Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: When Kirk Cameron Came To San Francisco Child star turned Christian evangelist Kirk Cameron came to San Francisco to make a video about ministering to homosexuals with a hate-the-sin-not-the-sinner type message and the brilliant people of Deeper Understanding put together
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The A-to-Z Of Musical Genres This is really fun, you guys! Canadian musicians Andrew Huang and David Brown of Boy in a Band presented themselves with the challenge of naming and demonstrating 26 musical genres in alphabetical order.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Real Apple Store The 1,000-year-old Borough Market in London (yes, it is one thousand years old) just celebrated its birthday, which coincided with Apple Day, but opening a spoof on the Apple Store dubbed The
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: YouTube-ing Family Makes 'All About The Baste,' a Thanksgiving Parody Remember the Holderness Family? They did this viral video last year showing off their Christmas jammies, and now they're back with a Thanksgiving spoof of that ubiquitous Meghan Trainor song "All About the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Sam Johnson's 'The City' Takes Us On A Fun, Goofy Tour Of SF Honestly, the best part of our 20 Best Songs About Places In San Francisco is the comment section, which has turned into, as Jay put it to me this morning, "its own crowdsourced
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Mission, Circa 1992 Adam Pfahler of the San Francisco punk band Jawbreaker recently came across some unprocessed Super 8 footage that he shot around the Mission in 1992. He got the film processed, and he uploaded
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: American Horror Toy Story This little gem comes from humorist animator Only Leigh, a.k.a. Leigh Lahav, and Oren Mendez, mashing up Buzz Lightyear and Woodie with a certain horrifying murderous clown. [h/t: Laughing Squid]
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Let Sleeping Dogs Lie Okay, this dog knows how to play dead. In fact, he's a method actor. *hits snooze* **hits snooze again**
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Let It Grow,' a 'Let It Go' Parody For Movember Is Movember actually about promoting prostate and testicular cancer awareness, or is it really just an excuse for non-hipster (or ex-hipster) males to grow fancy facial hair and pass it off to their
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Chloe Sevigny' Does Halloween In honor of our nation's favorite holiday for getting bloodied and/or tarted up, we bring you this pair of videos by comedian Drew Droege, seen here in his fictionalized drag persona of
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: San Francisco Summed Up In 11 Seconds You have some polar opposite things happening in San Francisco lately we're still a city full of rebellious young people and immigrants and we like to set stuff on fire when our teams
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Another Amazing OK Go Video OK Go, still not resting on their laurels as pop music's most insanely clever music video-makers, have just unleashed their latest, which was shot in Japan with the help of about a hundred
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: World Series Edition Your browser does not support iframes. You're getting in the mood already, hopefully. Maybe you're already a little buzzed and if so, pace yourself, friend! This is a marathon, not a race, and
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: IKEA Turns Into The Overlook For Halloween Typically, I am deeply meh about presenting commercials as enjoyable pieces of video. But sometimes, dammit, they just are, like this IKEA commercial that creepily, enjoyably captures the spirit of Danny's Big Wheel
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Cal Academy's Amazing, Color-Changing Pigmy Seahorses Seahorses are cool, and these pigmy seahorses, which spend their lives camouflaged in masses of brightly-colored coral, might be even cooler. Successfully bred in captivity for the first time at SF's own California
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Pretty Slow-Mo Athletes In HD This video, shot in Chicago, Paris, Luxembourg, and elsewhere, was made by Jacob and Katie Schwarz as part of a collaboration with satellite company SES in order to show off the capabilities of
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Twisted Kids Guide To The Internet If you're a fan of the 90s, the internet, and 8-bit porn, today's your lucky day. This video, an apparent mashup of a 90s piece of Yahooligans (now Yahoo Kids) propaganda and early-days
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Take A Silent Trip Through San Francisco In 1960 Again we turn to the trove of historic videos that have been getting uploaded by the British Pathé news service, and here we have a charming, full color look at some of the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Fallon, Funny Or Die Mock Ello We told you the Ello backlash was starting no sooner than the little, ad-free social network could even get off the ground. Well, now Jimmy Fallon made fun of it on the show
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Please Go Home,' a Sam Smith Parody Local videographer Adrian Anchando who brought us that Dunkin' Love parody a few months back brings us this funny new parody of Sam Smith's "Stay With Me," featuring singer Daniel Franzese and members
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Heartfelt Goodbye To S.F. Filmmaker/photographer Thomas R. Wood just made this very pretty (and slightly NSFW!) video as a goodbye letter to S.F. as he prepares to move to L.A. From the love in
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Great Dane Learns How To Open Baby Gate This clever Great Dane, named Bambi, quickly taught herself how to unlatch a baby gate that her humans were using to keep her off the living room couch. The most amazing part comes
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Giant Caterpillar Squeaks When Goosed This darling little video comes to us via Japan (I think), and it's footage of an acleris semipurana, a giant green caterpillar which is actually native to the Eastern U.S. and Canada.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Aretha Franklin Covers 'Rolling In The Deep' Put on your headphones, kids. The great Aretha Franklin has a new album coming out, and she's covered one of the great diva ballads of the last decade, Adelle's "Rolling In the Deep.
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