Tim Barrus Blog

  1. Tim Barrus, New York Times

    This. On the web. Next to: How To Bake a Turkey. This. From the same folks in every form of publishing who tell me day in and day out, that as I am a writer, I know very little, I’m not very good as a writer anyway, and that they

  2. Going Rogue

    I can’t look up again. And again. And again. If he wants to kill himself, he’s going to stop with all the threats, and do it. Whether I am there to see the sorry sight of it or not. Part of the fucking problem is the audience. Whether the reader

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  4. GOING ROGUE


  5. Tim Barrus, New York Times

    Creating the Land of Lies     I don’t have to imagine anything. So. Now, the New York Times is accentuating the word lie. Why couldn’t the New York Times call the lies, lies, years ago. Birtherism is another lie among the Elephant Man’s bones of lies. A graveyard. Finally, outrage. Where

  6. Tim Barrus, New York Times

         I am with ANTIFA. I drive my motorcycle from city to city, protest to protest, riot to riot. I see some of the same people in these locations. Many of them were taking photographs. They are not with ANTIFA. Whenever I tried to get closer to these people, they disappeared.

  7. Tim Barrus, New York Times

    You go to prison for tax evasion, and possession of marijuana. Twelve-year-olds go to jail for shoplifting gum. We strangle people suspected of passing off allegedly fake twenty dollar bills. We shoot people in their sleep. We shoot parents dead in their cars with their children inside the vehicle. We

  8. Tim Barrus, New York Times

    Post-apocalyptic cultures are supposed to be the products of fiction. Failed states. Failed people. Failed economic structures. Failed religions. Failed institutions. Failed individuals. Failed public policy. Or all of the above at the same time. It is the mystical belief that our species is impervious to failure that is a

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