HEIL JP MORGAN CHASE! AT LEAST THAT'S WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO SAY.

Those of us who watch commercial television stations in California have been bombarded with an excruciatingly annoying spot for Chase Bank, as in JP Morgan Chase & Co., who bought out the failed Washington Mutual, and gosh darn it, they want all of us in the Golden State to know that, over and over and over ad nauseam.

As a shitty cover version of John Lennon's Instant Karma plays in the background , genetically pleasing examples of humankind float effortlessly through their perfect lives, with the Chase logo replacing the very sun in the sky. (And as for those of you thinking I'm a Peter Murphy basher, fuck you, I was probably listening to Bauhaus when you were still considering Men At Work to be the greatest band, like ever man.) On a side by side comparison, any of Leni Riefenstahl's documentaries during Hitler's reign had less fascist-aesthetic overtones than this commercial.

But hey, when Uncle Sam hands you 25 bil, you've got to spend it on something, right?

Don't feel left out just because you're living outside of the West Coast where WaMu got played like Poland by Chase. I'm posting the commercial on my blog so that I can, uh, share the love, yeah that's it.

Enjoy the propaganda.

HEY, YAHOO! IT WAS ONLY A JOKE.

You know, it's kind of hard to believe that michaelpsycho.com is already turning a year old. It seems like just yesterday that I shuttered my long-obsolete and useless Geocities location and finally got up on my own two feet.

When I removed all of my shit from the Geocities site, besides a link to my new home on the Web, I left a brief parting shot:

I moved. There's nothing here. It's a brave new world. Geocities can shut down now.

Little did I ever think that, in just under a year, Yahoo would pay heed to my advice. Geocities is finally going up to that Wayback Machine in the sky.

I could easily join the chorus of voices that are already putting in one last dig at Geocities, but I won't because, for starters it gave me the opportunity to experiment early on with what would work and what wouldn't in establishing my own Web presence, and second of all, most of those people are assholes and I don't want to be lumped in with them.

Here is the Washington Post's account of the decline and fall of Geocities (Which somehow kept its unique visitor count above 10 million even towards the end). Click Here, Pilgrim.

WE HAVE A NEW WINNA!

Damn! Fifty one bucks? If I had one hundred copies of this, I'd have doubled my investment at that price!

Thanks, "ampnoise records" (and eBay bidder "h***h") for making my day. Hopefully you got that much, and have fun spending it (and I'm guessing perhaps on more records).

By the way, you are correct that it is the one poppy and cracky copy of Think which I personally still own on vinyl, that I used to create the MP3s on my website's music page. However, that was a test pressing, with a generic red Sharpie scribbled label. Hmmm, only five of those were pressed. Wonder how much I can get for that puppy? Nah, can't part with that one...

EXCLUSIVE! NORTH KOREAN ROCKET LAUNCH VIDEO!

SACRAMENTO BEE, YOU TOOK APRIL FOOL'S DAY WAY TOO FAR.

I'm just as much into April Fool's Day pranks as the next fella, but Sac Bee, this is ridiculous. Sorry to bust you like this, but come on, who is ever going to believe this is true? People in this city would never think that the mayor would be this stupid.

For those of you who would like to read the "story" in question, Click Here, Pilgrim