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More Sad News

Donna Rhinehart, the Lady in Red, passed away last night in Phoenix. Everyone who knew her loved her: she was a kind, generous friend to every hasher she met, including me. She made a huge impact on hashing through her campaign to make red dress runs the signature event of the Hash House Harriers, and [...]

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Kiss That Rego Goodbye!

Have you heard the latest news from Stray Dog’s World Hashspace InterHash Facebook Hash-L “G”-for-Gispert Global Centralâ„¢?

“Due to the childish nature of the current people in the Heidelberg hash towards Global Interhash, we plan on cancelling the event for this year in Europe and holding it the first weekend in August in Birmingham, Alabama. [...]

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Hash-L & Abe Vigoda: Not Dead Yet

For newer hashers, Hash-L is the hash e-mail list. It used to be hosted on the USC server; today it’s hosted at harrier.org. I access it here. It used to be the only online forum for hashers and back in its heyday was always hopping. Today, with HashSpace and Facebook, it’s less active. Sometimes I [...]

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Booger’s Hash Bag

A couple of items that have been bouncing around in the bottom of the bag:

Hops, he of Red Dress Run fame, shares my disdain for the widely-used “Drinking Club with a Running Problem” motto. It’s certainly true hashers drink (most of us, anyway). It’s certainly true we traditionally have beer after a trail. But [...]

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InterAmericas 2013 Update

Yikes! There are now two official bidders for IAH 2013:

Panama Portland, Oregon, USA

I think Patchwork Quilt can relax now and enjoy himself in Savannah!

Personally, I’m excited about both bids. Panama because we’ve never been there and it inches IAH closer to South America; Portland because IAH has never been in the Northwest [...]

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One Way to Tear Down a Hash

Sue a big company. Even if you’re in the right, even if you eventually win, it’s hell on the hash.

Here’s a quick summary of two previous blog posts on this subject:

I shared a newspaper article about a lawsuit between members of the Sacramento H3 and a large aerospace defense contractor, Aerojet. Some [...]

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Hashing in the News

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My friend Hops already posted this story to Hashspace, but I think it’s important and should be covered here as well. It’s the kind of story I’ve featured here before, a story about hashers rubbing up against authority.

The story under discussion ran in the Feb 22 edition [...]

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Another Hasher Down

I.P. Freely, a 78-year-old Santa Barbara hasher, was hit by a car while crossing a street in Santa Barbara, California Thursday evening, January 27th. He lost his right leg and is in a coma with significant brain damage from which he is not expected to recover.

I.P. was hashing with H3 of Sant’o Barbara at [...]

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