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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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Taking Photographs of Other Photographs
The Great American Novel is a novel by Tim Barrus. Release the doves.
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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Still Hopeful
Tim Barrus Art Student
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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Jimmy
Take the Red Pill
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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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Tim Barrus: To Hoodie or Not To Hoodie
Tim Barrus Art
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We Call Him Christmas
Tim Barrus Art
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Tim Barrus: Release the Dogs of More
Tim Barrus: Release the Dogs of More
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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.…