Tim Barrus Blog
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The End of America, Good Riddance
It is too late to save anything. The slaves in most civilizations had nothing of worth to save. The rich will tell you that there must be something wrong with you – you are probably stupid – if you do not save like they…
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IT IS THE SCANDAL THAT IS THE SCANDAL
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IT’S THE SCANDAL THAT IS THE SCANDAL
Emmanuel Carrère has set the literary world on fire again.
His new book, YOGA, is being sold by its French publisher as nonfiction. The horse is dead. But it gets kicked anyway.
In these kinds of economic discombobutations, I make it a habit…
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Going Rogue
I ride a motorcycle. I wear a mask and helmet. I wear a face shied.
I am a photographer.
I do some work at home. But not all of it.
I wear medical gloves when I get gas. Throw the gloves away.
A New York Times reader called me incredibly…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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DONALD JOHN TRUMP IS A TRAITOR
Cruel and unusual punishment.
Children tortured. Children taken from parents. Children locked in cages. Children died.
Public policy. Cruel and unusual punishment.
The constitution is not vague about cruel and unusual punishment.
Donald John Trump took an oath to protect, preserve, and defend the…
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Fluidity
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It had to become more fluid. They have the skills to survive. We can now swim in and out of one another’s lives and wakes and waves and travels.
I see we are not supposed to travel. Bad us.
I don’t want to be a mentor. I do not have…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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The New York Times tells me that satire is inappropriate for the fucking New York Times. As if.
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE MONOLITH
It is real life where you will find the real hilarity.
Unless you are some stuffy, privileged, entitled, East Coast grand pooba with Spell Check software stuck…
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THEY FUCK ME IN THE BACK SEAT
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When they fuck me in the back seat, my legs dangle over to the front seat. But if we put the top down, there’s enough hog-wild, holy-roller corncracker to flag a freight train. I declare to fucking Jesus. Those two make my little asshole pout.
We jack the cars in…
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ON WRITING
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To be that naked in front of the world leaves you more vulnerable than you ever were before. Doing it every day, day in and day out, is exhausting. I do not know why other people write. I can only know why I write. It is not a choice. To…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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Eating Dog
Food and the pandemic are overwhelming realities, here, in Appalachia. I see nothing in the media about how desperate it really is. On my block, people are eating their dogs.
Not stuffing.
The shame runs deep. Suicide runs deep.
Hopelessness runs deep. Failure runs deep. Giving up runs…
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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…