The Safe & Sound

I just read that according to the FBI that New York City is the safest city and that Memphis is the least safe city. I've never been reserved in my first hand opinion that I felt safer in New York City than I did in Columbus [Ohio] and than I do in Cincinnati, but Memphis baffles me. While I've not been there — and don't know much about it — I thought it was a very small city where Elvis was still mayor. I should also point out that in many parts of San Francisco, even the gay areas (which is not the whole city, contrary to popular belief), I didn't feel as safe as I did in the City of New York.

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Earlier this week I read that Cincinnati is the 3rd most quiet city in the country. I can't remember how they found this out, but I can see why they would say that. Although the other two must be really really quiet, as Cincinnati is quiet, very quiet, at night — despite its awful homicide rate in which gunshots and screams are probably produced, which are not quiet.

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OH MY GOD you guys, I saw [one of] the best movies last night. Adaptation, 2002, is an amazing movie with Meryl Streep and Nicolas Cage and that guy from Capote that played the sheriff, Chris Cooper. How did I miss this film in '02? I was probably too busy oooogling over The Hours, also a 2002 film, which more than likely will top my list for best film of the decade later this year on the Montgomery Maxton Is Not Human blog.

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I am in the home office with the door shut. Across the hallway is my bedroom at which the door is also closed. On the other end of the bedroom, underneath the novel Specimen Days, the novel The Handmaid's Tale, the poetry book The Last Uncle, and the poetry chapbook Living Things is my trusty AT&T mobile telephone. It is on quiet but not silent. Despite it being buried, despite it being far away from the bedroom door, which is shut, and despite me being behind the closed office door, I can still hear my cell phone making noise because it is constantly going off therefore my ears have time to catch on to the constant ringing.
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I always think it's a bit strange when someone from the Republic of Korea comes to my blog. I mean welcome, Kim Jung-il, but yo, not so cool stuff you're doing there. Maybe it's time you end your communist rule and become a free democratic country. China, Iran, Afganistan — take note. I have a few blog hits from Korea a week, China about once a month. I do know that my YouTube page, however, is banned in China thanks to a tourist friend. This officially makes for my first ban in a country. I can't wait for the first book pile burning of This Beautiful Bizarre in my home country. Maybe they'll play some Dixie Chicks music.

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