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Month: February 2007

  • Entice with Disgust: Shimmer

    – "Cassandra meets Martin". Something I imagined, or something that actually happened? Being one of the girls with our “made-up pleasures” who nobody takes seriously, sometimes it is hard to know. Cassandra – well, everybody has met at least one, and you have already met me, Gaspara’s sister. But who is Martin?  I will tell…

  • Care Freedom Conspiracy

    Care, freedom, conspiracy: three words plucked from the weekend’s talking, reading and thinking. The question that comes to mind: what do these three words do to me? Care is the daily rhythm of activity in relation to my children, wife, partner, lover, other family members, neighbours, friends; a widening circle of obligation, which now includes…

  • “Meanwhile…”

    Meanwhile, it is Sunday and a day of rest, and I reflected on this work of writing, especially about our imagined meetings and those that happen face-to-face. I also wrote the following letter today: Mary-Kay Wilmers Editor London Review of Books edit@lrb.co.uk Dear Editor, Jenni Diski on ‘Second Life’ (8th February 2007) describes her experience…

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.