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Posts tagged with bears
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Tim Barrus: Pushing the Weight of Gravitas Itself
A bear is mainly teeth and butt. Black bears are more interested in what is inside your backpack, maybe goodies. A brown bear is not interested in your backpack. No. He smells you. Unless you have some serious bear spray, you are going to die. If I go outside and…
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Tim Barrus: Jonah’s Mountain
I am amused and sustained by the idea that the end of homo sapiens’ domination of the planet will be sooner than anyone suspected. The end is irreversible now. It is too late. Many scientists know. They give voice to this reality in private. What good would blowing whistles do.…
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Tim Barrus: Boneyard
Video: Living in Appalachia is a struggle between romance and reality. The magical and the mystical. The musical and the misbehaved. The past is seen through filters of family, bullshit, a fraudulent ancestry, and a broken slavery of brittle graves. The past is always as toxic as a civil war.…