From Joey Skaggs: Based on the hate-mail I received, apparently because the Florida Family Association featured the April Fools’ Day Parade on their website, I expect to see the FFA protesting at the parade. If so, I’m sure the crowd will elect them hands-down winner as this year’s collective King of Fools. They seem to confuse satire with Satan.

From the Florida Family Association:

Liberal New York April Fools day parade to mock Florida Family Association for public opposition to TLC’s All-American Muslim.

The progressive liberals in New York have added Florida Family Association leader David Caton to a list of people to mock in their April Fools day parade because of the organization’s public opposition to TLC’s All-American Muslim.

The PRNewswire reports in part:

The 27th Annual April Fools’ Day Parade will begin at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street at 12 noon, Sunday, April 1, 2012. Rain or shine, the parade will march down Fifth Avenue to Washington Square Park for the climactic selection of the King or Queen of Fools from the costumed marching look-alikes.

The marching celebrity look-alikes will include M.I.A. and Adele flipping the bird; Rush Limbaugh yelling “You slut!”; Arizona Governor Jan Brewer wagging her finger; Sara Palin citing Paul Revere revisionist history; Florida Family Association leader David Caton protesting anything Muslim; Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour bound to his pardoned prisoners as he sings Sam Cook’s “Chain Gang.” Following the parade down to Washington Square Park will be a brigade of New York City’s Finest led by Officer Anthony Bologna, pepper spraying the crowd.

Here’s a sampling of the hate mail:

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From Deborah: The Leo Burnett Agency in Detroit used irony and saved a hometown library.

Save Troy Library

via Tom Parrett

From Joey Skaggs:

SUMMARY:
For three decades, New York City’s Annual April Fools’ Day Parade has offered the public an opportunity to express, in a comical way, its outrage against the foolishness of mankind. Thousands of participants in look-alike costumes with satirical floats creatively mock the thoughtless, corrupt and selfish acts of the past year. Kicking off at noon on Sunday, April 1, the parade will march down 5th Avenue from 59th Street to Washington Square Park where revelers will party to demonstrate against new rules that restrict the First Amendment rights of performing artists in the park. It will conclude with the annual crowning of the King of Fools. Spread the word!

PRESS RELEASE:
The 27th Annual April Fools’ Day Parade will begin at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street at 12 noon, Sunday, April 1, 2012. Rain or shine, the parade will march down Fifth Avenue to Washington Square Park for the climactic selection of the King or Queen of Fools from the costumed marching look-alikes.

The New York April Fools’ Day Parade was created in 1986 to remedy a glaring omission in the long list of New York’s ethnic and holiday parades. These events fail to recognize the importance of April 1st, the day designated to commemorate the folly of mankind. In an attempt to bridge this gap and bring people back in touch with their inherent foolishness, the parade annually crowns a King or Queen of Fools from parading look-alikes. The King of Fools from the 2011 parade was Speaker of the House John Boehner.

“Every year the parade gets bigger and more outrageous. There’s never a shortage of fools,” says Joey Skaggs, parade organizer.

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From Erin: A new website let’s you save the souls of dead Mormons. Just visit the site, enter the name of a dead Mormon, and they’ll be instantly converted. If you don’t know any dead Mormons, the site will select one for you. Holocaust victims are not eligible for conversion.

All Dead Mormon’s are Now Gay

Maya Rudolph channels Maya Angelou who channels Betty White’s inner prankster in “Maya Angelou’s I Know Why The Caged Bird Laughs,” on Saturday Night Live, February 18, 2012:

From Erin:

Here’s a sampling of 106 of the most beloved Street Art Photos–Year 2011. For attributions and to see more, visit StreetArtUtopia.com.

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As featured on Huffington Post:

Colbert Super PAC Releases Romney Attack Ad In South Carolina
January 15, 2012
Huffington Post

A fake run for president is nothing without fake attack ads, and “Definitely Not Coordinating With Stephen Colbert Super PAC” is wasting no time in getting its hysterical message out to South Carolinians [voiced by John Lithgow].

In a press release announcing the ad, Jon Stewart spoke about his new role as head of the Super PAC:

Hi again, it’s me, Jon. When I took over this Super PAC, I had no idea there’d be so much email-writing. Also, there are a lot of plants around Super PAC office with extremely specific watering schedules. Seriously, does a Northwood Spotted Fern really need to be watered “thrice fortnightly at dusk”?

Anyway, The Definitely Not Coordinated With Stephen Colbert Super PAC made an ad, and I figured you’d want to know. I’ve attached the press release below, so hopefully your mouse’s scroll-wheel isn’t broken.

The spot takes Romney’s claim that corporations are people, along with his history of buying companies and breaking them apart, to its comedically logical conclusion: Mitt Romney is a serial killer.

Stephen Colbert readies for presidential run
by Kim Geiger
LA Times
January 13, 2012

After hinting that he might jump into the South Carolina presidential primary race, satirist Stephen Colbert on Thursday moved one step closer to becoming a presidential candidate, declaring the formation of an “exploratory committee” and turning over his super-PAC to fellow Comedy Central host Jon Stewart.

The move is largely symbolic – Colbert missed the Nov. 1 deadline to join the GOP primary ballot and has not qualified for the ballot in any other states. It’s unclear how he plans to win votes in South Carolina, where write-in votes “are not allowed in political party primaries or for president and vice-president,” according to the South Carolina State Election Commission.

But it allows Colbert to press forward with what has become a running skit mocking federal campaign laws.

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A Sofa Experience Communications production:

Say Good Bye to the round pizza and switch to the good vibes. It’s Pizza Boomerang!

It has character and lots of ingredients. You throw it and returns always “al dente”… It’s Pizza Boomerang! It’s an innovative throwing food; made with cheese, pepper and chorizo.

Realization Ibra Muñoz & Nico Zarza. Photography Takuro Takeuchi.
http://www.pizzaboomerang.com/

Es un innovador alimento arrojadizo, hecho con queso, pimiento y chorizo,
dille Goodbye a la pizza redonda y pásate a la buena onda … Es Pizza Boomerang !!

Tiene carácter y un montón de ingredientes, la lanzas y regresa siempre “al dente” … Es Pizza Boomerang!!

via Huffington Post

Cultures Jam in an explosive display of passion as broom wielding rival factions of robed Greek Orthodox and Armenian priests, arriving to clean the holy site of Christ’s birth, wack it out.

image: metro.co.uk

From Erin:

A Very Calvin & Hobbes Christmas

Snowmen… On Ice!

Everything by Jim Frommeyer, Teague Chrystie, & Bill Watterson. From Jim Frommeyer:

Some have been asking how this was made, so here is a link where we break down some of the process.

Submitted by Jean:

by Singer Songwriter Jessica Frech

thanks Boris

Rachel Maddow figures out the true nature of Herman Cain’s presidential candidacy: It’s performance art!

Rachel Maddow: Herman Cain’s Candidacy is an "Art Project"
msnbc.com
November 5, 2011