Tim Barrus Blog
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Tim Barrus: Dirt Bike Town
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Tim Barrus, Dirt Bike Town
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Americans Are Apathetic
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I was working in my office in the Hotel across the street from the Capitol building in Michigan. Our guests were legislators.The Secret Service wanted to speak to me. George Wallace was coming town and he was staying with us. I lived at the hotel, too. “There will be a…
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The End
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No mention of alcohol and HIV. I was working with adolescent boys with HIV and alcoholism. I have read thousands of these well-written, cogent pieces. But even the mention in this article – and all the others – is missing a lot. AIDS means stigma. Alcohol does not block the…
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Tim Barrus: Bring In the Next One
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Tim Barrus: The New York Times
Take Notes. Just walking down the street, and you explode. Personally, I think it’s a game changer. As big as the bomb.
Imagine: You can explode anything you want to explode. You don’t even need a bomb for that. 3,000 people exploding. Today.
High…
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The Internet IS a Pornography
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Take Notes. When the Internet was still a baby, many people were excited that art itself could be expressed on the Internet, and virtually bring new art to everyone. The reason the Internet became the Internet was because the Sears and Roebuck Catalogue, capitalism, and all the usual suspects like…
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Eat Me
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I threw out color. I’m autistic. Red was a problem. Whatever dye they use makes me explode with hives, and you will swear, you feel like bees are attacking you. I do not know about dyes. All I know is I cannot wear red anything. I do not know why…
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Why Are You Here
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The rains have finally left the Blue Ridge. All summer, I’ve been building a remote (understatement) tree house for the Big Cat Kittens and Mama. They will have to find it on their own. Bakers use those big plastic buckets for their icing bakery products. Then, they throw them out.…
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How To Fight Back
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The government controls what happens to our bodies. Serfs don’t do policy. Wanna bet. I was abused recently at a hospital where they use force and humiliation to control you. Fight back. MAGA has rendered science political. The analogies to patient’s right are obvious. Nursing staff forcefully stripped me naked…
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Tim Barrus: Dirt Bike Town
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Dirt Bike Town, a novel, by Tim Barrus
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If It’s Poetry At Least U Will Have a Defense
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I am allowed to write about intimacy a little bit in novels but it’s intimacy that really scares you. The American family itself is highly conflicted. But if I wrap poetry around the thing (I do not always get away with this NYT), it becomes more mysterious, it’s smoother than…