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Tim Barrus: Journalists Elected Trump
Take notes. Harris is on the path to winning the presidency. It will be close. Mainly, it’s a battle cry. Journalists are bitter over the fact that they are not on anyone’s radar. Journalists are a problem. They think that anyone who they want to focus on has no agency…
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TIM BARRUS: THE NEW YORK TIMES
Take notes. Americans will tell you they like diversity. They do not know what diversity even is. It took hundreds of millions of years for trees to invent themselves. During the Carnian Pluvial Event, it rained for two million years. Two million years of rain. We cannot even imagine it.…
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Comment Moderation Softens the Image for the Bad Guys
If I so much as write – Trump is a rapist – comment moderators will side with Trump, and then, the swords come out. I get axed. Yet it’s civil for a columnist to articulate the same fact. There are several realities going on here. The reality of the rape.…
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There is no Art in Appalachia
There is no art in Appalachia. There is corruption though. Some of these suits are more crooked than a barrel of fishhooks. Unless you view what are, in fact, trinkets, or photographs of water running pastoral streams and dreams through the deep woods. Anyone can do those those things. That…
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That Would be Our Kids
Take notes: I am a super cool parent and I have set no one adrift. I do not bite Barbie’s head off. Who actually parents children in a politikal context. My three-year-old is a Nazi. She orders everyone around. Are you telling me that republicans have children. Who demonstrate the…
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Local Media
Tim Barrus: Local Journalism I worked as a reporter in New Mexico. I covered local things. Like murder. I had to deal with the PR rhetoric of the FBI. At night, the FBI went home. I wrote about corpses being dug up. Crime scene photography becomes ritualized. So where do…
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New Chums Beach
New Chums Beach
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Dark Stairs
Tim Barrus Art
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All These Babies Are a Burden
I do not understand how anyone would bring a child into this sad and exhausted world. Some people have to have it all, when no one can have it all. The house. The cars. The kids. The job. The credit cards. Food. Food. Food. And school. And school times twenty.…
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The Smile
The smile is disarming. We have lived with temper tantrums, theft (the boxes), the migrant kids, ripped from arms, and thrown in cages, the secret secret plans with Putin. The secret secret plans with Xi Jingping. The secret secret plans with Kim. Even his patriotic rout failed. His business failed.…
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She Can Defeat Him
I was not going to vote. And I always vote. But, not this time. Nevertheless, if Kamala runs, I’m running with her. I’m voting because I want to see those two angry old eyes finally, Blink. I am not too good at enduring the MAGA onslaught. Another four years of…
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Squad
25 maintains they will remove children from their homes of gay parents. Where is the gay community. It matters not if those children were adopted or were dropped by a stork. Children coming from families where kids are extraordinarily sexually and emotionally abused, life and death, these children have already…
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Healthcare Has Failed Us
We are living through a culture war because we do not know how to rule ourselves, and we do not even know who our many selves are. We take a trip. Sometimes literature comes to town. The Book of Stories is us. But it is not yet an us, Americans…
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Tim Barrus: Blood in the Water
Sex was once considered to be a political act. Birth control was up for grabs, and birth control is still up for grabs. I remember – those times – when old white men called the shots because they could. The Supreme Court went for guns. Do you think, they won’t…
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Free Speech
There is no such thing as free speech. Or free anything. The entire dog and pony show is never free, there is a cost, usually duplicitous. To see the stars, you will pay the piper. – tim barrus
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Back Into the Earth
Tim Barrus, the New York Times
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College by Any Other Name
Tim Barrus and the New York Times Pam Paul at the New York Times always grabs me because she’s a talented storyteller, and often, her work sheds light for me, the reader, into spaces that are reserved by people who are elsewhere. Ms Paul presents to us a glittering vision…
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porch
He sang songs in this rocker. And he forgot his hat.
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
I hear they go naked under the robes. It’s fun to poke them because it robs them of their ritualized validity. Satire is protected speech. Since this is not the New York Times, I can say that they have no authority and even less moral authority. Make me pay this…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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
We have figured out who the person was who allegedly spoke on the record with media but anonymously (how does that even happen) about my family. What are they talking about. I don’t even have a family. I don’t come from anywhere. I am an alien from B733D111-1, a star…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Motel 6. Vegas. Okay, so, I kinda do get life in a Vegas motel. How many first drafts do you want.
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
To use the idea of “fun” as a weaponized guided cruise missle that hits the wrong wedding in Oman, I am here to tell you that “fun” has little to do with survival, and if you have survived the contemporary world, you have validated yourself in a terrain where validation…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
I am actually hard on the South. A jaundiced eye. Never use a radiator. We grow great corn around here. I’ve never seen a still. But I have heard whispers about them.
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
I live at the top of a mountain in the Blue Ridge. I ride a dirt bike. Street bikers think I’m nuts. But who needs a helmet anyway. I am thinking America in my hair. When I ride into a city, someone tries to steal my bike. I have caught…