Category Archives: Writing & Reading
La Vida de Caridad: Hollywood Observations
Written on April 16, 2011 at 10:24 pm, by cct
Saturday night. Hollywood Boulevard crawls with tourists and locals.
Cameras flash at Madame Tussauds – faux celebrities are almost the real thing, right?
Pass by Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, compare your footprints with them – celebrities who walked on the air of fame past and present. How do your hands compare against theirs? How do your feet? If they match, is your joy because you are almost like them or that you see that they are more like us – who exist on the fringe of red carpets and lit ceremony?
From CharityTran.com: Rhetorical Dialogue on YouTube
Written on March 25, 2011 at 10:51 am, by cct
Over on my writing focused site, I just posted the response I made for my classical rhetoric class. I was intrigued about how observations of classical rhetoric still permeate today on YouTube – and it’s always fun when you can bring in everyday references to viral video to your academic papers, such as
- Rebecca Black – Friday
- Alexandra Wallace – Asians in the Library
- Response videos: David So’s Vlog #4 and Jimmy Wong’s Ching Chong song
Especially when you get to associate them with Cicero and Quintilian!
And yes. I do realize this is very nerdy.
Writing: Photos & Fictions …and Zombies?
Written on March 23, 2011 at 9:52 pm, by cct
A few weeks ago I began Photos & Fiction – stories based on photos! The first story is an ironic tale about the gift of daisies. The second story is about a date at a Rooney concert.
Today I began a serial about zombies. I’m assuming it will have a love story, but for now – it’s a wide-open adventure!
-cct
On CharityTran.com – Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and the Memoir
Written on March 7, 2011 at 10:21 am, by cct
For anyone interested, I did a review of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother on my writing blog with mentions of the memoir in general. http://bit.ly/fJm0FqPublication: “Some Girl” (Poem)
Written on December 21, 2010 at 2:45 pm, by cct
Repost from charitytran.com:
The Winter Solstice 2010 issue of Mused was just released today and with it is my poem Some Girl. Perhaps the closest I might get to a feminist-assertion of equality – or more so than that, meaning. I wrote this a long time ago and when I found it again, I liked the sentiment and submitted it. It’s easy to get lost in the crowd, labeled, judged. “Girl” and related adjectives could easily be subbed for “Guy” and guy-equivalent adjectives. Don’t we all want to be someone more than some thing?
Here’s a link to the poem: http://www.bellaonline.com/review/issues/winter2010/p040.html