Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Very Berkeley Man Makes Video Tutorial For Walking Cats On-Leash Maybe you've seen Doug Meyers and his cat Eduardo strolling the streets of Berkeley. If not, you've seen something like it: The Bay Area is home to plenty of unexpected animals on leashes
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Watch An iPhone Drown In Vat Of Melted Crayon You might have seen TechRax run a couple iPhones over with a train or smash an Apple Watch with magnets. But its his stunt from late last week that caught my attention, because
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Don't Be Happy, Worry' "So many worries, so little time," says the Kinsey Sicks about their SF-sights-set video, a parody of Bobby McFerrin's easy-listening smash "Don't Worry, Be Happy." The Kinsey Sicks, self-described as "America's Favorite Dragapella
Arts & Entertainment Weekend Palate Cleanser: 'I Can't Feel My Face' Cover Played On Dentist's Equipment This awesome cover of The Weeknd's big summer jam "I Can't Feel My Face" by the very talented Andrew Huang was played entirely on dental equipment in an actual dentist's office. Instruments include
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Instructional Video' Shows Reddit In The '80s As imagined by the videographers of Squirrel-Monkey in an "unearthed VHS" (via Laughing Squid), this is what Reddit looked like in the 1980s. Of course, Reddit was founded in by Steve Huffman and
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The People You Always Run Into When You Come Home For Christmas I mean, who can't relate to this one? Going back to wherever you're from, and having those awkward conversations with your ex, that guy who never left town, hey, even your mom! It's
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Watch This Guy Step Onto Hot Lava Remember San Francisco startup guy Sam Cossman, who walked nearly to the brink of an active volcano in Vanatu? Well, this isn't that, but it's still a fun look at someone getting up
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Star Wars Vs Alien Will you be one of the people flocking to the AMC Theatres at the Metreon this weekend, mainly to catch the 88-second teaser trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens? Well, good for
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 (NSFW) Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Droneboning Is this video funny? Is it weird? Is it just kind of boring? Your answer will likely be determined by how amused you are by the idea of a drone passing over people
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: 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: Watch This 1968 Promotional Video For BART 50 years ago this past June, then-President Lyndon Johnson broke ground on BART. Four years later, according to Jeff Quitney, this promotional video for the transit system was released, cheesy acoustic soundtrack and
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A 23-Pound Cat Hits The Treadmill Hate dieting and exercising? Me too. But this cat King Leo may inspire you. Watch in the above Barcroft TV segment as the 23-pound rescue Maine Coon is shaved, which automatically makes him
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Sorry Griswolds, Burning Man Is Closed Sorry - Burning Man is CLOSED Leave it to Funny or Die to quickly jump on the news that Burning Man has shut its gate and come up with a clever way to
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Pit Bull Grooms His Baby Bunny Friend We're not sure what goes on in the house of YouTuber TexasGirly1979, but apparently her pets are allowed to bring home pets. Regarding the above video, she writes that her pit bull Sharky
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Ted Danson Dresses Like Prince In 'Purple Rain' In the new Funny or Die video above, Ted Danson and Mark Duplass play a gay couple in need of therapy and turn to Elisabeth Moss for help. Danson's character is intent on
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Full Moon And Fog Above S.F. From the same filmmaker that brought us Sausalito To SF At 300 Miles An Hour, we have a new timelapse video that shows last Saturday's full moon amid rolling, dense fog above a
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: San Francisco Circa 1986 Though uploaded in 2011, we've never seen this vintage footage of San Francisco in 1986. Enjoy a tourist's view of our classic city as a 16mm camera cruises through downtown, chases cable cars,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Death Of 'Superman Lives' It's been nearly 15 years since pre-production began on Superman Lives, the Kevin Smith penned, Tim Burton directed superhero movie starring occasional SF resident Nicolas Cage as the title character. As you may
