Tim Barrus Blog
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Tim Barrus: The Dark In Dirt Bike Town
Photos with too much light blind me. The white escapes. It feels like an adventure film is pushing me aside to disappear from existence with a snap. I seek something darker to look at. And I seek to make all darkness my default. Just going about my stupid day. Taking…
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Tim Barrus: Religion is One Ominous Thing. Truth Is An Ominous Thing. My Truth Is Nothing You Can Know. Why Are You Here.
I have never embraced the Anthro-Rhetoric that would have us in some kind of odd thrall with the cultural power of the myth. The fairy tales are not our future. The fairy tales are always our future. Governments of Homo sapiens have brought us divisions we supposedly can live with,…
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Tim Barrus: I Have Always Wanted To Stay Somewhat Hidden
This house was always removed. Houses are like the people who live in them. And the people who live in them live inside themselves.
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Tim Barrus: You Were A Beast Of Burden
i drag those memories across any stage that would have me and let me explain/ my bar stool, if you’re going to have a bar stool, but no bar, you can at least have one refreshing cocktail and I explain to you that I did not know who I was…
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Tim Barrus: Checking Out
You suck off the Motel Night Clerk so there it is. One room, one night. And who is there to make sure we really leave. It had a shower which is why we were there. She had those black fingernails.
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Tim Barrus: His Class
They will tell you they live in the Land of No. They do not live in the Land of No. They live in the Land of A Lot. I want to get them back in the room before the halls get crazy again. They do not change classes. This is…
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Tim Barrus: Final Drafts From a Cheap Hotel
No one knows we are here. Even us.
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Tim Barrus: Why AreYou Here
People in the New York Times go into a rage over my being a communist. They dive down deep into the rabbit hole because they have taken the bait. The next 42 sentences will all be about why communism was bad and it failed. Kinda like me. Their last sizzle…
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Tim Barrus: The New York Times Steadfadstly refuses to “Publish A Known Radical” Which Causes One To Wonder What The Fuck
Drop this into any mailbox, it will find me with keys and spies and code where women with real tits take off their shoes and light a cigarette. Now what.
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Tim Barrus: I Only Said Be Yourself. And so you did. You had been seduced by seduction, and I was okay with it.
You are not the fly on the wall. Whenever I write any of this nonsense – any text whatsoever – is a defeat of photography and I am the hypocrite who says, Never Explain. By comparison. Or amusing by virtue. To put a camera in faces who know who you…