The cover story on the Gathering of the Juggalos that I worked on came out in yesterday’s Village Voice. If you live in NYC you should pick one up. It is a pretty amazing adventure tale written by my editor Camille Dodero after we spent four days in the middle of nowhere surrounded by killer clowns. It’s 6000 words so it takes commitment to read it, but it is very enjoyable.  I have been working for VillageVoice.com for two years but this is the first time that I have worked on a big cover story for print like this. Even though I didn’t shoot the actual cover I do have nine pictures in the article which is pretty substantial. Anyway if you don’t live in NYC and can’t pick up a paper you should click here to read the story online.

We have reached the end my friends. Juggalo week has come to an end. I hope we all have learned some powerful lessons here and at some point I hope we can all move on with our lives as normal. I will miss giving you update after update of the Insane Clown Posse and all their wacky adventures. It has been a wonderful trip we all shared and I am tearing up as I type this… But don’t worry children.. There is always next year… Assuming Tila Tequila and Method Man’s lawyers don’t have anything to say about it.

So all I have left for you is everything else.  I have about 300 photos that didn’t fit into any other update. This is pretty much the biggest gallery of them all so I saved it for last. This is the left over dregs, but in these dregs comes amazing gold and tales of adventure, self destruction and rebirth. It is a tale we all know so well. This is the Gathering of the Juggalos and it is a parable of man. In a sense this is the Gathering of Man and Woman; a Gathering of life, death and rebirth. This my friends is what it is all about.

Click here for the rest of the Gathering of the Juggalos. And may god have mercy on us all.

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So yeah, Bloodymania 4 was awesome and stuff but there were Juggalo Championship Wrestling events during all four days at the Gathering of the Juggalos. I was pretty busy shooting all sort of crazy shit and I only had a chance to catch one match. It was some cop jobber character versus the legendary Sabu. He did a bunch of camel clutches and that was pretty awesome but the highlight of the match was some dude hitting the cop in the face with a Faygo bottle or something. I missed the shot but people getting hit in the face with stuff at the Gathering has been nothing but great for me. Also in this gallery are various other shots of wrestling related shenanigans. Actually some of the shots of people watching wrestling are some of the better shots from the whole trip.  You can see for yourself, but I am just glad this is the second to last Gathering update. I need to move on with my life… I think we all need to move on with our lives.

But before you move on with your life, click here to see all the other assorted JCW wrestling madness at the Gathering of the Juggalos.

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This is it. The last day of Gathering of the Juggalos pictures. Are you guys gonna be okay? I hope so. But don’t worry, we have a full day of updates planned so let’s get started!

Welcome to W-Fuck-Off Radio the official radio station of Psychopathic Records. W-Fuck-Off broadcast live from the Gathering of the Juggalos several times a day every day of the Gathering. The madness was hosted by Wolfpac and their crew including Burning Angel Jade Jolie. I saw Wolfpac years ago in Richmond and it seems we have a lot of mutual friends. On top of that I once rode in a limo with Jade in Vegas to some Burning Angel event. Small world.

I didn’t get a chance to see the Wolfpac at the Gathering (I was busy cleaning watermelon off my camera post-Gallagher) but I heard it was insane. If their show was half as crazy as their radio bits I am sure it was out of control. I only caught a few segments of the show and I saw some crazy shit.

The first time I checked them out they duct taped a guy to a stripper pole and one of the Wolfpac girls shoved an E pill in his ass. Then they duct taped him to a chair so they could watch what happened to him through out the show. At some point they gave him a beer bong which he gladly accepted not knowing that they also poured tequila in it as well. He may have vomited a little bit.  After that they blind folded him and one of the girls gave him a lap dance while she tortured him. It was pretty hilarious but I had to leave after a while.  When I came back the next day they had another guy tied up but this time they put him in a baby pool full of oil and he had to take four girls bikinis off before they took his clothes off. He actually won despite being taped up at first. Also I saw the Wolfpac guys get people to chug maple syrup. What the guys didn’t know is that they put some sort of insanity hot sauce in the syrup. I didn’t get any shots of this, but the dudes were not happy when they realized what was going on.

