Tim Barrus Blog
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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.
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Chichchen Itza
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Chichen Itza
Take Notes. The starlings have arrived from the moon. All they drink is Scotch. They go barefoot on the boat, and they take photographs of everything they see. They will be sitting in your backyard’s solitary oak. Starlings vote. But it’s the whisky that makes them so articulate.…
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Camping With Eavan
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I liked the way the sun’s rays were coming in the tent. A softer glow. Eavan was up early again as he does. We are working a commision. We have to break camp, and put it all in the canoe. Mr. Grumpy. Got some great shots.
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TIM BARRUS ON SINGLE PARENTING
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Get ready for people leaving your life. Ghosted. My kid and I lived in San Francisco in an old Victorian. I had a job interview, and my babysitter was taken ill. No job interview. No job. It was an opportunity. I leaned in to it. You have to learn how…
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Movie Stars On a Bench
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My personal take on this photo has to do with class. Americans live in a Somalia of our making. The Appalachian poor have suicide rates that only keep going up. Those figures kickass Up&Up&Up&Up. Appalachia wrestles with deeply ingrained medieval poverty like no other place on earth. Social statistics for…
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Books Banned In the South
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Books Banned in the American South
– Peter Rabbit
– Tom Sawyer
– Huckleberry Finn
– The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams
– Winnie The Poo
– Les Miserables
– The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
– Frankenstein
– Treasure Island
– Lolita
– The Story of…