His father, Brad Evans, was a National Review journalist and his mother, Paula, a painter.
As a Roman Catholic[citation needed], his godparents were Leo Brent Bozell II and Patricia Lee Buckley.
Egolf dropped out of Temple and joined a punk rock band "Freak Thing", later "Kitschchao".
For 18 months, he wrote during the day and subsidized his rent by playing guitar in Irish bars and on the Pont des Arts as a street musician.
In July 2004, he and a group of friends, later known as the Smoketown Six, were arrested outside Lancaster, Pennsylvania, for stripping down to thong underwear and piling on top of one another alongside a road that was being traveled by US President George W. Bush to protest the Abu Ghraib prison-abuse scandal.