I went to Coney Island for the first time for the annual Mermaid Parade. I wasn’t 100% clear on what that meant until I actually witnessed it for myself, and among dressing up like mermaids or relevant nautical themed play-on words like “Splash Dance,” it also meant a lot of boobies, pasties, parisoles, spandex, sequins, men in drag, and freaks jumping around on stilts. Probably where American Apparel will cull their Fall/Winter ‘09 collection. The lady above was particularly a crowd pleaser.

There was an abundance of child participation. My favorites were the half naked mothers pushing their baby strollers.

Harvey Keitel was “King Neptune” and I shot a couple of close-ups of him later in the day along with a pretty decent polaroid to add to my celebrity polaroid collection that has reached a formidable total of three. (1 and 2 for point.)

Later I saw Harvey, (that’s what I call him now) telling his chaffuer to go get him some hotdogs and then I stalked the chaffuer as he pushed through the crowd at Nathan’s, eventually cutting in line and ordering (in an Eastern European accent) three hotdogs, one with saurkraut, and a small fry. And yes, I’m probably always that creepy. That’s why I have so many awesome friends.

And other Coney Island Shots

More pictures on my Flickr share.
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Things to Do: Go shopping for spandex.