Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Fur Elise' Backwards This one goes out to all the music nerds! A classical guitarist by the name of Jakob XP Brunnbauer plays an arrangement of Beethoven's famous 'Fur Elise' entirely backwards, then he plays the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: If Tarantino Made A Gay Revenge Fantasy It's true. Quentin Tarantino has now made a female revenge fantasy film (Kill Bill), a Jewish revenge fantasy (Inglorious Basterds), and an African-American slave revenge fantasy (Django Unchained). Cracked has just made a
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'The Onion' Takes On 5-Hour Energy Are you getting that 2:30 feeling? Well, you may or may not be aware that 5-Hour Energy has been linked to at least 13 deaths, and may also cause convulsions and spontaneous
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Miley Mashed Up With Sinead Poor Sinead O'Connor got wrapped up in an open letter/Twitter battle with Miley Cyrus (and her handlers) last week, which is something we'd recommend no one ever try doing. Hopefully that's all
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Stop Looking At Your F***ing Phone Every Five Seconds' Kimmel's done it again. And, of course, the hashtag #StopLookingAtYourFuckingPhone is trending.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The LOLmbulance Comedian Mike Rose and Parks & Recreation star Retta are featured in this amusing little short about The LOLmbulance, an ambulance that comes equipped with a stand-up comedian to help you forget all
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Kitten Named Panda And now, a traditional palate cleanser of a kitten at play to send you off to your weekend. It's goddamn beautiful out, by the way. You need to get away from the computer.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: #JimmyFallonIsGenius Please. Everyone. Quit it with the hashtags. As Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake demonstrate in this clip, you all sound like morons, especially if you're using them in conversation. The irony of it
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Homeland: The Musical' "I've got the guy right here, his name's Abu Nazir, and if the bomb goes off we're all comandeered." Pretty funny. This comes from the mind of NY-based writer and performer Eliot Glazer.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Rage' By Hyper Crush There's something just so balls-to-the-wall ridiculous about this video and song, we felt we had to share. Hyper Crush hails from L.A. (obvi), and they're a trio consisting of singer Holly Valentine,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: RuPaul In A Car With Chris Crocker RuPaul and World of Wonder have a new web series in which RuPaul, out of drag, drives people around LA in his Volvo and chats them up. In today's episode, he's driving onetime
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Freaky 'Dancing Queen' This thing is going around, and it's rather clever. It's either a man or a woman dressed as a Tim Burton-esque Queen of Hearts, with four doll dancer attached, doing an old-timey dance-puppetry
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A New Song From Boy George 80s megastar Boy George is doing a lot of looking back in the new video for his single "King of Everything," from his upcoming album This Is What I Do. He has a
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Hunky Living Anatomy Model A group of Australian anatomy students were treated to a real life male anatomy model last month, care of handsome young Zac O'Brien and a team of artists. O'Brien sat for 18 hours
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Gay Christian Mingle The Gay Christian Mingle from Cheyenne Jackson Perhaps you, like us, have been feeling harassed by all the Christian Mingle ads popping up on TV lately. (This may be because we've been watching
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Every Young Man's Battle Pornography! It's the work of the Antichrist! Please enjoy these edits of some churchy teaching videos for teen boys about battling the temptation to watch porn by our friends at Deeper Understanding. "Put
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Baby Orangutan Time! Meet Rickina. She's a wee little thing. She was rescued in Indonesia by International Animal Rescue after she was found with a wound on her head in the care of a man who
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Vine Jackassery It's sort of like a female Jackass, right? Added bonus: Check out this genius 12-year-old girl who employs the humor of discomfort to make brilliant Vines. [CodyTupper/Twitter via Gawker] Previously: Will Sasso,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'I Forgot My Phone' Please enjoy this very short but poignant film about what ridiculous, alienating, divorced-from-the-present losers we all are when it comes to playing with our phones, both in public and in private. In some
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Down At Fraggle Rock FYI, Hulu just started streaming all of Jim Henson's brilliant '80s Muppets spinoff, Fraggle Rock, and for many of you, the antics of Gobo, Red, Mokey, Wembley, and Boober will bring back nice
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Lizard Belly Rubs Aww. Even widdle wizard wikes his bewwy wubbed. [via Laughing Squid]
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'I Hate San Francisco' I Hate California: San Francisco - watch more funny videos Comedian Suzi Barrett, who previously made this video about the various things to ironically hate about L.A., has now made this video
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: This Kid's Insane Bar Mitzvah Sam Horowitz, who just became a man last fall in Dallas, can thank his generous parents for allowing him to make the crazy insane entrance he had so dreamed of making to his
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Total Eclipse of the Heart' As Sung By 19 Different Divas Masterful diva mimic Christina Bianco does a one-woman show in which she performs the classic 80s ballad "Total Eclipse of the Heart" in the voices of 19 different female singers, including Adele, Barbra
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: LED Dance Troupes The video above just came to our attention, featuring the (Red Bull-sponsored?) PasTels Dance Troupe at an identified mall doing a flash dance number wearing LED-enabled suits. This has become a bit of
