Tim Barrus Blog

  1. MY FAT WHITE ASS ON A SPIT

    A reader at the New York Times takes my fat white ass to task: BorisRoberts Santa Maria, CA You know what,Tim? Perpetual victimhood does not move you forward in any way.  Going to prison,  is a choice.  Running from police, is a choice.  You aren’t afraid of the police, they

  2. I told My Stdents 2 Kill Themselves

    An Excerpt From the New York Times and Going Rogue West Liberty High School, Iowa Most teachers had given up on the lot of them. The bad ones. The kids who fall between the cracks into the awesome, Great Divide. Great Divides are everywhere. It was about learning to debate.…

  3. Tim Barrus, New York Times

    “I don’t see how I can make it work.” Right. It’s humiliating. Degrading. We are a region, not a state. How do you address poverty in West Virginia, and forget the states it borders. Haves and have nots all over again. Survival is ephemeral. Nothing works. I borrow the school

  4. Going Rogue

    A great sadness descended from the irony of midnight’s abyss not unlike red dust storms made you dream of rivers and the solitude of rivers and the river’s edge of sound and wounds and fatal roads and going away.

  5. FUCK THE COPS

    Both Andrew and I have had a lot of experience avoiding cops. We knew too many people, all of them members of Antifa, who had quietly disappeared. They just weren’t there anymore. Vanished. No one dared to question authority about where the evaporated were. The ubiquitous party line was that…

  6. RUSTEDJUNKERDIRTBIKES

    Andrew and I have been buying rusted junker dirt bikes (sometimes people pay us to take them away) and fixing them up, and then selling them. We had to buy some new tools. Riding the 150s in the snow is definitely a rush.

  7. The Better To Eat You With

    On the way to Granny’s house…

  8. The Boat Ramp

    I left on the same boat ramp I came in on. You are a long way away. If you want it, I’m gonna be va va voom voom If you got it, you got it, you got that boom boom If you want it, I’m gonna be va va voom

  9. BOLIVIA

    Dirt Bikes. La Paz.

  10. His Pajamas

    Photography: Tim Barrus