Let’s begin with the first issue. In the beginning, when wood engraver Ebenezer Landells and writer Henry Mayhew began working together, in a kind of obstinacy each issue contained a humorous idea in what was called ‘The Big Cut’. It was July 17th 1841, the first copies being based on the satirical word taken from…
Where else should we start but with the failure? If we take that old story of God and Adam and Eve and a certain serpent in their Garden of Eden, this paradise of plenty, we have a man and a woman created fully adult yet fully child-like, held in innocence until the breaking of the…
We are also writing history: Again we work between space and space – / And both are dark. Writing history in what appear sometimes to be altogether dark times, even downright evil. Is God truly about to make another sudden landing here on earth in 4 weeks time, or will he put it off this…
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.