Philly Dame

A new feature continues today at Philly Dame. Based on the series One in Eight Million by the New York Times, 1.5 Million to One will profile a Philadelphian each Wednesday to ask some questions about our city’s past and future.

Zack Noyce is a library student at Drexel University, a part-time employee at the University of Pennsylvania Library, a proud resident of West Philadelphia, a Utah native, an avid Twitterer, and a former columnist for the Daily Pennsylvanian. Zack was kind enough to sit down and answer a few questions about his adopted city. Thanks Zack!

Who is your favorite Declaration of Independence signer?

I’ll go with Josiah Bartlett of New Hampshire. Signing the founding document of our great nation and then lurking in obscurity for more than two centuries before emerging as a critically-acclaimed two-term president is pretty darn impressive.

If you had unlimited money and resources to change one thing about Philly, what would you change?

I’d create about 300,000 more jobs that pay a living wage.

Who is your favorite Philly-based artist?

I think I’ve gotta go with Ryan Howard and the Phillies. It’s quite impressive the way they’ve painted the entire city red these past two years.

Who would win in a fight, Ben Franklin or Betsy Ross?

Ben Franklin or who? Oh yeah that lady who didn’t even know how to make six-pointed stars. I gotta go with the inventor of the glass armonica here.

Final question…what’s your favorite Philadelphia-area website?

It pains me to admit that my homepage is philly.com. It’s terrible, but it’s the only site with the resources to become what I want to be my favorite Philly web site. Someday, perhaps it become a tolerable site. I hope against hope and dream against dream that it becomes what it should be, but until then, I’ll have to leave 15 Philly blogs in my RSS aggregator. If I had to pick just one though, I’d probably go with Attyood.