No mano-a-mano with Howard
since he ran away:

Moments before taping was to begin with host Tim Russert, Mehlman asked Dean outside the NBC studio’s green room: “There’s still time for us to go on together Governor.” Dean declined with a shrug of his shoulders and an uncomfortable cackle and then proceeded to walk away into the green room.

Drudge doesn’t say if Howard ran off yelling “Yaaarggghhhh!”

In the meantime, Michael Barone writes on Politics, Puerto Rico Style.