Fox News, apparently, rules

Fox has the three top spots. All of them!
From Drudge:
CABLE NEWS RACE
TUES, MARCH 29 VIEWERSHIP

FNC OREILLY 2,428,000
FNC HANNITY/COLMES 2,121,000
FNC GRETA 1,700,000
CNN LARRY KING 1,529,000
FNC SHEP SMITH 1,402,000
CNN AARON BROWN 1,160,000
CNN COOPER 748,000
CNN PAULA ZAHN 664,000
MSNBC OLBERMANN 490,000
CNNHN NANCY GRACE 420,000
MSNBC ABRAMS 412,000
MSNBC HARDBALL 396,000
MSNBC SCARBOROUGH 386,000
CNBC DENNIS MILLER 110,000

Easter eggs

Walking past Labyrinth Books Friday, a mass of blankets came toward me in a wheelchair. A woman, maybe in her 40s, was pushing it along the sidewalk.

As I got closer, I saw a face peering out from the blankets. It was gaunt and frail. The eyes looked right at me, staying stuck on my face like they do sometimes on portraits at art museums. What would it be like to live that way?

I’m about to let another cup of coffee run through my system, because I’m barely awake. I went to church this morning for the first time since Christmas, at St. John the Divine. Easter doesn’t seem like much now that I’m in New York. It used to mean lunch or dinner at my aunt's. Occasionally it meant the gist of the ritual, which was that life followed death, that someone once made an unimaginable sacrifice. Now that I’ve fallen out of love with faith it meant little more than the voices of a faraway choir and a cafeteria-style brunch with Erin: cornflakes, Crystal Light and scrambled eggs with cheese.

The outfit of a guy in Butler Library

Black shirt, black pants. High-top Converse sneakers the color of Pepto-Bismal. Two-inch-tall, gold-plated bullets strung along his waist like a belt.

Peelander-z

You've got to read this story Caitlin wrote about Japanese punk rockers. It's hysterical.

At least these are fluffy snowflakes

It’s happened --- I’ve become a New Yorker.

I wasn’t worried about the possibility of becoming one before I moved here, mostly because I hadn’t watched Sex and the City, read New York Magazine, or known any brats from the Big Apple. In the past six months I’ve done some of the best work of my life. I’ve also bought more shoes, had more meaningless flings, and consumed more just-because treats like mochas and Jamba Juice than I ever have. I don’t attach the same kind of importance to certain things that I did even a year ago. In Rochester I was earthier. Here, I’m sky.

Maybe I’m ranting because I just spent $3.79 on my favorite kind of orange juice. Maybe because I don’t converse with myself as easily as I used to. I used to ponder life’s questions. Now, I try to convince myself I’m answering them.

On another note, I just got back from my first-ever first amendment breakfast at the Columbia Club. I was late, of course --- but it started at 8 a.m. so I wasn’t expecting to be on time. The panelists talked about decency issues and censorship. Frank Rich was charmingly loose-lipped. At his most quotable, he called Michael Powell a hypocrite.

The neatest piece of information I gleaned from the lecture was the increased number of complaints the FCC receives. I think the panelists said that number was in the hundreds four years ago. Last year, it was above a million. (They cited new methods of electronic complaint-making as a reason for that trend.) Religious groups complain a lot, the panelists said, but when it comes time to offer a-la-carte cable channels they balk at the idea. They know people like, say, New Yorkers would cut their religious channels first.

It’s true that mainstream media didn’t cover the Cheney f-bomb on the Senate floor with as much delight as they did Bono’s. Why?

Women's history month?

Should journalists be allowed to blog? Donate money to political parties? Some employers don't think so. Some don't even let them. How much freedom is "too much" in the industry? Read a good story about that here.

From this point on, March is going to be Women's History Month. George Bush came out with a press release about it yesterday. Read it on the wonkette.

I played at the Underground again last night. I'm becoming a big fan of some of the other musicians --- their songs replay in my head long after I've left the bar in a fuzzy 2 a.m. wooze. Dan Slobak is one of my favorites, and I really like the guy who wore the crazy collared shirt last night... and the two girls... I need to improve my name-retention skills, methinks.

Lloyd of Keygrip fame came over two days ago to help me make a demo. Apparently crappy demos can cost upwards of $500. Lloyd is giving me mine for the price of approximately five lattes at Starbucks. Who could ask for anything more? Once I have songs that are streamable, I'll put some on my blog.

Speaking of technological advancements that seem to come easy for everyone but me, I am working on a website. The address is www.jennyweiss.net. I'd appreciate any and all advice as I continue to build it, brick by brick.