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Month: February 2010

  • Getting up to speed

    It’s going to be hard getting up to speed; I’m already weeks behind, but, on the other hand I do need to have a check-in, to look back. The Savage Detectives starts off:   ‘November 2   I’ve been cordially invited to join the visceral realists. I accepted, of course. There was no initiation ceremony.…

  • Uncle Wally says send for the Savage Detectives

    Uncle Wally says send for the Savage Detectives

    Roberto Bolaño, Los Detectives Salvages (1998)   …With its front piece quote from near the end of Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano: “Do you want Mexico to be saved? Do you want Christ to be our King?” “No”   …And transcriptions of the accounts of the crowd of witness, painstakingly reconstructing the scene (‘pay attention’).…

  • Meanwhile, deep in the forest . . .

    I did say, pay attention, but you threw a scatter of gravel, fragments of smashed beer bottles sparkling into the dust, as if to say, why say one thing when you can, with consummate ease, say twenty three? So it was me who was left to examine the entrails of the sacrificial beast (I thought…

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.