The Museum

Saturday was the Coney Island Mermaid Parade, and we went and rocked out. I'd never been to one of these things before - it was like a smaller scale, burlesque Mardi Gras parade. Here's some evidence of the rockingness, and it's all SFW, which is quite the accomplishment of editing.

We've been collecting vintage postcards for a little bit, so this was a favorite of ours.

The mighty Cyclone. This ride kicks so much ass.

Poodle World?

There were a ton of Save Coney Island-themed marching ensembles going on.

This was their marching band. Almost makes me wish I had stuck with the trombone.

Some people didn't really stick with the ocean theme. Not that the above dancers were very aquatic, either. I guess "fishnets" kind of count.

This was the float at the end - the red tide, or something like that. As you can imagine, this woman was lit off her ass. The guy you can kind of see behind her was so drunk he almost fell off the float.

The chick in the black bikini was kind of the advance guard for a robot thing you'll see next, but this is mostly here because I love the expression on the girl in the background.

Yeah, I have no idea. But it was very impressive.

I really hope this kid was covered in like SPF 2000. Some parents are just awesome.

This was a favorite of mine - this vest is made entirely of just the M in a Metrocard. Wild.

Same group - really just an impressive amount of Metrocards. They had made frisbees out of them and everything, it was nuts.

These girls were pretty popular. We saw them when we first arrived and were trying to find somewhere to go and got into the staging area by accident. There was some dude just taking pictures of their asses. Classy!

These girls were freaking awesome at dancing. Their "rest" dance was better than anything I could ever bang out. They were, I assume, Brazilian.

Because this was their marching band.

The Flying Spaghetti Monster!

Um, OK.

Splash Gordon was another Save Coney thing, but, thankfully, they also shot a supersoaker into the crowd. The heat was getting up there.

We were with a girl who'd just moved to the city from Iowa and had heard that there were a lot of drag queens in this parade. The girl in the middle? Definitely a dude.

Some really good hula-hoopers.

This was not even close to the worst display of man flesh.

Closest we're getting to NSFW territory, the girl on the left is just out there in front of God and everybody. There are probably a lot of sunburned breasts in NYC today.

Some awesome costuming.

These were go-go dancers in the vehicular part of the parade. There was a marching part on the boardwalk, and then the cars on the main drag.

It's really funny watching the Mermaiders just relax with normal people afterwards.

So that's the Mermaid Parade. It was mad crowded, but an awesome, awesome time.