Showing Some Hometown Pride

Thanks to Peter Conrad, a local cartoonist (with a blog), San Jose appeared on today's episode of The Show with Ze Frank.

From this day forward, San Jose will no longer be best known as the home of the Sharks or the town mentioned in that Burt Bacharach song sung by Dionne Warwick. It won't even be best known for being the tenth largest city in the United States.

Wait, does anybody outside of San Jose know about that stat?

Anyway, from this day forward, the town that touts itself as the safest big city in the country will be best known for the giant inflatable duck that sits on top of the Children's Discovery Museum. And that's just how it should be.

Hockey teams lose, songs go out of style, rankings are unreliable, but a giant inflatable duck? That's something to make any town proud.