You probably thought that this blog was dead, didn't you?

You would be that negative. But no - even in this economy I can safely say that no one at WDR has been laid off or has had to take a pay cut. We achieved this by having low overhead costs and not actually paying anyone.

Yes, times have been hard, especially without the Hump Day Helper to get you through your work (or, perhaps now, lack thereof) week or the occasional randomness of Joe's epic blogs. We're living in a time when the internet will probably self-destruct, the oceans are full of plastic, Arlen Spector is now a democrat and we're all washing our hands like Monk to avoid getting something called "Swine Flu." We need something fun to bring us out of the funk we're in nationally (and when I say funk I don't mean the kind with George Clinton). So I propose the epic return of WDR! A place where you can get away from it all - or atl least laugh at it.

Who's with me?

Six Degress of...Balto

I'm sure our readers wonder what we do on the weekends around here. It's probably a valid question, since we usually take the time off and don't post anything during that time (unless of course, Mr. Zhuang gets some sort of crazy inspiration--or his body is still on China Time). Clearly we must have something much more important to take care of than to satisfy our long-time fans.

Of course, this is often not the case. It's usually just veg-time on the couch, for the most part. It's exceedingly easy to do that during the fall, when there's football to occupy our time (well, except for Joe--he's still boycotting the game until the Rules Committee approves his "style points" idea), not so much during January. Instead, we do things like get angry that we can't go see Kevin Bacon because we no longer attend school.


You may say to yourself, "Kevin Bacon? Who gives a shit?" But you would be wrong my friend, dead wrong. How dare you badmouth the man who was the star of "Tremors"? The man probably has a Graboid in his backyard right now! He helped make "The Air Up There" one of the modern classic of the Sports/Culture Clash genre. The man showed his penis in "Wild Things", dammit! The man deserves our respect. And of course, who could forget his brilliant turn as the lead voice in "Balto"?

All this talk of Balto led us to reminisce about our very own Balto from the Salem area, Representative Billy Dalto. The man has a fantastic homepage that was created on a Mac (so you know it's good), plus a kickass MySpace page that really shows he is down with the youth culture (just check out his tagline! He's up-to-date on what all the YouTube kids are talking about!) Hopefully all this talk of Balto will awaken Joe from his slumber, and he can regale you with the tale of his personal meeting with the Man/Dog himself in the comments.

A return to the old order!

AKA: The return of some fat kid who looks like Michael Badalucco

I must speak out about the last post:

You see, sometimes Nic gets into this whole "Let's use an otherwise timewasting forum to talk about something that's important" moods. I don't know how he gets off talking about things that mattter. Oh well...

In a return to normalcy, sort of, I have this post. So, I'm on a regular haunt of mine (SomethingAwful.com) and at the bottom of the Photoshop Phriday I saw this:



Now, regular WDR readers will regonize this as Some Fat Kid Who Looks like Michael Badalucco. Shocking, I know.

That's all.