Month: April 2011

  • At the Comic Edge

    There is a difference, and it could be a big one, between deciding (or even praying) to do nothing… and having nothing to do. For a start, in the first way of thinking we would like to suggest that we have a choice in the matter. The second way of thinking suggests we probably don’t.…

  • “This is clearly the next step”

    That might well be true, you do sound as though you know what you are talking about, but actually there are so many other views pressing in that I fear I may well have to consider the options for the next century or two . . . and then we have the conundrum of democracy.…

  • Without End

    And how beauty is manifested. Or so we are claiming because if you run your eye across to the right hand side of this page, and click on the A Manifesto link, you will find there (item 10) the statement that “There is an aesthetic”. That is a creative system, And what is it? From our dialogic…

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.