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Tim Barrus, New York Times
This Is Not My Story To Tell I’m going to tell it anyway. Suprise. For writers (and delusional editors) telling stories is kinda what we do. A guy came into a bar. Ordinary. Now, let’s change the context. A guy came into a bar butt naked. Two words. Changes everything.…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
My bones were dying inside of me. No one knew why. My heart was dying inside of me. No one why. My ability to fly from the roof was only eclipsed by broken bones as brittle as a stick. I take 30 medications a day. Surgeries to replace the bones.…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Publishing is unforgiving. There are writers who follow the rules. Never, ever coloring outside the prescribed places you can go. Especially rules that challenge the publishing status quo’s take on reality. To call it reality, everyone must agree, even the other writers who will delight in taking you apart, another…
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I told My Stdents 2 Kill Themselves
An Excerpt From the New York Times and Going Rogue West Liberty High School, Iowa Most teachers had given up on the lot of them. The bad ones. The kids who fall between the cracks into the awesome, Great Divide. Great Divides are everywhere. It was about learning to debate.…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
I am with Antifa. Haters rage at us. They’re going to kill mom and dad. Already dead for decades. The Feds stalk Antifa. Haters poison my pets. Publish maps to my house. They pinpoint my controversial sites including Facebook, and Twitter (thank you). They cannot spell. They burn my books,…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
TIM BARRUS, NEW YORK TIMES Mistakes. Happen. Metaphors. Happen. Judgement calls. Happen. Metaphors are added to anecdotal evidence. Copy editors everywhere at any publication will squint and ponder if a metaphor is appropriate. Their eyes to the sky. My eyes, too. I have had endings to my books redrawn and…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
New York Times gatekeepers don’t want you to read this. They’re supposed to be anonymous. Sorry. But I just can’t join the Satisfied With Ourselves Party. There’s hardly a voice you publish that takes a solid look at journalism and it’s conflicted relationship with comments. Let’s Have A Hug For…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
I am one of the people Ross Douthat condemns. I have attended protests. Ross feels those demonstrations should never have happened. “…protests go forward amid a pandemic was justified by redescribing their motor, antiracism, as a push for better public health.” I haven’t heard that one, but it sounds right,…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
First, it was kids in cages. Some died. Of neglect. It was beyond cruel. They were sick yet it was public policy to deny them their parents, to deny them food, to deny them water, to make sure they slept in the concrete floor. It was public policy. We took…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
The New York Times tells me that satire is inappropriate for the fucking New York Times. As if. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE MONOLITH It is real life where you will find the real hilarity. Unless you are some stuffy, privileged, entitled, East Coast grand pooba with Spell Check software stuck…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
I love work that searches for the tension, not necessarily the Why Of Is Conformity-A-Fundamental-Feature of the Fantastique, but Where Is All The Status-Quo-Malaise I Am So Used Seeing In Both Fashion and Film. So ubiquitous. Heuristic. Rare. Conflicted. Look under this rock. Look over here at what they are…
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AMERICA IS A DEAD CORPSE
TIM BARRUS: NEW YORK TIMES We have seen the cliff, and we have jumped. There are no returns on this purchase. To wit: the Democrats. At least sometimes they hold hands after they jump. But the result is always the same. America is just another cultural corpse. Athens become one.…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
I work with adolescent boys who have HIV. Psychiatric intervention is not enough. Medication is not enough. You have to be there for the kid 24/7. Panic does not share our schedules. Panic does not share the school schedule. Suicide has its own agendas. The idea that “if only, the…
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Your Sacred Democracy Is Dead
Someone at the New York Times is consistently employing the word lies. Not falsehoods. Not misstatements. Someone there is calling a spade a spade. The softening of the blow – this refusal to call a lie a lie renders the publication itself complicit – is patently absurd and beneath contempt.…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
Democracy is so yesterday. It’s the stranger who came to town. The kind of democracy we yearn for is always waiting in the wings. Rich old white men have owned what they call democracy as if the thing itself was the magician’s assistant you could cut in two, and then…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
In the past, it was the crazy people who lived in armed fortresses at the tops of mountains in Idaho. They wanted revolution. We could patronize. “That’s nice but you’re a lunatic.” Survival is not a status quo Americans want to question. Blindness is easier. But how will we survive…
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Comments Are Bones For Dogs
FYI AN OPEN LETTER TO THE NEW YORK TIMES: This letter appears on the medium along with a protest video where James Baldwin speaks. COMMENTS ARE BONES FOR DOGS AN OPEN LETTER TO THE NEW YORK TIMES medium.com I do have a New York Times Most Notable Book under my…
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Tim Barrus in the New York Times
Moms need weed. I am not supposed to say that. I am not supposed to write it either. There are no moms here. It’s me and the boys. We have not been in public in three months. I put all the furniture out on the veranda. We can sit and…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
Tim Barrus New York Times An Open Letter to Dr. Fauci https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/world/coronavirus-live-updates.html#commentsContainer&permid=107865923:107865923 In the beginning of the pandemic, I thought Dr. Fauci would definitely become front and center as our defense against covid. But he was outfoxed by power and Trump. Now, he stands behind Trump with his hands folded…
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Tim Barrus: The New York Times
The monkey cannot beat the jones. Sometimes, photography says it all. Sometimes, photography is straightforwardly in your face. Safron Foer’s piece, and the photograph that accompanies it, hits hard at Americans who struggle with addiction, and the Americans who do not struggle with addiction. To meat. No one wants to…
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America is Toast: Tim Barrus, New York Times
Americans are not living through a social crisis. America is dying – not living – through the demystification that has always been smokescreen for what America is actually all about, and always has been. A violent, unequal, class system that denies class even exists. The only evidence that suggests class…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times: Get Real
Michelle Goldberg at the New York Times tells us to hit the streets. Nine million Americans live in the streets. Exactly how is it that they’re supposed to hit them. The New York Times people are smart and they have good intentions. But they live in a well-funded bubble, and…
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Tim Barrus and the New York Times
David Leonhardt is an opinion/editorial columnist at the New York Times. I agree with him on many things, and admire his writing. Often, his reasoning is lame. If only — we just worked together. If only… I am sick and tired of hearing all the if only we coulds one…
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Tim Barrus in the New York Times
It is unconscionable to think anyone has a right to bring more children into the world. For the human animal, the world is crumbling. We do not need one more child. What we need is for humanity itself to become extinct because as super-predators, we have created a world of…
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Sex Wounded Tumblr But Tumble Will Survive
I have always loved working on Tumblr. So, when what has been going on at Tumblr hit the front page of the New York Times, I felt compelled to respond. Sans peur et sans reproche. A lot of my work goes up on Tumblr, and I still love it. I…