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  • But if there is a book, I have a title for it: I Didn't Shoot the Zonkey.

    Why Big-Dollar Guns Are Worth The Money 2007

  • There is no better place in North America to sample the distinct graffiti than this half block: There are tags and the equally puerile - in execution and topic - topless mermaid assaulting a donkey under "Zonkey-Show"; stenciled smokers and graffiti cans ("Pangea 1"); expertly sprayed and realistically rendered faces (including the unique use of a hole in the wall for a missing tooth); a doodled mural by one of Tijuana's two major graffiti groups, HEM (signed with their full name "Hecho En Mexico") and the exquisite Aztec-Hindu-Jewish amalgamation of goddess and hamesh, lifted to transcendence with the shafts of light and shadow that cut through the narrow walls above.

    Dia De Los Vivos at Artillery Mag The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • There is no better place in North America to sample the distinct graffiti than this half block: There are tags and the equally puerile - in execution and topic - topless mermaid assaulting a donkey under "Zonkey-Show"; stenciled smokers and graffiti cans ("Pangea 1"); expertly sprayed and realistically rendered faces (including the unique use of a hole in the wall for a missing tooth); a doodled mural by one of Tijuana's two major graffiti groups, HEM (signed with their full name "Hecho En Mexico") and the exquisite Aztec-Hindu-Jewish amalgamation of goddess and hamesh, lifted to transcendence with the shafts of light and shadow that cut through the narrow walls above.

    Dia De Los Vivos at Artillery Mag The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • There is no better place in North America to sample the distinct graffiti than this half block: There are tags and the equally puerile - in execution and topic - topless mermaid assaulting a donkey under "Zonkey-Show"; stenciled smokers and graffiti cans ( "Pangea 1"); expertly sprayed and realistically rendered faces (including the unique use of a hole in the wall for a missing tooth); a doodled mural by one of Tijuana's two major graffiti groups, HEM (signed with their full name "Hecho En Mexico") and the exquisite Aztec-Hindu-Jewish amalgamation of goddess and hamesh, lifted to transcendence with the shafts of light and shadow that cut through the narrow walls above.

    TIJUANA STREET ART: Dia De Los Vivos by Josh Herman on Artillery Travis Korte 2010

  • There is no better place in North America to sample the distinct graffiti than this half block: There are tags and the equally puerile - in execution and topic - topless mermaid assaulting a donkey under "Zonkey-Show"; stenciled smokers and graffiti cans ( "Pangea 1"); expertly sprayed and realistically rendered faces (including the unique use of a hole in the wall for a missing tooth); a doodled mural by one of Tijuana's two major graffiti groups, HEM (signed with their full name "Hecho En Mexico") and the exquisite Aztec-Hindu-Jewish amalgamation of goddess and hamesh, lifted to transcendence with the shafts of light and shadow that cut through the narrow walls above.

    TIJUANA STREET ART: Dia De Los Vivos by Josh Herman on Artillery Travis Korte 2010

  • There is no better place in North America to sample the distinct graffiti than this half block: There are tags and the equally puerile - in execution and topic - topless mermaid assaulting a donkey under "Zonkey-Show"; stenciled smokers and graffiti cans ( "Pangea 1"); expertly sprayed and realistically rendered faces (including the unique use of a hole in the wall for a missing tooth); a doodled mural by one of Tijuana's two major graffiti groups, HEM (signed with their full name "Hecho En Mexico") and the exquisite Aztec-Hindu-Jewish amalgamation of goddess and hamesh, lifted to transcendence with the shafts of light and shadow that cut through the narrow walls above.

    Dia De Los Vivos at Artillery Mag The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • topless mermaid assaulting a donkey under "Zonkey-Show"; stenciled smokers and graffiti cans

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2010

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  • Recently, it's been 'half zebra, half donkey' http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/amazing-animal-kingdom-oddities-gallery-1.984588

    Google books uncovers:

    Also a Natal Zulu word 

     Life Magazine, Nov. 1961 - a half zebra , half donkey

    History of American jacks and mules: recollections - Page 228 has a Zonkey as being half Zebra, half Pony.

    Life Magazine - 1957 , ad for Gene Holter's animal show.

    Sept 1953 , Gene Holter's Zonkey makes an appearance in Billboard Magazine.

    September 4, 2013