Tim Barrus Blog

  1. The Ha Ha

    The layering makes a lot of sense. When we want to connect with other people, it’s more a matter of two brains scanning each other. The operant word here is: smell. Those with it are like the witches in the father christmas tales where it has to be in the

  2. Autism

    I just can’t belong to the autistic tribe. And they don’t want me, anyway. You can’t keep all the hurtful stuff at arm’s length and that is expressed in compelling ways, I was diagnosed with autism at age 6 by school psychologists. Why. Because I was reading. Especially Marx, physics,

  3. U R only 1 person With Only 1 Voice So Pretend 2 Have a Thousand & This Is Hubris

    You are one person. One voice. One way of seeing what might be real. Just Being a Homo Sapien’s Sapien, for all these sapiens, it seems little progress has been at what would be a self-generated evolution that at least hopefully wants to save the world. It is a disgusting,

  4. The Ghosts of Appalachia

    Herbert and Helsinki are old. They live on an island in Appalachia. In other words, they’re my neighbors. They have a boat. It is a little boat. They grow corn, make whiskey, and ride shotgun on their dirt bike. My bike is bigger than their bike. Your bike is your

  5. He Jests at Scars But Never Had One

    It took him a long time of agony and fear to say “Good morning,” And yet his eyes flashed just at the same time I was telling him it was nice to see him, and in this social setting he flinched a lot. Then, his eyes kept their slow cosmic…

  6. There Lurks a Darkness


  7. Don’t Open That Door

    I think there was this lizard thing (I’m not sure it was alive) under the bed.

  8. So How Does It Feel When


  9. The New York Times Blacklist


  10. Tim Barrus and Lars Eighner

    I totally underestimated Lars Eighner’s seriously disturbed hatred of me following me every day for literally a decade. He published my address. I had it shut down and deleted. I never saw his viability as a writer and I rejected his work he threw at Drummer and it was a