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Month: June 2007

  • resistance to saying anything

    14 06 07, walkingtalkingwriting, EXETER We set off in a particular direction. – “Sometimes a ride on the city’s public transport system is more instructive than a voyage to distant lands. Experienced travellers will confirm that it is sufficient to see a single lilac shrub in a dusty city courtyard to understand the deep sadness…

  • notes arising from a conversation

    The poetic form must be the earliest form of minute taking. It’s very very close to painting and music; very anti-linear, forever unfinished and unpredictable. It’s the thread connecting wolves and angels which interests me From the base camp of last week’s conversation I’ve ascended, descended, ascended I found the gates, I lost the gates,…

  • Two City Vagabonds

    Back from Ireland, meeting with old friends and a visit to the Wexford Festival Opera, where Kurt Weill’s Der Silbersee (The Silverlake, first performed in Leipzig, Erfurt, and Magdeburg, on the same day, February 18th 1933) kept us in conversation afterwards for days… The opera critics loathed it (especially the one from the FT, and…

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.