photo by Allison Michael Orenstein; inset by Aliya Naumoff

"Tammy Rae Carland and Sleater-Kinney! Vivienne Dick and Insane Clown Posse!"

It's not the first place we'd expect to find Kathleen Hanna's name, but there it is, subtly tacked onto the credits for Neal Medlyn's Wicked Clown Love, a 2012 experimental work "built around the music and culture of hip-hop duo Insane Clown Posse, their devoted fan base the Juggalos, and other forms of male bonding and ritual." Showing at the Kitchen next weekend, Wicked Clown Love's hammy event description on the venue Web site elaborates:

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​Yes, in an attempt to set U.S./U.K. diplomatic relations back to a pre-Revolutionary War level, Snoop Dogg has announced that he's written a song to commemorate Prince William's last night as a free man. The song is called "Wet." It will premiere later today on Snoop's site. Try and guess the exact time.

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Tomorrow night at the Bowery Poetry Club, there will be a short fourth-wall-dropping play entitled Gaga of the Dead, as part of the Blue Box Productions bar-performance series Sticky. The concept? According to curator Nick Job, this little number "is a zombie play in which the cure for undead blood-thirst is Lady Gaga's music." The finale? "A Thriller-esque dance sequence." The brain-eating menace? Juggalos.

The inspiration? Apparently, this.

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​Holy shit, everybody: Das Racist has their own video game.

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​The long-threatened summit of Rae, Kanye, and the Bieb has arrived in the person of "Runaway Love (Remix)," a mercifully simple and breezy grafting of Justin Bieber's titular kiddie-r&b jam and, uh, "Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthin' Ta Fuck Wit." Which works better than it has any right to, actually, and it's a trip to watch Kanye and Raekown go PG: The insult of choice here is "weirdo." The Internet is magic, people. Remember which site you heard if first on.

The 11th Annual Gathering of the Juggalos begins tomorrow. There are over 100 performers booked for this event. They all lead up to one thing. . . the headlining onslaught of Insane Clown Posse.

There is already an entire Internet full of jokes here. You do not need me. Instead, let us simply consider the facts.

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​This posting is real, incidentally: we just got off the phone with the group's Andre Weston, who confirmed that he'd upped the advertisement yesterday. Since then, about 50 people have contacted the duo. Why use Craigslist, a place people typically use to sell couches, and not to pick up new management in the industry they've been toiling in since 1988? "Shit, you saw it," Dre explains, "and about 50 other people saw it, so I'm just taking advantage of these outlets that are out here nowadays." He added: "We're just trying to make a connection with whoever is out there trying to make something happen." And what is one of the greatest rap crews of the '90s looking for in a manager, circa 2010?

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Exciting times for Kanye West, eh? First came video of his Twitter-dissing freestyle at Facebook headquarters, a video whose release was immediately followed by his, uh, starting an official Kanye West Twitter account. And now here's another video of him... performing... at... Twitter's... headquarters. Good: "My first watch was a Fossil/Now I'm in the Louvre, looking for fossils." Better: declaring himself "like a mix between Fergie and Jesus."

Meanwhile, the most intriguing reaction to all this action so far comes from none other than John Mayer!

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Yesterday, Kanye West traveled to tech world, baffling a crowd of cellphone-toting Facebook employees by performing in their Palo Alto cafeteria, a cappella, in a sharp suit and matching scarf. Why they couldn't get him some sort of beat-delivery apparatus is unclear, though these raps sound more like fragments from September's upcoming Good Ass Job than like random freestyles. (The "My chain heavy/My chain too heavy" bit is a 'Ye hook if we've ever heard one.) Most scandalous, however, will be the shot West took at Twitter. With apologies for the epithet (as you'll see, it's not his): "Ya'll forget I got called 'nigger' so many times on Twitter--yo I lived that!" The line was not, to put it mildly, unprovoked. Recall the reaction online, circa Taylor Swift:

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​Well, this was entirely unexpected. Behold: a massive compendium of every celebrity ubiquitous Roots drummer and all around hero Questlove has ever met, complete with the story of how it happened and what they were like. Highlights include his summary dismissal of the '90s mixtape rap star Canibus--"all of my interactions with him are always the same: jam session. he spits. turns around to stop me from drumming so the audience can hear him. and there is never a "ooooooooooooooooooh!!" moment."--and the time he went over to Will Smith's house, which is a story it takes him about ten thousand words to tell:

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