Month: May 2011

  • Opening a Second Front

    Like wtw at Gallipoli. Or wtw on Facebook, although both of us have individually tried that medium of social chit chat and exchange neither of us seems to have got the hang of it, and a task such as searching for the shadowy Mrs Wilkinson in order to ask her to be ‘our friend’ seems…

  • I’ve heard it said

    Gentlemen, I’ve heard it said that memory is rather like a railway system which has had random sections of rail removed. Perhaps the result is rather similar to that party game we used to play as children – musical chairs. The tracks are used by many trains and hence many millions of us individual bipedal…

  • Simultaneously Strange, but not Coincidental

    Dear Mrs Wilkinson, I said, there must be some mistake, my birthday was February 9th 1931, and not the date you mention in your letter. Moreover, I was born in Holland and spent my early years growing up in Rotterdam, in other words in a republic outside your jurisdiction; sometimes my mother would take me…

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.