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Category: LA Communita

  • Soviet Republics

    Sort of a hard riddle; the idea of these three places, that are simultaneously distinct, and overlapping, and synonymous. Until I came up with the answer; ‘Russia’ – A huge territory, the name for whose people, narod, is also the word they use for ‘nation’. mmj

  • notes arising from a conversation

    The poetic form must be the earliest form of minute taking. It’s very very close to painting and music; very anti-linear, forever unfinished and unpredictable. It’s the thread connecting wolves and angels which interests me From the base camp of last week’s conversation I’ve ascended, descended, ascended I found the gates, I lost the gates,…

  • Do you know this woman?

    Her heart was open, though you could have fooled me, falled me, I want to write. Did she fool anybody, everybody? Did she only knock me over or are there lots of you out there? She told the world that her heart was open and I hesitated to sit in judgement on such an issue,…

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.