Over the last four decades, the Happy Foot Sad Foot sign at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Benton Way has become the neighborhood’s mascot and mood ring.*Previously: "Billiken backlash: SLU will redesign mascot again"
The more mystical residents of Echo Park swear the sign works like a giant rotating fortune cookie or tarot card. If you see the sign on its happy side, you’ll have a good day, and if you see the sad side, you’ll have a bad day.
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It’s one of those uniquely Los Angeles landmarks that begin life as objects of revulsion or disdain, then become ironically celebrated by a later generation of residents and are eventually anointed as fondly, iconically weird by another.
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A lot of people are shocked to discover that the sign is associated with an actual foot clinic. But a Los Angeles Football Club fan collective has adopted Lim’s sign as a mascot, and recently he noticed that a store down the street is selling T-shirts with the sign’s image.
Monday, July 15, 2019
"For the doctor behind Happy Foot Sad Foot sign, a strange kind of fame comes to an end
Ten funny tweets
FAM. This is one of my schoolmates from college. She’s NUTS for recording this 😯 pic.twitter.com/82yLvXz0re— FOST (@GeorgeFoster72) July 13, 2019
Younger brother’s gone to Afghanistan and he’s exposed the village kids to @Snapchat filters. The best thing you’ll see today. pic.twitter.com/hirsgU8QYL— Roh Yakobi (@Roh_Yakobi) July 13, 2019
It is part of that era of USA programming that was basically "Are you suffering from a mild illness where you just want to rest and watch TV? Well, then do we have a marathon of shows for you!"— Will O. (@whoiswillo) July 12, 2019
I don't know who needs to hear this but if you made something you think people will enjoy you can just share it you don't have to pretend a bot made it— Saladin Ahmed (@saladinahmed) July 14, 2019
Love this paragraph about the Miami Herald reporter who dug into Epstein’s plea deal. Wait for it. https://t.co/PDzf2mW1YH pic.twitter.com/1ZbH0iqDP9— Brian Platt (@btaplatt) July 10, 2019
here’s my impression of a verified twitter account telling a very simple anecdote:— ponyo guy (@punished_picnic) December 4, 2018
So now i’m in the bathroom. The leaf is still in my pocket. I repeat - the leaf is still in my pocket at this point. And where am I? THE BATHROOM. (26/65)
I bought a ghost from Ebay, as a gift for my sister in law.— Gaeilgeoir📚 "CLOSE THE CAMPS"🌿Glas (@Deirdriu) July 10, 2019
It came in the form of a drawing of it from the little kid who was having nightmares about it, that was his mom's solution to get rid of it.
The first ever Heavy Metal Knitting World Championships have taken place in Finland.— ESPN UK (@ESPNUK) July 12, 2019
This is probably the strangest thing you'll see today. pic.twitter.com/mSbohm3UMA
When you tell a few porkies on your CV, but still smash the interview pic.twitter.com/Dz2KFYgg1v— Rob (@MrRAnderson78) July 12, 2019
My dog took a real nice after nap stretch and fell in the pool pic.twitter.com/rdknRLuxOx— ŠTIŁĖŚ (@stilesAMscott) July 12, 2019
*More funny posts.
Masters of the Universe Mer-Man figure by Mondo available for preorder
Multiple heads, feet, weapons. There's a new Phillie Phanatic figure available for preorder, too.
Metroid comic with suspense and humor
i made a comic about samus pic.twitter.com/m1fLY193BJ— ggdg (@gigideegee) June 14, 2019
— ggdg (@gigideegee) June 14, 2019
the end pic.twitter.com/er6gf1WD2w— ggdg (@gigideegee) June 14, 2019
Artists's shop and Patreon.
*Previously: Jell-O Metroid.
Ideas for a horror-themed recipe book
No one automatically cares about your blissful family picnic or that time you went to Prague. So you MAKE them care about that recipe! You tell me how you stirred that borscht with Rasputin’s mummified left hand! You fought a Nazi for that schnitzel recipe!— The Wombat Resists (@UrsulaV) July 15, 2019
I want you to tell me that if I get the proportions of this ranch dip exactly right, it opens the portal to strange time and place and I have to fight Yog-Sothoth with a carrot stick!— The Wombat Resists (@UrsulaV) July 15, 2019
Tell me this Mac & cheese recipe was scrawled in blood on the bottom of the steps (with chisel marks FROM UNDERNEATH) and the last ingredient was missing, so you decided to use Gorgonzola.— The Wombat Resists (@UrsulaV) July 15, 2019
I think that book should also come with achievement stickers.— Rainbow Milkshake (wielded; right hand) (@coyotedancer) July 15, 2019
"I cooked Extremely Weird Carrots and survived the Elder Horrors."
*Previously: Beef Wellington sandwich recipe.
Sunday, July 14, 2019
The big Marvel comics sale has started at Amazon/Comixology
For example, The Immortal Hulk and Runaways are less than 99 cents an issue. Avengers #13 by Jason Aaron and Andrea Sorrentino, part of this volume, was the most I enjoyed a super hero comic this year.
