Don’t Worry, We Will Always Have Juggalettes

August 22, 2026

In 2010 Saturday Night Live released a video mocking the Insane Clown Posse’s song Miracles. The line “fucking magnets, how do they work?” had already gone viral and the SNL video just added fuel to the fire. Everyone on the internet was dunking on ICP and juggalos. The problem with all that is that if you are at all familiar with their music you would realize that ICP was in on the joke and I just so happened to be familiar with their music.

When I was 17 Insane Clown Posse released an album called “The Great Milenko”. It’s possible that you would have never even heard of the band if a bunch of conservatives hadn’t lost their damn mind and started protesting the record. Hollywood Records, and imprint owned by Disney, dropped the band. MTV News picked up the story and a bunch of disaffected teenage kids picked up the album…

The subculture of juggalos didn’t really exist back then and so it didn’t seem that out of character for a bunch of DC punk kids who loved b-horror movies to take a chance on the band when their albums were essentially musical b-horror movies. The music might not have been great but the songs were funny and fucked up and people had been telling us forever that our music was terrible, so it’s not like we gave a single fuck what people thought about that.

By the time I went to college in 1999 I had pretty much stopped listening to ICP. They had a new album out that year and it wasn’t really for me and I wasn’t hanging out with my high school punk friends on the daily. I didn’t really think about them again until the Miracles video dropped. But when it did, I found myself defending them constantly. I don’t know how many times I had to explain to someone that they were trying to be funny. They thought the famous “magnets” line was funny too.

At some point I almost jokingly Tweeted “Who wants to go to the Gathering of The Juggalos with me?” My editor at the Village Voice, Camille Dodero was the only person who responded. She started working at the Voice wanting to write, but she had been stuck editing other people’s work and she thought this would be the perfect story for her. The Voice only wanted to send a photographer but she wanted to go so she paid for her trip out of her own pocket. By the time we returned from the 2010 Gathering of the Juggalos my photos had already blown up, her story had become a cover story, and she definitely got reimbursed for her expenses.

From then on juggalos were my beat. I returned to the Gathering every year and ended up covering juggalos for dozens of outlets, from Rolling Stone and Vice and the Daily Beast, to countless alt weeklies and music magazines to even Playboy and Hustler. Last year I was even interviewed by All Gas No Breaks/Channel 5 as their “juggalo expert” for a video that tragically still hasn’t dropped yet.

Over the years (amazingly partially thanks to my coverage) juggalos have become less of a punchline. The Gathering of the Juggalos has become less terrifying and far more accessible. The festival has publicists and wifi and dozens of social media influencers who show up to make fun of juggalos only to leave loving these insane clowns. The problem for me is that I am a victim of my own success and people are sort of over it. The collapse of media hasn’t helped, but my clients have ben dropping one by one. Last year I only had two clients and one of them was Brooklyn Vegan who just laid off most of their staff.

That’s all to say that The Gathering of the Juggalos is happening right now and for the first time since 2009, I am not there. I was going to lose money on the trip and it was the best time for me to visit my family and see my niece and nephew and I made the hard decision not to attend. I hope to get back next year because I am having crazy FOMO and I miss my clowns. I have been working on a Gathering of the Juggalos book for years that still doesn’t exist and until it does I can’t retire… just take a little break.

Now, did I think this post was going to be 1000 words long? No, probably not, but I started and I couldn’t stop and here we are at the main point on this post, which is to say, don’t worry, I still have some NSFW juggalettes for you which is honestly half the reason people love my photos in the first place. I have not one, but two juggalette galleries for you that I have already posted to my paysite Girls of Driven By Boredom (which has so much juggalette content if you are interested).

The first shoot I actually did on the ground last year at the Gathering. I shot my pal Lil Filth and her friend Quaesita on a poison ivy covered hill that people were camping on for some insane reason. I actually never asked them if they got poison ivy, I hope not but sometimes you have make sacrifices for art.

The second shoot is of Malibu Montana aka Tat2Barbie who I met at the Gathering of the Juggalos years ago. I have some insane photos of her over the years but we had never done a proper shoot. I followed her on Instagram at some point and while I was in Vegas in January for the AVN Awards and noticed she was also in Vegas. I hit her up and she came by and we attempted to shoot some photos in the “kitchen” of my hotel room. The lighting was so bad I actually turned off all the lights and used this cheap video light I have to light her and those ended up being pretty cool. I feel like we could have done better, and hopefully we will one day, but like if juggalette strippers with face tattoos are your cup of tea I have a feeling you are gonna love these photos.

