Tim Barrus Blog
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It Looked A Lot Better On Me
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Tim Barrus Art
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Frozen For Now
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Tim Barrus Art
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Tim Barrus: The Great American Novel
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Tim Barrus Novelist
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Today Is More Important Than The Past
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I do this stuff for the suits. On a personal level, I’m just this anonymous guy – nothing special – on a dirt bike passing by shooting images on a GoPro. Of you. And you. And you. Kids want to know why “You’all don’t wear a helmet is the law…
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The Undecided
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Take notes. In the bedrock heart of America, there’s always Vegas. It’s the highwire act in the middle of the dog and pony show. I was doing a magazine piece, and I was stuck in Vegas. There was a long row of one-armed bandits. I wanted this one on tape.…
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Against Medical Advice
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My kidneys were badly bruised. I was in a motorcycle accident. At the hospital, they started to talk about “cascade.” I was a failure to doctors. Do these authority figures have any concept of dignity whatsoever. No, they do not. This piece puts religion into the mix. If religion is…
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Comment Moderation Softens the Image for the Bad Guys
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If I so much as write – Trump is a rapist – comment moderators will side with Trump, and then, the swords come out. I get axed. Yet it’s civil for a columnist to articulate the same fact. There are several realities going on here. The reality of the rape.…
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Tim Barrus: Blind Obedience
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How do we deal with so much cultural Blind Obedience, that we are not creating people who know about the world.
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There is no Art in Appalachia
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There is no art in Appalachia. There is corruption though. Some of these suits are more crooked than a barrel of fishhooks. Unless you view what are, in fact, trinkets, or photographs of water running pastoral streams and dreams through the deep woods. Anyone can do those those things. That…
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Taking Photographs of Other Photographs
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The Great American Novel is a novel by Tim Barrus. Release the doves.