Well, I went downstairs to eat leftovers and watch Bridesmaid's and Dan had found out all but the last Dies Hard movies were on. I hadn't seen the first Die Hard with all the cussing, and then I'd never seen the one with Sam Jackson. So we watched that, and then Bridesmaid's. Which was pretty damn funny.
Kansas City's nickname among the cognoscenti, by which I mean gangbangers and wannabe's, is Killa City. And we DO have a startlingly high murder rate for such a medium sized city. We are the 9th most dangerous city in the US. Missouri has the highest homicide rate in the country in the US for black people, (St. Louis is the most dangerous city in America, that "helps.")
I can't find out how many official reported homicides there were in 2011, but we generally break 100. 106 in 2010.
I hadn't seen the first Die Hard with all the cussing, and then I'd never seen the one with Sam Jackson.
Well, those are the best ones!
So we watched that, and then Bridesmaid's. Which was pretty damn funny.
It was.
Oops, I've seen the first Die Hard movie back in the day wit the cussing, but I'd only seen in on cable, expurgated, for a long time.
Aw, now I remembering the Die Hard shoutout in Leverage.
Growing up in KC I heard gunfire pretty regularly and once encountered someone who had just been shot. I don't recall ever hearing gunfire when I lived in Detroit.
Gunfire and police helicopters were a staple when I lived in Detroit. Occasional helicopter here, not so much bullets.
Good lord, on that list of cities, Cincinnati is only slightly larger than Anchorage AK. Of course, I bet the Cincinnati metro area is rather bigger than the Anchorage metro area. But seriously.
Meara-ing:
Yay rescued golden re-pit bull!
The Beemer sounds very nice.
I like that dark wood, Lee.
I had no idea New Orleans had such a high murder rate, although Nora's analysis sounds plausible.
So, I'm sitting here drinking my coffee and smelling a cassolet slowly bake. Duck fat, man. I am such a convert to the church of cooking with duck fat. The cassolet smells amazing!
The City of Mount Isa in Queensland (population 22,000) covers an area greater than Switzerland. [link]
I occasionally think they designated this whole area a city just to mess with the Swiss.
Here's another Wikipedia chart that shows Somerville at #17 density: [link]
Just behind West Hollywood and ahead of East Orange. Some of the higher-ranked ones are statistical anomalies, like the giganto-apartment complex (Guttenberg, NJ) that incorporated itself.
