Start your New Year at the Strut! Mangohead-style!

Today is King Mango Strut Day in Coconut Grove! Hope to see you all out for the wacky parade for it's 30th year! I watched some of the African Snail Group practice yesterday, they will be out slithering around along with the Coconut Grove Drum Circle. And another group marching will be the Real Housewives of Bin Laden, which ironically, I did this cartoon at the time of his death.


Other groups marching today include

· Time Magazine’s Person of the Year protesting protestors protesting protestors!
· Herman Cain reveals his 9-9-9 Plan for "Women for Cain"
· The Wizard of Odds at Miami’s new destination casino
· Highway Patrol Trooper Watts
· Wall Street Vampires tap Charlie Sheen’s Tiger Blood
· Citizens Revolting Against Politicians (The C.R.A.P. Party)
· The Miami Beach Party Cops
· North Korean grief counseling group
· Sierra Club throws a baby shower to welcome the 7th billion person on earth!
· Watch Dr. Buttock fix-a-flat butt, uh oh.
· Anthropology Majors for Rick Scott
and there is so much more.

The King Mango Strut starts at 2 pm at the corner of Commodore Plaza and Main Highway, it winds down Main, goes up to the triangle at McFarlane and Main and turns onto Grande Avenue. Come out early and check out the goings on all over Commodore Plaza, including the Little Miss and Mr. Strut Pageant, where everyone's a winner, this starts at 1:30 pm.

There's plenty of parking all around Coconut Grove, there's no excuse for you not to attend! Click here for Coconut Grove map for parking. There is also a shuttle from the 27th Avenue Metrolrail station, so take the train to the Strut!

The party continues on Commodore Plaza with live music and fun after the parade until 6 pm. Start your New Year at the Strut!