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		 	  			<h2 class="pagetitle">Joey Skaggs, Editor</h2><br /><small><a href="http://artoftheprank.com/2007/03/24/contributors/#3" rel="external">View Profile</a></small>

				
		
		
		
		
		
		
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				<h2><a href="http://artoftheprank.com/2012/04/24/muppets-protest-at-goldman-sachs/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Muppets Protest at Goldman Sachs">Muppets Protest at Goldman Sachs</a></h2>
				<small>by <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/author/editor/" title="Posts by Joey Skaggs, Editor" rel="author">Joey Skaggs, Editor</a><br /><span class="filedunder">Filed under: <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/category/the-world-of-the-prank/creative-activism/" title="View all posts in Creative Activism" rel="category tag">Creative Activism</a></span></small>
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					<p>From Joey Skaggs:</p>
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<p>Some early photos from yesterday&#8217;s <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/Mobile/Homeless/prweb9429021.htm" target="_blank">demonstration at Goldman Sachs</a> in New York to protest greed and corruption in the financial sector. </p>
<p><a href="http://artoftheprank.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/MHH.Muppets.Thomas.sm_.P1020425.jpg"><img src="http://artoftheprank.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/MHH.Muppets.Thomas.sm_.P1020425.jpg" alt="" title="MHH.Muppets.Thomas.sm.P1020425" width="425" height="567" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14162" /></a><br />
photo: Deborah Thomas</p>
<p><strong>Event Summary</strong>: </p>
<p>A police van filled with officers parked across the street from our staging area and waited for us to depart. As we did, officers on foot walked with us, but across the street. When construction caused us to change our route, I approached an officer and asked the best way to go. From that point on, they functioned as a police escort. When we hit West Street, which is a highway with heavy traffic, the police van, with lights flashing, stopped the traffic for us. We entered the bicycle lane and it was a clear shot down to the Goldman Sachs office at 200 West Street. The police van, with flashing lights, accompanied us the entire way. They were amazingly coordinated, without every having talked with us. <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/2012/04/24/muppets-protest-at-goldman-sachs/#more-14160" class="more-link">(more&#8230;)</a></p>
					
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				<p class="postmetadata">Posted: April 24th, 2012<span class="alignright"></span></p>

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				<h2><a href="http://artoftheprank.com/2012/04/21/muppets-revenge/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Muppets Revenge">Muppets Revenge</a></h2>
				<small>by <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/author/editor/" title="Posts by Joey Skaggs, Editor" rel="author">Joey Skaggs, Editor</a><br /><span class="filedunder">Filed under: <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/category/the-world-of-the-prank/creative-activism/" title="View all posts in Creative Activism" rel="category tag">Creative Activism</a>, <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/category/the-world-of-the-prank/culture-jamming-reality-hacking/" title="View all posts in Culture Jamming and Reality Hacking" rel="category tag">Culture Jamming and Reality Hacking</a></span></small>
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					<p>At 11:00 a.m., April 23, 2012, artist Joey Skaggs will lead a band of outraged costumed muppets down to the Goldman Sachs offices at 200 West Street in NYC. Skaggs will be peddling his Mobile Homeless Homes prototype &#8212; a low cost alternative living space for the millions of upside-down, underwater or foreclosed homeowners who have lost their houses due to the banking crisis that caused the real estate collapse.</p>
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<p><a href="http://artoftheprank.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Dot.P4081077-405.jpg"><img src="http://artoftheprank.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Dot.P4081077-405.jpg" alt="" title="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="421" height="237" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14155" /></a></p>
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<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/Mobile/Homeless/prweb9429021.htm" target="_blank">Outraged Homeless Muppets to Converge on Goldman Sachs</a></p>
<p>&#8220;Homelessness is a great American tragedy. Our financial system and government have let us down and we, together, must take a stand to change the way the system works. With over 11 million homes underwater and millions in foreclosure, people are frightened, distressed and angry,&#8221; says Joey Skaggs.</p>
<p>Although not a cure, <a href="http://mobilehomelesshomes.com" target="_blank"><strong>Mobile Homeless Homes (MHH)</strong></a> offers a temporary solution &#8212; low cost alternative living spaces for the millions of upside-down, underwater or foreclosed homeowners who have lost their houses due to the banking crisis that caused the real estate collapse. The <strong>MHH</strong> centerpiece is a camouflage, stealth, mobile home made from a series of connected plastic garbage cans, propelled by a tricycle, that will be undetectable by authorities. It blends into any urban environment. <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/2012/04/21/muppets-revenge/#more-14140" class="more-link">(more&#8230;)</a></p>
					
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				<p class="postmetadata">Posted: April 21st, 2012<span class="alignright"></span></p>

