Tim Barrus Blog
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
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What makes a writer.
Risk.
You risk that some recent graduate of Brown is performing her internship task of reading who is fit, and who is toast. Some writers get very close to the fire, and they might be warned because – they might be warned.
Giving up control is…
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Tim Barrus: Face Full On
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I have been visiting “Banjo Events.” I have no idea what I am doing. I go into the woods with cameras and click away. People usually laugh. But they will be suspicious. And that is fine. I am from the Land of Wolves. I do not know. What it means.…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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Costner is a fox. He has been waiting for decades for exactly this.
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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Entire packs of wolves behave exactly like humans posing for position. It’s fundamentally all about power, but women have to work harder at it, and for less. Don’t ask me to paint any kind of picture as to who and what Homo sapiens means. The jury remains in session until…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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Dogs are not usually on the front page of the New York Times. When they are, it’s an event.
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Tim Barrus: NYT says we will show you what reality is. And then they launch into TELLING us what reality is, and how does this work.
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I’m not sure if I trust someone who is writing for the New York Times and is lecturing to me about the really, really real nature of reality. It’s Identity Politiks. Reality is lipstick on a pig. I love pigs. They fight back. When you go to kill them and…
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Tim Barrus: Sometimes I Go Back to Places I Have Lived
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I see the places I have lived quite differently from when I was living there.
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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Running for your lives will not be enough. In fact, it’s a bit pathetic.
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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Your truth and my truth are not the same.
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Tim Barrus: Post-Industrial, Post-Trip Back To The Sixties
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The stairs lead down to an ICBM missile silo. It gets very dark down there and I find it a place of ghosts. But I am exploiting it as location for parts of Dirt Bike Town.