I spent $215 to make my teeth all pretty for you this weekend.

Just wanna let folks know I went to see the dentist. Not the free dentist but a good guy named Dr. Sakakura that came recommended by my friend Aika. And now my tooth is all fancy and fixed and no more food gets stuck back there.

Here is my photo album of my dentist visit.

The show closes this weekend. We shoot it tomorrow for camera so I have to get my beauty sleep.

Here's the latest review from the LA Weekly.

GO! WONG FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST Performer Kristina Wong opens her one-woman show under the pretense that she will, in an ­earnest yet fun-loving fashion, explore the cultural phenomenon of high rates of suicide and depression among Asian-American women. She then proceeds to fail spectacularly at this task, spiraling into a miasma of pseudoacademic theory and her own expression of identity. So what purports to be an entertaining and educational romp through the oft-trod territory of identity politics dissolves into a humorous and poignant refutation of there being much commonality to the female Asian-American experience at all. Wong’s conclusion is multifaceted and profoundly personal. She eschews indulging maudlin stereotypes while embracing — or maybe even reclaiming — a personal story at the core of every Asian-American woman. Wong’s performance is quick and controlled, allowing her to slowly unveil her portrait of madness with such skill, we barely realize it’s happening. Miles Memorial Playhouse, 1130 Lincoln Blvd., Santa Monica; Fri.-Sat., 8:30 p.m.; Sun. 3 p.m.; through Oct 5. (310) 998-8765. TeAda Productions (Luis Reyes)

The Good, the Bad, and The Greasy

Since I bought Harold (my car's name) almost two years ago, I keep getting questions about the car and whether or not I can recommend Lovecraft, etc. etc . And I've kept a tight lip about my REAL experience with Lovecraft's original owner (Brian Friedman/ Brian Lovecraft) who sold me my car. The reason why I didn't tell anyone how bad he was to me was I was scared if I talked smack, he would never fix my car (which he didn't fix anyway). The relationship we had as car seller and car buyer was like an abusive ex-boyfriend who has your stuff and a hapless ex-girlfriend who has to be nice to get it back.

Anyway, Lovecraft's new owner, Tacee, made good on Brian's loaded promises and repaired the car so it is now safe to drive.

Well, the LA Times article is out and now you can read about this whole hipster soap opera yourself. Yay! I have a nice little weight off me!

Hipping it up in Williamsburg...

I really promise, a fuller update to come from my adventures from Texas to Massachusetts to tomorrow in Long Island where I have a show at Stonybrook U..

I just got to New York City today and am subletting in the heart of Hipsterville for the rest of the month. I am sleeping in my friend's loft bed in a place at 4th St and Bedford Ave in Williamsburg! I swear it's so Disney Hipsterland here that I piss Pabst beer (ironically, of course).



Here's a picture of me at Smith College last night. I'm taking pictures with my Crackberry lately. Which is why they are so blurry. More updates to come, with scant pictures. I promise.

In the meantime, enjoy this funky translation below of another Chinese Press News piece on me. I am really excited that the Chinese press is taking a liking to me or at least my work. Because even if Chinese speaking people won't be able to understand my show... It puts the themes of the show on the table and hopefully gives my work some impact for them, if just through the press. I hope it will get dialogue started in Chinese speaking communities about issues of depression. Especially, if it will keep them from taking their own life!

The reason that my name is "Mr. Huang meter" in this translation below is that my Chinese name ("Wong Gwun Yee") translates roughly to "Measured or Even-keeled Gentleman." Thanks Grandpa and Grandma for picking this name! The character for "Wong" means "Yellow." So I am actually a "Yellow Measured Gentleman."

One more thing you now know about the Wong.

Leap cuckoo nest Mr. Huang meter one-man show
Participates in the New York Asian culture festival performance description melancholy Asia females to be easy to seek the shortsighted view

[ Article: That insults ] is born in San Francisco's person of Chinese descent performing artist Mr. Huang the meter (Kristina Wong), future New York will participate in "the Asian cultural festival" (Asian Cultural Festival), will perform its work "Mr. Huang the meter to fly over the cuckoo nest" (Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), will describe the Asian female because of the life condition which melancholy will commit suicide. Mr. Huang the meter said that, she is engaged in artistic the goal is for break through the limitation, the help populace, even saves the life.

Place of performance for empress area park theater (Queens theatre in the Park) and stone brook New York State University Charles Wang center.

