It was the Escape From New York tour with The Ramones, Blondie and Tom Tom Club. I was backstage at Berkeley’s Greek Theater with Bart Nagel interviewing Chris Franz and Tina Weymouth of Tom Tom Club and Talking Heads when Debbie Harry wandered in.  She came right up to me. “You’re the MONDO 2000 guy?â€Â […]
Take the self-enhancement/personal mutation aspect of transhumanism and marry that to the intentions of Anonymous and you have something sort of like what St. Jude and I wanted to achieve with a book titled How To Mutate & Take Over The World.  There were multiple problems with this. For all the huffing and puffing […]
After the confident declarations of inevitable cyberpunk youth takeover in the first edition of Mondo 2000 and the philosophically trippy and mostly utopian read on Virtual Reality in #2, it was inevitable that affairs in the world would bring us crashing down to earth… at least a little. The third edition revolved largely around the […]
Farewell, Adam Yauch. The Beastie Boys were the alpha and omega Brooklyn white jewbu rap group. He’s leaving us way too young…
For me, the Mondo 2000 History Project is this weird process of exploring my own history — among others — in the context of that magazine and scene. In an introduction for the book (expect it to be completed around the end of the year), someone who shall remain nameless for now quotes from my […]
What you’ll be looking at is a scan of part of MONDO 2000 Issue #6, including an interview/article inside in which Timothy Leary interviews David Byrne and also writes an art essay titled “Reproduced Authentic.” First, the cover.  It’s my favorite. Behold and contemplate. It hailed an inside article titled “America’s First Psychedelic President?” […]
