Over the weekend, Jelly Boy The Clown from the Squidling Brothers Sideshow Circus was burned in a fire in a Queens Apartment. He was staying at a friends house after gigging in Coney Island. Oddly enough, the fire wasn’t a death defying stunt gone wrong, but a run of the mill house fire tragedy. Reports are saying that both he and his friend passed out from smoke inhalation after their escape was blocked by the fire. They both suffer from severe burns and smoke inhalation and Jelly is currently in critical condition.

My connection to Jelly Boy and the creation of Swellco & Swellco are almost synonymous. I met the clown five years ago while developing a reality show pilot called Sideshow Nation. Jelly was just starting out at that time. He was a new comer who was encountering serious resistance from the sideshow community. His desire to push boundaries and his outsider status made him perfect for the show. After a year of work and a year of shopping, we were picked up and dropped by A&E all within 48 hours. My partners and I decided to transition the concept of Sideshow Nation into our own DIY company-Swellco & Swellco. Initially Jelly Boy was slated to be a main component in S&S as he had been in Sideshow Nation. But a whole lot of stressors and resentments had built during Sideshow Nation (there is a lot to mistrust in reality T.V.) and we had a falling out.

I still highly respect him as a performer and I think he is extremely IMPORTANT. He has developed, through sheer force of will and perseverance, into a major player in a community that once shunned him. We here at Swellco & Swellco value creativity, talent and dedication over all other things. The clown is a role model in our eyes and his hospitalization cuts deep. He and his troupe exude a beautifully twisted mastery over their art and strive to exist in a world that they create. They live our mission statement.

Like so many performers who choose to live on the precipice of society, we know Jelly does not have many resources and he is going to need your help.

-Nasau Chainsaw has started a paypal donation to help with his hospital bills.

-There will be a benefit show to help raise more money for his care held on Saturday, July 14th in NYC.

-Tattooist Mike Deering of Citizen Ink on Ave U and 16th st in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn will be donating 40% of his profit to help Jelly and the squidlings with the hospital bills. Call or email to set up an appointment. MikeDeeringInk@aol.com

-A FB page has been set up to help co-ordinate benefit efforts

-If you are a performer interested in helping to put together a Philadelphia Benefit, please contact us: info@swellco2000.com

Jelly Boy, we wish you a speedy recovery.

-R.E. Brown
Swellco & Swellco 64312b

Photos courtesy of facebook.com/people/Squidling-Brothers

The best in sexy, creepy, strange.

I was lucky enough to see The Squidling Bros. two times at Cha Cha’s in Coney Island. I feel blessed by what ever dark gods rule the strange and bizarre. This troupe is quite possibly one of the most twisted, bizarre group of performers alive today and I personally have a massive girl crush on their female star Betty Bloomerz

Right now they are traveling Europe but with any luck they will be back on the East Coast and in Coney Island where all good Circus people dwell. Like S&S corporate, they are based down in Philadelphia and run monthly event called Carnivalution that is supposed to be AMAZING.

Considering that they are both in Philly, and considering  I know for a fact that they all know each other. I find it really odd that they don’t work together and I’m on a mission to get to the bottom of it. When I went there for the WRATH party, I asked Louise LaTease when she was going to book them for the Video Circus. She put her hands up and said
“hey, I want them too. You better ask Black.”
I asked Black.
He shook his head and said “you better ask Brown.”
I asked Brown and he manically laughed like a super villain and said
“why don’t you ask the clowns?”

Well I’m going to when they come back home because this lack of sick & twisted solidarity simply will not do. COME HOME SQUIDLING BROS. I MISS YOU!

Be sure to check out their site and see when they will be in your area.

-Felicia Jackson
Swellco & Swellco 22397b

Photos courtesy of squidlingbros.com & Squidling Bros. FB

Episode 1 Synopsis

A rousing performance by drag queen Needles Jones. A rare interview with Red Stewart, the oldest man in sideshow. Jellyboy the Clown teaches Bunny Fox Brown how to stick balloons up her nose. The staff has a meeting to discuss vagrants peeing, the sexiness of cutters and fucking blowup dolls for art. Plus a whole lot of subversive subliminal mind control video.

Clowns hate ass sex

Suspension of disbelief can be applied to all aspects of life.

To be “mentally” reconditioned means that Swellco & Swellco’s Video Circus process “quickens” (or makes alive) our numb mind. When a consumer believes in the process of the Video Circus, trusting us alone to encourage all perversions- then Swellco & Swellco come’s into one’s mind in the form of a new and better reality.

Suspension of disbelief can be applied to all aspects of life.

To be “mentally” reconditioned means that Swellco & Swellco’s Video Circus process “quickens” (or makes alive) our numb mind. When a consumer believes in the process of the Video Circus, trusting us alone to encourage all perversions- then Swellco & Swellco come’s into one’s mind in the form of a new and better reality.

Suspension of disbelief can be applied to all aspects of life.

To be “mentally” reconditioned means that Swellco & Swellco’s Video Circus process “quickens” (or makes alive) our numb mind. When a consumer believes in the process of the Video Circus, trusting us alone to encourage all perversions- then Swellco & Swellco come’s into one’s mind in the form of a new and better reality.