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First Rule of Doo Dah: Location, Location, Location!

As a reminder, this year's parade is in East Pasadena. Here's a map:

Doo Dah 2012 Live Stream

Can't make the party? When it happens, watch it live right here.

 

Patrizzi Intergarlictica is proclaimed 2012 Doo Dah Queen!

Wearing spangled couture reminiscent of Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra, Patrizzi Intergarlicta wowed over fifty spellbound judges as she hypnotically held court in the center of her own rave party. Projecting a light show against herself, the now Queen Intergarlictica also had judges and observers, alike, gyrating to her space-age electronic dance beats. She will lead a legion of colorful frolickers down Colorado Boulevard in East Pasadena for this year’s 35th occasional event.

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Ann Erdman will serve as Doo Dah’s 2012 Grand Marshal!

Recently retired and well-loved public information officer Ann Erdman was selected to head up this year’s Parade as its Grand Marshal. Erdman has been a long-time Doo Dah enthusiast, having frequently served as its “official” pace car. In fact, she would never know how organizers were going to costume her until 5-minutes before the Parade rolled out. This includes appearances as a flower child, biker mama, captain of industry, baby in a giant high chair, and even a house plant!

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Pasadena Museum of History salutes Doo Dah in a Major exhibition!

On Wednesday, August 15th, the Pasadena Museum of History will present What a Long Strange Trip it’s Been ~ 35 Years of Doo Dah!

The retrospective will feature artifacts, including props, costumes, video and photographs from Parades past, reaching back to its inception in 1978. The exhibition will be on public display through January of 2013!

A fundraiser for installation costs will be in the form of a cocktail party in the museum’s stunning garden in the company of the stunning Royal Doo Dah Queens and held on Sunday, July 1. Save these dates and stay tuned for more!!

Doo Dah Public Information Hotline - Now Live!

Never could get that hot dude/dude-ette's phone number in high school? Well you're in luck because you finally get a number from something smokin' hot: Doo Dah! Come upstairs from the basement and tell mom that you think you've met, "The One!"

Yes that's right - Doo Dah has a new phone number, and we are sharing it with you. (Truth be told, we must confess that we had to tell Tom Coston the number too, so the bar for giving it out is clearly pretty low. But we digress.)

Get all of your non-entry-related Doo Dah public information and burning needs fulfilled by calling 626.590.7596. Operators are standing by. Or, asleep at the wheel...call to find out!

Pasadena Doo Dah Parade Queen Tryouts Are Coming Up!

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WHERE: The American Legion Bar, 179 N. Vinedo St., Pasadena, Crosstreet is Colorado Blvd. (626) 792-9938

WHEN: Sunday, April Fools Day (April 1), 2012
2:00 pm – Doors Open and Live Music begins
3:00-4:00 pm – Queen Hopefuls Check-In
4:30ish pm – Queen Tryouts Start

COST: $5 cover to Legion’s charity; 1st 20 queen hopefuls to arrive are free!

Trying out? please call us at 626-590-1134 and we will answer your questions and give you tips. Open to everyone and we mean it! All are encouraged to dress randomly even if you are coming to watch.

HOW? The first 20 Queen Hopefuls to arrive get in FREE (1 admission per Queen’s entourage). Each Queen Hopeful will have a few minutes to WOW the Judges. Microphone and boom box, even drumroll, provided. Be ready to show us and tell us why YOU should be Queen! Bring Loyal Followers and HUMOR!

Featuring: The Legendary, Snotty Scotty and the Hankies, Horses on Astroturf, Many former Queens, including Erica, Skittles, Mickie, Tequila, Sue the Ref, Goofball Judges, Andrew, Duke of Doo Dah, Prizes, Cheap drinks, Smoking Patio, Pool and Big Screen TV! and Lots of Dancing!

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35th Occasional Pasadena Doo Dah Parade!

Saturday, April 28, 11:00am

Entry Forms and information to be found on the Entry Form page

More about the Tryouts: Individuals of all genders, shapes, ages, and persuasions tested their fate to become queen. Contestants are usually outnumbered by equally-costumed judges, who include many former queens, and another hundred or so parade entrants, tryout supporters, Legion members, and the curious public. The town-hall setting with long tables in beer-fest style, crock pot chili, and legendary Doo Dah House Band, Snotty Scotty and the Hankies on stage, set the mood for the lively caucus. Among those who have perennially tried out are, Count Smokula, Santa’s Bad Elf, belly dancer, Narayana, a smoking Amy Winehouse, Queen Mother Teresa Kennedy, the Swami from El Monte, Sabrina the Stimulus Package, Second-Hand Rose Queen, Crystal, Gopher Girl, Buffy the Dog, Ms. Laurel, Pinball Lizard, Mama “J”, and Miss Boy Frances. Last year’s Quuen Eric(a) Valentine, of Glendale, was a show stopper with his searing guitar licks.Other favorites have included Roobie Breastnut, former burlesque star, as Sarah Palin, Crystal Lightner, local diva of Altadena, and Jezzelynn on stilts.

