Month: August 2011

  • Phony Wars

    In general I am all for phoney wars, rather than the other 'kinetic' sort. Kinetic? Kinetic action is the posh phrase used these days for the bit of wars which is about "breaking things and hurting people". And, no, we are not lost, simply trying to read between the lines, and enquiring about the possibility…

  • Culture Wars, Turf Wars and Real Wars

    Where are we? Are we lost? There were those months following September 1939 that came to be known as the phoney war. Could that phrase describe our present predicament? Dave ‘Pinky’ Cameron and his chums have laid down the gauntlet; they are afire with enthusiastic bombast to destroy the few remains of the post-war consensual…

  • Gangs are Good

    About there being a Bigger Picture – The inchoate Riots, which have rudely awakened me from my self-satisfied dialogic sleep and bounced us out of our customary safety zones –  and that good things can manifest out of bad ones. The struggle, and it is a constant struggle as I find it against powers that…

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.