Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Madeon's Pop Culture Dancing? Pop Culture? Martin Starr? Feels Good.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Fishy Fishy', a Parody of Kreayshawn's 'Gucci Gucci' Yes! For this fine parody of local rap star Kreayshawn's mega-YouTube hit 'Gucci Gucci,' World Star Hip-Hop director Jeremy Burke found a girl who looks a lot like Kreayshawn, who they're calling
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Vintage Homophobia Humor With Don Rickles Proof positive that the 70s weren't all that awesome... but you gotta love that nurse's outfit! [via Everything Is Terrible]
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Shut Up Little Man,' the Trailer Have you heard about this new documentary, Shut Up Little Man, based on the much-distributed audio-tape brawls of two old drunk guys in the Lower Haight in the 80s? (It's actually being advertised
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Sandra Lee Swears a Lot, Gropes Herself The Food Network's Sandra Lee may seem all wholesome well, unless she's talking about how much drinking she does but this video proves otherwise. Watch a series of outtakes in which she gropes
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Say Goodbye to the King Burger King has decided to retire their creepy/amazing masked mascot of the last few years, in favor of promoting their, uh, "healthier" choices. Fast food restaurants, you see, are feeling the heat
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'She's Dope' by Bell Biv Devoe Bell Biv Devoe is here! Yes. They're performing their special brand of "New Jack Swing" at Yoshi's SF tonight and tomorrow. Tickets are $35. Now, please enjoy this classic video from their oeuvre,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Internet-Famous Cat, Maru, to Become Book-Famous Remember Maru, the cat who loves boxes of all shapes and sizes? Maru's fame on the webs has become very, very great, and now his Japanese owner is publishing an English-language book about
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Mavis Staples and Win Butler Cover 'The Weight' at Outside Lands This here is all kinds of gloriousness wrapped up in a neat little performance by Mavis Staples and Win Butler covering "The Weight" at Outside Lands 2011. Excellent stuff. Video: OutsideLands / YouTube
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Michele Bachmann's 'Newsweek' Cover Shoot Behind the Scenes of Michele Bachmann's Newsweek Cover - watch more funny videos Funny or Die cerated a delightful parody of self-professed racist and presidential candidate Michele Bachmann's Newsweek cover shoot. The video
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Chloe Sevigny' Loves Barbequoi L.A.-based drag artist and humorist Drew Droege has created a drag version of actress Chloe Sevigny that is as much performance art as it is drag satire. All of his many
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Dominant Legs' "Hoop of Love" Dominant Legs - "Hoop Of Love" from stereogum on Vimeo. This shiny new video for "Hoop of Love," the first single from Dominant Legs' debut album Invitation, features a pair of friends leaving
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Terry Gilliam's Do It Yourself Animation Show Monty Python animator and noted film director Terry Gilliam (Brazil, 12 Monkeys) discusses his animation techniques on Bob Godfrey's Do-It-Yourself Animation Show in 1974. According to Cartoon Brew: "Godfrey’s show, which made
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Person Pinball This fun little stop-motion animation vid by Aaron Hughes was the outro video at the 8th annual Animation Block Party in NYC. It features a bunch of stylish Brooklyn kids getting knocked around
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Fabio and the Old Spice Guy... Discuss Yes, it's just another viral stunt meant as shill for Old Spice, trying to appeal to a new generation of sweaty pits. But as we've mentioned earlier, the Old Spice guy long ago
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Hipsters Are Roaming the Campus' Today's palate cleanser comes to us from a strange little place called NYU, where this music video was produced for a campus reality show. Yes, we know, bemoaning the annoyance of hipsters and
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Bjork's New Trippy Video With Michel Gondry So, Bjork's got a new album coming out September 27 called Biophilia, and much of the album was composed and recorded using several iPad apps. The first video from the album, for the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'A Little Less Conversation' Remix feat. Male Models of Fashion Week No explanation needed. Enjoy. [via The Wow Report]
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Patti Smith Covers 'Rolling in the Deep' File Under Awesome: You know you've made it when the legendary and revered Patti Smith decides to cover one of your songs in a concert. And even though she didn't remember all the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Picking Up V-Nasty From Jail, Plus Kreayshawn's New Song Last month we pointed you to the fashion critiquing being done by Kreayshawn for New York Magazine, following on the success of her song "Gucci Gucci," which is basically a dis of all
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Can't Keep Johnny Down' by They Might Be Giants The guys who wrote the Malcolm in the Middle theme song, or whatever have a new song out. It's called "Can't Keep Johnny Down" from their upcoming album Join Us. Also, it's animated.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: My First Earthquake's 'Enya Got Nothing' Made with 1,300 balloons and 5 coats of make-up, My First Earthquake just released a video for "Enya Got Nothing" from their second full-length album, Friction. And what does this matter to
Arts & Entertainment Late Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Bon Iver's 'Calgary' Video, Feat. an <em>ANTM</em> Contestant So check it out. This is the official video from one of the first releases off Bon Iver's new album, Bon Iver, and it's called 'Calgary.' The video features one-time America's Next
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Time-Lapse Evening On 22nd Street Local photographer Ken Murphy shot this dizzying time-lapse panorama on the parklet in front of Revolution Cafe over two hours on a recent Friday night. Using some nerdy-sounding photo techniques he managed to
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Connected States of America Some kids at MIT (in connection with some sponsorship from AT&T) have put together this visualization project using cell phone data and the ways in which it travels around the country.