Even More Info: Organizers staged the first public tryouts in 1998 at a Gothic house on stilts. It then moved to the famed Zorthian Ranch, in Altadena. This and other parodies of Pasadena’s ‘Other Parade’ have fueled Doo Dah’s colorful and controversial life on Colorado Boulevard. The 34th Occasional Pasadena Doo Dah Parade will be held on Saturday, April 30th stepping off at 11:00am on the streets of East Pasadena. To enter the parade simply go to the website and fill out a form, or call for more information (626) 590-1134.

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Doo Dah Parade will Rumble through East Pasadena on Saturday, April 28th

Daring to go where no parade has gone before, this year's Pasadena Doo Dah Parade will again bring its own brand of raucous eccentricity East, after its successful relocation last year. The 2012 Parade takes place on Saturday, April 28th, stepping off at 11:00AM in East Pasadena along Colorado Boulevard.

Last year, dozens of inventive, if zany, art cars and floats accompanied a legion of frolickers past the mom-n-pop shops along East Pasadena's shady tree-lined streets, including many first-time entries like the League of Steam, Machina Candeo, Conehead Rocket Sled, Hippie Cream, Easy Acres Chicken Sitters, Wisdom Arts Laboratory, combined bands of the 35th Dragoon Guards, Mile High Bed, Cheesus Chrust Pizza Company, 2011 Queen Red Rosie, Balkan Brass Band, and the Ladies Auxiliary for Cultural Enrichment, among others.

Known as the twisted sister of the conventional Rose Parade, the Occasional Pasadena Doo Dah Parade began as a grassroots event in 1978 to gain national attention for its eccentric and, often, irreverent satire. The parade which has spawned numerous off-beat replicants across the country was named by Readers Digest as "America's Best Parade," and was recently featured in the book 50 Places You Must Visit Before You Die!

This year's spectacle will see the return of such wildly diverse entries as a fleet of motorized Kinetic Pastry Science Mobile Muffins, Captain McHogwash's Amazing Chundra, a humungous robotic spitting cat named Boo-Boo Kitty, oddly-attired sound inventors known as The Highland Park Thursday Evening Gentlemen's Society Circuit Bending Marching Band & Ladies' Auxiliary, and the crowd favorite Disco Drill Team, real American Bandstanders, Bastard Sons of Lee Marvin, OC NRML, The Billionaires, Occupy Doo Dah, Quilting Bees, Whistling Diva, The Bra-Ettes, L.A. Derby Dolls, classic, scary clowns, BBQ & Hibachi Marching Grill Team, Hare Kirshna Chanters, Howdy Krishna, and the immortal Doo Dah house band Snotty Scotty & the Hankies, and many more!

Yes, another Doo Dah is here to help you forget your humdrum existence!

WHAT: The 35TH OCCASIONAL PASADENA DOO DAH PARADE

WHERE: Colorado Boulevard (between Altadena and San Gabriel Boulevards) in East Pasadena.

WHEN: SATURDAY, APRIL 28TH, Stepping off at 11:00AM!

COST: Always FREE-of-charge!!

Plenty of street parking is available ~ Parade route is also just west of the Sierra Madre Villa Gold Line Station (at Colorado Blvd. and Sierra Madre Villa). City busses go directly to the area.

Come early! Bring a lawn chair! Visit the local eateries and shops, and attend the after parties all within walking distance.

Official Doo Dah After-Party: American Legion, 179 N. Vinedo St. (2 blocks from Parade at Vinedo & Walnut), immediately following the event. Bands...cheap food and drinks!! $5 cover (supports a Legion charity).

Great Photos Available Upon Request

GET 'EM WHILE THEY LAST!
Order Doo Dah T-Shirts!

Buy your way into Doo Dah History with your spare change!

Now YOU can join the elite few who walk the streets with Doo Dah pride and flair!

Quantities MAY be extremely limited...Better buy as many as you can today...Yes, we are shameless. But when it comes to Doo Dah, shameless is a good thing.

Price: $15 per shirt
$5 shipping and handling
Sizes: S L XL XXL

The serious bit: All procedes go to support Light Bringer Project, the non-profit organization who owns and produces the Doo Dah Parade. For more information on the many community projects that LBP participates in and sponsors, visit lightbringerproject.com.

TO ORDER:

Email your order immediately to: LBP@earthlink.net and put DOO DAH TSHIRT ORDER in the subject line

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Call 626-590-1134 and leave a message with your quantity, sizes, and contact information. You know, the old fashioned way.

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Send us a check with your size information.

Make checks payable to:
Light Bringer Project
P.O. Box 968, Pasadena, CA 91102

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