After the Phillies traded for ace starter Roy Halladay in the winter of 2009, an accountant from Philadelphia — who prefers to protect his identity from his employer — started a Phillies bolg (spelling in context) called Zoo With Roy, publishing text posts, creatively Photoshopped images, original artwork, videos, short screenplays and the like under the simple heading, “I want to go to the zoo with Roy Halladay.”

Here’s his mission statement, from his first-ever post in January, 2010:

You see, I’m not in this for the readers, or the joy found in writing. It’s actually all very simple: The goal of this blog, in the most simple terms, is to convince Roy Halladay to go to the zoo with me.

How will I do this? It’s an uphill battle, I admit. But by demonstrating a clear passion for Phillies baseball, a (non-stalkerish (in my younger days I’d have written that in all capital letters)) appreciation of the awesomeness of Doc, and my fondness for zoo animals- especially penguins- I think I can get our new ace to spend a nice afternoon eating funnel cake and looking at tigers.

Then, on Friday, this:

I'm at the zoo with Roy Halladay?! pic.twitter.com/5453vwPKvo — Zoo With Roy (@zoowithroy) August 8, 2014

At the site, editor ZWR writes:

After more than four years, 1,800+ bolg posts, and countless silly indulgences surrendered to in the name of “being ZWR” … I’m incredibly proud to say that at approximately 10:00 a.m. this morning I went to the zoo with Roy Halladay!…

This is almost unspeakably awesome. Beautiful, even. A dude started a website about going to the zoo with Roy Halladay — a hilarious concept, hilariously well-executed — and more than four years later, he went to the zoo with Roy Halladay.

The Internet can be a strange and wonderful place.