Tim Barrus Blog
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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Trump Supporters and the Lizard Brain
Homo Sapiens usually have an ideological safety net called family.
Most verterbrate species hand down the ideas of what is “reality” as law via generations from the past. There is no human history where patriarchy was not ascendent. The pregnant female who left the…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Attention. Saluting Ivanka.
I’m sorry, but the real issue is not where will these two vile emblems of Vicious America land when they escape their luxurious nest for another luxurious nest that looks and feels exactly like the last one. I just don’t understand how the New York Times can…
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Donny John and the Big Boy Pants
We are told in kindergarten that we are a society of laws, not men. By first grade, we begin to realize we are a society of both laws and men.
And women. Especially teachers.
Whose authority shapes both behaviors and students.
I have…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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I love work that searches for the tension, not necessarily the Why Of Is Conformity-A-Fundamental-Feature of the Fantastique, but Where Is All The Status-Quo-Malaise I Am So Used Seeing In Both Fashion and Film.
So ubiquitous. Heuristic. Rare. Conflicted.
Look under this rock. Look over here at what they are…
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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…
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Going Rogue
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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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going rogue
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GOING ROGUE
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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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…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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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.…