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THE KING MANGO STRUT
Putting the Nut back in CocoNUT Grove since 1982
 
King Mango Strut Entry Form HERE!
Parking map

2009 poster

2009 T-shirt

"Bringing Chubby Back"

Featuring Justin Steak-N-Shake and the Chubbettes, a group concieved for the King Mango Strut 2006.

They just cried out to have a music video made. Watch it now on You Tube!

Join The Club! Check out all the videos in the new King Mango Community Group on You Tube. Sign up now!

Wierdest parade in the Universe!
See our fabulous T-shirt or Poster Collections and our 2006 slide show,
27 years of Mango Marching Madness!
Come by and visit our History page.
A note from your Mango Webmaster:
Please send me links to your photos or videos regarding the King Mango Strut.
keytocay@yahoo.com
SAVE 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.

2008 King Mango Strut Photographs and Videos!

Send links to your photos or videos about the King Mango Strut to keytocay@yahoo.com

CBS channel 4
http://cbs4.com/video/?id=88758@wfor.dayport.com

Photos by Keith & Susan Root
http://picasaweb.google.com/mangostrut/2009Strut#
Miami-Dade County Historic Preservation Boards Resolution on the Demolition of Saint Stephen's 1912 Chapel...sent my Jimmy
http://saintstephens1912chapelcoconutgrove.yolasite.com/
blog post about king mango strut from Debbie Attias
http://www.youthnoise.com/playcity/blog/view/20687
photos by
J.R. Lawrence
http://picasaweb.google.com/JRL.photog/Mango2009?feat=email#
Sierra Strut-Guns In National Parks - from Amy
http://picasaweb.google.com/riverbird8/SierraStrutGunsInNationalParks?feat=email#
photos by Bill Masterson

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lurkzilla/sets/72157623088750858/

photos by Mario Goderich
http://picasaweb.google.com/mariogoderich/20091227?authkey=Gv1sRgCJuP-9_t1PWTtAE&feat=email#

Press Release
The 28th King Mango Strut
Sunday, December 27 at 2pm in Coconut Grove

CAUTION: No one and nothing is safe from parody and satire at the King Mango Strut. Proceed at your own risk.
King Mango Strut Entry Form HERE!

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.

CBS4 News www.cbs4.com

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.

If you don't want to drive (who can blame you,) take the Metrorail to the Coconut Grove Station. There will be shuttle buses (the Coconut Grove Circulator) picking up eager parade-goers every 15 minutes at the station and dropping them 1 block from the parade route.


For additional information call: 305. 401.1171
e-mail: abaldwin@insomnic.net