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Month: November 2012

  • Is it a yoga thing?

    Is it a yoga thing?

    Anyway what do you need a guru for? I mean, wouldn’t an accountant be more useful. Did you really mean to be ironic? Are you laughing at me for taking it seriously; believing that you of all people could ever do such a thing? Is it a yoga thing? Drinking a slow pint of bitter,…

  • Across the Somerset levels

    Across the Somerset levels

    On a train journey between Taunton and Totnes, late afternoon, as darkness descended, Saturday last, following a discussion on Hippolytus and the ways of the gods, I read with some excitement a review of a recent biography of Derrida (LRB 22.11.12 Adam Shatz, Not in the Mood). Mind you I had never got very far…

  • Oswald von Wolkenstein

    A Wordstall Holy Fool/Hero

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.