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Month: December 2006

  • This weblog . . . coming clean

    There’s been some feedback concerning this blog to the effect that this conversation between ak and mmj is private, in-house, out of bounds to the visiting reader. Initially my reaction is to demand more of the reader: “well, work at it” or “why don’t you just jump in.” But then as I reflect further, my…

  • Congratulation to Dr Ratnadevi

    Our friend Dr Ratnadevi has been awarded her Phd; Congratulations! She ends her letter to ak and I that gives the good news with a quotation:– "What do the animals get back from us?" Gary Snyder was asked by a Native American Student.– "We do ceremonies and rituals. Performance is currency in the deep world’s…

  • A Meeting with Uncle Walter

    Bone on bone: THIS loud  and startling sound. It was the sound inside my head I remember most. I was thirteen years old, and I was thinking that my legs were giving way and that I was falling towards the ground.                       It was all so unexpected. It…

Categories (2024) are:

  • ATELIER Work – about-creative-work (in all mediums: text-drawing-sounds-image etc)
  • CLIMATE Action – indications-and-contra-indications
  • DAWDLING – walking-pausing-to-wonder-wandering
  • IN Conversation – companionship-and-connections
  • LA Communita –participatory-collaborative-artivism
  • OTHER than Human – animate-and-inanimate-terrestrial-kin
  • PARANOID Readings – violence-and-fundamental-perversions
  • POLITICAL Readings – mobilisations-affect-polarisations
  • REPARATIVE Readings – inspiring-healing-restorative
  • SHADOW Readings – speculative-and-not-yet-visible-thinking
  • STYLE Readings – scales-and-familiarities
  • TONITE at the Coliseum – live-experiences-performance
  • YOGI (‘Not This-Not That’) – meditation-bhakti-consciousness


Different WORDSTALL Categories in the past supported the mainly experimental personal writing in posts. The previous list of Category headings was: Anti-gravity Surgery / Atelier / Catastrophe Games / Echo Effects / Exodus / Fundamental Perversions / Hitting the Potholes / Holy Fool-Hero / In Conversation / Old Men Traveling / On the Street / Out in the Wilderness / Over and Beyond / Tonite at the Coliseum. Some of these still persist or recur as Tag key-words.

The even earlier Category headings for the walkingtalkingwriting blog (2006-2012) have been forgotten, but can be explored if desired via the long tail of monthly posts for those years here.