A few weeks ago I blogged about the Canyon of Heroes markers in lower Manhattan. Before learning what the markers were for, I had e-mailed LowerManhattan.info to see if they knew the answer. Well, I just got the following e-mail:

We appreciate your contacting us with this question and are happy to inform you that we used your question as LowerManhattan.info’s “Question of the Week.” To find the answer to your question, please visit [here].

Yay!

Coincidentally, this ran in the New York Times yesterday.

“Joey” and “Jack & Bobby” have both been picked up for the entire season. They’re the first new shows this year to be promised a full year’s run.

If Howard Dean Were the Candidate…

Hmm… I’d like to believe this, but who knows. I would absolutely prefer to be watching Bush-Dean tonight instead of Bush-Kerry; I could see Dean clobbering Bush. I just think that no matter who the Democrats ran, the Republicans were prepared to ruin the candidate with a specifically-tailored attack plan. And the fact is, Kerry isn’t that far behind in the aggregate polls right now. Perhaps Dean would be doing even worse. We love to speculate as to what might have been; such speculation is a cousin of nostalgia and hope.

In an alternate universe, Dean is the Democratic nominee, and he’s currently kicking Bush’s ass. That’s not the universe we live in, but it’s nice to believe it’s happening somewhere. Human beings are nothing if not optimists.