So now that we are over that 1000 word count I mentioned earlier let’s get to the photo gallery. I have just hand full of mostly safe for work images below from both shoots, but you can see everything over on Girls of DBB, so go there now and I will be back soon, I swear.

Click here to see all the NSFW photos of juggalettes over on Girls of Driven By Boredom!

Maya Rue Part Two

August 3, 2026August 3, 2026

Hello we are back and I have some new photos of Maya Rue for you. And by new, I mean new to you, because I shot these back in January when I was at AVN. Maya and I did three photoshoots together back then and I am spreading them out a bit. I didn’t mean to spread them out this much, but we had that whole hack thing and my site was down forever. Weirdly enough these would have been up a week ago but something new was going on with my site and I got locked out. This time it was my host’s fault and their AI support fucking sucks but we finally got through to a real person and got it resolved. None of that is important, we have photos for you to look at.

Anyway Maya rules and if you haven’t checked out the first shoot we did, you should do that right away. Now that you are back, you need to go look at these new photos because it’s actually my favorite shoot of the three. The hotel room I was staying at in Vegas had a livingroom, a bedroom and a bathroom so we did one shoot in each room. Problem solved. I don’t know what it is but I just love shooting in a bathroom. I am sure it’s because I got my start shooting nudes in nightclub bathrooms, but also the photos just look good. Maybe I should just do a zine of bathroom nudes one of these days. Actually, don’t give me anymore ideas I got too many projects in the works…

Okay I need to finish this up because I am going to NYC tomorrow and I got too much to do before I leave. This gallery is nearly 50 photos, but they are pretty NSFW so you get to see 12 safe for work ones and the rest are paywalled over on Girls of Driven By Boredom. They are absolutely worth the few dollars a month it costs to sign up and you will have access to two shoots with Maya plus probably several hundred thousand other nudes because I am nothing if not prolific.

So yeah, go to Girls of Driven By Boredom to check out all the photos, or if you don’t value my work and still want to see some sexy photos check out the gallery below…

Goldie Fawn

July 16, 2026

I have excellent news for you all, we have new photos of Goldie Fawn!

I met Goldie way back in 2018 through another model and we did this amazing shoot in their hotel room around the AVN Awards week that year. Fast forward to AVN 2024 and I got to photograph Goldie by herself, this time on the roof of my rental car right before the Awards. She walked the red carpet and then we took some photos of her in and out of her dress in the parking garage super quickly, and then she went to the Awards. We didn’t take enough to justify a full post so she ended up in my Girls of AVN update, but that post came out about a month before I redid my entire site, so that post is sadly gone, but on’t worry, all the photos are still on my pay site. Just saying…

Fast forward once again to January and I was headed back to AVN and immediately hit Goldie up. She is just so nice, so fun to be around and and a fantastic model (she can essentially bend in half) so I am just always excited to get to take her picture. Not only that, but I cannot tell you how many models have reached out to me based on her recommendation. She’s just the best and I cannot wait to do it again.

So yeah, this year I shot her in her hotel room after the convention. I think we tried to get some other people to shoot with us but it’s always so hectic there but I am glad we got some one on one photos anyway outside of the quick shoot we did on my rental car. My one regret is that she had these tiny heart shaped pasties on and we kept them on for most of the shoot because they looked cute but when I went back to look at the photos they are kinda distracting and technically not even naked. I knew you guys would be deeply upset about that so I threw in some bonus 35mm photos we took after she took them off. I would hate to deny you actual nipples like god intended. That being said, I am paywalling them and honestly all the pastie photos in general because am trying to keep this site kinda SFW and I am also trying to pay for never ending problems with the slowly sinking 65 year old house my girl and I bought. So yeah, go sign up for Girls of Driven By Boredom. You can see all these photos of Goldie, all the old shoots we did and probably over 100k other NSFW photos. It’s worth the $6 a month or whatever it costs. I should probably know that.