Mr. Huang the meter ancestor parents come America in 194 ○ ages from Guangdong, the grandfather first in the laundry works as the labor, the grandmother to do odd jobs in the restaurant, afterwards two people accumulated the money to come, the end could buy a laundry. Mr. Huang the meter father sells the insurance in the bank, the mother is accountant. The whole family goes through many hardships in US, the meter must choose the performing arts path to Mr. Huang truly to be surprised.

Mr. Huang the meter once went study the Los Angeles UC'S English literature and the world art department. She said that, own study specialty and the play specialized different are, the play specialized content extremely westernizes, by the European lineage Caucasian culture primarily, makes her to be very difficult to approve. Mr. Huang the meter also contacts Mexican and the Latin American lineage dramatic art, displays the farm hand, the workers living conditions, she thought the ink lineage, the Latin American lineage life struggles, with Asian is extremely similar.

Mr. Huang the meter play frequently is the one-man show (solo performance), script write oneself develops, moreover non- tradition. She said that, her play frequently with an under audience interacts, for instance converses with the audience, makes the note, has the person her play for the behavior art (performance art).

This leaves "Mr. Huang the meter to fly over the cuckoo nest" the play conception, receives touching which the Asian feminine suicide rate stays at a high level. Mr. Huang the meter indicated that, the Asian female always smiles in the life, very can hide the painful the sentiment. In others' eye, the Asian female lives well, how can commit suicide? "Mr. Huang the meter flies over the cuckoo nest" by Mr. Huang the meter (non- artist's) the alone angle performance, starts when the play always says oneself very well, must own solve the problem, but afterwards finally supported, entire collapse.

She said that, she saw some families commit suicide after the family member, cancelled all to seek the trace which short once existed, why the mistake lies in Asian does not discuss commits suicide can occur. "If the automobile makes the unusual sound, we may follow the sound to find the problem, early repairs a vehicle; But the Asian female does not make noise, only perishes own."

Mr. Huang the meter said that, how she does want to explore the Asian female in the play to establish the relations with the other people, how also hides the heart of hearts the sentiment.

Mr. Huang the meter said that, writes "the Nanjing massacre" person of Chinese descent writer Iris Chang (Iris Chang), finally unexpectedly steps onto road of the suicide, inspires her to create this play. Iris Chang once visited Los Angeles to enlarge, her at that time as if extremely exhausted, was numb. Some people suggested she writes about woman being forced to comfort the war soldier with sex's book, Iris Chang's reply is: "I need to protect in the sentiment oneself". Iris Chang has gone, the literary world also was short bravely, the successful writer, Mr. Huang the meter heaved a sigh for it.

Mr. Huang the meter indicated that, she is the person of Chinese descent third generation, some people felt she does not like the person of Chinese descent, but she chooses the performance to work as the occupation, in the others eye, this occupation is unstable, even is restless. Mr. Huang the meter calls oneself Asian, also not sedulously pursues some kind of cultural identity. She said that, the performance makes her not to stop the journey to rush about, does not calculate on the road, also is for starts off prepares, this kind of life is actually lonely, therefore she writes the one-man show. She said, because the funds is limited, not the impossible please very many people together to perform. But she is engaged in the artistic performance, is wants to bring the good transformation to the people, the surmounting limitation, even cannot cause the artistic person also to fall in love with art.

"Mr. Huang the meter will fly over the cuckoo nest" to perform two in the empress area park theater, the time for April 24 evening 8., on 27th afternoon 3.. Ticket price all 10 Yuan. The empress area park theater is located the farad abundant prairie to be possible in the happy elegant park. Stone brook New York State University Charles Wang center performance time for April 10 evening 7 o'clock, after the performance and has the symposium. (New York leisure/art)

"The king leaps the insane asylum broken taboo "

Back in LA for all of two days after a great trip to San Antonio. An update with photos to come. I am trying to get ready to leave town for the month!!

My friend and videographer, Paul, figured out how to translate that Chinese article that was done about my show using Babelfish.

The result is pure poetry! I may use it in a future show. Check it out!

