4:21 pm  •  16 March 2013  •  5 notes

The Adalia Rose photo on the left kills me every time. So thrilled I got to do this.

6:16 pm  •  23 February 2013  •  2 notes

Here is the longest thing I’ve ever published, 8000 words on the very cool kid Adalia Rose Williams, her besieged mom, and the horrible other kids who spent two months attacking her. That’s her above, dancing to “Ice Ice Baby.” 

2:21 pm  •  22 February 2013

Damn, Davida! We’ve all come a long way since Whitney’s Biennial.

8:58 pm  •  24 January 2013

John Dixon, the Village Voice’s excellent art director, chose two of my stories as his favorite covers of 2012.

12:12 am  •  2 January 2013

I am going to find it difficult to tell you precisely why and how Hawaii moves me, touches me, saddens and troubles and engages my imagination, what it is in the air that will linger long after I have forgotten the smell of pikake and pineapple and the way the palms sound in the trade winds.

Joan Didion, “Letter from Paradise, 21’ 19’ N., 157’ 52’ W.”

And this is just what I saw when I landed.

10:59 am  •  16 September 2012  •  1 note

Do you know this couple?

Honored to be writing the foreword to Dan Cronin’s book of excellent portraits The Gathering, slated for a spring 2013 release through Prestel Publishing. Dan’s 4x5 portraits were shot during the last three Gathering of the Juggalos and his work is lovely. SPIN used some of his photos for their terrific oral history of the Gathering.

One request for help: we’d like to get in touch with few people for the book, including the couple posted above and this young woman (NSFW) who’s danced with Wolfpac in the past. Contact me at camilledodero@gmail.com or Dan at dan@dcroninphoto.com if you can help us track them down.

Also, while I’m crowd-sourcing Juggalo contacts, are there any Juggalos in Hawaii? If so, please get in touch: camilledodero@gmail.com. I’d like to interview you.

4:32 pm  •  10 September 2012  •  7 notes

My Sucklord Village Voice cover is supposed to be on Bravo’s Sucklord-themed “Gallery Girls” episode tonight. This is the production-company-provided video still that’s supposed air. John Dixon, the paper’s phenomenal art director, designed the cover. One of my favorites.

2:11 pm  •  10 September 2012  •  1 note

This amusingly wonderful Aaron Richter photo embodies the “Summer of Wub” dubstep explosion I profiled for SPIN Magazine’s July/August issue.

12:22 pm  •  31 August 2012  •  1 note

“I want to raise my son as a Juggalo. Even if he himself doesn’t want to be a Juggalo, I want him to love and respect Juggalos. If he’s going to college one day, somebody’s like ‘Fuck Juggalos’ I want my son to be like, ‘Fuck you.’ Even if he’s something else, I want him to be like, ‘Fuck you, I was raised by Juggalos.’”

— Violent J is the most earnest human I have ever met

12:15 pm  •  14 August 2012

“Charlie Sheen was looking at the crowd showing breasts when I say ‘Areola’ and he was blown away. I love impressing people like that.”

— Talked with Midwestern rap weirdo Tech N9ne about Lil Wayne and drunk ‘Hip-Hop Squares.’ It went well because I’m a woman. (He told me so.)

1:06 pm  •  15 June 2012

“I love that Voice. It’s the Voice of the people man, the real people, not the fucking a-holes.”

— Goodfella Henry Hill on the Village Voice in the Village Voice

1:06 pm  •  13 June 2012  •  6 notes

“Starbucks pairs Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros’ folk-jam granola alongside the antioxidant nut bars by their cash registers; Heaven could be racked comfortably beside a $9 jar of artisanal beer mustard.”

— Reviewed the Walkmen’s new record Heaven for SPIN

4:58 pm  •  12 June 2012  •  1 note

D*Face on Lafayette. I do Instagram.

6:19 pm  •  3 June 2012  •  1 note

“Don’t sext someone who you plan to dump or cheat on.”

— Cafe Mom’s LOL “8 Sexting Rules to Avoid Starring Naked in Someone’s ‘Revenge Porn’”

6:28 pm  •  7 April 2012