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				<h2><a href="http://artoftheprank.com/2012/04/21/announcing-mobile-homeless-homes/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Announcing Mobile Homeless Homes">Announcing Mobile Homeless Homes</a></h2>
				<small>by <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/author/editor/" title="Posts by Joey Skaggs, Editor" rel="author">Joey Skaggs, Editor</a><br /><span class="filedunder">Filed under: <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/category/the-world-of-the-prank/creative-activism/" title="View all posts in Creative Activism" rel="category tag">Creative Activism</a>, <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/category/the-world-of-the-prank/culture-jamming-reality-hacking/" title="View all posts in Culture Jamming and Reality Hacking" rel="category tag">Culture Jamming and Reality Hacking</a></span></small>
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					<p>From Joey Skaggs:</p>
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<p><a href="http://mobilehomelesshomes.com" target="_blank">Mobile Homeless Homes</a></p>
<p><a href="http://artoftheprank.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/mobile.homeless.flyer_.final_.lr2_.jpg"><img src="http://artoftheprank.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/mobile.homeless.flyer_.final_.lr2_.jpg" alt="" title="mobile.homeless.flyer.final.lr2" width="540" height="708" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14141" /></a></p>
					
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				<p class="postmetadata">Posted: April 21st, 2012<span class="alignright"></span></p>

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				<h2><a href="http://artoftheprank.com/2012/03/29/florida-family-association-brands-april-fools-day-parade-progressive-liberals/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Florida Family Association Brands April Fools&#8217; Day Parade &#8220;Progressive Liberals&#8221;">Florida Family Association Brands April Fools&#8217; Day Parade &#8220;Progressive Liberals&#8221;</a></h2>
				<small>by <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/author/editor/" title="Posts by Joey Skaggs, Editor" rel="author">Joey Skaggs, Editor</a><br /><span class="filedunder">Filed under: <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/category/the-world-of-the-prank/satire/" title="View all posts in Satire" rel="category tag">Satire</a>, <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/category/fact-or-fiction/the-big-one/" title="View all posts in The Big One" rel="category tag">The Big One</a>, <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/category/fact-or-fiction/truth-thats-stranger-than-fiction/" title="View all posts in Truth that&#039;s Stranger than Fiction" rel="category tag">Truth that's Stranger than Fiction</a></span></small>
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					<p>From Joey Skaggs: Based on the hate-mail I received, apparently because the Florida Family Association featured the April Fools&#8217; Day Parade on their website, I expect to see the FFA protesting at the parade. If so, I&#8217;m sure the crowd will elect them hands-down winner as this year&#8217;s collective King of Fools. They seem to confuse satire with Satan.</p>
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<p>From the <a href="http://floridafamily.org" target="_blank">Florida Family Association</a>:</p>
<p><a href="http://floridafamily.org/full_article.php?article_no=143" target="_blank">Liberal New York April Fools day parade to mock Florida Family Association for public opposition to TLC’s All-American Muslim.</a></p>
<p><a href="http://artoftheprank.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/ffamasthead.jpg"><img src="http://artoftheprank.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/ffamasthead.jpg" alt="" title="ffamasthead" width="425" height="66" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-14017" /></a></p>
<blockquote><p>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.</p>
<p>The PRNewswire reports in part: </p>
<blockquote><p>The 27th Annual April Fools&#8217; 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.  </p>
<p>The marching celebrity look-alikes will include M.I.A. and Adele flipping the bird; Rush Limbaugh yelling &#8220;You slut!&#8221;; Arizona Governor Jan Brewer wagging her finger; Sara Palin citing Paul Revere revisionist history; <strong>Florida Family Association leader David Caton protesting anything Muslim</strong>; Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour bound to his pardoned prisoners as he sings Sam Cook&#8217;s &#8220;Chain Gang.&#8221; Following the parade down to Washington Square Park will be a brigade of New York City&#8217;s Finest led by Officer Anthony Bologna, pepper spraying the crowd.</p></blockquote>
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<p>Here&#8217;s a sampling of the hate mail:</p>
<p> <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/2012/03/29/florida-family-association-brands-april-fools-day-parade-progressive-liberals/#more-14016" class="more-link">(more&#8230;)</a></p>
					
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				<p class="postmetadata">Posted: March 29th, 2012<span class="alignright"></span></p>

