Yes, I have a baby.
But enough about that. (He's fucking AWESOME and deserves his own something here, but I ain't here to talk about my week just yet.)
Anybody hear this story out of Canada this weekend where this guy was sitting on a Greyhound bus? Anyway, there's this guy sitting on a Greyhound bus. Next to him is another guy, an Asian fellow. Guy number one is sleeping away. For no reason at all, acting completely calm and rational, the Asian man pulls out a Rambo knife and stabs this guy about 60 times. The bus pulls over, and everybody gets off the bus while this guy is still stabbing the other guy to death.
Oh, it gets better. The Asian guy CUTS OFF THE DUDE'S HEAD and parades it around to the people who are now off the bus. He doesn't smile, he doesn't show any emotion. And, to top it off, he starts EATING THE BODY PARTS he's removing. He turned this guy into a buffet. The police came and eventually got the guy off the bus and took him to jail on second degree murder charges. No emotion, no nothing, as he did not enter a plea.
Oh. It. Gets. BETTER.
Here's where the internet kind of sucks. Claire and I looked for the dead guy on MySpace and happened to find his profile. As it turns out, Tim McLean, age 22, goes by the name JoKAwILd on the internet. He has lots of pictures of his abs. He has pictures of his different haircuts and sunglasses. Of course, he has plenty of tributes rolling in on his only blog, posted in 2006.
His only blog tells a lot.
Tim McLean not only shared his name with a delicious sandwich from McDonald's.
He was a fucking JUGGALO.
Yes, that's right. He was one of that legion of people who--for all intents and purposes--worshipped the band The Insane Clown Posse. He dressed like them. He hung out with other people who dressed like him. Some of the tributes pouring in to his only blog (which is about the Insane Clown Posse) include, "I'll swing a hatchet for you, brother, Tru Juggalo," which is funny because the guy got his head cut the fuck off. My favorite is "I clown love you, ninja," because it doesn't make any sense and has a thinly veiled attempt at calling someone a "nigger" when the guy could not have been any whiter. Most of what is being said is about how sweet the guy is supposed to be. I know a lot of nice guys, guys who don't do stuff like putting pictures of their abs on the internet. I know a lot of nice guys, guys who aren't JUGGALOS.
When I first heard about this, I was shocked, because that's what you're supposed to be. Digging a little deeper actually changed everything about how I think about this. What if he was listening to The Great Milenko or The Amazing Jeckel Brothers, and like anyone knows THAT SHIT SUCKS, so the Asian guy who had no criminal record and by all accounts was a model citizen--what if he couldn't take it any more?
The lesson here is, don't be a Juggalo in public. Don't even do it on the internet. Shit gets real.
Anybody hear this story out of Canada this weekend where this guy was sitting on a Greyhound bus? Anyway, there's this guy sitting on a Greyhound bus. Next to him is another guy, an Asian fellow. Guy number one is sleeping away. For no reason at all, acting completely calm and rational, the Asian man pulls out a Rambo knife and stabs this guy about 60 times. The bus pulls over, and everybody gets off the bus while this guy is still stabbing the other guy to death.
Oh, it gets better. The Asian guy CUTS OFF THE DUDE'S HEAD and parades it around to the people who are now off the bus. He doesn't smile, he doesn't show any emotion. And, to top it off, he starts EATING THE BODY PARTS he's removing. He turned this guy into a buffet. The police came and eventually got the guy off the bus and took him to jail on second degree murder charges. No emotion, no nothing, as he did not enter a plea.
Oh. It. Gets. BETTER.
Here's where the internet kind of sucks. Claire and I looked for the dead guy on MySpace and happened to find his profile. As it turns out, Tim McLean, age 22, goes by the name JoKAwILd on the internet. He has lots of pictures of his abs. He has pictures of his different haircuts and sunglasses. Of course, he has plenty of tributes rolling in on his only blog, posted in 2006.
His only blog tells a lot.
Tim McLean not only shared his name with a delicious sandwich from McDonald's.
He was a fucking JUGGALO.
Yes, that's right. He was one of that legion of people who--for all intents and purposes--worshipped the band The Insane Clown Posse. He dressed like them. He hung out with other people who dressed like him. Some of the tributes pouring in to his only blog (which is about the Insane Clown Posse) include, "I'll swing a hatchet for you, brother, Tru Juggalo," which is funny because the guy got his head cut the fuck off. My favorite is "I clown love you, ninja," because it doesn't make any sense and has a thinly veiled attempt at calling someone a "nigger" when the guy could not have been any whiter. Most of what is being said is about how sweet the guy is supposed to be. I know a lot of nice guys, guys who don't do stuff like putting pictures of their abs on the internet. I know a lot of nice guys, guys who aren't JUGGALOS.
When I first heard about this, I was shocked, because that's what you're supposed to be. Digging a little deeper actually changed everything about how I think about this. What if he was listening to The Great Milenko or The Amazing Jeckel Brothers, and like anyone knows THAT SHIT SUCKS, so the Asian guy who had no criminal record and by all accounts was a model citizen--what if he couldn't take it any more?
The lesson here is, don't be a Juggalo in public. Don't even do it on the internet. Shit gets real.