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10 Zen Monkeys

10 Zen Monkeys

About Me

10 Zen Monkeys
the blog

10 Zen Monkeys
the webzine

My Interests

Pop culture, technology, memes, internet phenomena, controversies, free speech, film, tv, politics, drugs, sex, rock and roll, books, interviews, celebrity, gossip, youtube, religion

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Music:

Alice Cooper, Blondie, Dan the Automator, mashups, Paul McCartney on Drugs, the Muppets, the Chipmunks, Mondo Vanilli, Mos Def, the Dwarves, Holograms, Turn Me On Dead Man, Terorutoa and His Tahitians, The Beth Lisick Ordeal, Anton Maiden, Junko Yanagida, Party Ben, Dinbot, DJ Pantshead, the Kleptones

Books:

The Best American Erotica 2007, The Perfect Thing, Overclocked, She’s Such a Geek, Sperm are From Men Eggs are From Women, Chemical Warfare: Secrets Almost Forgotten, iWoz, The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things, What the Dormouse Said, From Counterculture to Cyberculture, Counterculture Through the Ages, The Conquest of Cool, California: The Visionary State, Fragile Things, Everything Is Miscellaneous, Armed Madhouse, Me Talk Pretty Someday

Heroes:

RU Sirius, Destiny, Lou Cabron, Jeff Diehl, Rudy Rucker, Susie Bright, Cory Doctorow, Annalee Newitz, Keith Henson, Jimmy Wales, Joe Quirk, Dr. James S. Ketchum, Dustin Diamond, Squeaky Fromme, Mary Carey, Brian Flemming, JT LeRoy, Steve Wozniak, Nick Douglas, Loretta Nall, Violet Blue, Neil Gaiman, Erik Davis, Dana Plato, Vernon Robinson, Jack Chick, Robert Anton Wilson, Susie Bright, Hunter S. Thompson, Deborah Jeane Palfrey, Paul Addis, B. Duke, Jamie Gillis, David Vitter, Josh Wolf, Justin Kan, Greg Palast, Dustin Diamond, Kurt Vonnegut, David Sedaris

My Blog

The Great Wired Drug Non-Controversy

Another pointless brouhaha about drugs has erupted, this time between Wired Magazine, the New York Times, and a reporter's blog. And what fueled all the noise was less than 300 words in a tiny chart ...
Posted by 10 Zen Monkeys on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:09:00 PST

Here Comes the Judge’s Porn

Judge Alex Kozinski posted porn online, the L.A. Times announced yesterday. But today internet bloggers discovered which porn it was!"And now, for the more disturbing and/or pornographic images," anno...
Posted by 10 Zen Monkeys on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:07:00 PST

Rush: The Last Taboo

As the redheaded, one-eyed stepchild in the Mondo Globo omniverse, I've written about some really fucked up shit; pretty much everything this side of fecalphilia. And while I'm generally not shy abou...
Posted by 10 Zen Monkeys on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 01:30:00 PST

Death of a Madam

"I am not going back to prison. I will commit suicide first." Deborah Jeane Palfrey made that vow last year, a friend told the Associated Press. Last month she reportedly took her own life, just two ...
Posted by 10 Zen Monkeys on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 10:16:00 PST

Is It Legal Porn Or Illegal Porn?

I just looked at an exposé from reporter Debbie Nathan, who attended a research convention of The Academy of Forensic Sciences to discover what the geeks at the FBI have learned about the relationship...
Posted by 10 Zen Monkeys on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:45:00 PST

Hating Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert won the first Pulitzer Prize for film criticism. But 33 years later, is he part of the problem? That's what Armond White is suggesting in a 3,200-word essay arguing that Ebert's "TV glibn...
Posted by 10 Zen Monkeys on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:14:00 PST

War of the Candidate Music Videos

Is there an emerging YouTube demographic? Politically-themed music videos may be offering an unacknowledged glimpse at the next generation of voters. But judging from these clips, their real message m...
Posted by 10 Zen Monkeys on Tue, 27 May 2008 09:10:00 PST

Google Stalker Reveals Secret Project

It was an exciting moment. After a year of development, they were finally going to release their secret project online. Aaron Stanton and his team had been up 26 hours, according to a Boise newspaper,...
Posted by 10 Zen Monkeys on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:07:00 PST

Can America Handle a Little Truth?

About the author: dnA is a biracial blogger originally from Washington, DC. I must confess that I find little of Reverend Wright’s sermons to be offensive. His idiocy regarding AIDS is inexcu...
Posted by 10 Zen Monkeys on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:54:00 PST

Lawrence Welk vs. The Hippies

Lawrence Welk was approaching his seventies when radical changes suddenly hit America’s music scene. The clash in the late 1960s shook the band leader, America’s most famous square, and h...
Posted by 10 Zen Monkeys on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:28:00 PST