Leftovers: Prize Fighting

• The Pulitzer Prizes were announced, and Hurricane Katrina coverage dominated. The Washington Post won four, The New York Times, three. I did not win any, as there is not (yet) a category for “Cute Puppy Photos.” Then again, I’d probably lose that to Cute Overload. [Pulitzer.org]

• With attendance dwindling, some baseball parks have draped curtains over the cheapest seats so people have to buy more expensive tickets. The Phillies used to do this at the Vet, kind of — there were roped off sections in the outfield you couldn’t sit in during sparsely-attended games. [Slate]

• The ugly piece of art at 40th and Locust in West Philly is now being used as a place to sit, instead of just art. I’m not really surprised: The place looks like a glorified bus stop, so why not chill there and enjoy the spring breeze? [Daily Pennsylvanian]

• Doctors are saying that adults can get ADD nowadays, too, meaning that, basically we all can’t pay atten… hey a blue car! [Bucks County Courier Times]

• This weekend, suspended/disgraced/whatever New York Post staffer Jared Paul Stern guest edited NYC media blog Gawker, and craziness and deleting and editing of comments ensued. If any Philly journo is fired for plagarism/extortion/drugs/etc., I will gladly let them run this little space for a day. Now let’s get to work, people! [Gawker]

• And, to end the day, a sufficiently strange letter to the editor, again from the Daily News, which is really racking up the loony letters recently. [DN, second letter]