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				<h2><a href="http://artoftheprank.com/2012/03/24/ny-april-fools-day-parade-to-be-largest-yet/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to NY April Fools&#8217; Day Parade To Be Largest Yet!">NY April Fools&#8217; Day Parade To Be Largest Yet!</a></h2>
				<small>by <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/author/editor/" title="Posts by Joey Skaggs, Editor" rel="author">Joey Skaggs, Editor</a><br /><span class="filedunder">Filed under: <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/category/the-world-of-the-prank/creative-activism/" title="View all posts in Creative Activism" rel="category tag">Creative Activism</a></span></small>
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					<p>From Joey Skaggs:</p>
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<strong>New York City&#8217;s 27th Annual April Fools Day Parade</p>
<p><a href="http://mim.io/65a062" target="_blank">Occupy Washington Square Park!</a></strong></p>
<p>For three decades, New York City&#8217;s Annual <a href="http://aprilfoolsdayparade.com" target="_blank">April Fools&#8217; Day Parade</a> has offered the public an opportunity to express, in a comical way, its outrage against the foolishness of mankind. <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/jesternoborder-200.jpg"><img src="http://artoftheprank.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/jesternoborder-200.jpg" alt="" title="jesternoborder-200" width="200" height="229" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-14008" /></a>Thousands of participants in look-alike costumes with satirical floats creatively mock the thoughtless, corrupt and selfish acts of the past year. </p>
<p>Kicking off noon on Sunday, April 1, the parade marches down 5th Avenue from 59th Street to Washington Square Park where revelers party to demonstrate against new rules that restrict the First Amendment rights of performing artists in the park. It will end with the annual crowning of the King of Fools. </p>
<p>Spread the word!</p>
<p>Read the press release <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/3/prweb9253648.htm" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
					
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				<p class="postmetadata">Posted: March 24th, 2012<span class="alignright"></span></p>

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				<h2><a href="http://artoftheprank.com/2012/03/08/nycs-27th-annual-april-fools-day-parade-marches-to-occupy-washington-square-park/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to NYC&#8217;s 27th Annual April Fools&#8217; Day Parade Marches To Occupy Washington Square Park!">NYC&#8217;s 27th Annual April Fools&#8217; Day Parade Marches To Occupy Washington Square Park!</a></h2>
				<small>by <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/author/editor/" title="Posts by Joey Skaggs, Editor" rel="author">Joey Skaggs, Editor</a><br /><span class="filedunder">Filed under: <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/category/the-world-of-the-prank/satire/" title="View all posts in Satire" rel="category tag">Satire</a></span></small>
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					<p>From Joey Skaggs:</p>
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<p><a href="http://artoftheprank.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/aprilfoolsdayparade-425.jpg"><img src="http://artoftheprank.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/aprilfoolsdayparade-425.jpg" style="float: none !important;" alt="" title="aprilfoolsdayparade-425" width="425" height="156" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-13909" /></a></p>
<p>SUMMARY:<br />
<em>For three decades, New York City&#8217;s Annual April Fools&#8217; 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!</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/3/prweb9253648.htm" target="_blank">PRESS RELEASE</a>:<br />
The <strong>27th Annual April Fools’ Day Parade</strong> 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.</p>
<p>The <strong>New York April Fools’ Day Parade</strong> 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 <strong>Speaker of the House John Boehner</strong>.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Every year the parade gets bigger and more outrageous. There&#8217;s never a shortage of fools,&#8221; says Joey Skaggs, parade organizer.
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<p> <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/2012/03/08/nycs-27th-annual-april-fools-day-parade-marches-to-occupy-washington-square-park/#more-13907" class="more-link">(more&#8230;)</a></p>
					
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				<p class="postmetadata">Posted: March 8th, 2012<span class="alignright"></span></p>

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				<h2><a href="http://artoftheprank.com/2011/04/21/obama-served-protest-song-for-breakfast/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Obama Served Protest Song for Breakfast">Obama Served Protest Song for Breakfast</a></h2>
				<small>by <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/author/editor/" title="Posts by Joey Skaggs, Editor" rel="author">Joey Skaggs, Editor</a><br /><span class="filedunder">Filed under: <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/category/the-world-of-the-prank/creative-activism/" title="View all posts in Creative Activism" rel="category tag">Creative Activism</a>, <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/category/the-world-of-the-prank/culture-jamming-reality-hacking/" title="View all posts in Culture Jamming and Reality Hacking" rel="category tag">Culture Jamming and Reality Hacking</a></span></small>
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					<p>From editor Joey Skaggs: </p>
<p>Naomi Pitcairn and a group of her friends staged a protest, singing a song to President Obama at his fundraising breakfast today in San Francisco to bring attention to the incarceration and unjust treatment of U.S. Army soldier Bradley Manning. Manning was arrested in Iraq in May 2010 on suspicion of having passed confidential and embarrassing government communications to WikiLeaks. </p>
<p><a href="http://artoftheprank.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/www.deathandtaxesmag-425.jpg"><img src="http://artoftheprank.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/www.deathandtaxesmag-425.jpg" style="float: none !important;" alt="" title="www.deathandtaxesmag-425" width="425" height="291" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-12239" /></a></p>
<p>Watch the <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?entry_id=87504" target="_blank">video of the protest</a> on SF Gate, read some of the media coverage and see the song lyrics below, submitted by Mike Lehr. </p>
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<p><a href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/21/obama-preaching-to-the-choir-is-met-by-a-rude-chorus/" target="_blank">Obama, Preaching to the Choir, Is Met by a Rude Chorus</a><br />
by Jackie Calmes<br />
TheCaucus.blogs at The New York Times<br />
April 21, 2011</p>
<p>It was hardly a surprise that President Obama got an earful in San Francisco about frustration in his party’s left over the pace of his promised change. But it was a bit unexpected when the protest came at a high-dollar fund-raising breakfast Thursday morning.</p>
<p>Soon after Mr. Obama began speaking to about 150 people who had contributed up to $35,800 each, a woman at a rear table stood and announced that her group wanted to sing him a song it had written. And they did, despite Mr. Obama’s request that they wait until after his remarks.</p>
<p>The full lyrics were written on a menu for the event. The chorus: “We paid our dues, where’s our change?” <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/2011/04/21/obama-served-protest-song-for-breakfast/#more-12238" class="more-link">(more&#8230;)</a></p>
					
