THE MURDER CAPITAL OF AMERICA

So, after a fun-filled four (check that ill-literation, yo) days in Chicago (including a visit to 826CHI, which I will post about when I get back), I ended up here in Alton, IL, a small town just a skip away from St. Louis, which as I heard for the first time yesterday, IS THE MURDER CAPITAL OF AMERICA. Yes, that is the ENTIRE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, that whole huge dangerous country. I am in the murder capital of it.

That being said, St. Louis is great! It has a huge free zoo with the coolest penguin exhibit I've ever seen. You can walk right up to the edge of the penguins' habitat, and they just kind of waddle over to you and peer at you curiously. There's no glass, so you get splashed with water when they dive, and you could easily reach out and touch them, though there is a polite sign requesting that you don't. What you are allowed to touch, are the STINGRAYS! and they are AWESOME! Oh, and they just recently put little baby hammerhead sharks in the stingray tank. You can pet those too, and they are so cute!

Anyway, enough about the zoo. St. Louis also has this amazingly cool movie theater called the Moolah Temple. Actually it's a theater/bowling alley/bar, and you can bring your bar drinks into the theater and drink them while you watch your movie from the comfort of a COUCH! And not like Cinefamily, where there's a few couches up front that you can get if you're reaaally lucky and get there early enough. The entire theater is filled to the brim with couches. Oh, and I forgot to mention that the bar comes up with a list of signature cocktails for each movie they show (it's only a one-screen theater). And the tickets are half the price of an Arclight show. If I weren't so afraid of being murdered, I'd fly to St. Louis every time I wanted to see a movie!