Part of Coconut Grove took over S. Miami today

He's King of the World -- or at least King of the King Mango Strut on Sunset Drive, which was the case today. Glenn Terry brought his group to Sunset to strut as part of the Volksblast, classic Volkswagen show that was going on, so the strut had a built-in audience.


But they really didn't need that because so many Grovites showed up for the parade. It seemed as if there were more Grovites outside 33133 today than in. We saw so many familiar faces, including many board members from the other King Mango Strut group.


Glenn, in yellow, with his sons and LeBron James' "brother" for the parade, had a really great concept. It was like going back to the old Grove strut. Total organized chaos.


Lots of familiar faces, who were part of December's Coconut Grove King Mango Strut, were part of this South Miami King Mango Strut today, too.


It was all in good fun, and people had a ball. The weather was perfect for it. That's Bob Deresz playing Mr. Mango Head.


The Grand Marshal was Mr. Clucky the rooster, but poor Mr. Clucky actually died! So the strutters came up with his ashes idea, and Mr. Clucky's ashes were accompanied down Sunset Drive as part of the Strut today (those are the "ashes" in the inset photo).


Prez Obama was there and the farmers from the South Miami Farmer's Market.


And all sorts of clever new ideas were marching down the street.


Some old ideas, too -- this is the BP Oil Spill.


The Piano on the Sandbar was really topical and right on and quite funny. All the media was out, tons of news people and photographers. It ended up being a really great thing. So apparently now there are two King Mango Struts -- the Grove one in December (here's the slideshow) and the South Miami one in January. Go figure. They should parody each other in each others parades.