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				<p class="postmetadata">Posted: April 21st, 2011<span class="alignright"></span></p>

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				<h2><a href="http://artoftheprank.com/2011/03/30/april-fools-day-parade-noon-friday/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to April Fools&#8217; Day Parade &#8212; Noon Friday!">April Fools&#8217; Day Parade &#8212; Noon Friday!</a></h2>
				<small>by <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/author/editor/" title="Posts by Joey Skaggs, Editor" rel="author">Joey Skaggs, Editor</a><br /><span class="filedunder">Filed under: <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/category/the-world-of-the-prank/satire/" title="View all posts in Satire" rel="category tag">Satire</a></span></small>
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					<p>From Joey Skaggs: </p>
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<p><a href="http://artoftheprank.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/jester2011-140.jpg"><img src="http://artoftheprank.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/jester2011-140.jpg" alt="" title="jester2011-140" width="140" height="205" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-12068" /></a>Rain or shine, <a href="http://aprilfoolsdayparade.com" target="_blank">The 26th Annual April Fools&#8217; Day Parade</a> kicks off from 5th Avenue and 59th Street Friday, April 1 at noon. </p>
<p>Alert: We have so many Charlie Sheen look-alike volunteers that we&#8217;ve added a Charlie Sheen look-alike contest in Washington Square Park right after the parade. See you there!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/26thAnnual/AprilFoolsDayParade/prweb5139594.htm" target="_blank">Link to the press release</a></p>
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				<p class="postmetadata">Posted: March 30th, 2011<span class="alignright"></span></p>

