Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Scarlett Johansson for Dolce & Gabbana Imagine if La Dolce Vita crashed head-on with a tweaked out Dairy Queen cashier. Viola, Dolce & Gabbana's head-scratching The One film/perfume ad, "revealing the provocative yet effortless femininity of the eternal
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'This Is Halloween' Light Show Hey, folks! Halloween is just around the corner. What are you planning on going as for the big night? We might dress up a ghost, the color purple, or this. Or maybe even
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Zombie Gameboy Here's a little non-video palate cleanser that should cheer you up. This custom Zombie Gameboy, which can actually be yours for purchase if someone hasn't already snapped it up, was created by a
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Treat Yo Self From last week's episode of Parks and Recreation (it's on again tonight, yay!), which we're still chuckling over, and which has had us declaring every day this week a Treat Yo Self day.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Adorable Children Occupy Wall Street Get More: TV Shows, Full Episode Video, Reality TV Shows This clip from MTV2's long-canceled Wondershowzen predates the Occupy Wall Street Movement by a couple years, but the message of this wonderful child
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: S**t Siri Says So, you and/or a bunch of people you know probably bought an iPhone 4S in the last couple of days, and/or you upgraded to iOS 5, which means that by now
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: New Trailer for 'The Muppets' Behold, the new, longer trailer for the The Muppets, starring Amy Adams and Jason Segel, and featuring the newest Muppet, Walter; singing chickens (singing Cee-Lo's 'Fuck You'); and the kid who plays Manny
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Little Girl Hearts Brad Pitt Well isn't she just a little lusty lady? We know her mother coached her to say this, and forces her to read US Weekly all the time, but whatever. There are worse things.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Sneezing Puppy, Remixed Before you hit the comment button, we fully acknowledge how annoying the Creative Commons soundtrack on this video is. But the puppy sure is cute! And the top comment on the YouTube page,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Exploratorium Staff's 'It Gets Better' Video The Exploratorium recently posted this video of some of its staff discussing their queer teen years, all part of the It Gets Better effort against gay teen (or older!) suicide. While it won't
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Melissa McCarthy's Ranch Dressing Taste Tester Granted, if you're above the coveted 18-to-25 age bracket, and used to another season of not-ready-for-primetime players, you're almost required to claim that you've fallen out of favor with Saturday Night Live. However,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Broken Social Scene's 'Cause = Time' Here's a tune that's a few years old from a band/collective we've always loved, Broken Social Scene. They'll be here in S.F. this weekend performing for free (you may have heard)
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Curse-Filled Ralph Williams Bayshore Chrysler-Plymouth Commercial Apparently shot as a gag reel to one of his many famous TV pitches, here's Chick Lambert, spokesman for Ralph Williams Bayshore Chrysler-Plymouth, giving you the straight advice on where to find a
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Broken Cat' A particularly flexible feline, ladies and gentlemen. Sidenote: We love the British morning television playing in the background. [via Laughing Squid]
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Dubstep Slow-Dance We'll admit right now that we're old and we don't really *get* dubstep. Like, here we are in 2011, so much has been done with dance music at this point that they've run
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Bon Iver at the Greek Bon Iver played the Greek Theater in Berkeley last night. We were not there. Probably neither were most of you. But we bet some of you were! For those who are sad to
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Something to Break the Sports-themed Posts Three sports posts? In a row?! Huh. That will not do. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but... you know. Kinda. So, in an effort to break the testosterone-laced, sports-tinged updates here
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Ojai Valley Taxidermy Presented for some Friday Afternoon levity: a commercial for Ojai Valley Taxidermy with Chuck Testa, a man whose work is so good you can't tell it's dead. As far as we can figure,
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Woman Wins Guinness Record For Longest Nails A lady who likes to be called The Dutchess, whose real name is Chris Walton, has just overtaken the Guinness world record for the lady with the longest fingernails. The Dutchess has been
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Winklevoss Twins Like To Crack Nuts Submitted without comment.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Greg' on Last Night's 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' Now listen up any of you who might find some offense in this, or think we are somehow making fun of this kid: Any regular readers of this site ought to know that
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Contagion' Has A Billboard Made of Bacteria Contagion, the Soderbergh et al. outbreak thriller we've been keeping tabs on for awhile now is finally out in theaters today. And since you've already seen the trailer and read up on the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Quintetto, A Fishy Music Ensemble Laughing Squid brings our attention to "Quintetto," a musical art installation that uses fish movement to create music. "The effect is achieved by capturing the motion of the fish on camera and translating
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Human Centipede 2,' the Trailer OK, we're really sorry. This is hardly a cleanser, as it were. But it's "the story of a man who becomes sexually obsessed with a DVD recording of the first film in the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser There is everything good and nothing bad here. David Enos' "Cryoscape." Because you look like a guy who takes chances.