The stage play demonstrated the Asian feminine psychologically healthy question directs the intense sympathetic chord The king leaps the insane asylum broken taboo

[ Newspaper Reporter Wu Jian on March 5 Los Angeles reported ] person of Chinese descent free writer concurrently performing artist Wang Tina (Kristina Wong) from arranged self-directed had reflected the Asian feminine psychological question "King Leapt Insane asylum" for the subject stage play (Wong Flew Over Cuckoo Nest). This play has caused the Asian feminine teachers' and students' intense sympathetic chord in 南加州 the universities, colleges and institutes. Wang Tina through the stage play form, unfolded to the audience to think aloud acted like a madman Asian feminine image. This play explained about the Asian feminine psychologically healthy taboo topic, obtained many person of sympathetic chords. The body for third generation's people of Chinese descent, Wang Tina is a free writer, the actor, the social activities and the movie producer. "My paternal grandmother now or did not know I am making any." According to Wang Tina introduced that, her ancestor parents generation long ago from Guangdong immigrant US, found the work on the American this foreign land land which supports the family gets by was they strongest wish, also is they to the descendants later generation's expectation. Therefore, when she starts is engaged in the free artist's occupation, in the family the person extremely did not understand. Says regarding the person of Chinese descent, the traditional work is engineer, attorney, doctor and so on, likes her such "to be free" really is in addition the kind. 12 year-old time, Wang Tina thought own state of mind is not very good, thereupon says with the mother must go looks at psychological doctor. But the mother actually did not agree she looks at doctor, because "such speech, later will not have the employer to dare to hire you." She has not thought, in mother's heart, her in the future duty cycle her health will be also important. Wang Tina said, "in general Asian family, if some people have the psychological problem, everybody first response is the denial." She also has some friends and in relative's family all has left the similar situation. Wang Tina believed, the psychological question therefore in the Asian female the especially obvious main reason, is the social family especially is in particular high regarding the Asian feminine role expected value, but they also can gradually "in" pair this kind of expected value own request. "For instance at the meeting, the Asian hostess often also wants the splendid attire attendance except preparation sumptuous meal, looks after each visitor, but she are joyful?" Wang Tina thought 前些时候 pretended to be in the UC in the school student's Han lineage female student was a very good example. They because do not think the transferor person disappointedly, thereupon on is easy to live in an unreal world. This play inspiration came from in 1976 the Oscar best movie "Leap Insane asylum" (One Flew Over Cuckoo Nest). After the performance, many people all narrate own question to Wang Tina, some are is lovelorn, some are the pressure and so on. "But I certainly am not a psychological doctor, I am unable to solve their problem." Afterwards, she requested each time performs when all has the specialty psychological doctor arrives assists some audiences. Wang Tina said, "certainly is not to the collapse when only then may seek the help, should jump over is early better."

"I'm huge in Long Beach"

Lots of goodies in this update. My little film of me as a Harajuku Girl (me above) is up and it only takes 60 seconds to watch. Go to http://www.popoftheday.msn.com and click on "March 8, 2008" or Michael Jackson's face to see my film.


Also, a little article came out in the Long Beach 49er about a talk I did there last week.
The best is a quote in the article about how I now aspire to do more "meaningless things" with my life because "Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" was so damn stressful.

And for those who can read Chinese... guess what? My people are finally making steps to embrace me as their own crazy spawn. I made the front page of the China Press out of Southern California. Wish I could tell you what they said about me. Probably how I should have been Miss Chinatown without actually running.

And, Daisy Lin Shapiro's documentary on Miss Chinatowns is premiering this May it seems at the VC Film Fest. She's been following my work for about eight years! Now I get to visit that all. I'm really excited for her.


Now. Back to wonking.

The Highest Highs, The Lowest Lows

So I went from being the big Kahuna in Miami to being the doormat du jour in Los Angeles. The CBS showcase is Tuesday and I swear it's crushing my soul. I appear in one sketch (even my one liner role as Ming the Burmese handjob giver was cut). I never remember theater being so cut-throat. It truly is a business. I don't regret the experience of the showcase and it really is thickening my skin.

During yesterday's rehearsal I had the following thoughts. Like really, I had these thoughts...

* "Where can I buy drugs like coke?"
* "Maybe I should call my sex worker friend and see how I can get into her line of work."
* "Is the bar in my closet high enough to hang myself from?"

I also called my hypnotherapist friend during the rehearsal to schedule an emergency appointment. I've never tried hypnotherapy, but right now I need all the magic fairy dust I can get to maintain my sanity.

I was also caught trying to poke my eyes out with my own finger during the rehearsal.

If anything, I am really understanding how important it is that I do my own work and how lucky I am that if this acting stuff never pans out, I will always have performance art to lean on (how freaking strange is that?!). And as much as I want to retire from performance art and make tons of money in ONE city rather than roam the globe for pennies, at least I have my own artistic vision at the end of the day.