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				<h2><a href="http://artoftheprank.com/2011/03/14/announcing-new-yorks-26th-annual-april-fools-day-parade/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Announcing: New York City&#8217;s 26th Annual April Fools&#8217; Day Parade">Announcing: New York City&#8217;s 26th Annual April Fools&#8217; Day Parade</a></h2>
				<small>by <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/author/editor/" title="Posts by Joey Skaggs, Editor" rel="author">Joey Skaggs, Editor</a><br /><span class="filedunder">Filed under: <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/category/the-world-of-the-prank/prank-news/" title="View all posts in Prank News" rel="category tag">Prank News</a>, <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/category/the-world-of-the-prank/satire/" title="View all posts in Satire" rel="category tag">Satire</a></span></small>
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					<p>From Joey Skaggs:</p>
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<p><center>The New York April Fools’ Committee Is Proud to Announce:</p>
<p><a href="http://artoftheprank.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/jester2011.jpg"><img src="http://artoftheprank.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/jester2011.jpg" alt="" title="jester2011" width="166" height="243" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-11915" /></a><strong><a href="http://aprilfoolsdayparade.com" target="_blank">NEW YORK CITY&#8217;S 26th APRIL FOOLS&#8217; DAY PARADE</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>“If It Wasn’t For Bad Luck I’d Have No Luck At All”</strong></center></p>
<p>The <strong><a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/26thAnnual/AprilFoolsDayParade/prweb5139594.htm" target="_blank">26th Annual April Fools’ Day Parade</a></strong> will begin at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street at 12 noon, Friday, April 1, 2011. Rain or shine, the parade will march down Fifth Avenue to Washington Square Park for the post-parade festivities and selection of the King or Queen of Fools from the costumed marching look-alikes.</p>
<p>The theme for this year’s parade is <strong>“If It Wasn’t For Bad Luck I’d Have No Luck At All.”</strong> The parade will kick off with a <strong>Bob Dylan</strong> classic <strong>“A Hard Rain&#8217;s A-Gonna Fall”</strong> sung by the very vocal <strong>WTF! Chorus</strong> including General <strong>Stanley McChrystal</strong>, ex-Republican Party Chairman <strong>Michael Steele</strong>, actors <strong>Lindsay Lohan</strong> and <strong>Charlie Sheen</strong>, Representative <strong>Charlie Rangel</strong>, and deposed Egyptian President <strong>Hosni Mubarek</strong> look-alikes. Color commentary will be provided by Governor <strong>Mike Huckabee</strong>. It may be inaccurate but it will be colorful.</p>
<p><a href="http://artoftheprank.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/unclesam-200.jpg"><img src="http://artoftheprank.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/unclesam-200.jpg" alt="" title="unclesam-200" width="200" height="171" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-11917" /></a>This year’s floats will be lead by <strong>Grand Marshall Tony Heyward</strong>, whose <strong>Lap Pool float</strong> filled with crude oil will feature BP, Halliburton and Trans Ocean executives bobbing in the muck. Parade attendees are encouraged to bring stuffed birds, animals and fish to toss into the pool as the float passes. Next will be the corporate-sponsored <strong>Supreme Court float</strong> featuring justices completely covered with corporate logos waving banners proclaiming “Corporations Are People Too!” They will be followed by the <strong>Congressional Marionnette Show float</strong> with lobbyists pulling the strings of dancing elected officials. Next is the giant <strong>Royal Wedding Cake Piggy Bank</strong> driven by Elton John, featuring Prince William and Kate Middleton on top. Uniformed royal guards will be asking for spare change from the crowd to help pay for the wedding. And then there will be the <strong>Middle-Class Backyard Russian Spy float</strong> equipped with lawn chairs, a barbecue, and an above-ground pool. The beautiful sexy Russian spy Ana Chapman will be handing out hot dogs to the crowd. Next is the <strong>State of Arizona float</strong> driven by Governor Jan Brewer as a wall is being constructed by illegal Mexican immigrants. This will be followed by a motorized 30-foot miniature of the <strong>USS Enterprise</strong> commanded by Captain Honor projecting lewd and lascivious videos for the crowd to see. <strong>The Pope</strong> will make an appearance in his new decked-out <strong>Pimpmobile</strong> tossing colored condoms Mardi Gras–style to the crowd. Throughout the parade <strong>fleeing Arab Dictators and Tyrants</strong> will dash along carrying bulging suitcases overstuffed with American dollars. The <strong>Topeka Westborough Baptist Church float</strong> will bring up the rear protesting everything and damning everyone to Hell. <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/2011/03/14/announcing-new-yorks-26th-annual-april-fools-day-parade/#more-11910" class="more-link">(more&#8230;)</a></p>
					
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				<p class="postmetadata">Posted: March 14th, 2011<span class="alignright"></span></p>

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				<h2><a href="http://artoftheprank.com/2010/12/02/a-personal-correspondence-from-julian-assange/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to A Personal Correspondence from Julian Assange">A Personal Correspondence from Julian Assange</a></h2>
				<small>by <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/author/editor/" title="Posts by Joey Skaggs, Editor" rel="author">Joey Skaggs, Editor</a><br /><span class="filedunder">Filed under: <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/category/all-about-pranks/first-amendment-issues/" title="View all posts in First Amendment Issues" rel="category tag">First Amendment Issues</a>, <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/category/fact-or-fiction/propaganda-disinformation/" title="View all posts in Propaganda and Disinformation" rel="category tag">Propaganda and Disinformation</a></span></small>
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					<p>Editor&#8217;s note: The Art of the Prank is in receipt of previously unpublished content from the vast archive of WikiLeaks documents. We feel we have an obligation, in the pursuit of freedom of information, to publish these excerpts as we receive them. We will continue to post them as they are sent to us. We realize the danger Julian Assange faces. We can honestly say we do not know where he is.</p>
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<p>Thank you for your offer to publish some of the more controversial classified U.S. government documents WikiLeaks brought into the public domain on the 28th of November 2010. Although The New York Times and the Guardian began publishing some of the 251,287 WikiLeaks documents, The New York Times has bowed to government pressure and decided to withhold some passages and in some cases, entire cables whose disclosure, they claim, could compromise American intelligence efforts and even upset U.S. domestic political stability.   </p>
<p>Some of the documents being withheld which will give the world unprecedented insight into the US Government&#8217;s foreign and domestic activities, appear to be benign except as to cause some embarrassment to certain public figures. One cable withheld is about Silvio Berlusconi, who, while contemplating a run for the Italian presidency, took a medical holiday in Luzern, Switzerland to have a very large &#8220;OMERTA&#8221; tattoo removed from his back by surgical laser. Also, he and Vladimir Putin have been described by an aid as having had an alcohol and drug fueled &#8220;boys night,&#8221; shooting out the windows of the UK Consul General&#8217;s empty parked Daimler with automatic weapons the pair borrowed from their bodyguards on a Berlusconi Moscow visit.  </p>
<p>Sarah Palin attempted to secretly adopt two Downs Syndrome infants through an Asian adoption agency. The Chinese balked when Palin revealed that she needed stand-ins for Trig, <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/2010/12/02/a-personal-correspondence-from-julian-assange/#more-11464" class="more-link">(more&#8230;)</a></p>
					
