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  1. Taking Photographs of Other Photographs

    The Great American Novel is a novel by Tim Barrus. Release the doves.


  2. Chichchen Itza

    Chichen Itza Take Notes. The starlings have arrived from the moon. All they drink is Scotch. They go barefoot on the boat, and they take photographs of everything they see. They will be sitting in your backyard’s solitary oak. Starlings vote. But it’s the whisky that makes them so articulate.


  3. Movie Stars On a Bench

    My personal take on this photo has to do with class. Americans live in a Somalia of our making. The Appalachian poor have suicide rates that only keep going up. Those figures kickass Up&Up&Up&Up. Appalachia wrestles with deeply ingrained medieval poverty like no other place on earth. Social statistics for


  4. Books Banned In the South

    Books Banned in the American South – Peter Rabbit – Tom Sawyer – Huckleberry Finn – The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams – Winnie The Poo – Les Miserables – The Complete Works of William Shakespeare – Frankenstein – Treasure Island – Lolita – The Story of…


  5. Still Hopeful

    Tim Barrus Art Student


  6. Snake Handlers Religion David French

    Take notes. Religion. I want to know where all these leftists live. Is it a town of fugitive leftists. It’s a stereotype. The word leftist is not uncivil. But who are we talking about. The New York times has never connected the word leftist – to whom. Name me one


  7. One Ugly Little Man

    There is an emptiness in this man that cannot believe he even has to run for the position he desires. What about what we want. I failed as a writer, but not as a photographer. This photograph is tiresome. It’s overly pixilated. The photograph is juxtaposed against all the other


  8. Gus is Extraordinary

    Take notes. I wept after seeing Gus so excited for his dad. I have autism. Saying inappropriate things is what I do. You learn real fast to look down at your feet. You creep away. Pulling all your neurodivergent sorries with you. It is extremely obvious that Gus comes from


  9. 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


  10. Jimmy

    Take the Red Pill


  11. 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


  12. Tim Barrus: To Hoodie or Not To Hoodie

    Tim Barrus Art


  13. We Call Him Christmas

    Tim Barrus Art


  14. Tim Barrus: Release the Dogs of More

    Tim Barrus: Release the Dogs of More


  15. Lake Michigan Dunes

    Lake Michigan Dunes


  16. Tim Barrus: The Great American Novel

    Tim Barrus: The Great American Novel Tim Barrus: The Great American Novel  


  17. 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


  18. 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


  19. 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


  20. 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.


  21. 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.


  22. Tim Barrus: The Great American Novel

    A Novel Inside A Novel by Tim Barrus


  23. 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,


  24. 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.


  25. 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