"They disappeared in an attempt to Make Eastern Europe Great Again"
I would actually love to go back to where my ancestors came from, but they're not there anymore. They disappeared in an attempt to Make Eastern Europe Great Again.— Peter Sagal (@petersagal) July 14, 2019
Ten funny tweets
Ruuxa, a cheetah, and Raina, a Rhodesian Ridgeback, have been together at San Diego Zoo since 2014.— Erin (@erinruberry) July 2, 2019
When Ruuxa had surgery, Raina cried until she was allowed in to snuggle with her BFF.https://t.co/B0FYaMCs0U pic.twitter.com/hUU7uB8yZe
THERE ARE CLEARLY TWO pic.twitter.com/Gtbok0GJvp— Katie Tiedrich (@katietiedrich) July 13, 2019
Ppl want to storm #Area51 but can't control the neighborhood kids with Roman candles attached to they drones pic.twitter.com/vU0f0HiYLH— John (@_John_83) July 12, 2019
Update: A month and a half in this poster still makes me laugh every day. IT’S NOT ABOUT WHALES. pic.twitter.com/cL8J59mBaE— alanna bennett (@AlannaBennett) July 12, 2019
My Maya timeline when I'm looking for that perfect idle pose pic.twitter.com/BwTm9GRYhw— Darren R 😨😱😵💀👻 (@Doom_Squid) July 12, 2019
- “What The Pitta”.— rufus jones (@rufusjones1) July 12, 2019
- Sorry?
- “What The Pitta”.
- Okay. How does that work?
- Well, it’s a play on words.
- What’s it a play on?
- “What The Fuck”?
- I’m not sure that’s what a play on words is.
- Well, What would you call it?
- I don’t know. “I Pitta The Fool”?
- What? pic.twitter.com/9eR9Hs77zQ
today is the anniversary that colonel sanders shot a guy to become the king of kentucky gas station chicken pic.twitter.com/5okeOMmhFr— rudy mustang (@rudy_mustang) July 11, 2019
When you call in sick because you're not missing a Federer & Nadal semifinal pic.twitter.com/FtvmonfqTy— Paid man gets bored (@cjzero) July 12, 2019
ESCAPE ARTIST: A shellfish caught by a Japanese fisherman wasn’t quite what they expected. https://t.co/471dDTB801 pic.twitter.com/X2dYYTb06e— ABC News (@ABC) July 12, 2019
I've never been more invested in a random internet cat succeeding pic.twitter.com/hB1fxtzZOO— Jen Gentleman 🌺 (@JenMsft) July 10, 2019
*More funny posts.
Look at the freehand painting on this Warhammer 40,000 Titan's shield
Here is a better view of the freehand shield from my #Knightlancer it's very #Tzeentch the should is made from plasticard and then curved with a heat gun. I'm thinking of doing a tiny version of the knight for #adeptustitanicus #PaintingWarhammer #goldendemon pic.twitter.com/hrnP0YOZve— Richard Gray (@Daemonrich) July 13, 2019
Here is one of my favourite pieces. It's a #forgeworld #knightlancer The shield is scratch built from plasticard and then had a lot of freehand applied 😂 #paintingwarhammer #gamesworkshop #horusheresy #goldendemon #warhammer40k pic.twitter.com/hM4IYBnrpr— Richard Gray (@Daemonrich) July 12, 2019
Bonus:
I had a teaching session this past weekend on how to freehand this zombie head! It was a great day and the students had some fantastic results. #freehand #gamesworkshop #warhammer #zombie #artist #tinypainting pic.twitter.com/srJD5Ldmtm— Richard Gray (@Daemonrich) July 8, 2019
*Buy painted miniatures at ebay.
When your fan fiction-generating neural net is trained on Star Wars and knitting, the results are magical
Since HAT3000 started out as vanilla GPT-2 345M trained on huge sections on the internet, it still remembers how to generate stories and fan fiction. But now it tries its hardest to gradually turn them into crochet hat patterns. pic.twitter.com/q2KVfThQXd— Janelle Shane (@JanelleCShane) July 13, 2019
HAT3000's stories often end up with intricately choreographed fight scenes. The resemblance to crochet pattern directions is striking (even before the AI introduces a flying ball of yarn). pic.twitter.com/NcvsyYLef6— Janelle Shane (@JanelleCShane) July 13, 2019
*Previously: "SkyKnit: How an AI Took Over an Adult Knitting Community"
Saturday, July 13, 2019
"A strange thing happened when Jeffrey Epstein came back to New York City after being branded a sex offender: His reputation appeared to rise"
NYT:
Powerful female friends served as social guarantors
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The positive online notices appeared to have been paid for by Mr. Epstein: A writer employed by his foundation churned out the news releases, and the supposed author of a Forbes story calling Mr. Epstein “one of the largest backers of cutting edge science” conceded in an interview that he was given $600 to post the pre-written article under his own name.
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Of all the names Mr. Epstein dropped, perhaps the most frequent was Harvard’s.
Though Mr. Epstein never attended Harvard or even got a college degree, the university has been a recurring theme in his self-styled image as a Renaissance man of finance and science. He found Harvard’s doors open to him once he opened his wallet, with donations starting in the early 1990s that eventually totaled at least $7.5 million.
He took to wearing Harvard sweatshirts, gravitated to mingling with celebrity scientists
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Although he was often described as a billionaire, Mr. Epstein did not come close in his philanthropy to other superrich people. His charitable foundations rarely gave away more than $1 million a year during the 2000s, according to tax records, and much of it was money others had given him.
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