Tuesday, November 17, 2009

send in the clowns...they're already here

Here’s what excites me- genuine insight into things I’m interested in but which occur in locales or within cultures where I fear tread. Have you seen thejuggalog.tumblr.com? One of my many dogs of war posted this link in the sock drawer (which is, for you new folk, the name of the comments section located beneath each post. There is ALSO a radical splinter faction ‘sock drawer’ that’s located elsewhere on the internet, comprised of radical freedom fighters [terrorists?] who felt, perhaps rightly, that the sock drawer that your benevolent dictator [yours truly] provides wasn’t packed with enough mindless bullshit and special buttons) and it (the juggalog, that is) is awesome.
Some poor fucker got it in his head that working for ICP for something like ten or eleven weeks selling tshirts to tubby juggalos and jugalettes would be a great social experiment. Now, I too, would probably think this, and I too, had I not been turned onto the juggalog would probably even consider doing it, just like this poor, poor man ended up doing. But MAN oh man, some of the photos and passages are genuinely haunting and dark. It’s, believe it or not, completely fucked up. This little excerpt from today’s entry may whet your whistle:

“When I look back at the last 10 weeks of my life it’s hard to admit to myself that everything I remember actually happened. Just to put it in perspective for you: The amount of time that I have been protecting myself from (over-generalization) over weight, drug infused, uneducated, mindless, brainwashed, closed minded, soda soaked clowns with the shittiest make-up that I could possibly imagine is just short of the amount of time that it would take for you to complete one semester of photography class at your mid-level art school.”

Yipes, folks. That’s what sometimes happens when you immerse yourself in a strange and depraved culture. You go batshit insane. But this guy and his expose may just be the catalyst that the juggalos need to start a true subcultural civil war where they break out their hatchets and take back what’s theirs; namely the KFC’s, Taco bells, Hot Topics and hockey jersey manufacturing concerns. It could become one of those situations where clowns stop being polite and start getting real. They could call their new country Juggalarica, Or Juggalo-ville, Oooh! Juggalosreal. Oh, yeah. That’s what they should call it. But, nah, they’d probably just call it Shangri-la. Dumb fucking juggalos.
This leads me to something that I find irritating: the fear of clowns. Everyone reveals this phobia like it’s some sort of iconoclastic fear that proves that they see the real essence of terror in this otherwise-thought-to-be-docile-lovable and, you know, for-the-kids incarnation, but listen up dildos: for as long as there have been clowns, they’ve been portrayed as scary. You aren’t outwitting the matrix. You’re in it, man. Ever fucking hear of Pagliacci? Look, my point here is, as long as there’s been the idea of clowns there’s been juggalos, kay? You got it? Great. So, no more bragging about clowns being scary. That’s like saying rapists are scary, or minorities. WOW. What a bold new fear you’ve cooked up there.
Lamos.
Sigh.
Okay, look. I didn’t mean to go off on you guys there. I’ve been having problems with my manservant Claudio for the last hour or two. He took off on the Monitor’s life blimp with that dildo from the Cobra Ships or whatever the fuck they are. Apparently our meeting in Tibet the other day made quite an impression on Claudio, and just this morning he told me that he’d rather listen to children’s dance music than talk about opening NRO accounts, or Hulbert’s Financial Digest. I told him that without that shit, I’ve got ads, no revenue, no Monitor and no money for menservants and you know what he said? Get this. He said “I don’t care, sir. It’s dull.” Then he took off in the life blimp. It was pathetic, really. Just Claudio, floating out there like some sort of chick clasped in the talon of a fat goose, disappearing into the arctic sunset above the ice floes and…excuse me a moment.

No, no. I’ll be fine. After all, I still have my trillions and Dick Branson and I are meeting tomorrow at a Stuckeys outside of Oklahoma city to talk global finance over some chicko sticks and milkshakes. Should be a pretty cool time. Maybe I’ll get one of the waiters from the main restaurant on the Monitor (the steakhouse) to fill in for Claudio. Or, maybe Claudio will come back. Who knows anymore? Okay, I’ve got to go. I’m hunting polar bears from up here with some Russian, ahem, businessmen, and I’m up.
Good luck out there. Let’s rap tomorrow.

17 comments:

L said...

something to keep you busy? Supposedly, this is a legit band put together by the lady that started the Pussycat Dolls, the quality of the video is shit. It almost seems like snippets of a soft core girl-on-girl porn before it gets good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqtr2ZbKNgw
Happy Tuesday.

Candice said...

the start of thesockdrawer.org was nothing against you brendan. if you go back to the comments posted on may 14th you'll see there was some disgust/annoyance at the sexual comments myself and others had made.

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5169849407979145898&postID=5096799687972197195

then stizzy got the ball rolling on starting a separate site so that no one would get their panties in a bunch about the perverted turn the bsc sock drawer was taking. ialthough, in all actuality, the pervertedness never really stopped in this comment section and thesockdrawer.org has just become another platform for me to express my undying desire to bang you.

John F. said...

I assumed that Cokie the Clown would get mentioned in here somewhere.

Jayzilla said...

i can only hope your manservant was indeed .. claudio sanchez

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudio_Sanchez


for his hair is powerful enough generate the static electricity needed to power a zeppelin of the magnitude described


godspeed on its return


@L -- ::yawn:: softcore girl on girl is lame, if want to watch that--ill just watch commercials on tv

Unknown said...
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Unknown said...

Plus the 2nd sock drawer provides boob shots for everyone, not just BK.

Candice said...

this is true. i am good to my fellow socks.

admp said...

We're definitely terrorists and not freedom fighters. I say this with authority because our leader, Murdock, is only around once every 2 months and is hooked up to a dialysis machine. The more you know.

www.thesockdrawer.org

Ted Yang said...

Brendan, you did a good job of not getting shot by Cokie.

Stizzy said...

What are you talking about Candice? The other drawer is totally a slight against beex. We're planning a hostile takeover including a mid air blimp battle between The Monitor and The Archaeopteryx. (currently under construction) And with these floor plans we bought from Claudio our victory is assured.

Jayzilla said...

i already got my back piece done of the Archaeopteryx captain -- Cloud ..

http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2007/08/sephiroth-tattoo.jpg

Mark said...

Guys, I think BK has schizophrenia.

Drunken Acorn said...

I concur, he's bat shit crazy.

Unknown said...

My friend wrote this paper on coulrophobia vs. our neurosis.

http://www.trinity.edu/org/tricksters/trixway/current/Vol%203/Vol3_1/Durwin.htm

It's an interesting read...

Bridgett said...

What about Dr. Rockso?

Anyone? Anyone? Yeah.

KypPineapple said...

I must say that I'm extremely jealous of anyone who has ever witnessed a juggalo in person...mostly due to the fact that I have never been presented with the opportunity to kick one square in the balls.

JSIN said...

Beex-
Just wonderin'-Where did you get Dogs of War? Did you pull it from Shakespeare, the novel by Forsyth, the song title from one of many artists that have a track with that title, or one of the films with the same name??? Please let me know I'm curious.