Tim Barrus Blog
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WRITING A NOVEL IS NOTHING LIKE WHAT PEOPLE THINK IT MIGHT BE
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I am getting used to writing this book on a phone. My fingers are huge. I write slowly. Very slowly. And I never do anything slowly. One good thing about it is that it is giving the book a feeling of immediacy. The challenge with it is that what you’re…
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So The New York Times Got Hacked
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Tim Barrus, the New York Times
For Ben Hubbard
I am a communist. If I was someone working for organized crime in (pretend) Azerbaijan, and I had been checking you out to see if you could be used to facilitate the taking of data, and if you fit the profile,…
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WHO PUT THOSE IDEAS IN YOUR HEAD, BLONDIE
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WE JUMPED UP AND DOWN IN THE ANCIENT AMPHITHEATER WE RAN IN CIRCLES SCREAMING FUUUUUUUUCK AND WE LAUGHED AND LAUGHED TYBALT INTO BANISHMENT AND TRAGEDY ITSELF HAS NO VOICE AND EVERY MALE WE PASSED ON OUR WAY TO THE BEACH STARED AT YOU HARD
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I Am A Communist
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I am a communist. I cannot write the name of the disease I have because violence is reality. While looking for housing, my family slept in a pickup. Landlord doors slammed in my face. They call the police. Wikipedia went for my throat. They rewrote my life seven times. I…
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AUTISM IS NOT A GENERIC PHENOMENON BUT IT’S DIFFERENT FOR EVERYONE
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It is a spectrum.
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THERE IS NOTHING LEFT BUT A FINALITY WHERE WE DISCOVER THAT THE RICH MIGHT BE BURIED IN FINE SILK BUT US POOR BOYS ARE THROWN INTO A TRENCH
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DUDE, PAY FOR YOUR DOPE AND GO.
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I had to leave the motel room. I need to breathe. Air. Why am I here. It was getting way, way too crowded.
I am just selling drugs. Watch my lips. I am not your friend.
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Tim Barrus: Public School is Babysitting
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What I see are kids who feel betrayed. Adolescents feel betrayed while mom and dad twist in the wind. Adolescents feel everything. A leaf blows in the yard. No summer school. Fear and loathing in family after family. Adolescents run away and no one knows what will happen next but…
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Tim Barrus: The Calculated Value Of Vegas Whores
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The discrepancy between classical models of vacuum energy (not the kind you sweep the floors with) from quantum field analysis and the observed play by play, in which the calculated value of a sex worker is juxtaposed by Everything Is Observed. But changes what. Observation changes everything. Seas and seas.…
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Tim Barrus: Thermodynamic Equilibrium
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We could not figure it out. It was strange. I was working on a set, and supposed to be on the lookout for continuity. I never could find continuity. We all pretended some job somewhere needed us. Workers unite. I had one job where all I did was unload lights.…