Hey all you Weekenders out there, did you catch the New York Times' story on how the press is obsessed with the most trifling things about the Obama administration? What a tarantella of self-awareness!

Mark Leibovich, former FishbowlDC hottest man in media contestant, writes:

WASHINGTON - It's been another busy few days for the Obama administration, which the news media has faithfully cataloged.

The Politico broke the story that the president's aides sang "Happy Birthday" to the assistant press secretary, Nick Shapiro, and surprised him with a chocolate cake!

The Wall Street Journal scooped the nugget that the White House Office of Management and Budget chief, Peter R. Orszag, likes Diet Coke!

The Washington Examiner reported that the White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, was spotted "getting money at the SunTrust Bank in the Safeway on the corner 17th St. and Corcoran St. NW."

Are any of these items newsworthy? (It's not as if the country is facing two wars and an economic crisis or anything.). Well, yes, they are - a lot of Web sites, bloggers and Twitterers have deemed these developments so. While there has always been a hearty appetite for stories - and trivia - about the people in a new administration, today's White House press corps (competing for up-to-the-second news) has elevated the most banal doings to a coveted "get."

Leibovich then goes on for 574 more words (longer than most posts on THE Politico) disdainfully outlining the media's obsession with the press' love of the little things in the Obama White House. It's a strangely ur-meta and remarkably un-meta disputation. Not only is the metaphorical fly down on Leibovich's khakis but, as he flaps his arms wildly indicating that his fellow members of the press have the audacity to let their flies remain open, he's slowly peeing himself.