My friend, the famous playwright Alice Tuan said that she felt my blogs made it seems like my life was really charmed and easy-ish. Which is so crazy because despite the perks, my life is totally insanely crazy. It was really good seeing Alice last night after the monster day with CBS. I cried and cried and then we laughed together.

Anyway, I've been up looking at my press from Miami. Check it.

Miami New Times
(Yet again, I find another opportunity to call out the Korean Pick Up artist like the psycho freak bitch I am.)


Anyway, so I'm planning to go to church today. I need to pray. I don't care what god. I just need to pray.



I also seem to be on Miami time still. As I'm blogging at 5am and going to bed at 9pm.

Sports and Feminism... This is my Miami Sound Machine.

Here I am on my lazy Sunday at the beach with crazy frizzed hair.

So I went from being lonely and bored out of my mind in Miami to doing the work I've been paid to come out here for, and at like, breakneck speed.

And yay, this is what I do as a solo artist!

I'm teaching guest workshops all over Miami this week. And also doing the round of press interviews.


Oddly enough, Miami seems to be the town for a lot of firsts in my career. I was interviewed on a radio show just last night. Not just any radio show-- a bilingual sports radio show! Yes... a SPORTS SHOW!!! I always thought Bill O'Reilly would put me on the air before a sports show. I sure was nervous that they wouldn't "get" me, and that it would be scary frat-like (the show was sponsored by Cheetahs Strip club!), but the two sportscaster guys were super sweethearts and totally listened to me. I did alright!



So for my sports show interview, I put on my best "alpha male" face, tucked a rolled up sock into my panties, and interviewed with my best "brazen broad" persona.

Listen to me here. Thanks Wes Kim for hosting the interview!

Some of my highlights from this radio interview...

* Used the "F" word at least five times. (The "F word" being "feminist")
* Talked about sports. (huh?!)
* Talked so dirty that I made both sportscaster guys blush.
* Said one thing that they had to "dump" because it wasn't appropriate for the air (Ironically, the phrase they "dumped" was "poopoo peepee.").
* When I ran out of material, I would comment on the homo erotic tension between the two guys.
* Snuck in some third wave feminist commentary about performing gender within the PUA community.
* Screamed the name of my Korean Pick Up artist, dictated his exploits over the airwaves and demanded he call me at the station (he didn't btw :<).
* Declared National Dry Hump Day on Jan 16.
* Declared the end to the use of the word "minorities" and instead a push for the word "majorities."

This is all so weird, being so, dare I say... "mainstream." I feel like I've crawled out of a cave of women's studies and now I am interacting, a lifetime later, with the rest of the world. I just hope my show doesn't disappoint. I still feel like my references may be too obscure for a comedy audience. But they don't think so which is how I ended up at this joint.

Oh well, embrace and enjoy the ride.

I also might be on TV here later this week. Yay!

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Here are some other pictures for my mother who likes to look at pictures of food on the road...


Here is the Cuban omelette sandwich I ate today.


And here is the Banana Cheese Omelette I had yesterday. Ew. Didn't like it much.


And here I am cruising at a gay bar on the beach.

Typing in Bed.

Wow, does time fly fast. It's so busy that I am in bed with all my clean laundry, the cat, and my laptop all here trying to make it happen. As always. I'm exhausted and now another week closes and I have a show again on Tuesday! I can't complain about work though. I pretty much passed out today at home after I went to a morning meeting.

The show in Berkeley went super well. So my plans to outsource to India didn't really work out the way I wanted it to. This service I signed up for seems to think that really simple internet research is "out of the realm" of what they are able to do. Yet this same service is able to do such things as search Craigslist for your next boyfriend or help you book a flight.

So I cancelled. Marjorie has been helping me. It's been great but still not enough help. There's so much to do.

Anyway, earlier this week, my friend Bobby had me over at his garage studio to do an interview. I haven't even watched it. I'm afraid of what I said. You tell me, I'll just close my eyes.

The link here.

http://fresh-off.blogspot.com/2007/10/kristina-wong.html

or watch it here...

PART I:


PART II:


As I left, Phil of Angryasianman.com came in for his interview. This tiny world we live in. I said to him, "Do you really want people to know what you look like? They're going to come after you."

Too late for me. I'm a goner.

Boundaries, boundaries, boundaries....

