Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Get Lucky' Through the Ages We know, we know... We just posted a "Get Lucky" cover (a pretty terrific a capella one) yesterday, but in case you hadn't noticed, the Internet, the radio, and Internet radio are all
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Get Neefy' Earlier we brought you the acoustic version of Daft Punk's "Get Lucky" by Atlas Genius, but 24-year-old Oliver has done them one better, doing this Petra Haden-style, one-man a capella "mouthstep" version, complete
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'I Wanna Sex U Up' By Jimmy Fallon's Barbershop Quartet Not since JT joined Jimmy and the Ragtime Gals to make a quintet on an old timey acapella version of "Sexy Back" have we so enjoyed the barbershop quartet schtick on Late Night
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Spell It Out' By Lonely Island Andy Samberg and Lonely Island are back with this little rap track called "Spell It Out." What's he spelling out exactly? See below. Happily, somebody did this work for us, but here's what
Arts & Entertainment Video: Prancercise, Failed '80s Fitness Craze, Rediscovered [Updated] How it took this long for the internet to discover Joanna Rohrback and her inventive (and wildly hilarious) exercise method dubbed Prancercise, we will never know. But thank god we now have her,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Disney Vacation, On Acid Another gem from our new favorite YouTube remixers, Deeper Understanding. Here's a look at a Disney Vacation Club promo, featuring an all too cheery and wholesome spokesmodel, and an endorsement from the Lube
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The San Francisco Album Project On Sunday, while most of you were either recovering from or still reveling in Bay to Breakers, a gang of drag queens and others were performing the inaugural event in an ongoing series
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Gay Bear Love Song For all the gay bears out there, and their admires, please enjoy this new country song and video from bear singing sensation and Bearapalooza founder Freddy Freeman, "Just Bear With Me." It's a
Arts & Entertainment Video: Silicon Valley Nerds Rap Badly About Venture Funding We're not sure if this counts as funny, but we suppose it's funny to those involved the way similar efforts by a college fraternity to make a viral video are funny to those
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Mini Goat On A Maxi Horse Maybe you've heard that This American Life story that begins with a goat on top of a cow by the side of the road. Well, here's a miniature goat on top of a
Arts & Entertainment Internet Cat Video Festival Coming To Oakland Saturday Cats are Internet gold. No one knows why, and most people have given up trying to understand. Maybe we don't want to delve into the deep-seated psychological issues that still compel us to
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'RuPaul's Drag Race' Red Carpet The much-anticipated season finale of RuPaul's Drag Race airs tonight, and interpid World of Wonder correspondent Damiana Garcia did some red carpet duties, interviewing all the arriving drag queens including Season 4 winner
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Teddy Has An Operation This video might start out looking cute, but it's not. You've been warned. It is, however, darkly hilarious and amazing. But don't watch it if you're easily upset by the site of actual
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Janelle Monae and Erykah Badu's 'Q.U.E.E.N.' Much like that Capital Cities track the other day, we smell some major hit potential here with this new Janelle Monae track "Q.U.E.E.N." featuring Erykah Badu. Whoa. Just whoa.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Coffee Music Please enjoy this Stomp-style music video of four guys making music while assembling a Sanremo espresso machine. It was just screened this week at the London Coffee Festival. [via SFoodie]
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: How to Make Bible Club Cool Here's another from Deeper Understanding this time a creepily edited montage of videos promoting moral purity, starting a Bible club in your school, and becoming a totally dope-ass campus missionary. We really most
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Song Destined to Be Your Summer Jam We won't say that we are always genius predictors of these things, but we would like to tell you right here and now that "Safe and Sound" by Capital Cities is going to
Arts & Entertainment Very Dirty White-Guy Rap Video, 'Ex-Boyfriend' Shot in Alta Plaza Park [NSFW] We introduce you to Lil Dicky. He's a local rapper who enjoys humor and mocking himself, and his flow isn't bad. His video for the song "Ex-Boyfriend," which tells the amusing tale of
Arts & Entertainment Video: Senior Citizens Discuss Gay Sex This isn't what you think. It actually was filmed at the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center, and these are, in fact, all gay and lesbian seniors. And they're all awful cute. Kudos
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Deeper Understanding Some of you are likely familiar with Everything Is Terrible, those brilliant curators of the VHS universe who sometimes offer bits of sheer brilliance to this column. (P.S. It's Puppet Week over
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Evolution Of Pop In 4 Minutes Five-person a capella group Pentatonix, who won Season 3 of NBC's The Sing-Off, have just done this amazing medley of their favorite songs throughout history. They start with an 11th century madrigal, and
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Joy' By Iron & Wine Today of all days you could probably use a little respite from the news. Here's a new and very pleasant video from Iron & Wine for the song "Joy," off the new album
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Local Empire Spoofs Foodies The new-food obsessed are easy and frequent targets, but allow us to introduce you to NY-based filmed-sketch-comedy group Local Empire. The material comes from a trio of young writer-performers Addison Anderson, Colin Drummond,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: How to Tell If You're F***ing [NSFW] Please take a moment to take a valuable lesson from comedian and avowed "disinformationist" Reggie Watts. And yes, it's NSFW, at least the audio is anyway. Also if you liked that, you may
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'My Drunk Aunts' There's a new web series from Drew Droege (of Chloe Sevigny fame) and John Roberts (most known for his brilliant Christmas Tree short, but also Jackie & Debra) called My Drunk Aunts, and
