Tim Barrus Blog
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Philanthropy Is Just Another Tired Old Lie
The first grant I ever worked with was from the Ford Foundation.
And then…
What do I need. Today.
The past for me is so abstract that turning around to look at it takes away my energy that I need to face what will be coming at me tomorrow.
I…
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NYT: We Are Animals
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http://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/27/opinion/pittsburgh-squirrel-hill-shooting-synagogue.html?comments#permid=29190900
Thing is, Americans, too, are animals. Not in a hateful sense. Americans are Hominidae.
Family. Optimism. Dreams. Faith. These are not things I know anything about.
Mayhem. Murder. Cruelty. Hatred. Assault. Rape. Addiction. Young boys doing sex work. Sorrow. Death. Grim. Repellent. Cops. Killing. War. War. War.
This is…
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TEACHING READING
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Why Are We Still Teaching Reading the Wrong Way?
http://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/opinion/sunday/phonics-teaching-reading-wrong-way.html?comments#permid=29181404
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4the12
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I have conducted an educational study whose results were released today by the National Association of SexWork Bois. Our results clearly indicate that after self-measuring instruments were employed by elves to measure YouKnowWhats, SexWork Bois had bigger Uknows by 12 inches.
Why.
Do I appear to be the Shell Answer…
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The Bondage of Homelessness
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Almost all of the men who contact me with requests that I tie them up and jack them off are doing so because they know I am homeless (the trick always has to lord it over the proverbial whore) and used to be the writer who got them off.
Celebrity…
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I HAVE ALWAYS KEPT YOU OUT OF IT
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because i do not want to deal
with your anger
i used to be able to
ignore it
too many sleeping bags
ago
every story has a twin
or a thousand of them
we never even once
fucked on a bed
keeping our fantasies
grounded
it was about your ass…
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Homelessness Is Hell: Barrus: NYT
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A Response to David Brooks in the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/opinion/america-nationalism-diversity-trump.html?comments#permid=29166007
Here’s a question. Is it okay to unequivocally hate America with every molecule of the self.
I doubt it. Our idea of what freedom is does not allow the kind of dissent that doesn’t, and never will, fit into…
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Stealing Video Cameras
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One of the most popular things to steal in America would be disposable video cameras.
I can’t imagine why someone would shoplift this camera that can be had for as much as five bucks.
Not everyone has five bucks.
If you didn’t have five bucks, and the choices were stealing…
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Philanthropy’s Failure
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Suits give money to other suits. People who look like them, sound like them, and share the same value structures which are usually badly articulated and surrounded by shared social code. I work with boys who have HIV and do sex work. Like me.
Although, I am no boy. But…
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The Ineffective CDC Is In Serious Denial
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I am tired of reading the CDC’s disingenuous rhetoric. I am going to start responding to their fantasies. This one is a response to an MD there who is full of shit and talks about what great strides they have made.
At what.
HIV continues to be a leading cause…