Tim Barrus Blog

  1. Tim Barrus: Burned At The Stake

    Some people are ticking, and ticking, and just ticking away their time. Some people are burning through it even as their eyes glare back a ravashing emptiness dry as sorrow in the summer.

  2. TimBarrus: WhatIsSurvivalAnywayAnd WhereIsItIsItHopelessness

    Even The Old House Had A Second Self 

  3. Tim Barrus: Call Survival What It Is

    I grew up in a cabin and I am not the rich boy – let us say cast into caste – that Wikipedia says I am. The idea is a contempt symbolized by the discussions on Wikipedia as to how they would get me. I do wonder what the people…

  4. Tim Barrus: New York Times

    I Should Begin With Synopsis. But No. We know this: America seems to want our death. I have always lived with that, and it is not dissimilar to living with nuclear inevitability. I am autistic. A high functioning autistic. I will not tolerate any Homo sapiens with their various and

  5. Tim Barrus: New York Times

    “Comment moderation will be the hot new voodoo in both classrooms and media.” I wrote that ten years ago.  Comment moderation will be the hot new voodoo in both classrooms and media. I’m writing that today. The gatekeepers have won. Won what. Power. At what cost. Classroom discussions with a

  6. Tim Barrus: New York Times

    There’s A Lot Behind the Eyes That lot is a lot lot. I get so frustrated with myself for writing in metaphors. What I write and what I think are two very different things. They shouldn’t be. But they are. I work. Intuitively. I wish I didn’t. I am never…

  7. Tim Barrus, New York Times

    For months, I was the one who fished all day in that small aluminum boat – bringing home the protein – fish, I was seven-years-old. Does that sound like – even a middle class – thing rich kids, any kids, kids with bling, kids with guns, something kids with laser…

  8. Tim Barrus: New York Times

    I COULD NOT BELIEVE THE NEW YORK TIMES PRINTED A VERY COGENT PIECE BY PAMELA PAUL WHO HAS FIRED A SHOT ACROSS THE BOW, AND IT HAS NOT GONE UNNOTICED That cannon ball is actually a defence of the status quo in publishing – traditional publishing – where six writers

  9. Tim Barrus: New YorkTimes

    We have this dysfunctional perpective in basic research that says it only counts if the subject is in pain. This is a prostitution of pain itself that links trying hard (research) to imbue struggle with strategy. How is it that smart people in science can be so stupid.

  10. Tim Barrus: New York Times

    I am a communist. The issue is not grief. The issue is survival. Ask anyone with HIV. I do not know homo sapiens who have time for grief. We are too busy with our widgets. Building them. Eating them. Sleeping among them. Breeding them. Surrendering them. Widgets. Fake widgets. Big