A web-only article in The New Republic reports that all those lifestyles of the rich and the famous rags are, surprise, largely read by the rich crowd:

If when confronted with several celebrity glossies, you pluck Us Weekly from among its imitators and competitors, you're probably rich and well-educated--at least according to Mediamark Research Inc. (MRI), which recently announced that Us Weekly readers' median income per household is a cool $77,967. That's almost a thousand dollars more than the median household income of Vanity Fair readers. The figures are even more surprising when broken down by gender: The median household income of Us's female readers is $83,000. Devotees of Star, which is edited by former Us editor and notorious martinet Bonnie Fuller, are mere peasants by comparison, pulling down a trifling median household income of $45,910.

Huh...so basically, everytime you see a paparazzi photo of Paris Hilton reading the latest issue of US Weekly that's reporting on her latest charming endeavor, then you're seeing the reason why the magazine's median income is skewed so high. God, it's all just so, so meta....

In the world of us not-rich worker bees, it's been ultra-crazy at the place of employment lately and it's going to get worse before it gets any better...nonetheless, I'm getting the hell out of town for a few days ...by noon tomorrow that'll be me you hear humming The Thrills "Santa Cruz (You're Not That Far)". I may post from there, so until then....