Dream Trap (1990), starring the lovely Kristy Swanson
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Ricky Gervais and Liam Neeson Do Improv Ricky Gervais’s new sitcom Life’s Too Short debuted in the UK TV this week. We hope it's as good as his other work. This piece in particular, featuring Gervais, Stephen Merchant
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Buddy and Pedro, Toronto's Star-Crossed Gay Penguins Because there's no such thing as a not-cute Internet video of penguins, here now are Buddy and Pedro, a pair of male African penguins at the Toronto Zoo who have "fascinated" zookeepers with
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Stop Forwarding That Crap to Me' by Weird Al Yankovic We're pretty sure this is a Weird Al original tune (correct us if we're wrong -- we know you will!) and it's kind of funny, with lyrics like "I don't need tons of
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Chloe's "Hallowe'en" Our favorite performance artist/celebrity drag performer Chloe Sevigny (a.k.a. Drew Droege) returns with a very special Hallowe'en episode. As it turns out, a recent screening of "The Worst Witch" has
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Awesome Halloween Claymation In honor of Halloween weekend, here's an amazing piece of claymation from British animator Lee Hardcastle entitled "Postman Pat's Pet Sematary." It involves a dead cat, a lot of claymation blood, and spliffs.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A 2000 Foot Long Hot Wheels Race Track This is like the Hot Wheels Race Track we had as a kid, only not nearly as long or rad, and it doesn't jump off the track every five seconds. O the envy,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Amazing 1955 Ladies' Eyewear Fashions Here's a pure, polished gem from the height of cat-eye glasses mania in 1955. We're pretty sure that there is not a single pair of frames shown here that is not butt-ass ugly.
