Good morning, fellow citizens of the People’s Republic of LightWithinia.

Last week, the people revolted and installed a new government. One that would be fair, and divide the workload and spread the prosperity among the people.  Che Envil is the new leader of this country, replacing the old Envil who has fled the country for Cheesville.  There are rumours that he is hiding at a certain Dyl’s house in Manitoba. Commander Dyl plans to investigate this Dyl after he is done reading Karl Marx.  Commander DM will distribute the cookies each day at 1 PM. Do not be late, people who come late will not recieve their share of the people’s cookies.  As always, all staff members must contribute to the country’s work quota.  So, comrades! Remember to write at least 2 articles per month, and tweet at least 6 times a week. Otherwise, the Secret Kinetic Yams will come and get you.

We hereby also ban all mention of Rockband, Twilight and Green Day. This is what is corrupting the minds of our youth these days.  Now, get to work and have fun! (the last part was also a command).

The Press Office of the People’s Republic of LightWithinia.

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As you know, we all at LW, work in a basement. This is the first of a series of posts, called the Basement Diaries. Giving you, the reader, an inside look at what we do in the basement; when we’re not writing articles, fixing up the site, or eating cake. Welcome to the basement.

The basement is located in a .com street, somewhere in between California, South Carolina, Toronto and London.  It’s a walk in basement, because we are oh so cool like that. When, you enter; there’s a main hall, filled with desks and computers, plush Pokemon and a weird looking square like creature hung up on the wall.  This is where the bloggers work and more often, fool around.  Here, the bloggers can be caught checking their facebooks, or squriting coffee out of their noses, or (and this one being the most popular) trying to make a Digimon themed verison of Les Miserables.    Upon further inspection, the creature mounted on to the wall, is acutally a clock.  Every time the clock strikes noon; the clock will shout “The Game”.  There are many dents on this clock for this exact reason. The newsroom is also plastered with LCD TVs, displaying 24/7 news channels, like CNN, MSNBC, Al Jazeera English and ONN (The Onion News Network).

Let’s move on from the newsroom, and go down the hallway, to see the other rooms of the basement. There is one room, that is dusty and old, and currently does not have much in it; so let’s avoid it.  Other rooms include, the Costume room, the Lego room, the Kitchen, the Rockband turned Cookie room, the Japan room, the “Game” room, and the black hole room (don’t ask what that room is used for. ;D).  Finally, there is a room  at the end of the hallway, that reads “Mystery Inc”.   Before entering, you must be Rickroll’d. That is a must.  This is the room of the Administrators.

When we enter, we find 5 desks, a Scooby plushie, a coffee maker, a lifetime supply of Pepsi Shizo, a book of XKCD comics, powerful computers, and a big red button (again, don’t ask what the red button does).  Whenever you enter, you can at least find one admin willing to help you out.  There is also a large picture of Uncle Sam mounted on the wall, that reads, “OBEY!”.  Each admin has different things on his or her desk, that would make this diary entery too long if we listed everything.  At the corner of the room, near DM’s desk; there is a large plushie Linux penguin. However, right next to it, is a large plushie PacMan trying to rid the world of the Linux plushie penguin. All the admins but one, commend his efforts.

This is how the basement currently looks.  Stay tuned for more entries of the Basement diaries.

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