Tim Barrus Blog
Posts tagged with disease
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Big Meat
Y R U a Communist I am a communist. Because I am a Communist. Wagging the tail of another dog. How many dogs can you unwag. The uncomfortable truth is that difficult and unpopular decisions are now unavoidable. Prohibition at this rate as a paradigm allowing public policy to be…
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going rogue
HIV is a nightmare. It is not a life. The disingenuous rhetoric that the suffering is now a controllable management machine, pop the pills, prest-O change-O, you are not cured. Cope. Here it comes: First, you lose family. Then, people you thought were your friends have disappeared. Now, you know.…
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Tim Barrus, The New York Times
I live in Appalachia. Our people have dogs. Because they help keep us safe. Because we are afraid. For many of us, dogs are all we have. It’s difficult for people who live in parts of the country where things at least sometimes work. Can you imagine a place where…
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Dead Whores
Stop asking me what photography means. The dead ones and the ones who are still alive. They do not become indignant or outraged if I call them whores. It is what they call themselves. Only normals get their hackles up. Stop asking me who the normals are. Normals are beneath…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times: Explaining Death
Explaining the reality of death to a child also means explaining disease. The subjects of stigma and confidentiality are relevant. AIDS is not over. That people still die is rarely in the news. Even doctors still list other direct causes of death which can tend to make counting numbers bogus.…
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I’m Washing My Hair That Night
If there was a way to skateboard in a flood, we would find it. Business as usual. Intervention Is. Sometimes impossible. I have learned the hard way that you cannot impose interventions on adolescent boys twenty-four hours a day. It’s not my fault. I didn’t raise them. I am merely…