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Lake Michigan Dunes
Lake Michigan Dunes
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Tim Barrus: The Great American Novel
Tim Barrus: The Great American Novel
Tim Barrus: The Great American Novel
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Know When to Hold ‘em
Bells. Whistles. Smoke. Screens. Lawyers. The lawyers win. Americans are famously attracted to the back porch light of conflict. Google invented it. Google wrote the script. Do no harm while you strangle other trade homo sapiens engage in. Are we giving it to you now.” Yes, Google. Yes. Until you…
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Tim Barrus on Ezra Klein
I can’t take this stuff seriously anymore. All I see are suits and suits and suits. The New York Times is the great-grandpa suits of suits. Your grandfather’s paper is still your grandfather’s paper. What one suit says to another suit. That’s always news. Not a single new idea. Some…
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My correspondence with the New York Times.
The women who act as moderators at the New York Times fit comfortably in the media and the nasty little editorial congregation that goes so far out of its way to fuck every writer they can fuck. School hallway monitors possess intelligence. Comment moderators are developmentally delayed. And they pass…
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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 New York Times Is Stupid
If I see one more list from these people, I’m going to stick my finger in my mouth, and gag myself.
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Tim Barrus: The Great American Novel
A Novel Inside A Novel by Tim Barrus
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Tim Barrus: The Heat Is Killing Us
I live on a remote mountain in the Blue Ridge. We have been losing our squirrels in this intense heat. Coyote pups born in the spring can’t walk or run. Deer struggle to get up. Where I could count the number of cat birds per acre on two hands, today,…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
Men Do Charleen lives down the dirt road from me. I will not dwell on trailer stereotypes. Charleen is poor. We read a lot about the poor poor. Charleen and her babies lived in the car that now sits at the side of the trailer in the thick nettle weeds.…
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Tim Barrus: The New York Times
Mark Kelly is glaringly obvious. But nothing is obvious when it comes to the democrats. Every now and then, they find the talent. But every now and then is just not good enough. I left the democrats. The republicans are outright nazis. I have always said the gay community is…
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sundancer
sundancer
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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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something hard about the eyes
Tim Barrus Xray Photography
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Tim Barrus: Dirt Bike Country
The idea of place has always been a concern for me because I place place about as high as you can go into the archives on the furious hunt for bad grammer. Place has to be higher on the list because whatever your story is, it takes place in a…
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Never Leave Your House Without a Camera
Tim Barrus Art
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Republicans Are Scum
Civil. War. Americans love to hide behind the word civil. I live in the deep south. Appalachia. It is not that bad a place to live out a life. But there is this problem with the past. It gives people like me – the disabled – flashpoint moments where we…
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Tim Barrus: I Grow My Own Food
I grow the food I eat. I linger over trout I caught that day. I can peaches, tomatoes, cucumbers, whatever grows as food around here. Bushel baskets of apples. Apple butter, goat milk, goat cheese, duck eggs, herbs, corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, melons, pumpkins, black walnut bread, peach jam and…
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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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The Great American Novel: A Novel By Tim Barrus
The Great American Novel, is itself, a novel. In this, I have set out to make stuff that would be about the beauty of it. I have attempted to put a lot of issues into a small, focused group, that many trees have shaken up. This Baby is for the…
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CANNONBALL
Republicans are progressive once a year at Christmas. When all the gifts have been opened, the big box (unopened), goes bang, and Trump pops out. With that business big man’s fist. Put it in a box and sell it. The true populist leader claims to represent the unified “will of…
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Trump Is Coming For Your children
Kamala Harris is ready to lead. The operant word is ready. Question: Will she take children away from their parents and incarcerate them in boot camps which you could call Boot Camps For Trump. Some kids are still there. What he did to those families changed me in fundamental ways.…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
The New York Times does not in any way represent freedom or freedom of speech. Their modus operandi is censorship. They bemoan censorship when it comes to other people being censored. Then, they use it more deeply than any other paper in the world. As a writer who has published…
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Trout
Rowboat. Fish. Bait. Worms. A bucket for the fish. Books. I read in the rowboat. There are a couple of books at the bottom of the lake. I play around with photographs to disguise them so no one knows where I live. This time. I got chastised in print for…
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THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL
NOT TOO MANY WRITERS WOULD PUBLISH A TITLE: THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL If editors don’t like the title, it steps on some toes, then they should take a pass on the book. Motherfuckers, don’t waste my time. I lived on dog food. Name me one editor who lives on dog…