Wrecked starring Adrien Brody

Spoilers-Watched the film without knowing anything about it.  It’s best not to even watch the Trailer.  Just get Wrecked and watch it.             The story of a man who finds himself at the bottom of a ravine in a wrecked car.  His leg is pinned under the dashboard.  A man is dead in the back seat, and another person is dead not too far away in the woods. Who is he and how did he get here?  More importantly, how does he get his leg free from the wreckage? Wrecked is pretty much a one…

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52 Loaves by William Alexander

The story of one man’s obsession to bake the perfect loaf of bread.  Our hero ate a bit of bread at a fancy New York restaurant and was transported by it.  He asked what it was called, and the waiter told him it was Peasant Bread.  He then decided to bake his own Peasant Bread.  The logical thing, call up the restaurant and ask if you can have their recipe, or Google peasant bread and see what kinds of recipes pop up, take a back seat to irrational exuberance. Over the course of 52 weeks, William Alexander decided to bake…

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The Yiddish Policemen’s Union

Michael Chabon’s story of a schmuck of a policeman trying to solve the murder of the latest Messiah is brilliant on any number of levels.  First off, the story is set in Sitka, Alaska-where a few million Jews escaped the European Holocaust where about 2 million Jews where killed by the Nazis.  Over the years they have come to think of the place as their own, but now, America wants the land back and wants to kick the Jews out. We are told the details of the past fifty years or so as through the eyes and mouth of Meyer…

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