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				<p class="postmetadata">Posted: December 2nd, 2010<span class="alignright"></span></p>

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				<h2><a href="http://artoftheprank.com/2010/10/17/verne-bulldog-williams-1935-2010-rip/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Verne &#8220;Bulldog&#8221; Williams (1935-2010), RIP">Verne &#8220;Bulldog&#8221; Williams (1935-2010), RIP</a></h2>
				<small>by <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/author/editor/" title="Posts by Joey Skaggs, Editor" rel="author">Joey Skaggs, Editor</a><br /><span class="filedunder">Filed under: <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/category/the-world-of-the-prank/pranksters/" title="View all posts in Pranksters" rel="category tag">Pranksters</a>, <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/category/all-about-pranks/the-history-of-pranks/" title="View all posts in The History of Pranks" rel="category tag">The History of Pranks</a></span></small>
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					<p>From publisher and editor Joey Skaggs:</p>
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<p><a href="http://artoftheprank.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/play.jpg"><img src="http://artoftheprank.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/play.jpg" alt="" title="play" width="100" height="125" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-11351" /></a>It is with shock and sadness that I write of the unexpected passing of Verne Williams, a life-long friend and co-conspirator, on Thursday, October 14. Among other illustrious <a href="http://www.vernewilliamsinterviews.com/" target="_blank">facets of his career</a>, Verne was with me on my <a href="http://joeyskaggs.com/html/bus.html" target="_blank">Hippie Bus Tour to Queens</a> in 1968, was the inspiration for and center piece of my <a href="http://joeyskaggs.com/html/bad.html" target="_blank">Bad Guys Talent Management Agency</a>  in 1984; and performed in <a href="http://joeyskaggs.com/html/walk.html" target="_blank">Walk Right!</a> (1984), <a href="http://joeyskaggs.com/html/fat.html" target="_blank">The Fat Squad</a> (1986), and <a href="http://joeyskaggs.com/html/geo.html" target="_blank">Save The Geoduck</a> (1987). He appeared as me for an interview with <a href="http://joeyskaggs.com/html/play.html" target="_blank">Playback Magazine</a> (1995). He was a great, endearing and enduring friend. </p>
<p>A memorial service will be held October 30 at 1pm at Marinella Restaurant, on the corner of Carmine and Bedford Streets in Greenwich Village, NYC.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a walk down my memory lane with Verne:</p>
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<p><strong>Hippie Bus Tour to Queens, 1968</strong></p>
<p>In 1968, I loaded a Greyhound bus with camera-toting, long haired, beaded hippies and took them on a <a href="http://joeyskaggs.com/html/bus.html" target="_blank">bus tour of surburban Queens</a>. I did this in response to all the suburbanites who were coming into the East Village to gawk at the hippies. I called it my &#8220;cultural exchange&#8221; program. Verne was one of the passengers.</p>
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<p><strong>Bad Guys Talent Management Agency, 1984</strong></p>
<p>Verne left NYC for greener pastures, literally. He ran a hog farm in Vermont for a while and then moved to Virginia where he was trimming the hooves of cattle for a living. He really wanted to be an actor. He wrote me letter after letter imploring me to help him get some national commercials while he awaited the brass ring, which to him was a role in a feature film. I tried to talk some sense into him, but he would have none of that. Since he didn&#8217;t have any acting training, experience, or representation, I decided to create a talent management agency specifically for him. I called it Bad Guys Incorporated. I would represent bad guys, bad girls, bad kids and bad dogs &#8212; venomous vixens, burly bouncers and slimy sleazes. I told Verne to go to the Post Office and bring back a wanted poster so I could create his head shot.<br />
 <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/2010/10/17/verne-bulldog-williams-1935-2010-rip/#more-11350" class="more-link">(more&#8230;)</a></p>
					
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				<p class="postmetadata">Posted: October 17th, 2010<span class="alignright"></span></p>