This week I'm working largely towards my show this Friday and Saturday! I'm excited because the reservation lists are more than half full which means the shows should be packed to full capacity! What a great homecoming show it will be! Nurit, my director for the show here, has really helped me find some new stuff for in the show that I had not found before and it's keeping the show fresh and alive for me.

There's so much to do by the end of this month. As soon as the show closes I will be slammed with work towards my 4 show NYC run. I still need to find a place to stay in NYC all of June. I have to do my press and outreach for that show too.

Here's the info on the show. Please come!



May 18-19, 8pm
Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in Los Angeles!
2100 Square Feet Theater
5615 San Vicente Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90019
Tickets: $20
Group Tickets (10 or more) $15
Reservations: 310-998-8765

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I was at Vince's last night scanning pictures. It's so much fun at his place because he has cable AND Tivo. Neither of which I have myself. I can only hand one remote control. I always break his TV when I try to turn it on. I watched To Catch a Predator. I think next to Charm School, it's my favorite show ever. I was jumping up and down everytime the cops took down a pedophile and screaming at the TV.

"Perverted Justice Biatch!!!"

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Now onto me talking about stuff I'm learning as an artist....



So I was talking to Daisy yesterday, a documentary filmmaker who has followed my work for the last few years, about how much resentment and trauma I still have from the post show Q&A discussions after my first Bay Area shows in December. And Q&As seem to continue to leave a weird taste in my mouth.

Daisy was there at my show in San Jose and said, "I just wanted to hug you after your show in San Jose."

I needed it, I was a mess.

I feel it time to come out and say it.

I really felt abused during the Q&As in my Bay Area shows and am in the process of healing from them. I think because the shows all ran 2 hours long and I was exhausted. I really felt a lot of the audience questions were inappropriately invasive.

For my last show Free? I felt questions were really inappropriately invasive, but something about this particular show has really invited a lot of questions that I think are downright mean.

There's nothing worse than the feeling of doing a very emotionally exhausting 2 hour show only to get a barrage of questions from the audience that seem to not acknowledge the hard work I just did.

I guess what was so upsetting about the Bay Area Q&As was that:

1. People would start asking me very personal questions that I felt were irrelevant to the show and were very invasive questions that you shouldn't even ask of a friend. I felt that people could not separate me from the persona I portrayed on stage. While the two are closely linked, I don't think they are the same person. Ironically, one of these questions came from one of my family members during the first show Q&A ("So were you really in therapy?").

What did any of these questions have to do with the show? Is this all you got out of the two hours I spent with you? License to invade my personal life?! It was very hard to say, "I don't want to answer that." Because that would have sounded just as guilty as trying to answer it. And a lot of these loaded questions would really take hours to answer honestly.

2. People asking questions of me like I am the spokeswoman and scientific expert of mental illness. These were the questions I am not equipped to answer. I also don't like being put in the position of offering cut and dried answers like some kind of "cultural expert."

"So why is this suicide thing happening?"
"Where is the pressure on Asian Americans coming from?"
"What do you think we can do to stop this?"
"In your research, what were the numbers of Chinese women to other races?"

I so badly wanted to scream out: "I DON'T KNOW!! DON'T YOU THINK IF I HAD THE MAGIC ANSWER, I WOULD HAVE TOLD YOU IN THE 2 HOUR SHOW?!"

3. People who were experiencing or recovering from depression or psychological trauma feeling it necessary to "unload" onto me after a show when I felt it had been made clear during and after the show that I was not the best person to share such information with and I was visibly exhausted after.

Maybe what I'm struggling with is how to be the listener. Or the fact that by default, this show makes me the listener, and I just have to step up and be that person. I'd rather a person unload on me, than kill themselves, but I've not been in much shape lately, especially after a long show, to hear these stories. That, and I'm emotionally exhausted by stories of depression to take any more on. I am always moved when people feel close enough to me to share things they've not told anyone else but I wish people would understand, it's really hard on me.

Especially after the shows in the Bay Area, I was so emotionally bankrupt, to have to listen to more stories as some kind of healer, was too much for me.

I guess I could take this as a testament to the show's success. That it brings people to dialogue. I just wish that it didn't feel like pressure on me to be some kind of savior.

4. To have worked for over a year on the show, poured my blood and sweat into it, to have obsessed over the tiniest details... only to hear that the audience's most burning concern is: "So, how do you make money?"

