It has recently been scandalously revealed that RU Sirius has been lying to all of us about his personal biography. He was not, as he has claimed, born in the 19th Century to a Parisian whore named Babbette. In fact, he was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1952 to middle class agnostic liberals, Arnie and Roberta Goffman and grew up mostly on Long Island and then upstate in Binghamton, New York. Arnie wanted to name him J.T. Leroy Goffman and Roberta wanted to name him Alice Cooper. They settled on Kenneth as a workable compromise. Eventually, he would change his name to RU Sirius in order to assimilate.
Sirius has been through various mutations during his lengthy, lengthy extremely lengthy life. In the late 1960s, he was a teenage existentialist, a teenage garage rocker, a teenage high school radical, and finally a Yippie and the editor of an underground newspaper. In his mid-twenties, he was a wastrel – a proto-slacker. In college in the late 1970s and early 1980s, he was a fiction writer and lead vocalist in a Rochester, New York based punk band called Party Dogs. In the 1980s, he started High Frontiers magazine in Berkeley California. It eventually became Mondo 2000. Mondo was big cheese in the digital counterculture of the early 1990s, and Sirius got a fair amount of attention, which he frittered away.
He has since written for Time, Rolling Stone, Salon, and a whole bunch of other publications. He was a regular columnist for ARTFORUM International in 1996 and for the San Francisco Examiner in 2001, and for a whole bunch of other magazines that have since expired. He was a Contributing Writer for Wired when it didn’t totally suck. He was Editor-in-chief of GettingIt.com in 1999. He also recorded an unreleased 63-minute music masterpiece titled “IOU Babe” in 1994 with his band Mondo Vanilli for Trent Reznor’s Nothing Records. He will tell the entire sob story upon request.
Books by RU Sirius include Mondo 2000: A User’s Guide to the New Edge (with Rudy Rucker), How To Mutate & Take Over the World: an Exploded Post-Novel (with St. Jude), Design For Dying (with Timothy Leary), 21st Century Revolutionary, The Revolution: Quotations from Party Chairman RU Sirius, Counterculture Through the Ages (with Dan Joy), and True Mutations: Conversations on the Edge of Science, Technology, and Consciousness
Today RU Sirius is co-editor and frequent contributor to 10 Zen Monkeys. He’s the host of two podcasts, The RU Sirius Show and NeoFiles. He suspects that new projects will be emerging momentarily.
More about RU Sirius and RU Sirius writings available on the web
12 responses so far ↓
1 Andreana // Sep 25, 2007 at 9:13 am
amazing. just amazing. may he rule our country very soon.
2 Philbert // Sep 25, 2007 at 9:14 am
haha I like
3 Zach // Oct 30, 2007 at 8:20 am
over-throw Bush
4 Mindy // Nov 2, 2007 at 9:35 am
i cant find any information about your party..
i need to know more about it for a school project.
can you please help?
thanks!
5 sirioso // Nov 4, 2007 at 3:53 pm
Sorry Mindy. The Party’s over. But something new may be coming up soon…
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6 Doc Ellis // Nov 6, 2007 at 12:56 am
Hey RU I once threw a no hitter on acid, then I subscribed to Mondo 2000 and now well I need something revolting to get me through the late innings
7 Brett Harrison // Dec 21, 2007 at 10:12 am
Are you accepting submissions for “Getting It” and what are the guidelines, if so?
Brett
8 Dean // Dec 27, 2007 at 6:34 pm
R U will be serious one second after his death!
9 karli // Feb 28, 2008 at 6:51 am
i was curious if you could send me somethings to support what you belive in? pins, stickers, anything! that would be great.
thank you very much
karli
oak forest high school
c/o mr. mike brown
15102 S. Central Avenue
Oak Forest, IL 60452
10 Ximena Molina // Mar 14, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Hi! this may be a unusual e-mail. I’m writing from the National University of Mexico, from the Tlatelolco Cultural Center. We’re really interested in contacting R.U. Sirius for a conference: this year we celebrate the 40th anniversary of the students movement.
We’re planning a lot of cultural activities, and we want to include him (you).
Would you be so kind to give me his (your) e-mail or something??? Thank you!!!
Ximena Molina
11 toneyal // Jun 11, 2008 at 2:48 am
How individual citizens got their vote back
In 2008 a massive movement will be started by individuals
who are fed up with the election process that exists in
the United States.
This is what will happen:
The citizens in this group will start mailing out envelopes
filled with small amounts of various powdered substances
normally found around the house.
These envelopes will be sent to the addresses available on
the Internet for all the candidates that the persons
are NOT in favor of.
This is why:
In 1991 an engineer, working in Boca Raton, Florida
wrote an e-book about this different form of terrorist
warfare (available Free on web site www.farviewu.biz).
Ten years later, just after the 9-11 event another event
occurred (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks).
Based on this post 9-11 their envelopes will close up the
candidates offices and possibly even the post office.
It may even shut down the 2008 election.
The individuals involved in the act will spend about
50 cents (51 cents now) for each envelope mailed out. As long as
they are careful to not leave finger prints on/in the envelopes or
stamps and use bogus return addresses they will not be traceable.
—- How may of these have you received? —-
12 lisa // Aug 5, 2008 at 9:30 pm
for baby snakes on valentine’s day
i couldnt buy you no candy heart
i couldnt find myself the grace to be perfect
like what i know i want to give to you
and then i find myself missing you even for this moment
when i thought i wanted to be alone
and i had so much to give
sometimes i forget who i want to give it to
in my heart of hearts it keeps on coming back to you
…..
Hey kenny.someone loves you baby snakes
it’s great to read all this…
Was thinking about Brian and Ellen and Pat and Trina….too
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