Nate "Igor" Smith

Your home away from home: Lake Hepatitis.

Happy Juggalo Day! That's at least what Insane Clown Posse and Psychopathic Records are calling today, February 17, 2012. Why? "Because we say it is!"

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all photos by Nate "Igor" Smith

Charlie Sheen smiles from the wings. More photos from this year's Gathering of the Juggalos here.

Charlie Sheen
Hogrock Campground, Cave-In-Rock, Illinois
The Gathering of the Juggalos
Saturday, August 13, 2011

Better than: Two and a Half Men

It's probably our fault. What did we, or anyone, really expect? That Charlie Sheen would come onstage to the Gathering of the Juggalos and burst into flames? That given his long-documented interest in strippers, the actor would summon the young lady who'd won the Miss Juggalette contest earlier in the day (by ejaculating on command) and invite her to become his newest goddess? Or that he'd actually walk among the Juggalos at some point and pose for photos along the infamous Drug Bridge?

All those memes in one place? The Internet might explode.

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You can make this young boy's dream come true by introducing him to Anderson Cooper

Thus far, Baths is most famous for his publicity shots, a stunningly fragile array of goofy portraits in which the electronic solo musician stands in old man's underwear, looking lost, sometimes accompanied by a gay Pomeranian named Guiseppe. (We ushered Baths' press-photo pooch into the Indie Pet Hall of Fame on Friday.) But you will be seeing the name Baths--who does, in fact, take baths on tour, we ate the corny bait and asked--listed a lot this week. The 21-year-old (as of April!) Anticon artist is playing six shows over the course of this year's CMJ, from the I Guess I'm Floating Showcase tomorrow 6pm at Piano's to the PopGun showcase on Saturday night at Glasslands.

But this afternoon is actually the show he's most excited about--he plays the Terrorbird Showcase today at the Cake Shop, 5pm right before Marnie Stern. And he is super-excited! Seriously, we talked to him last week, and it's fucking adorable how excited he is to be introduced to the vagina monologuer "in a legit way." Also, Anderson Cooper!

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Tila, topless, after getting hit at the Gathering of the Juggalos

The statement didn't go out until today because ICP was literally running a four-day festival in the middle of the woods, with no cell reception or internet access. But now TMZ finally got some quotes from Violent J on the Tila Tequila incident and less than 10 minutes ago, Psychopathic/Juggalo Gathering LLC just put out their official release. It reads in full:

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Since TMZ is suddenly the expert on celebrities and Juggalos, this headline either needs quotes or a correction. Does this look an eye to you?

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​Terribly sorry to break out the 'ol 'SOTC TMZ' tag, but there is just something really endearing about a 25-year-old pop star holding up the Sun front page announcing her pregnancy while grinning in that blissed-out, soon-to-be-a-new-parent kind of way. Especially when her most recently stated dream was to "find someone to fall in love with, have another go at having children, and move somewhere else." It's happening! (So maybe we've had a couple friends have kids lately. Sue us.) [Sun/Lily Allen]

​And like that, r&b's first couple has split. Photos surfaced today of songwriter and love king Terius Nash, a/k/a The-Dream, frolicking in the ocean with a woman who is not his wife. Said wife, radiant starlet Christina Milian, may have been at home, taking care of the kids Nash works hard to avoid creating expectations for; perhaps she was with another man entirely, as US Weekly seems to be reporting that this separation happened as long ago as last year. Either way, their love is over: the Tom Ford riding boots will have to go back in the closet. To mark such a sad occasion, we rounded up some of the most poignant responses on Twitter to the end of a once beautiful thing.

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Lil Jon and Susan Sarandon, reenacting the Twins poster. Photo via Complex/Say_WordYo

​A love of skateboarding, apparently. Both were at yesterday's Maloof Money Cup at Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, a pro skating competition sponsored by the infamous Maloof brothers, owners of the Sacramento Kings and guardians of young Ali Lohan's tremulous career. Hence the preposterous $100,000 first place prize for being good at street skating, nabbed this year by the Pennsylvania-born Chris Cole. Our full gallery of the proceedings, shot by the intrepid Rebecca Smeyne, can be found here. Alas, Smeyne didn't track down Lil Jon--thank Complex for the above photo--but another member of the illustrious SOTC paparazzi crew reports that when she saw the rapper, he was "handing out flyers for his album, with literally no entourage--just handing out flyers to people as they left. Is that ultra gangster or not at all?" We say the former. Better, more romantic/artistic shot below:

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​A tipster pal sends along a photo of Saturday Night Live castmates Andy Samberg and Will Forte hanging out in the will-call line at last night's Pearl Jam concert at MSG. Note the era-appropriate flannel! Our pal Hipster Runoff might have something to say about the man who dates indie rock goddess Joanna Newsom lowering himself to the level of Eddie Vedder & Co., but us, we just want to know where Samberg copped his shirt.