Tim Barrus Blog
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Tim Barrus: Self-portrait or Selfie
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It’s selfish. I interact with people to learn from their second selves. The part of them that just is.
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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When the New York Times talks politics, it will often refer to the Constitution of the United States, a constitution that no has ever read. The New York Times seems so out of touch. No one here in Appalachia has ever seen a constitution. I thought Mr. Constitution knew who…
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Tim Barrus: The skateboard is only symbolic of a trillion things.
You never know if there will be an audience for anything. You just have to simply do it. Make it. Create from scratch. Or go home. – tim barrus
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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I do not like taking on educational issues. It’s too big. It’s cumbersome. I have seen it up close all over the country. From blind kids in NYC to deaf kids in San Francisco. To boys with HIV who had learned that education is a hustle, too. Teaching kids to…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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I have done a lot of things with my life. Most of it has been a huge waste of time. I carry around a zillion regrets. But being a part of the very complex process of facilitating deaf four-year-olds with how to read and write, was the best thing I…
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Tim Barrus: Old bone skulls hung from crosses all around the garden. Juju.
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I started the garden this summer a little early. My hope is to harvest before the September heat destroys everything. I have learned how to can fish using a pressure cooker. The day will arrive when we will begin to run out of tricks. It will be too hot to…
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Tim Barrus: The Virtues of Repair
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I want to write stories that are at their core, an in-between-ness, I call these these stories our Second Selves.
Everyone screams blood about diversity, and that is fine. No diversity is like a forest with only one kind of tree. Only certain people can tell certain stories. Only the…
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Tim Barrus: The Aside of Horizontal
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What do you really glimpse in a collage of horizontals. Little electric shots and then, it’s over.
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Tim Barrus: Stop Investigating This It’s Mean
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I want to be nice to you so you’ll go away. Something tells me, you are not going away. I was there. I was there. I was there. You were not there. The cops were not there. The school district was there. Special ed teachers came to my house. It…
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Tim Barrus: The Screenplay Is Finally Finished.
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When you need money, write a screenplay.
All you are selling them is time. They don’t buy many screenplays outright. Usually, they buy an option. I cannot for the life of me figure out why I fired ICM. I’m stupid. Actually, I fired them because they wanted me to publish…