Why We Have To Destroy Mr. Zhuang

It's not often that a member of WDR wishes ill upon a co-worker, much less desires to institute physical harm. So something quite dramatic has to have occurred for a bounty to be placed on one of our heads. And just such an event this past weekend.


Ever since we saw Batman Begins a few summers ago, we've been giddy with anticipation for the inevitable sequel. It was basically a perfect storm of our interests: Mr. Zhuang is a pretty big comics-head, while Joe is a superfan of Batman in general, and as for myself, I've been a dedicated follower of Begins director Christopher Nolan for some time now. And when Zhuangy made a post about a year ago with a sneak-peek at the New Joker, well, we were quite pumped.

So you can imagine how excited we were for the opening of The Dark Knight. Not only was it going to live up to the "dark" part of its title (always a good sign), but there was incredible buzz behind Heath Ledger's performance. So Joe and I were all set to head down to Eugene and enjoy the new flick "ensemble", picking up Mr. Zhuang along the way.

And what does the fucker do? He goes and watches the movie without us. At 4 in the afternoon.

Now we would have easily forgiven our friend for this trespass if he had gone in for the midnight sneak preview the night before. But going in the middle of the afternoon? To see freakin' Batman? That simply could not stand. So Mr. Zhuang must pay, even more so since we saw the movie (it was awesome, to say the least). If you see him, hit him with a tire iron or something. We'll pay you back in Jujubes.

The blog...from the OTHER room...

Following my peyote induced stint in the forest (I will always be known as a friend of the bears; thank you Katow-Jo), I've moved into a new place. So, I haven't really had that much access to the internet for the last week or so. But now I do have it, but the router isn't set up yet and I'm typing from my roomate Bryan's room. Oh well...

There is important news out there that needs to be addressed. As most alert readers already know, Heath Ledger has been cast as The Joker in the next Batman film (titled, according to IMDb, The Dark Knight). Now, I must admit that the first time I heard about this, I was skeptical. Heath Ledger did not seem like the guy to play the Joker. He didn't seem funny enough or menacing enough (my personal choice was Marilyn Manson, but no one else seems to agree with me on that). I must say, however, that the pictures that have supposedly leaked on the film do look pretty cool. Definitely a continuation of the Frank Miller-esque look of Batman Begins. I am looking forward to how this film will play out, though I'll probably have to wait about a year to see it. But, that's how things work sometimes.