The "You had me at blog" File featuring Joel Pachefkkkk

You know that Twix commercial where a guy and girl talk about their ideals and the guy asks the girl back to his place? After receiving a disgusted look, he “chews it over” with a Twix and then says it's because he wants to blog about his ideals with her? Well, I was trying to do that with my blog last night, and it totally worked. So all you bloggers out there, try it, it’s gold.

So, in my last blog post I wrote a quote that my friend shared with my sorority: “if youre not the lead dog, you’ll never see the view.” But last night, my friend Aaron Tietelbaum said something equally profound that countered this thought- “Yeah, but if you’re the male dog behind the female dog, you have a pretty kickass view.” I laughed all night. He actually didn’t say kickass, he said “sweet,” but kickass has a pun- so, yes, pun intended.

Alright guys, I have a special treat for you. I brought in a guest blogger named Joel Pachefsky. But before he gives you his words of wisdom, I would like to shout out to Lily Dicker for being so supportive of my blog, to Noah Rotter because he was modest and said I didn’t have to give him a shout out in this blog but only on my Fb Hillel messages, Alyssa Rubnitz just for being her and to Danny Solarz for being so fine.

Joel is the hilarious creator and writer of The Daily Monoblogue, which can be found at thedailymonoblogue.blogspot.com. Check it out.

Here are his words of wisdom:

The Olympics is one of my favorite sporting events--even greater than the Superbowl. The countries of the world come together for two weeks and put their best athletes on the line to compete. In a sense, the problems of the world are somewhat forgotten while countries bring their differences to the courses/tracks/rinks/jumps/halfpipes to prove their superiority. The Twenty Ten (2010) Winter Olympics in Vancouver--or as Steven Colbert so eloquently states, the "Quadrennial Cold Weather Athletic Competition"--are coming to a final close tonight. As the world says goodbye to the Olympics, we now have to focus on issues that actually matter (i.e. health care reform, the economy, and crazy nuclear armed Iranians such as Voj.) But before focusing on other worldly and fundamentally important issues, I believe we should take some time to reflect on the past two weeks. I would like to focus my reflection on one thing in particular: Curling.

For some reason, I have a newfound appreciation for curling. Curling is one of those classic winter sports, similar to how shot-put, javelin, and discus belong in the summer Olympics, curling can fairly call the winter Olympics home. The Scottish were the only people drunk enough to think that sliding chunks of granite across a slab of ice was a good idea. After all, they did come up with the sport of golf. Check out this Youtube video of Robin Williams explaining the development of golf in the Scottish mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcnFbCCgTo4. Yes... Golf. Thank you Scotland. But enough with golf, back to curling. Although it seems like what Eskimos would do on a cruise ship when the shuffleboard court freezes over, there is so much precision and accuracy needed to slide the stones into the correct position. I'm still not 100% in tune with the "sport" yet, however, I can explain the different plays: the guard, the draw, and the takeout. But I won't. It would be unnecessary and boring.

Until the next winter Olympics, I must bid au revoir to curling and just sit back and wait (with much excitement) for curling to return into my life.

Thank you, Joel. Joel will be performing at the bloggers academy next week.