SF News Running Into Your Boss At Folsom Street Fair, And Other SF-Specific Fears Today on the Bold Italic they've got a funny bit from Dave Gordon covering a host of very San Franciscan phobias, such as the fear of forgetting your reusable bag and being shamed
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The First Honest Cable Company Heh. Please enjoy today's cleanser, in which a parody of a cable company huxter tells it like it really is. "You'll have the option of choosing from several of our completely unwarranted rip-offs,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Wisdom of Shoshanna from 'Girls' How can we quantify our love and admiration for dear Shoshanna, the smart, naive, fast-talking, uptight-in-a-good-way character portrayed by Zosia Mamet (who happens to be the daughter of playwright David Mamet)? She's everything
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Gay Men Talking About Vaginas For a cleansing bit of hilarity (?) this mid-afternoon we bring you this video from Canadian gay-internet-famous vlogger Davey Wavey, in which he asks a bunch of gay men to describe, and discuss their
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Diamond Dave Hosley Word arrived today that Petar's Restaurant & Lounge in Lafayette, with its dancefloor and hipster-approved karaoke-DJ-emcee Diamond Dave Hosley singing his own versions of today's pop hits on weekends, is closing as of
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Muppets Doing Blow Well, isn't this... cute? It's a video for a song featuring a lot of kazoos called "Your Parents' Cocaine," by Oakland-based outfit The Coup. And it features some shoddily made muppets, a bouncy
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Movember Edition Funny man Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation) is joined by a few fellow mustache models (and stars of The Office) in this amusing PSA for Movember. "To all of you out there rocking
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Tips for Coping With Facebook/Twitter Crap This Election Day You probably could have used this weeks ago, but the Onion News Network today brings you some words of advice for "surviving this onslaught of unbearable garbage" you'll be subjected today all Election
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Melissa Etheridge's Halloween Plans Funny guys Brian Safi and Jeffery Self have been doing a web series called "What Do You Think ___ Is Doing Right Now" in which they comically imagine what various actresses like Madeline Stowe
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Parade of Conservative Paradoxes Here's a little moment in which we preach to the choir. That's you, San Francisco, and we even mean those of you who might call yourselves conservative but you aren't really because, well,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Onion Talks (a Parody of TED Talks) If you're like us, you're pretty fed-up with all the optimism, pomposity, and theoretical jibbajabba that derive from the "brain spa" that is the TED Conference, which now happens three times a year
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Ice Jumper We know this is totally weather-inappropriate, but check it out! It might make you feel a little cooler. A German guy attempts to cannonball into a semi-frozen pool in the dead of German
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Sarah Silverman's Voter Disenfranchisement Screed Sarah Silverman just put out this very funny, fairly NSFW (audio-wise anyway) video railing against Republican efforts at voter suppression across the country. Basically, they're requiring students, the elderly, and many a black
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Little Fanny Fart-Fart Maybe this will be less cleansing than grossly amusing, but anyway, here's a Korean babydoll that farts, loudly, and appears to poop little smiley-faced turds, flushing toilet included. Unlike Baby Wee-Wee and other
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Boys' (a 'Girls' Parody) There have been various parodies of the popular (and really quite well written) HBO series Girls, which concluded its first season in June. Now, from some clever blokes in L.A., we have
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Mr. Wizard Was a D*ck Every later-born Gen Xer out there should remember Mr. Wizard's World, the Nickelodeon show featuring a sometimes curt and grumpy Don Herbert teaching cute kids about the wonders of science. Herbert actually did
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Two Guys, a Car, and That Gotye Song "Somebody That I Used to Know." Heard it? Yes you have. It is pretty much our national anthem at this point, because everyone effing loves a breakup song, and can relate, and it's
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Abortion Explained, Via the Bible If you're not familiar with America's Best Christian Mrs. Betty Bowers (a character created by L.A. comedienne Deven Green), you probably should be. She did a rather internet-famous explication of traditional marriage
Arts & Entertainment Video: Intoxicated Women Struggle To Sit/Stand For 15 Grueling Minutes Meet Lisa. Her friends really want her to sit down, but also to stand up. This marvelous video was captured by SFist friend Jack Shamama in the hours just following Saturday's Dyke March
SF News Video: VICE Mashes Up the Week's News, and Wow It's Freaky VICE has a new web video series called Current Laments, which they describe thusly: "[It's] the zombie-apocalypse-mashup equivalent of newscaster blather, sensationalized soundbites, and sleazebags who should know better. In more laymanish terms,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Zooey & Siri, Continued By now you've all probably seen that grating ad in which the insufferably content (and quirky!) Zooey Deschanel spends a rainy day at home talking to her iPhone and dancing around the house.
SF News Fourth Fake Muni Ad Asks: 'Been Down On A Marine Lately?' Spotting lewd, counterfeit ads Muni vehicles is San Francisco's new favorite pastime, apparently. The latest reported fake ad comes from Muni Diaries reader Lixy, who noticed some R-rated modifications to an official advertisement
Arts & Entertainment One More Guerrilla Muni Ad: Du Beers So, here's another effort by the Muni Adbusters, tweeted by a friend of a commenter (which is kind of better than a friend of a friend). This one would suggest that the culprit
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: MENSA Toddler Really Needs to Poop Hilarious: This genius child, 3-year-old Emmy-Lynn Retger, who became the youngest person ever to be admitted into MENSA for scoring 135 on an IQ test, was on the Today Show yesterday with her
Arts & Entertainment Video: Amazing Nebraska Woman's Crazy Homophobic Rant The most amazing video you'll see all day, hands down, will definitely be this footage of a woman named Jane Swoboda getting up to speak at a city council meeting this week in
