Jan
27
2012
“…Choose your creativity adventure. We are genetically modified girls living in a genetically modified world. Are we making creative aspects using less than creative means, and realizing only a limited aspect of our own creativity?”
[Lamenting post about the automatic arts of photography, music and *gasp* possibly writing?]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2012/01/ghost-writers-ghost-town-the-lost-arts/
Dec
09
2011
“…The story of Billy Bishop is a great one. But transferring a story does not mean a straight transfer of elements when transferring to a different medium.”
[Post about how I walked out of my first movie - a musical transported, not translated, to cinema.]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/12/the-medium-is-the-message-if-you-stay-that-long%e2%80%a6/
Oct
14
2011
“…Not quite scandalous as scantily-clad, but PETA is at it again. Provocatively dressed female Pilgrim PETA volunteers handed out tofurkey in their eternal struggle bid to turn people vegan.”
[Outburst post about PETA's Canadian Thanksgiving campaign - sexy pilgrims giving out free tofurkey. Appeal factor? Only for the birds.]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/10/boys-give-thanks-to-pilgrims-their-lucky-stars-and-peta-for-nudity/
Aug
26
2011
“…Disturbing report that when kids were asked whether they read books, they answered only social media and text messages. Um. This is not reading. This is akin to saying you read every morning as you stare at the cereal box mindlessly munching. That is not a newspaper (though prob same nutritional value) – just as Twitter is not a book. ”
[Post about how kids are not reading books, but social media only.]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/08/to-read-or-not-to-read-is-that-even-a-question/
Aug
19
2011
“…And I thought kids who participated in these “Be a [insert debatably credible profession here] for a day” were meant to be gifted.”
[Post about an 11 y/o who was "mayor for a day" and named a street as Justin Bieber Way as her first point of business.]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/08/mayor-despair/
Aug
05
2011
“…In July, a convenience store [aptly named Quickie] experienced 40 teens rapidly bringing, not singing, chaos en masse to a public place after receiving a social media/text alert in typical flash mob stylez. Disappointed you missed it, or wish it was coming to a Mac’s/Shell/Esso/Coles near you? Don’t worry, it will be on Youtube.”
[Post about news articles chronicling newest trend flash rob, a step up from flash mob.]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/08/flash-and-dash-more-like-mob-will-rob/
Jul
07
2011
“…Choice of words is important to a writer, and I couldn’t help but wonder when I read this article who was more soulless in the sensitivity stakes – the journo or the church witness?”
[Outburst post about a journalist's lack of shift+F7 use - thesaurus.]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/07/words-to-live-and-die-by/
Jul
01
2011
“…it appeases my split personalities to be undertaking such subversive roles. I have a [paid] excuse to be random and act like a different person. Dream role indeed.”
[Post about how the personal advantages of being a foreign correspondent, and a preview of my first article in this role.]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/07/its-great-to-be-foreign/
Jun
10
2011
“…A white picket fence is just as harmlessly ideal as the platitude suggests, as it sitting on it, so many jumped off and picketed for a side.”
[Post about two articles going head-to-head in TO press regarding what it means to be gay for a 20 something y/o man.]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/06/lay-the-gay-to-rest/
May
20
2011
“…Australian English spelling sides with its ‘bigger’ brother, the ol’ Brits, on all things grammar, but where does Canada buzz in this spelling bee? True to its international diplomatic image, Canada sits on the fence and takes bits and pieces from both sides.”
[Misspelled outburst on Canadian spelling - the debate continues...]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/05/to-%e2%80%9czee%e2%80%9d-or-not-to-%e2%80%9czee%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%9ces%e2%80%9d-or-no/