Anyway, I cannot wait to shoot Goldie (and all of her friends) again. I also should mention that obviously we are way behind because of the hack, but the good news is that I still have four more shoots I did at AVN to get up, and I have two other NSFW shoots I sill haven’t published yet. So we got plenty of content to look forward to in the future. Okay that’s it. See you guys soon.

Check out the preview gallery of Goldie Fawn below and then head over to Girls of DBB for the good stuff.

Lit Lounge 8th Anniversary – 2.22.10

June 29, 2026July 16, 2026

I have had these photos ready to go for months now. That whole getting hacked thing caused most of the delay because even though we recently solved that problem the one thing that we lost permanently was my old archives. I had an internal use only version of my old website that didn’t have any of the images, just the text, that way I could go back and check my archives. I could pull up a random folder, like for example a folder only called 2.22.10 and then I could type 2.22.10 into my archival site and pull up that night. I could then see what the party was, what I was doing in my life and what happened that night. It was a great tool and it was deleted forever.

My former webmaster thought she had a back up so she sent me those files, I sent them to the guy who unfucked my website and he uploaded all the files she sent and it turns out it was just some random early version of the current site that only had four posts. No idea what happened there. Since then, I have found my backup of the site, but it’s not the archive site, it’s just the whole ass website, so I can hopefully build back a new archives site, but that probably won’t happen for a while because I have spent all my money on my goddamn house. Anyway long story short I don’t have my notes from February 22nd, 2010… but I do have some memories.

First things first I know it was Lit Lounge’s 8th anniversary party. I actually had to look up which anniversary it was, but I knew it was an anniversary. Lit was one of my all time favorite bars. Before I even moved to NYC one of the best days of my life ended dancing at Lit (it almost ended at an emergency room, but that’s another story). The bar had an art gallery in the back, and incredibly seedy basement, and multiple lockable bathrooms. There are not a lot of places on earth more conducive to debauchery.

The other thing I remember from this night, is that earlier that day the US beat Canada in a huge Olympic hockey game. We of course then lost to them in the gold medal game in heartbreaking fashion, but the reason I remember that day is because in the Lit photo gallery there are a few photos that I shot on a 70-200mm lens, and it’s the only time I have ever brought that lens to the club and the only reason I brought it to the club was because I brought it to watch US hockey at a bar in the East Village and the only reason I brought it to that bar in the first place was because I had just bought it and it was snowing and I had my friend Vicky meet me at the bar and we shot topless photos in the snow. I actually really loved those photos and I am going to re-edit those right now and upload them to Girls of Driven By Boredom, so if you are seeing this, they are up there right now.

You know I love a tangent, but let’s get back to it… What else? For some reason that POS rapist Ron Jeremy was there that night. I used to run into him all the time and he always sucked even before I knew all the shit he did. Aside from that, so, so many of my friends were there and so many girls I had crushes on and went on one date and then just became friends with after it didn’t work out because I was a mess back then. I guess I wasn’t so bad if they still wanted to be friends with me, but I was not really someone anyone took seriously as a romantic partner. Oh and speaking of dates, the girl who I went on my first ever internet dating site date was randomly at the party. We lived in Richmond, VA and we met on a site called Make Out Club (iykyk). She moved to NYC first and then when I moved there she moved back to RVA, but just happened to be in NYC that night.

Anyway, I honestly don’t really remember anything else and this has gone on long enough, but I know people are going to dig these photos because pretty much everyone from like 5 different downtown scenes was there because Lit had something different going on every night. Shit, even my terrible punk band used to play there. Man I miss that spot.

Anyway check the gallery below, and then if you feel like it you can go look at some photos of my old friend Vicky topless in the snow taken earlier that day. She isn’t in this gallery at all, but I promise you will dig the photos if you like that sort of thing. Okay bye.

Cape Fear, Bricks & Minifigs

June 19, 2026June 19, 2026

When I left NYC two years ago, part of that decision making was that I mostly traveled for work, so I didn’t need to be paying all my income in rent, but I think I underestimated how much I would miss shooting in New York. Post pandemic didn’t work a ton in NYC but I was always there for the big moments even if I was just shooting stuff for myself. For example, I would be at the Knicks parade right now taking photos instead of updating my website. Since moving to Wilmington, NC I have taken plenty of photos, but they obviously aren’t as exciting as the stuff I was shooting locally in New York, so other than a photo here and there on social media, I don’t often share that work. Today I figured I would change that.

