I am not sure I am going to get my head round these smart new ideas for crossing the road in the central London, based on ak’s description of the new pedestrian system at Oxford Circus. That is, I presume it is a system, and somewhere the system has an intelligence, an electronic super-surveillance cybernetic-netted…
I’ve just finished reading Hans Fallada’s 1946 novel Alone in Berlin. If you haven’t got there before me, it’s a thriller of a read and a moral/political exploration of resistance in the face of tyranny – in this instance the tyranny is provided courtesy of the Nazi regime in Germany. Even though the resistance is…
Megaphone diplomacy from off his super-yacht swinging at anchor next to our more modest people-carrier version of a boat, You can’t discharge here, his amplified voice crackles across the bay, It is against the law. What unnerves me most is that even here in these waters and not that far from Aleppo, Beirut, Jafna…
Categories (2024) are:
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.