Blogging for Books: Kanye West owes me $300

First of all the typography on the cover is what got my attention. I had heard about this book before from one of the hosts of my favorite podcasts, Pop Rocket and I decided to get a review copy. This book taught me a  lot about the early 90's-2000's rap scene through the eyes of rapper Hot Karl, a white jewish male who found near fame in the west coast rap game. Definitely not a boring read, I didn't find my concentration on this book wavering in the slightest when I did decide to read it.

5/5

I received this book from Blogging for Books for this review

Blogging for Books: Plated

Something I really love about this book is how deconstructed and easy the meals are. In addition to the main course, the sides are also explained which creates a ton of different options to pair with.

Very friendly for those who are novice cooks looking to step outside the basics and start cooking meals to impress

However I'm not super enthused about the cover, which seems a tad too simple.

I received this book from Blogging for Books for this review

May 28: Space City Comic Con

Yesterday after I finished work I headed to Space City Comic Con to meet up with my Dad and brother and sister. It was my dad's first time in one of these kinds of conventions. (ithink)

We went into a panel for Alex Kingston, who played river song in Doctor who and was also in ER. It was kind of funny when she wouldn't know some episode names or an actor's name and the panel immediately knew what she was talking about. One little girl asked her if she was afraid of the weeping angels, one of the villains of the show. Alex Kingston said that the fact that the weeping angels were trained ballerinas made them less frightening to her which I never really thought about until today.

After the panel, we headed to the main floor to look at the vendors and artists and celebrities. We saw charlie hunnam and kim coates hanging out signing things, alex kingston and colin baker, and probably the most casual was Sam Jones, who played the titular character Flash Gordon. My dad was super excited and got star struck when he got up to meet with Sam Jones, who tried having a conversation with my dad, but he was so dazzled that the only thing he really said was that he saw the Flash Gordon movie in theaters when he was 14, which I thought was really cute. We got an autograph, a group picture, and my dad got a picture with Sam Jones by himself and put his arm around Sam Jones' waist,                                                                                     which amused me very much so.

My sister wanted one of those cute fuzzy alpacas which weren't too bad of a price, but we instead got some patches and posters and I bought a little bean bag bird which is hanging in my car right now. My siblings and I bought these back to the future posters which all lined up to make the delorean and we split them between each other because luckily we all have different favorite movies from the trilogy so I got three, my sister got two, and my brother got the first movies poster. They also had the star wars original trilogy posters, but we are a BTTF family first and those posters belong more in a set than the BTTF ones did.

This was the tallest spock, like I swear, 6'6

AJ was so excited, childhood heroes. man

Overall, it was a pretty great day, the only thing that kind of soured it was the price of the convention tickets. 40 dollars for one day seems a bit pricey but I know how convention prices go.

Blogging for Books: The Wurst of Lucky Peach

Man I love this book. It's a bit unfair to say because I love Lucky Peach already but, when I saw that this book was up for grabs I had to get a copy to review. The book takes you on a world-wide search for the best in cased meat to eat and a recipe book afterwards to make of some of the food in the first part. This is the kind of book I would take with me on a long car ride or airplane and just crack open and not stop reading until we land or reach our destination.

5/5

I received this book from Blogging for Books for this review.

Blogging for Books Sweeter Off The Vine

The books theme is fantastic, sweets made with fruit that is ripe with the season.
The photos are gorgeous and the recipes are no nonsense, sometimes I like a recipe with a story, but this this time the sparse text works with the book to create something incredible.

I just wish I had the space in my kitchen to try out some of these more intensive recipes.

4.5/5

I received this book from Blogging for Books for this review.

Blogging for Books: Cats in Paris

I finally chose to order an adult coloring book because I recently became an adult dammit!
I like the book because it isn't like the other types of coloring books out there with the complicated time consuming patterns that take forever and I can never finish, I want a coloring book that doesn't feel to me like a job when I color into it. I love the combination of Cats and Paris but I don't know how I feel about the ink smudges that are purposefully in the pages, sometimes they get distracting and take away from the picture as a whole.

4.5/5


I received this book from Blogging for Books for this review.

14 more days

1/31
Birthday Dinner!


2/1
My Birthday!
Presents and Treats from friends!
Bought alcohol legally

2/2
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2/3
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2/4
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2/5
Running errands around town
Buying  a DIY Munny at Insomnia
Buying art supplies at Art supply
Eating Lunch at Brasil
Buying Comics from Bedrock
Bought Groceries from H-E-B and got a free pint glass & coozie


2/6
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2/7
Ate lunch at thai spice with family
Watched a filipino movie
Went to church downtown
Ate at Golden Restaurant

2/8
No sitting room on metro


2/9
Lonely day cause none of my friends were able to hang
Discussions in LGBTQ class for "for the bible tells me so"

2/10
Two color watercolor compositions
Designing Munny for my color theory class


2/11
Went to a meeting to promote library clout because free pizza
Hung out with peeps for two hours
Made fun of the stonewall movie in lgbt class

2/12
Went to guitar center because I'm interested in buying a bass to learn with
Watched deadpool at alamo drafthouse with my free birthday ticket
Bought beers at H-E-B (I do not like a lot of beer it seems)
Packages in the mail arrived for me!


2/13
My Job Orientation
Free chicken sandwhiches from chick-fil-a
Ate supper with mom