Oh, I am not sure if I mentioned this but whenever some crazy shit wasn’t going on the Wolfpac was playing music and the Wolfpac girls were stripping.  Let’s just say W-Fuck-Off had a pretty good crowd all day long…

Click here to see the pictures of W-Fuck-Off Radio at the Gathering of the Juggalos. Very NSFW.

Ps. This is the last update involving any sort of juggalo porn. I am really sorry but there is always next year! *sniff*

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I am running later than I wanted tonight but I am staying in just to bring you the 4th to last update from the Gathering of the Juggalos.  Three posts tomorrow and we are done. Juggalo Week over.

Tonight I have for you some crazy shit called Bloodymania 4. Bloodymania is a series of DVD’s produced by the Insane Clown Possee’s own wrestling league Juggalo Championship Wrestling. I mean you know you are legit when you have your own wrestling federation. Not even U2 has that!

The JCW is an offshoot of ICP’s fascination with wrestling. They briefly wrestled in the WWF as both a tag team and with a group called the oddities. They seemed to have a lot of fans at the matches, but they were quickly cast aside by the WWF. After that they decided to form their own league and it seems to be fairly successful. They were able to get some big names out to their events all week and Bloodymania was no exception.

I am not going to tell you who won and lost… I mean I don’t want to ruin the DVD for you, but I will tell you that this thing did exist and there were fucking bugs everywhere. I got bit by so many fucking bugs it was insane. People also threw shit at the ring and some of those things hit me. Also a large fat man with his face painted like the wrestler Sting threw water at my camera and called me a faggot. The people around him gave him shit which was nice, but I still wish AIDS on him. Hopefully those AIDS will come via some sort of blood transfusion mishap because I am pretty sure he will never have sex with anyone.

So where was I? Right Bloodymania. This thing featured guest appearances by Hacksaw Jim Duggan, Different Strokes Todd Bridges, Terry Funk and Butterbean! None of them really did anything, but it was cool to see them all out anyway. Booker T and Psycho Sid put in some real work too. That was pretty bad ass. One of my favorite wrestlers in the brief period in high school when I had a fascination with wrestling was the Road Dogg Jesse James. He was part of The New Age Outlaws and Degeneration X and was part of the reason why everyone was telling everyone to Suck It in the late 90’s. He came out during one of the matches looking old and fat and wrestled terribly for about 30 seconds and then got injured and had to be helped back stage. It was pretty sad. I didn’t even get a picture of him because was in and out so quick.

The last thing I wanted to mention about this stuff is that normally when people ask me what kind of camera equipment I use I tell them that it’s not the camera you use but how you use it. Equipment doesn’t make the photographer most of the time… That being said, sports photography is one field that you really need the right equipment. I only brought two lenses with me to the Gathering and neither of them were at all appropriate for this shit. It’s pretty clear that I have my work cut out for me if I want to become a professional professional wrestling photographer.

All that said, I did get a few nice shots and I put up a ton of stuff anyway. So I think you should click right here to look at all my photos from Bloodymania 4 at the Gathering of the Juggalos.

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This shit never stops does it?

Have you ever wanted to see a bunch of juggalettes rip each others clothes off covered in oil, water and Faygo? No? Well, too bad. Slick Chix was hired to set up oil wrestling at the Gathering of the Juggalos. They brought some girls with them but then they asked for juggalette volunteers from the crowd to wrestle. They would put four girls in a ring together and the last one to have all of their clothes torn off of them would win. Seriously, this happened.

If you notice a small child in one of the pictures, she was there rooting on her mother who was one of the contestants. Her mom came in second place. Seriously. This madness happened several times throughout the four days of fun that is the Gathering. I shot it twice which was probably two times too many.

Also, I talked to the guys who do Slick Chix and they are going to be at a couple events I am going to be covering in the next six months so you might get lucky enough and see more of this stuf… just with less juggalos. (Actually, I just went back through my archives and I realized I have actually shot Slick Chix before at the AEE last January.)

