Save the Boobies!: Mermaid Parade Kickstarter Campaign is Halfway There!

You could give money to the Susan G. Komen Foundation for Breast Cancer Research and  Anti-Abortion Shilling.  Or you could give money to support art. Or you could give money to any number of other charitable organizations, depending on whether you care about art, womens' health, Republican asshattery, or any number of other causes. 

Butt weight!! If you've got money burning a hole in your pocket, and you want to benefit art and exposed breasts at the same time, think about donating  to the Kickstarter Campaign that aims to save the Mermaid Parade, in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.  

The great irony of this fundraising effort is that we'd all like to think of something like the Mermaid Parade as an ad hoc, impromptu, anarchistic event where people let their freak flags fly with abandon.  A sort of "Burning Man on the Boardwalk."  A gay pride parade with only half of the "gay" and seven times the "pride."  An artistic homage to the kind of art that celebrates someone walking around in public wearing nothing more than body paint, a jockstrap and a smile.  Unfortunately for your twinkle-ding-dong-rainbows-and-unicorns ideation, that is not the case.  You have to have cash money (a/k/a dinero, moolah, samoleans, USD, loot, coin, crispy lettuce, MONEY)  money, money, money to put on a parade in New York City.  Even if that parade is In Coney Island. And it involves nekkid boobies and jockstraps.

Lookit.  The Mermaid Parade is something special.  It's worth saving, in my book. Donate.