B-Sides - Driven by Boredom

Talking Juggalos With Andrew Callaghan

At the 2025 Gathering of the Juggalos I did nearly an hour long interview with Andrew Callaghan, the journalist behind the YouTube channels All Gas No Brakes and Channel 5. They needed a “juggalo expert” to answer some basic questions and give them an overview they could use to piece their Gathering of the Juggalos video. I am always wary about people coming to the Gathering to make videos making fun of juggalos, but I am a fan of Andrew’s work and know he treats his subjects with respect (sometimes too much respect). I knew the video would be good, but I was still scared that my interview would get cut up and used out of context in a way …

Banned In DC

Beyond The Streets recently reprinted the legendary DC hardcore book Banned in DC. Published in hardcover for the first time it features new photo scans, color flyers and an afterword from the books main editor Cynthia Connolly. This book was so influential for me that I don’t think I would be a photographer today if it weren’t for the book. I thought the reissue would be a good excuse to write about what it meant to me, but I didn’t realize at the time that it would be nearly 2000 words long when I was done with it. XXX The year is 1995 and I am an angry young punk kid living in the DC suburbs. Two things happened that …

One Year Of Home Ownership

One year ago today Shannon and I bought a mid century modern home in North Carolina. One of the main reasons we moved there was because of all the affordable MCM homes we had seen when visiting, but when we started looking we realized that maybe living in an old ranch home wasn’t for us. They were all too dark, not well taken care of and just kinda a bummer. At some point we started looking at new construction, but we just couldn’t see ourselves surrounded by drywall and grey floors after decades of living in old buildings in New York. We had just about given up when our friend (and realtor) Jane told us that a house we had …

2025 Metlife Takeover Recap Video

I go through this twice a year, once when I post the photos from our yearly Metlife Takeover event and once months later when I post the recap video so let’s do it again… When I first moved to NYC in 2006 I had no one to watch football with because I don’t spend a lot of time hanging out with people who are into sports, especially with my level of intensity. It took me a couple of years but I finally found a small group of Dolphins fans to watch games with and as it began to grow we decided to launch social media accounts for it to spread the word and Dolfans NYC was born.

We Are Back!

Just a quick post to let you guys know that Driven By Boredom is finally unfucked. The site has been dealing with hackers and malware for months. The person who designed the new site retired from doing websites and hasn’t been able to help me fix it. Between trying to figure it out myself, trying to get my host to restore from old backups and frankly just me ignoring the problem, it’s taken forever to do something that apparently I could have solved in an afternoon. A couple days ago I hired someone off Upwork who specializes in WordPress malware and he was able to fix my site, and the Dolfans NYC site in under 8 hours. My brother’s website, …