Tim Barrus Blog
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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.
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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.