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THE DATE Sunday January
31st, 2010 3:00 PM. THE 27th KING
MANGO STRUT WRAP PARTY The Ivy, 3159
Commodore Plaza
(same street we line up for the parade)
Happy Hour drink prices, hors
d'oeuvres and blues guitarist, Albert
Castiglia, will keep the MangoHeads happy and
partying till 7:30 pm.
2009 KMS T-shirts & posters will be available. 2009
Strut video & slide show will be shown.
Governing ourselves accordingly, King Mango and his merry
band of Mangoheads are set to defy the naysayers and launch
the annual tea party of parody and satire in the streets of
Downtown
Coconut Grove. With no retractable roof on this parade
and no parking garages needed to be built, just bring your
lawnchair and get ready to laugh. The King Mango carbon footprint
is zero tolerance for boredom. Even the SEC has endorsed the
use of funds for the express purpose of satirizing the use
of public funds for events like this. What a country! Neither
rain, nor sleet, nor smut, nor threat of slime will keep the
rogue Mangoheads from their appointed duty to bring laughter
and merriment through King Mango's Public Option Plan to our
beleaguered humor challenged City.
This
year's Grand Marshal is James 'Jimbo' Luznar,
from the world's famous Jimbo's
Place on Virginia Key, feted by a panel of
distinguished bureaucrats to be South Florida's #1 eyesore.
For some real audio fun, you are listening to Mangohead
Will
Thomas' latest release!
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Jimboville
(to
the tune of Jimmy Buffet’s“Margaritaville”)
Will Thomas vocal and guitar, Kenny
Wynn guitar and vocal accompaniment.
Written by A. J. Nichols and Petra Sampery
Nibblin’ on smoked fish
Check out that hot dish
Lookin’ at babes and playin’ bocce ball
I’ll take a cold beer
Is there any shrimp here?
Lookin’ for the ma-an that started it all
CHORUS
Wastin’ away again down in Jimboville
Searchin’ for my smoked fish and a beer
Some people claim
That there’s a toll booth to blame
But I know, I’m still gonna go
We all love Jimbo’s
Is he still in limbo
I think I’m movin’ to that camper there
Or stay in that school bus
Miami, don’t bug us
How long we’ll stay I haven’t a clue
CHORUS
As creative as we are,
we can't possibly make this stuff up but we promise to showcase
and skewer so many of those unforgettable stories from the
last year of this uh-oh decade:
* See Miami politicians.... finally 'get' the perp walk right!
* Get your no-show job at Angel Gonzalez's Employment Agency
* Spin the Wheel of Healthcare
* Get chosen to die by the Strut's Death Panel
* Go Rogue with Sarah Palin and the Palinistas
* Wonder how an arcane obscure sexual act takes on a new significance
in the street with the Teabaggers
* Run for cover! US National Parks have the right to arm bears
* Barbie gets her AARP Membership Card and Ken's accessory
kit includes Viagra
* Not-so-sunny days at Sesame Street dealing with life at
40
* Michelle Obama defends her right to bare arms
* Expect more of Tiger's women to come out of the Woods-work
* Check out the mudfight in Coconut Grove's new reality show
"Whose Strut is it Anyway?"
And if that wasn't enough to want to put this decade behind
us: Balloon Boy, Levi Johnston, OctoMom, Jon & Kate, Lady
Gaga, Birthers, Priests Gone Wild and the Cash for Clunkers.
Expect to see the usual Strut suspects:
The Hare Krishnas, the Marching Freds, Coconut Grove Juggling
Exchange, the Progressive New Orleans Funeral Band, the Mocko
Jumbi, the Little Miss Mangoes, former Miss Mangoes and dethroned
Miss Mangoes.
The Pre-Parade activities begin
at 1pm at the corner of Commodore Plaza
and Main Highway with Grand Master C, Buzz Fleischman, from
WLRN’s ‘South Florida Arts Beat' Radio Buzz hosting
the Little Miss Mango Pageant (for kids 4-10). Carrie Prejean
will coach contestants in the interview portion of the competition.
This highly competitive pageant will be a tough one for the
judges, especially Judge Perez-Hilton, and everyone is expected
to win. The winners will ride the first float of the Strut.
All parade-goers should arrive early this year to go right
through security checkpoints. No need to worry if you are
on the guest list. The former White House Secret Service Guards
will wave you through. Any unruly parade-goer will be required
to do community service by driving with entertainer Chris
Brown.
Parade begins at 2pm.
The parade route begins at the corner of Commodore Plaza and
Main Highway. It turns left onto Main Highway and turns left
onto Grand Avenue at CocoWalk and back to Commodore Plaza.
If we are having too much fun, we will go around again until
we all fall down. After the
Parade, the streets will remain closed and the King Mango
Music Massacre begins. All the bands in the
parade will continue playing until the
festivities end at 6pm.
All this entertainment is free
(cheaper than a therapist) and open to the public.
There is plenty of parking
along or near the parade route at CocoWalk, Mayfair, Coconut
Grove Playhouse on Main Highway and Charles Avenue, St. Stephens
Episcopal Church, Coconut Grove Elementary School, the City
garage at Oak Avenue and Mary Street, and the City garage
next to the Sonesta Hotel. Click
here for map of area.
