Gonna get all Gathering of the Juggalos music posts out of the way in one day and we are gonna start with the controversial rapper and Instagram sensation Stitches.

I am gonna shove most of the bands at the Gathering into one big post later today but Stitches gets his own post and it’s not because I am a Stitches fan or he put on a really photographic show, but just because I had this feeling that something horrible could happen at any minute. I was just waiting for some chaos.

The chaos never came but he did throw fake cocaine on everyone and he gave a juggalo $500 for no reason. He also is obviously an intense looking job. I saw him walking around earlier in the day and didn’t get a portrait which was stupid but maybe one day I will run into him again if he isn’t dead or in jail before then.

Click here to look at more photos of Stitches at the Gathering of the Juggalos.

Last year at the Gathering of the Juggalos a guy named Nebraska Warrior volunteered to fight anyone, without gloves, during the live Psychopathic Radio broadcast hosted by the band Wolfpac. Before Nebraska all the Psychopathic Radio fights were done with boxing gloves and head gear and on roller skates. It started off as this funny thing but in 2013 he and a guy named Burnout went at it until they decided to take off the skates and gloves. It was one of the most brutal things I had ever witnessed and although Nebraska lost he instantly gained juggalo infamy at the Gathering.

Fast forward to last year and he beat everyone who challenged him and with my pals at the Riverfront Times in St. Louis we published this article about Nebraska. I also published even more photos of the fights on DBB over here.

So this year Nebraska was one of the first people I saw at the Gathering. I asked him if he was going to fight again. He was all about it. The next day I saw a juggalo bleeding from the face and I asked him what happened. He had just been in a fight at the Psychopathic Radio stage and lost. I asked him who he fought… It was Nebraska. I couldn’t believe I missed it.

When I saw Nebraska again he promised he was going to fight again and this time I wasn’t going to miss it. The next day I watched him destroy a much larger man who looked like a bruiser. In that guys defense he took everything Nebraska gave him and almost looked like he was enjoying it. When I saw that guy on Saturday he had a huge black eye but was still smiling.

I took a bunch of photos of the fight and Noisey ended up running them in this story about juggalo bare-knuckle boxing.

The next day I watched Nebraska fight a third challenger and made the guy tap out so quickly that I barely got any pictures. The ones I did get were too dark because by the time I figured out my settings it was over. I saw the challenger later that day and he told me he really won the fight because he made Nebraska’s nose bleed and he only tapped out because he didn’t like being choked… right.

When it was all over Nebraska had destroyed three dudes and his only wound was a slightly bloody nose that he told me he was glad to have finally received. On top of all that Nebraska is a great dude and is the nicest most peaceful juggalo when he’s not beating peoples faces in.

Now go look at this gallery of Nebraska Warrior taking on all comers during Wolfpac’s live Psychopathic Radio show. 

Headed back to NYC today after four days hanging with insane clowns and then a quick trip to Indianapolis. Assuming I don’t miss my flight I will be in NYC just in time to get stuck in rush hour traffic on the way home. On Thursday I go on a mini vacation so I am going to try to get as many Gathering of the Juggalos galleries up as possible before I leave.

We start with the beginning: Ho99o9. If you have been following my site I shot the punk/rap band Ho99o9 at SXSW and then again at their record release party in LA. When I found out they were playing the Gathering I knew I had to see them again but I took it a step farther and pitched the idea of following them to Noisey. What I thought was going to be a paragraph with a photo essay turned out to be a proper article about the trip with just a handful of photos for illustration.

So instead of me blogging anymore, just read my Noisey article about Ho99o9!

And then if you want to see more photos click here to see a full gallery Ho99o9at the Gathering of the Juggalos!

And this concludes your 2014 Gathering Of The Juggalos photo updates! A week and eleven posts later the juggalos updates wrap up with this post entitled “Errthang Else”, named of course after DJ Paul’s delicious On Errthang seasoning that I purchased at the Gathering. This post is juga  massive gallery of everything that didn’t fit into the previous ten posts. I know some of you are glad to see me get back to normal on Driven By Boredom, but I know just as man of you will sadly miss your favorite insane clowns.

For those of you that are glad to get back to real life, I have some pretty good updates for this week including some new Shay Laren pictures and some photos from my trip to the Creation Museum. It should be pretty weird. For those of you that are sad to see the juggalos go, don’t worry, there are over 200 photos in this gallery AND I still have a bunch of naked jugglatte photos from 2013 that still haven’t gone up. I know right? Madness.

But yeah, that’s it. I kinda have a feeling this might be my last year covering the Gathering. I think I have taken all the juggalo photos I can and with more media covering it I feel like the thrill is gone. Thornville was a good place to hold the Gathering I think but not being in the middle of nowhere takes some of the adventure out of it. Now I will probably change my mind by next summer and I will certainly be back if a media outlet throws some money at me but if not I just wanna say it’s been a hell of a five years. Whoop whoop and MFMCL!

Now click here to see the final photos from the 15th annual Gathering of the Juggalos in Thornville, OH!

Ps. Here is a bonus link to ALL my Gathering coverage over the last 5 years. Scroll down. Forever.

The penultimate 2014 Gathering of the Juggalos update is the one people wait all year for. An entire gallery of topless and naked juggalettes! This year the gallery was sadly smaller in years past, probably because there were cops at the Gathering, but fear not, there are still a bunch of naked ‘lettes for your viewing pleasure and/or horror.

This post is great because it is loved by so many different people. Juggalos love it cause it features naked juggalettes, perverts love it because it features boobs and then everyone else loves it because they get to send it to their friends and force them to look at people that you would not necessarily look at naked. But you gotta give it up to some of these ladies, there is no shame in their game so to speak. As sexist as people claim juggalos to be, there are no body image issues here. But don’t worry creeps, there are a bunch of babes in here too like Pepper Kester and Gypsy Ninjette!