I want so badly to ask back: "And do you want to see my tax returns too?! Was the show that bad and that unmoving that all you care about is how I could possibly make a living by making crappy shows?"





I acknowledge by taking on this topic as a show and by having a public persona that seems (to some) to be very gregarious and personable, that I've invited some of these questions to come up, but it's really painful for me.

And it's making me resent my audience. Not good.

I feel like I really set out to address impossible questions about depression and suicide as exactly that... impossible. But they keep flooding forward anyway.



Daisy's suggestion is that I scrap the Q&As altogether. I like that idea. But I also feel left in the dark when everybody just goes home after. I'd like some structured contact with them to know what they thought. I guess what bothers me is when I hear some of the questions, I feel like I disappointed them.


Since those Q&A s in the Bay Area I've made adjustments to the post-show that make me feel more comfortable and emotionally protected. I am sharing these adjustments on my blog for other artists who read my blog who also do Q&As. I hear artists often say that they never feel satisfied with how their Q&As have gone. So maybe this will help us all.

Changes I've been adapting....

1. I change out of my costume and wash my face for the Q&A. Changing out of costumes gives the audience a way to distinguish me from the "persona" (also named "Kristina Wong") that I play in the show and understand that the questions they are asking me are directed towards me as the artist and creator. And that there is a difference between the "Kristina Wong" that they watched for an hour and the one who created the show.

I also ask for a chair and some water. In San Jose, I could barely stand and started to cry because I was so exhausted, and the parade of invasive and strange questions made it even worse. They did ask me if I needed a break, but I refused it because I felt guilty about making the audience wait longer. This was a mistake to cave into my guilt. I should have asked them for this break. I should have also requested after my show in Berkeley to not be filmed for an interview on my experience working with the theater as I could barely stand upright and was in no place to talk longer.


2. I now ask that the Q&A session to be moderated by someone who is familiar with me or the show, or at least, by a person who is prefaced beforehand on how to guide the tone of the questions. I ask that they kick off the session with a question focused around the development and craft of the piece and not my personal life or personal finances or anything that is irrelevant. I ask the moderator to kick the Q&A off as a discussion. I also ask that we set a time limit for the Q&A.

What I'm going to start doing, that I have not done before is to ask the moderator to step in when there is an invasive question and ask the questioner to reframe their question around the development of the show.

3. Engaging practitioners from the mental health field to be present at Q&A sessions. If there are questions that require knowledge of statistics or psychological science, those should be directed towards these practitioners. I'm not equipped to answer these questions and should not be answering them.


Things I am still learning:

1. How to refuse to answer questions that I do not care to answer or do not have the body of knowledge to answer without creating an awkward or confrontational moment.

2. How to not be so defensive about my artistic vision. And to be ok with the fact that every audience member will never step away with the show I intended for them to see. That every audience members' individual experience will inform their take on the show and it will never be exactly what I intended.

3. How to acknowledge in a non-snobby way that "Dammit! I'm an artist, not a scientist! Not an anthropologist! Not a spokeswoman!" when I am asked questions that imply that I am those things.

4. How to maintain control over the Q&A session. How to let the moderator know when I am tired and out of brain space and that it should end. How to let the moderator know when the tone of the Q&A is making me uncomfortable. How to let the questioner know when I am deeply offended by their question (rather than try to awkwardly answer it or smiling politely) without attacking them or making the entire audience uncomfortable.

5. How to explain my experience of past, traumatizing Q&A sessions to set context for the development of this show and create a healthy dialogue about the personal, political, and artistic creation from the seemingly autobiographical. How to use this experience to create a healthy dialogue about boundaries and respect of the artist and her personal space.

6. How to use this experience and process of learning to take into the future of my work.


BLAH BLAH BLAH. It's a process. And I'm learning.


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So, Helena was telling me that when she started her job, she didn't get much work to do so all she did was read my blog from beginning to end.

So in case Helena ever has a week again like that at work, or anyone else who is bored enough to read my blog. I present you with material to read to fill your lonely hours.

I've posted some press as PDFs online. Vince helped me turn these into PDFs because I am so tech illiterate when it comes to making PDFs. I think between all of these articles, and reading my blog, you still don't get to know the real Wong. But you come semi-close.

The VOGUE Knitting Article

Yarn Market News

Philly City Metro

Philly City Paper

SF Bay Guardian

NY Arts Magazine

Thirteen Minutes

Loudmouth (this is a couple years old)




Anyway, enough bitching and horn tooting. Time to get back to work.