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"[T]he road home takes me through some perfectly astonishing parts of the east side. ...Trust me, though, you never come across a single house sitting on an otherwise empty block often enough to fail to be amazed by it. Parts of the city look like rural Mississippi, complete with chickens and goats, or else feral pit bulls and god-knows-what. It wouldn’t surprise me if someone was feeding a baby dragon back in there."

Has she read Kunstler?

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Louis Proyect reposts his old review of Whale Rider in a discussion of actor Cliff Curtis, one of the movie's stars, who now appears in a film about chess, and, unmentioned by Proyect, Fear the Walking Dead.