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Month: August 2014

  • Anonymity Blues

    A glimpse in the rear view mirror fills you with terror: the past is disappearing into a blank of anonymity. Attempting to avoid the void you drive faster: you will beat the beast, this slavering, bloody beast. Your determination wavers, you can feel its hot fetid breath on your neck. “Perec! Perec!” You hear the…

  • Perec Perec

    Perec Perec

    We often put pairs of words together, and repeat ourselves. Some of the pairs we would like to think of as opposites. Death is not life. Life is not death. And so on. Then we could say Life/Death is an antonym. But a little on maybe we want to say, “Perhaps Life/Death is a false…

  • Anon rules ok!

    ‘Void’ you say, as you play with the dynamics of anonymity. ‘Perec! Perec!’  Is that a bird I can hear?  And there is a middle aged man . . . Can’t do much with him! Is it TS Eliot at the age of 43 or perhaps 53? Or poor old BKS Iyengar dead and only…

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.