Tim Barrus Blog
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You Are Over Your Head
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your hair and shampoo and open the windows you have been thinking again and let me lick the lemon from your hands we will drink gin tonight and laugh at all the wounds we ever had and wonder how it is we dream of one of us is the other…
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Tim Barrus New York Times Magazine
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I am a pornographer. My books have sex in them. I make it up. It isn’t real. I am also told it isn’t writing. I am here to tell you that if I write something – anything – I will hear from a steady stream of readers who will claim…
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THE REGIME’S WAR AGAINST THE CULTURE HAS WON
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THE REGIME KNOWS WHO YOU ARE. THE REGIME KNOWS WHERE YOU ARE. THE REGIME KNOWS WHERE YOU WILL BE. THE REGIME ANTICIPATES. THE REGIME KNOWS HOW MUCH YOU ARE WORTH. THE REGIME KNOWS WHERE YOUR CHILDREN GO TO SCHOOL. THE REGIME KNOWS WHAT YOU WATCH. THE REGIME KNOWS WHAT YOU…
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COP GUNS
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THE REGIME IS NOW SPENDING A COOL MILLION TO GIVE COPS MORE GUNS. MORE GUNS. MORE GUNS. MORE GUNS. BETTER GUNS. BETTER GUNS. BETTER GUNS. BIGGER GUNS. BIGGER GUNS. BIGGER GUNS.
TO KILL US.
I PROFOUNDLY DO NOT GET IT.
THIS IS A BRUTAL POWER GRAB DESIGNED TO ABROGATE OUR…
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Death Coin for the Boatman
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Tim Barrus New York Times
I work with adolescents who are medically fragile. Covid would kill them.
Poverty is killing them, and not softly.
Their family structures have broken down. There isn’t a single adult in the accumulated families of the group who has work. People are suffering and looking…
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GOING ROGUE
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THE ANTIFASTORIES
Most cops have never really taken an indepth, intense, killer hand-to-hand combat training. Most cops are old, fat slobs. They can barely run, let alone chase you. They need the brute force paradigm of shoulder to shoulder, marching in a phalanx with truncheons beating an obvious doom. When…
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GOING ROGUE
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THEANTIFASTORIES
I can only see a dark and dystopian future. Apocalypse in the time to come is distainfully a cliche that clings to hope. The proposition that there is any hope whatsoever is a destiny of the obscene. Destiny is now. Destiny is here. Destiny is death. Destiny is an…
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Going Rogue
THEANTIFASTORIES
every movement needs its heros/ every story in the shelf life of stories can become a legend/ even greece had its gods and sex and there is no god who is without guilt, treason, infidelity, murder, dystopia, and the apocalypse/ conflict, irony, rebellion, war, love, illicit love, a fetish,…
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AMERICA IS A DEAD CORPSE
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TIM BARRUS: NEW YORK TIMES
We have seen the cliff, and we have jumped. There are no returns on this purchase.
To wit: the Democrats. At least sometimes they hold hands after they jump. But the result is always the same.
America is just another cultural corpse. Athens become one.…
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Physics
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At first, he could not sleep because the nightmares of the assault and rape were far too vivid. He wanted me to sit with him, and then, he would fall asleep. I read a series of books out loud, all of them on some pretty radical visions of what physics…