Held every year on April 1, San Francisco's Saint Stupid's Day is one of the city's wackiest holidays.
, an irreverent event that dates back to 1979, making this its 45th year. It all started when Ed Holmes, better known to his disciples at Bishop Joey, founded the First Church of the Last Laugh.
The group began gathering at the Embarcadero Plaza every April 1, then they'd traverse the city in costume performing a wide range of bizarre rituals, inspired by the work of the Merry Pranksters, an absurdist San Francisco collective from the 1960s. Although a group did gather last year, the parade was technically still on hiatus because of the coronavirus pandemic. This year, the event is scheduled to begin at"the point building," by which they mean the Transamerica Pyramid, and travel north to Washington Square Park with a fleet of art cars led by the.
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