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				<h2><a href="http://artoftheprank.com/2010/07/09/alice-neel-remembered/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Alice Neel Remembered">Alice Neel Remembered</a></h2>
				<small>by <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/author/editor/" title="Posts by Joey Skaggs, Editor" rel="author">Joey Skaggs, Editor</a><br /><span class="filedunder">Filed under: <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/category/the-world-of-the-prank/parody/" title="View all posts in Parody" rel="category tag">Parody</a></span></small>
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					<p><strong>Update, July 31, 2010</strong>: Mystery solved! Contributor Sara Jones found an <a href="http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/features/piero-gilardi/" target="_blank">article</a> in the June/July issue of <em>Art in America</em> about the Italian artist at whose exhibition I met Alice Neel. His name is <a href="http://www.parcoartevivente.it/atelier/index.php?lingua_sito=2" target="_blank">Piero Gilardi</a>.</p>
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<p><strong>From Joey Skaggs, editor, July 9, 2010:</strong> </p>
<p>An <a href="http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&#038;int_new=39151" target="_blank">Alice Neel retrospective</a> has been organized by White Chapel Gallery in Houston and is currently traveling in Europe. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Neel" target="_blank">Neel (1900-1984) was a portrait painter</a>. A portrait she painted of me in the mid 60s was recently exhibited at <a href="http://www.lalouver.com/" target="_blank">La Louver Gallery</a> in Venice, CA. Peter Frank <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-frank/blague-dart-everything-ol_b_633456.html" target="_blank">reviewed the show</a> in Huffington Post on July 7, 2010. </p>
<p>Seeing the portrait again brought back memories of meeting her. It was one of those incredible encounters. </p>
<p>I was having an exhibition of my abstract landscape paintings in mid-town New York and decided to walk up and down 57th street visiting other galleries. I ended up in a gallery whose name I can’t recall featuring an Italian sculptor whose name I also don’t remember. The artist carved elaborate environments from giant rolls of foam and air brushed them to look realistic. They were rolls of artificial reality. One was a giant landscape hanging from the wall and draping onto the floor, simulating a creek bed. There was also a watermelon patch and a tomato garden. I found myself standing next to a little old lady (I being in my twenties and she being in her sixties, she was a little old lady to me). We both were staring at the creek and then looked at each other. She said “Why don’t we take off our shoes and walk on it. I wonder what it feels like.” She kicked off her shoes, I pulled off my cowboy boots and we stood on it together, squishing the foam under our toes. She said “I could just see them rolling this out over Vietnam.” I said, “Yeah, covering the dead bodies.” She said, “What do you do, my dear?” I said, “I’m an artist. As a matter of fact, I&#8217;m having an exhibition of my work right now just a few blocks away.” She said, “I’m an artist too! Let’s go see your work.” And we did. </p>
<p>She said she’d like me to pose for her, that she’d like to do a really big painting, 6 feet tall, full figure. I agreed and she asked me to pick up the stretchers and the canvas. She never reimbursed me, but I figured, okay, she’s a little old lady… And that began my friendship with Alice Neel. Although I’ve seen pictures, I haven’t seen the actual painting for decades. Somewhere along the line, not sure if by her or someone else, my last name Skaggs was spelled with a “c” instead of a “k”. </p>
<p>For fun I thought I&#8217;d pose with my twenty-something self&#8230;</p>
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				<p class="postmetadata">Posted: July 9th, 2010<span class="alignright"></span></p>

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				<h2><a href="http://artoftheprank.com/2010/03/31/up-up-away/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Up, Up &#038; Away!">Up, Up &#038; Away!</a></h2>
				<small>by <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/author/editor/" title="Posts by Joey Skaggs, Editor" rel="author">Joey Skaggs, Editor</a><br /><span class="filedunder">Filed under: <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/category/the-world-of-the-prank/satire/" title="View all posts in Satire" rel="category tag">Satire</a></span></small>
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					<p>From Joey Skaggs:</p>
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<p><center><a href="http://aprilfoolsdayparade.com" target="_blank">New York City&#8217;s 25th Annual April Fools&#8217; Day Parade</a> kicks off at noon sharp from 5th Avenue and 59th Street!! Come join the festivities!</p>
<p>For details, <a href="http://aprilfoolsdayparade.com" target="_blank">check out the press release</a>. See you there!</center></p>
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				<p class="postmetadata">Posted: March 31st, 2010<span class="alignright"></span></p>