This gallery is very NSFW but you should check it out anyway. Click here to see juggalette oil wrestling at the Gathering of the Juggalos.

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This is honestly one of the most epic updates from the Gathering of the Juggalos. Other than maybe Black Flag bars you don’t really see a lot of people getting the same band tattoo, but fucking EVERYONE at the Gathering has the Psychopathic Records hatchet man logo. It’s fucking crazy. I started out with the idea of shooting all these ICP tattoos but seriously 75% of the people there had them so I had to concentrate on the more outrageous tattoos, but even then I was sort of ignoring half of them. It just went on and on.  I guess if you are the type of person to travel to the middle of nowhere for an Insane Clown Posse show you are probably they type of person to get there logo tattooed to you. Honestly, I almost got one just to commemorate the event but my editor wouldn’t get a matching one with me.  But I do have both Michael Jackson and Elvis tattoos so I might not be the best judge of good tattoo ideas. But yeah, this gallery is full of hatchet men and ICP tattoos but there are also Dark Lotus tattoos, Twiztid tattoos, Kottonmouth Kings tattoos and pretty much any of that wicked shit. Even Coolio has an ICP tattoo. These kids are seriously down with the clown.

So click here to see a huge gallery of Insane Clown Possee tattoos from the Gathering of the Juggalos. Oh, and be warned, a few girls have ICP tattoos on their exposed breasts, so I gotta rate this gallery a NSFW.

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If you thought the Jugglao Porn update was something, the wet t-shirt contests at the Gathering of the Juggalos up the ante significantly…

The great thing about a juggalette wet t-shirt contest is that it is the perfect mixture of carnival freak show and hot naked babes. I mean there are some terrifyingly large ladies in this thing and I give them the most props of all. Mad respect juggalettes.  The girls that got the most applause in these things were the hot fully naked girls and the fat girls who had the balls to pull that shit out. It was pretty insane.  Plus it was hosted by a D-list celebrity in Ron Jeremy so how could you not love this madness.

There were not one but THREE wet t-shirt contests at this thing. I only made it to two of them and the first one my camera got covered in Faygo. I think people tried to soak me intentionally but I took off my shirt to use it as a Faygo shield and my camera and I preserved. My Mishka hat did not. It is pink and blue with Faygo forever. I really don’t know what else to say about this madness other than, “what the fuck?”

So why don’t you just click here to see the two juggalette wet t-shirt contests at the Gathering of the Juggalos. I think it is safe to say that these galleries are very NSFW.

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I was trying to break my Gathering of the Juggalo pictures up into multiple categories so I wouldn’t have to post one gallery with 500 pictures in it when I came across a realization that in just tons and tons of photos juggalos were throwing gang signs in my face.  Most of the signs were a variation on WC for Wicked Clowns or W for Wicked. The variations are interesting and probably culturally important. I have fallen off on my duties as Juggalo anthropologist so I can not discuss regional differences in signs or break down the different factions of juggalo clown gangs. Juggalo anthropology is a very complex science that no one person can master in a four day weekend. It takes a life time of research and dedication.

That being said, in my studies I did come across some secret juggalo text that might give us some insite into the world of juggalo gang signs:

Hey homes what’s that you claim? I’m in the rhymin’ game
Wicked Clown Banging I’m just a mutha fucka that’s down for the cause
You can suck on my balls, unless you got clown luv
Put ’em up
Throw ’em up
Let me see them mutha fuckas
Flip ’em up
Flip ’em down
Flip ’em around

Throw your signs in the air
What’s that?
I don’t check, I don’t care
Cuz I’m down with the clown everywhere
Cuz much clown luv is in here

I think we can all understand the need for much clown love. Clown love reaches far beyond the world of the juggalo. It reaches into our very hearts. So ladies and gentlemen, if you would, throw your signs in the air and then click here to check out the many varied juggalo gang signs at the Gathering of the Juggalos.

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