Tim Barrus Blog
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Nights In Nights
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Do You See What I See
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Dostoevsky
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Fake Food, Tim Barrus, NYT
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Not Another Pain In the Ass Piece On the Environment. But, Yes.
Industrialized food. Industrialized farming. Industrialized fish farming. Industrialized wages. Industrialized health care. Industrialized housing. Industrialized prisons. Industrialized education. Industrialized book markets. Industrialized guns. Industrialized mining. Industrialized logging. Industrialized publishing. Industrialized beer. Industrialized shoes. Industrialized art. Industrialized war. Industrialized…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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Today, HIV gets a tiny mention in the New York Times. In an article about sexually transmitted diseases. One word at the end of the piece. This, too, marginalizes. We are ashamed. We hang our heads. We did it to ourselves. Normals refuse to see HIV as a sexually transmitted…
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NYT Book Podcast
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The NYT book podcast is a bit too pleased with itself. I do hope that dialogues among writers and editors continues. But no more congratulations to one another. Publishing itself is about looking back. Publishing looks forward, too. What it finds difficult to sell is immediacy. There are 100 people…
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Put Your Foot In My Mouth
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“No.”
“But why. I want to suck your toes.”
“Never you mind, my toes. It’s sex.”
“It is not sex, Timothee. It’s sucking a toe. Not a cock. I just wanna suck your feet.”
“No. I said no and I mean no. No is no. Don’t even go there. No…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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Rage is Often All We Are Left With
Rage is often all we are left with in the face of culture’s demand that civility prevail in a place where anger is bad, angry people are bad, and no one knows what to do to rectify anything. New York Times’ gatekeepers…
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Pick a Product
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Entire wars. Really, who would trust a CEO. Really, who would trust a politician. Really, who would trust – I don’t know – men. “How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags! What is’t you do?” We are simply hunter-gatherers called Republicans. Damned if you do. Damned if you don’t.…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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The New York Times Says We Need More Cildren Or The Future Will Be A Nightmare
The future is already a nightmare. Children. It’s biology that says This Is Good. But climate change puts pressure on things like water systems. It will be too hot for water to properly cool,…