Recently I did three quick photoshoots for Wilmington Biz Magazine which is, believe it or not, a local business magazine. Two of the photo shoots were for an article about the Cape Fear River, yes the one from the movies, and one of them was just a quick one page story at the front of the issue.

The one page story was about a new Lego resale store called Bricks & Minifigs that had just opened up in a building right across the way from my old apartment. For decades it was a frame shop that I have frequented several times. (I was just recently at their new location getting the original 1962 blueprints to my home framed.) We moved before the Lego store opened but I watched them set up the shop over the last few months I lived there so I was excited to check it out. I loved Lego as a kid and I have built a few of the botanical sets over the last few years. Anyway, when I went there I met the owner and looked around and took a few photos and didn’t think much of it, but between then and now a huge controversy surrounding the franchise has taken place. It is way too complicated to explain fully, but basically Bricks & Minifigs corporate took over a franchise in Oregon and in the process stole a bunch of Lego sets that they were supposed to be consigning from someone. A YouTuber made a video about it and the whole thing went super viral and instead of making it right, the company just doubled down and made one bad PR decision after another, sued everyone and got the YouTuber arrested. This video has a pretty good breakdown of where the situation is now if you want to know more. All that being said, none of this has anything to do with the local Bricks & Minifigs and I went in there the other day and it was packed, so glad to see they are doing well despite the negative PR.

The other two shoots were for a larger story about a day on the life of the Cape Fear River. Despite being a small city, Wilmington is famous for a surprising amount of stuff. We are the home of Michael Jordan, the only place in the world with native Venus fly traps and home to a once thriving film industry. Dawson’s Creek, Blue Velvet and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were all filmed here. Kenny Powers mounted his comeback and Brandon Lee died filming The Crow here. But you know what wasn’t filmed here? Either of the Cape Fear movies, despite them taking place in Southeast NC. Sorry, these photos aren’t my normal level of exciting, so you get some tangents.

Anyway, the first shoot I did was to take photos of a tugboat company called McAllister Towing. I was particularly psyched about this because in my mind I was going to take photos of a grizzly tugboat captain, but I ended up photographing a young guy who was a fourth generation tugboatist. I am positive that isn’t a word, but it should be. Three notes about the shoot: 1) While photographing the tugboatist, I kept thinking it felt like I was shooting band photos, and when I went home and googled him, he is actually a drummer. 2) While I was climbing between two boats I dropped my point and shoot 35mm camera out of my bag, and when I bent over the rail to grab it, I dropped my other two film cameras. In the process I: a) broke the flash on the point and shoot, b) chipped the lens on my Nikon and c) badly damaged my Lecia M6, which reminds me I need to file an insurance claim. 3) My mother’s middle name is McAlister so I was psyched to show her the photos.

Lastly I photographed a Riverkeeper, which is a job I didn’t know existed. He’s part of an organization that works to protect the water quality in the Cape Fear River basin. The Cape Fear has an enormous amount of PFAS in it because DuPont basically poisoned the water source for hundreds of thousands of people and instead of paying for a cleanup, just created a separate company to keep them protected and everything is tied up in massive litigation, meanwhile everyone I know who grew up here has some sort of autoimmune disease and Trump’s FDA has rolled back Biden era clean water protections so that’s fun. Anyway, it was real cool to briefly talk to Kemp about his incredibly interesting job and I loved taking photos of him canoeing in some beautiful nature, despite how many bug bites I got in the process.

Can I tell you that when I started writing this I thought it was going to be three short paragraphs? Here we are nearly 1000 words in and I am still going. I need to write more, and maybe use less run on sentences when I do. I just gotta stop abusing commas. There will be zero commas in this paragraph — I swear.

Okay, this was fun and I hope you dig looking at something different from me. I still got a bunch of NSFW stuff to get up, and I need to start getting up more Vintage DBB stuff, as promised, but I also think I might have to share with you guys some of my wildlife photography. I don’t really know what I am doing but I got all sorts of wildlife in my backyard so I bought a long lens and it’s been a lot of fun, so maybe you guys will get to see that soon. In the meantime, enjoy this quick gallery with ten photos from each shoot. And shout out to my friend Suzi, the art director who hired me for this, it was fun, let’s do it again.