Eat a Peach by David Chang
I have to say upfront I wasn’t paying attention and borrowed the wrong book from the library. I was looking for Ted Chiang’s latest and my freaking Libby showed this even though I typed in Ted Chiang. I wasn’t paying attention to the author’s name when I put it on my hold list. Imagine my surprise when I opened this up and it starts talking about Chef David Chang. I know of him since I have seen some of his tv shows, and honestly my […]
Can't Stop, Won't Stop: A History of the Hip Hop Generation by Jeff Chang
So I picked this up thinking it was a history of Hip Hop, and after about two hundred pages of thorough descriptions of various gangs in New York city, the history of Reggae, the ramifications of the loss of social programs on urban youth, and a couple of paragraphs about Afrika Bambaataa, I stopped and looked back at the front cover. It’s a history of the hip hop GENERATION. It’s not what I was expecting and I have no one but myself to thank for […]
