Unfortunately, no, this is not a new Butthole Surfers video…

When someone says the words “Mermaid Parade” one can’t help but imagine a street full of hot, young, half-naked women in forgivably bad costumes. Unfortunately, such was not really the case at the costumed perp walk that was last month’s 2008 CONEY ISLAND MERMAID PARADE which instead looked like the movie version of a Vice “Don’t” column. Featuring a staggering array of art-damaged revelers in various states of creative undress, the annual event once again proved to be one of the best people watching processions of all time. Technically the country’s largest art parade, the parade is actually an homage to Coney Island’s long forgotten Mardi Gras that was staged religiously from 1903 to 1954 and invites a stunning array of like-minded exhibitionists to converge on the boardwalk to display their pound(s) of painted flesh. Pour yourself a drink, smear some Vaseline on your computer screen and HAVE A LOOK: Read the rest of this entry »