· Mandy Moore Bikini Pictures (egotastic.com)

Of all the freaky places to hang out in New York City, perhaps no place attracts more freaks (and lets you shoot paintball guns at them) then Coney Island. Home to all manner of assorted weirdness, one of the grand traditions of the neighborhood is the annual Mermaid Parade, where wild boys and (mostly) girls put on their best homemade costumes and bodypaint and strut around like they own the place (which they basically do.) Also, there's boobs ... thousands and thousands of boobs. Painted, be-tasseled, jiggly and free ... you'll never find a better place to march down the boulevard without your shirt on. Or ogle absentmindedly without having the cops called on you. Voyeur-in-training Alex Goldberg investigates.

· Related: 25 Years Of Mermaids On Parade (photo gallery @ Gawker)
· Photos tagged with "mermaidparade" (Flickr)

Previously: Folsom Street East Redux: What The Camera Saw, Bring On The Babes Of Summer

We wanted to continue the whole summer theme with today's Flesh Flicks, but believe it or not, there are surprisingly few pornstars named after our second (or maybe third) favorite season. Maybe Summer is just too obvious a name for a pornstar, so girls avoid it out of fear of looking unoriginal. It's the same reason we've never actually met a stripper named Crystal. All is not lost, however. After the jump, a selection of girls named Summer try to beat the heat, but sadly only make end up making the humidity problem worse.

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· "Summer's soap bubbles" (XTube)

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· "Summer Cummings black bra" (XTube)

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· "Devyn Devine 38DDD Goes Lesbo With Summer Nite" (XTube)

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· "Summer Rain" (shufuni.com)

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Previously: Flesh Flicks Archives

Yesterday was the summer solstice, the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, and the scientifically determined start of our warmest weather season. Plus, it was freakin' bee-you-tiful in New York City ... 83 and sunny, with happy feelings in the air. So we took the afternoon off and went to Central Park where we found other underemployed people catching some rays, frolicking with water bottles, and basically removing as much of their clothing as polite society allows. In this Oscar-nominated video, we pay tribute to triangle bikini tops, visible tans lines, and silly girls doing silly things. And as proof that we're not completely sexist, there are some shirtless dudes thrown in as well. Ogle away, ladies!

Video by Nick McGlynn + Richard Blakeley

Previously: Sunbathing TV: Beauties In Bikinis, Spring Has Sprung!

We do our best to keep you up-to-date on all the greatest (and some of the not-so-greatest) celebrity beach sightings, because it's important to us that you know what famous people really look like in their most candid moments—especially when those candid moments happen with little or no clothes on. Unfortunately, we've been overwhelmed this week by the glut of vacationing superstars. (Seriously, don't these people have jobs?) So in the interests of saving our time and ruining your bandwidth, we've collected several of the most recent galleries here in one post. Considering that, technically, summer hasn't even started yet—and Jessica Biel is mysteriously on hiatus—this could be just the beginning of a very long and exhausting three months. We're going to need a summer break from our summer break.

· Uma Thurman (Egotastic)

· Gemma Atkinson (the-feeding-tube.com)

· Elisabetta Canalis + Serena Williams (celebslam.com)

· Kelly Ripa (ninjadude.com)

· Anna Kournikova (hollywoodtuna.com)

· Celine Dion (for reals!) + Britney Spears (drunkenstepfather.com)

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Finally, some thoughts on bikinis from a non-famous, but definitely not non-hot model. Maybe some we'll know who she is and she'll get her own post here! (YouTube, via jaggle.nl)

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Previously: Fleshbot's vast "celebrity" + "bikini" treasure trove. See also: Celebrity Bikini Blowout 2006