am i alone in this world?

it has been a long and hard battle, and it seems that they may haver one. i almost dispair when i realize i am the only person that ever comes to this blog.ever. it is kinda lonely, kinda thinking of shutting it down...

Our first post!!

it has come to my attention that The Smed has gotten its first post. not that Webcam is the first person to read our blog, that is obviously not true. no no, this shows that the countless anti-smedites out there who come to smedhouse for some solace and guidance are finally stepping out of their shell and letting the wprld know there feelings about the shwarma-eating (with salad of course...lots of israeli salad) baseball loving public that is the smeds.

SHOUT IT FROM THE MOUNTAIN TOPS!!!

Have the Smed's Won?

The Seforim sale is one of those places where one can really get a feel for the state of the American Jewish community. I think that the types of books people buy say a lot about them. Years ago, I heard that there were almost no Even HaEzel's sold at the seforim sale (R' Isser Zalman Melzer's book on the Rambam) and about 20 Mai HaShiloachs. I was wondering if any of our hundreds of readers know anything about this years sale. Are we still doing well?

Smed-Free Oasis???????

i was in a certain town this passed shabbos (i can not say where, as it would give away the specific small to mid-sized liberal arts university/Yeshiva that i went with). but anyway, in an unsuprising turn of events, the torah that the group brought was pasul. bit a major yasher koach to the natives of the community who lent us theirs.
i may have found a place for our smed-free utopian society
...either that or south africa

Brooklyn Smeds?

While one would think that a place like Brooklyn would be full of smeds, after spending a day there, it's super clear that there aren't that many smeds there. The people were very nice, sweet, and not at all angry.
Once again it's a certain yeshiva in the heights that seems to be the real home.

CHECK OUT OUR NEW POLL!!!

In our never-ending struggle to weed out the smeds from our midst, i started a new poll that promises to give us some much needed market research about the ever-growing smed population. please answer honestly, nobody ever got anything from fibbing...well that's not exactly true, but please tell the truth anyway

Update!!

For Yom Kippur, I went to a certain yeshiva sometimes referred to by the purest and worst smeds as "the vim." While the shanah bet seems to have been effected by the smeds, shanah alef may have a chance, but who knows? They've only been there for about a month. It's almost ancient history that they once were a place of sweetness and holiness. Now it's so powerful, it almost reminds me of http://www.yu.edu/index.asp?M.

[I was in Montreal for Simchas Torah - while I don't think that they are in on the revolution, it's definitely not New York].

Please let me know how your Sukkos was - I would call you, but there's something I like about asking you here and maybe not hearing back for a while.