Busy week!

There's a lot going on this week, all over the country. Here are 3 events I've considered, yet I can only make it to one...can you guess which one????

11th Annual Gathering of the Juggalos (August 12-15, Cave-in-Rock, Illinois)

The Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting (August 11-15, Washington, D.C.)

U.S. Masters Swimming's 2010 Summer Nationals (August 9-12, San Juan, Puerto Rico)

"Do yall think Middle America is worried that a juggalo will murder them?"

I'm up late writing a paper so of course I'm looking up stuff about Juggalos. It goes without saying that Hipster Runoff is obnoxious, but (like all obnoxious things/media outlets especially) sometimes I like it. This is a pretty good synthesis of all the mainstream thoughts about Juggalos lately and how mainstream America--not just folks like me who get a kick out of it--thinks about the Juggalo Revolution (I just coined that term).

In other Juggalo news, I'm worried that this Derek Erdman kid will supersede me as the preeminent scholar of Juggalo Life in the early 2000's. Derek clearly has a head start, because MTV sent him to the Pitchfork Festival AND the GOTJ to do a compare/contrast, and I'm truly impressed with the video he sent back (link here after the story). Seriously guys, this video is really illuminating. It reminds me a little of Memorial Day 2000. And should we be worried that one of the tags is "hipster juggalo war"?