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				<h2><a href="http://artoftheprank.com/2010/03/22/announcing-new-yorks-25th-annual-april-fools-day-parade/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Announcing New York&#8217;s 25th Annual April Fools&#8217; Day Parade">Announcing New York&#8217;s 25th Annual April Fools&#8217; Day Parade</a></h2>
				<small>by <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/author/editor/" title="Posts by Joey Skaggs, Editor" rel="author">Joey Skaggs, Editor</a><br /><span class="filedunder">Filed under: <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/category/the-world-of-the-prank/satire/" title="View all posts in Satire" rel="category tag">Satire</a></span></small>
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<p><center>The New York April Fools’ Committee Is Proud to Announce</p>
<p><a href="http://aprilfoolsdayparade.com" target="_blank"><strong>NEW YORK CITY’S 25th ANNUAL APRIL FOOLS’ DAY PARADE</strong></a></p>
<p><strong>“Up, Up and Away!”</strong></center></p>
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<p>The <strong>25th Annual April Fools’ Day Parade</strong> will begin at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street at 12 noon, Thursday, April 1, 2010. Rain or shine, the parade will march down 5th Avenue to Washington Square Park for the post-parade festivities and selection of the King or Queen of Fools from the costumed marching look-alikes.</p>
<p>The theme for this year’s parade is “<strong>Up, Up and Away</strong>.” Led by <strong>Grand Marshall Ben Bernanke</strong>, the parade will kick off with the <strong>Where’s-the-Money Marching Band</strong> playing this year’s theme song by the Fifth Dimension “<strong>Up, Up and Away in My Beautiful Balloon</strong>.” Color commentary will be provided by <strong>Sarah Palin</strong> for her new Fox TV show “We Make It Up, You Believe It.” Thanks to a contribution by a secret donor in honor of the parade’s 25th anniversary, 10,000 red, white and blue helium balloons, each with a crisp one-dollar bill attached, will be released along the parade route.</p>
<p>The floats this year will be led by Richard and Mayumi Heene with their <strong>Homemade Helium Flying Saucer Float</strong>. Next will be the <strong>Northwest Airlines Flight 188 “Siesta” Cockpit Float</strong> with pilot Timothy B. Cheney and first officer Richard I. Cole napping. Then a <strong>North Korea Missile Launch Float</strong> will launch H2O bombs into the crowd. The <strong>OK Corral Float</strong> will follow featuring Washington Wizards basketball stars Gilbert Arena and Javaris Crittenton with their guns a&#8217;blazing. Although we don’t know what will be going on inside, <strong>Washington&#8217;s “C” Street House Float</strong> will come next. Then comes the <strong>Late Night TV Roman Chariot Race</strong> with Jay Leno, Conan O’Brien and David Letterman pulled by network execs instead of horses as they battle for position. <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/2010/03/22/announcing-new-yorks-25th-annual-april-fools-day-parade/#more-10392" class="more-link">(more&#8230;)</a></p>
					
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				<p class="postmetadata">Posted: March 22nd, 2010<span class="alignright"></span></p>

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				<h2><a href="http://artoftheprank.com/2010/01/15/empire-of-illusion/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Empire of Illusion">Empire of Illusion</a></h2>
				<small>by <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/author/editor/" title="Posts by Joey Skaggs, Editor" rel="author">Joey Skaggs, Editor</a><br /><span class="filedunder">Filed under: <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/category/fact-or-fiction/propaganda-disinformation/" title="View all posts in Propaganda and Disinformation" rel="category tag">Propaganda and Disinformation</a>, <a href="http://artoftheprank.com/category/fact-or-fiction/spin/" title="View all posts in Spin" rel="category tag">Spin</a></span></small>
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					<p>From editor Joey Skaggs: I recommend this piece from The January/February 2010 issue of <a href="http://www.tikkun.org/" target="_blank">Tikkun</a> written by Christopher Hedges about the cultural phenomenon of celebrity-ism. Parts are excerpted from his 2009 book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1568584377?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=pranks-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=1568584377">Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=pranks-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=1568584377" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.tikkun.org/article.php/jan10_hedges" target="_blank">Celebrity Culture and the Obama Brand</a>, by Christopher Hedges</p>
<p><img src="http://artoftheprank.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/b_celebrity-425.jpg" alt="b_celebrity-425" title="b_celebrity-425" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-10181" /> </p>
<p>Barack Obama is a brand. And the Obama brand is designed to make us feel good about our government while corporate overlords loot the Treasury, armies of corporate lobbyists grease the palms of our elected officials, our corporate media diverts us with gossip and trivia, and our imperial wars expand in the Middle East. Brand Obama is about being happy consumers. We are entertained. We feel hopeful. We like our president. We believe he is like us. But like all branded products spun out from the manipulative world of corporate advertising, this product is duping us into doing and supporting a lot of things that are not in our interest.</p>
<p>What, for all our faith and hope, has the Obama brand given us? </p>
<p>Read the rest of this article <a href="http://www.tikkun.org/article.php/jan10_hedges" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
					
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				<p class="postmetadata">Posted: January 15th, 2010<span class="alignright"></span></p>

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							<li class="cat-item cat-item-6"><a href="http://artoftheprank.com/category/all-about-pranks/" title="This Blog will have submissions from many known and not so known pranksters, artists, performers, activists and writers. It will provide a continuing and growing exploration into the art of the prank; the role of the prankster as artist, activist and social observer; and the contribution of the prank to society. ">All About Pranks</a> (259)
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	<li class="cat-item cat-item-43"><a href="http://artoftheprank.com/category/how-to-pull-off-a-prank/" title="Here you will find tips from the pros about intent, content, and technique to help you be successful in getting your message across.">How to Pull Off a Prank</a> (55)
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