1970s-80s

Sirius was a teenage Yippie activist in the early 1970s. He was the lead singer for Rochester, New York-based punk band Party Dogs from 1979-81.

1990s

Sirius recruited Timothy Leary to be a contributing editor for Mondo 2000 and has taught an online course in Leary's philosophy for the Maybe Logic Academy. He co-authored Leary's last book, Design for Dying (1998), and wrote the introduction for a 1998 edition of Leary's 1968 book The Politics of Ecstasy.

Sirius appeared in the films Synthetic Pleasures (1995) and Conceiving Ada (1997). His mid-90s techno-rock band Mondo Vanilli recorded an unreleased CD titled IOU Babe for Trent Reznor's Nothing Records. The music was available on the internet for several years but has since disappeared.

Sirius has been a speaker at many events, such as the Starwood Festival[1]. He delivered the Keynote address for the Virtual Reality conference, Oslo VR, in 1994.

2000s

Sirius shifted his media focus in 2005, becoming a show host for two ongoing weekly podcasts, the RU Sirius Show and NeoFiles Both went on unannounced hiatus in August 2007 because their financial backer withdrew his support. In September 2006 he helped launch the webzine 10 Zen Monkeys with fellow GettingIt.com alumni Jeff Diehl and Lou Cabron. All these projects were part of a media network named MondoGlobo.

In October 2008 the first issue of a transhumanist magazine, H+ Magazine, appeared with Sirius as head editor. It went on hiatus in May 2010, when Sirius turned his attention to a project documenting the history of Mondo 2000.

Mondo 2000 art director Bart Nagel designed a February 8, 1993 "Cyberpunk" cover feature for Time that featured their assistant art director Heide Foley on the cover and a picture of R.U. Sirius inside.

After U2 sued sound collage artists and media pranksters Negativland for trademark violations, R.U. Sirius helped them confront U2's guitarist, The Edge. Sirius hired Negativland members Mark Hosler and Don Joyce to do an interview with The Edge for Mondo 2000 by phone. Negativland revealed who they were about 15 minutes into the interview.

Books

• Everybody Must Get Stoned. Rock Stars On Drugs. (2009). Citadel. ISBN 978-0806530734.
• True Mutations. (2007) Pollinator Press. ISBN 978-0977441013.
• Counterculture Through the Ages: From Abraham to Acid House. (2004) Villard Books. ISBN 0-375-50758-2.
• The Revolution: Quotations From Revolution Party Chairman R. U. Sirius. (2000) Feral House. ISBN 0-922915-62-8.
• 21st Century Revolutionary: R.U. Sirius 1984-1998. (1999) Fringecore ISBN 90-76207-51-8.
• Design for Dying. (1998) (with Timothy Leary) HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-092866-2.
• How to Mutate & Take Over the World: an Exploded Post-Novel. (1997) (with St. Jude) Random House. ISBN 0-517-19832-0.
• Cyberpunk Handbook: The Real Cyberpunk Fakebook. (1995) (with St. Jude and Bart Nagel) Random House. ISBN 0-67-976230-2.
• Mondo 2000: A User's Guide to the New Edge. (1992) (editor with Rudy Rucker & Queen Mu) Harperperennial Library. ISBN 0-06-096928-8.

Articles

• Before Mondo 2000, was Reality Hackers, and High Frontiers.

• Steal This Millennium. With Stew Albert. Salon.com, October 19, 2000.
• The RU Sirius Show and NeoFiles. 80-odd podcast interviews, and counting. (With co-hosts including Sherry Miller, Diana Brown, Steve Robles and producer Jeff Diehl.)

Interviews given

• A Sirius Interview About The Revolution. MindJack. C. 2000.
• A Sirius View From the Fringe. Wired News, January 20, 2001.
• "Confusion is Next." New World Disorder Magazine. Mid 2000/June, 2002.
• R.U. Sirius Unplugged. Shift, July 13, 2002.
• VYPH Interview R.U. Sirius! Viking Youth Power Hour November 21, 2005.
• R.U. Sirius On The G-Spot Podcast. Alterati, April 5, 2007.
• Future Mutations: An Interview with RU Sirius on Reality Sandwich. February 2008.
• R.U. Sirius interview on the Right Where You Are Sitting Now! podcast. June 2008.