On Being Recognized at Insane Clown Posse Show

A few weeks ago Insane Clown Posse came to my home town of Albuquerque, and I attended the show. I'm not an ICP fan, but since I include a section about them in my new book "Bad Clowns," I figured I should go to at least one show to see what it's like and get a sense of their fans (who, as I mention in the book, were at one point deemed a "criminal gang" by the FBI). I emerged a few hours later partially deaf and with a heavy misting of Faygo, but otherwise unharmed.

As it turned out, a Juggalo who was there e-mailed me last week to say he'd recognized me and explain why:

"The story starts with the [Albuquerque Journal] newspaper article about your book. saved the article so i could put it with the book once i bought it. i love clowns, and knew i had to have the book. went to the ICP concert and loved it as i am also a huge ICP fan. saw you upstairs where we were. sorry could not help noticing you, you stood out like a sore thumb. in fact i noticed you seemed to be there more to observe people, than to listen to ICP. i figured you to be a cop, you didn't seem to fit. my wife said she thought you took her picture, kind of bothered me, but let it go. talked about you on the way home, we were all sure you must be a cop. i don't really like cops, but that is a story for another time. so the next night after ICP, i finally got to start reading your book. awesome book, especially loved the history of early clowns. i could not put it down, read the entire book that night. here is the interesting part! got to the chapter about ICP, and some how it clicked... THAT'S THE GUY FROM LAST NIGHT. asked my phone to pull up your picture, yep that's him. kind of wonder, if i had waited a few more days to read your book, if i would have figured it out. kind of funny how it worked out. so a little about me. we were front row upstairs, in the middle. older bald guy, big long beard, covered in tattoos.had my tall blonde wife and even taller young nephew with me. i run a small motorcycle shop from home [here in town]. hope you enjoy this story as much as i do, as we share a few thing in common. i am still telling friends about it."

I met with him a few days ago at a local coffee shop, signed his book, and he showed me three of his evil clown tattoos. Nice guy!