Month: February 2011

  • Was this a party?

    Did you say phosphorus? Sorry, I wasn’t paying attention, I was distracted by the heat. You must be in love, she says, laughing. I’ve no idea who she is, never seen her before, but I catch a glimpse of teeth and eyes generating more energy than New York City high on the usual mayhem of…

  • Telesphorus

    True, but not right: About our exclusion from the settlement, or, for that matter, the non-arrival of our invitations to join the “do” at Westminster Abbey this coming April, those thugs as you call them, the men and women in loose fitting dark suits who keep on raising their hands to press their electronic earpieces…

  • The Aftermath of Ossie the Floss

    Yes, it is noteworthy that it doesn’t seem to matter as to the where of the landscape: north or south, east or west; which continent; which nation?? Does it matter? The missing details may be those specifics by which we measure our sanity: what is the name of the Prime Minister? Good question! What country…

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.