But yeah, enjoy this post cause I had to spend like 15 minutes photoshopping ICP’s faces on to their boobs for the main page. But don’t worry, all the photos are fully uncensored and NSFW up in the gallery. And if you can’t get enough, here are links to the last 4 years of juggalo porn!

– Naked Juggalettes 2013 – Naked Juggalettes 2012 – Naked Juggalettes 2011 – Naked Juggalettes 2010 –

Now click here to see the brand new 2014 edition of naked juggalettes from the Gathering of the Juggalos!!

Ps. There is no explanation for why there are photos of the burrito men in this gallery. Just embrace it, ninja.

In my efforts to finish getting up all my photos from the Gathering of the Juggalos I just through a bunch of stuff into a gallery called “Nighttime Madness”. This gallery includes a bunch of stuff including shots of the late night after parties, comedy showcases, wrestling, and much more. Let’s see if I can walk you through it…

Every night at the Gathering there is an after party. In the past they have been some of the Gathering’s best events. This year they did them on the main stage and something about that got away from the intimacy of a small tent in the middle of the woods. A couple years ago I sat on the stage and watched Pharcyde and Warren G did a tribute to Nate Dogg. This year not so much.

The comedy highlights were Gilbert Gottfried who I see all the time in the Lower East Side just walking around and former wrestler Mick Foley. Gottfried did a set of really old jokes which was honestly amazing to see. These are jokes you have heard your entire life done by the guy who wrote them. Watching him get a kick out of the juggalos was the best part though. He just kept getting them to chant insane things like “Fuck Jack Parr!” and then would laugh to himself. It was great. He also did a particularly offensive telling of The Aristocrats which you should clearly watch. Mick Foley really impressed as well. I always enjoyed him as a wrestler, and the guy has written a bunch of best selling books, but he is a fantastic raconteur and told stories that even people who aren’t wresting fans would enjoy. Not that it would matter since pretty much all juggalos are also wrestling fans.

Also included in this gallery are some shots of the girls of the infamous “Passed Out Juggalos“. They find sleeping jugglaos at the Gathering and put their butts on their heads. I realized those pronouns might be confusing and the concept seem mildly awful, but in reality it’s a good time for all and kinda hilarious at 5am.

We also have a few shots of lady wrasslin’, the legendary and mysterious burrito men, and a camp set up by fire juggling steam punk maniacs RIFT (Rhythmic Illusions Fire Tribe). Oh there is also a terrifying wheel and some fire works. Whoop whoop.

Click here to see all the nighttime madness from the Gathering of the Juggalos. NSFW as you would expect.

How many Batmans is too many Batmans is a question I asked myself many times at the Gathering of the Juggalos. One of my Village Voice cohorts asked me why juggalos liked Batman so much. I had never really noticed until that moment but maybe 4% of all people were wearing Batman related clothing. So three days into our coverage we decided we need a juggalos are Batman gallery! We couldn’t actually talk our editors into running the Batman gallery across all 11 Voice Media papers but fuck it, I am going to post it here!

Before you look a this gallery you need to keep in mind we didn’t come up with this idea until late on day three of four days of the Gathering. That means nearly every one of these photos was taken on one day. That’s a lot of Batmans.

And yes, I realize this is a terrible idea for a post, but fuck you, it’s the weekend, go play outside or something. And calm down, theres’ just three juggalo posts left.

Click here to see undeniable proof that juggalos are Batman!

Update: I knew Twiztid had a connection to Batman themed stuff but according to @YoungFinna on Twitter the Batman link is because of this Twiztid song specifically. 

After this I only have four Gathering of the Juggalos posts left. The goal is to get two up on the slow weekend and then bust the last two out on Monday including everyone’s favorite yearly naked juggalettes post. For now I have some photos of “juggalo rides”. Much like the juggalo tattoos post, this was thought up by the Village Voice for a slideshow, but unlike the tattoos this one never ran.

I guess the idea was that everyone has all these interesting vehicles they cruise around the Gathering in so maybe we should document them, and then we could toss in actual amusement park rides and call it a day. Seemed easy enough but clearly it wasn’t compelling enough to end up as it’s own post… but clearly my editorial standards are a lot lower than the Voices.

So click here to enjoy some photos of juggalo “rides” at the Gathering of the Juggalos. 

The very first year I went to the Gathering of the Juggalos I did a post on juggalo tattoos. The Village Voice ran the same gallery and apparently it did pretty well because four years later they asked me to shoot tattoos again which ended up becoming this slide show. What’s funny is that several of the tattoos are in BOTH galleries and a couple of the juggalos I have become friends with over the years.

The hatchetman tattoo is pretty much on everyone. If you are a juggalo and you have any tattoos you probably have that shit somewhere. Sadly it’s not something gang task forces look for and make note of. I have heard stories of people getting kicked out of the military or the tattoo being used as evidence in custody hearings. It’s pretty insane, pun not intended.

I tried to focus on the bigger tattoos, the better tattoos and the much worse tattoos because of I didn’t this gallery could be 10,000 photos long. I saw some wicked Carebears, some impressive back pieces and even saw someone with a Twiztid tattoo that my friend Lamour Supreme did for their Mishka collab. That was pretty cool. One of these days I gotta get my own juggalo tattoo to memorialize my five years documenting one of the wildest subcultures in the world. Whoop whoop and shit.

Click here to see a bunch of juggalo tattoos at the 2014 Gathering of the Juggalos.