Tim Barrus Blog
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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…
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Tim Barrus, Opinion Editor, New York Times
NYT Opinion Editor One voice is missing. Even in the abortion issue as it now defines the culture war. You have the liberal writers. You have centrist writers. But you have no radical voices insisting on the need for subversion. Subversiveness is off the table. It was never on the…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
The Days of Yesteryear. Today, the drugs are better.
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
I am a communist. I’m not sure if this piece of work on the economy, and the rich are selling pencils and apples on Wall Street. Paypal. This piece is not too hopeful. The unhopeful are wetting their panties over an empending recession. I am not that hopeful. No one…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
There is something a little inflated about an editorial POV that paints Republicanism as the real America. I would argue that Republicanism is what has caused us to stand on the brink but we do not know what of. Looking down at our feet, we know the abyss is there.…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
There is usually an adult somewhere out there who could reach a kid. This would be men. But men want to hurt you. Women are from another planet. No one will help you. They only want you to bleed.
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Or how do you live in a broom closet.
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
That permanent storage underground so deliberate in anticipating millenia failure after failure apocalypse and singularity have become rich and strange.