Tim Barrus Blog
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Dirt Bike Town Florist
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White tulips in the front meant all is well. Red roses in the front meant all is not well. Anything with baby’s breath meant run for your life. If you see too many red flags all at the same time, you can bet your skinny ass, someone has been tracking…
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THE BIKE TREMBLES BETWEEN MY LEGS
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New York Times
I am a Marxist for a reason.
It has a center. It is just. It doesn’t care what you think because it’s not about Karl Marx. It is one thing to explain capitalism, religion, racism and poverty. It is another thing to explore moral vacuums, and corrupt…
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Fucking Dragons
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So it begins again. A pack of wolves numbering in the thousands, went on a rampage in Venice Beach. Coyotes would attack a car. The wolves had eaten all the dogs. The big cats ate the little cats. Mountain lions ate themselves. Migration was from here to there. Entire populations.…
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Life Forms From a Martian Sea in Seas
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The Lurid Book Scene of the fifties and sixties both had to do with soft porn and titillation. Lurid books earned publishers a ton of money in the fifties and the sixties. Dirty, filthy books read by dirty, filthy Homo sapiens. It’s all breeding behavior. Just do whatever the fucking…
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I Know All the Secrets That You keep
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You know. You hear. You could guess. You were probably right, but you were never right about anything. Whores still loved him. You been talking in your sleep. All the State Secrets. I wanted them. I wanted State Secrets. Not chickenshit. He knew where the bodies had been buried. He…
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The Little Bitch Was Miss Sugarnut
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I had been his teacher. Just fuck me.
It was a small farmer town Farmer Town. We never were the boys on farms. The whole dog and pony show. Stop. Backup. Tony Lama’s. You mean, what happened.
No one knew. No one knew them, and they had no identification. They…
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Begging at The Gates of Beautiful
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Fun Times. Mayhem. They do not believe us. What they don’t get is that disbelief comes back to bite you on the ass. Do not go down my rabbit hole. It’s dangerous. I am not a nice person. I have a few butt scars, myself. Vagabonds of host galaxies reassemble…
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Most People Only See the Skateboard
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The skateboard is accoutrement. You are what you skate. What’s in the secret backpack.
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/22/world/global-population-shrinking.html#commentsContainer&permid=112969066:112969066
ARE WE INSANE
Even if birth rates continue to slide, will it be enough to meet the challenges of climate change. No. There will still be too many people on the planet. Enough people will still be here for climate change to accelerate to the point where death can…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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This Is Not My Story To Tell
I’m going to tell it anyway. Suprise. For writers (and delusional editors) telling stories is kinda what we do.
A guy came into a bar.
Ordinary.
Now, let’s change the context.
A guy came into a bar butt naked.
Two words. Changes everything.…