April Fool's Day 2024

April Fool's Day

In San Francisco, April 1 is the date of the annual St. Stupid's Day Parade, conducted by the First Church of the Last Laugh.  The event celebrates everything stupid.  People wear stupid costumes and carry stupid signs.  The parade follows a path connecting six "stations of stupid."  The first station is at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, where Bishop Joey, above (a reference to 1960s comedian Joey Bishop) blesses the Fed with a bunch of losing lottery tickets.

Being San Francisco, there are always a few naked guys around.  Today's naked photos are from the St. Stupid's Day celebration in 2017.

Above: a lawyer with his briefs.

Three naked guys on the sidewalk before the parade.

A better look at the guy on the left in the previous photo.

And here's the guy who was on the right.

A rear view of him, next to nudity activist Rusty Mills carrying a sign "I bought the Emperor's new clothes."

Is he a Trump supporter?  No, I think the location of the name is telling us what he thinks of Trump.

Then there's the parade.  Above is a parade float featuring three Doggie Diner heads.  Each head was originally outside a Doggie Diner, a chain of fast food restaurants in San Francisco that went out of business in 1986.  The heads were featured in the comic strip Zippy and have passed into San Francisco popular culture, including their annual appearance in the St. Stupid's Day parade.

We end with a video clip of the parade, including some of the naked guys whom we have just seen.