Half-Mind Weblog

What’s in Flying Booger’s goodie bag?  Why, it’s hashing . . . in the news! SWP Strikes Again . . . in Delaware What is SWP?  Oh, come on, you know what it is! “Authorities shut down a three-quarter mile stretch of the Downtown Wilmington Riverwalk for about 45 minutes Saturday evening to investigate a [...]

Shakesprick emailed this morning to tell me that one of the ten medical aid workers murdered by Taliban in Afghanistan over the weekend, Karen Woo (pictured), was one of our own. Karen, a doctor from London, hashed with Kabul H3.  She kept a personal blog of her adventures in Afghanistan, a blog I just finished [...]

This is the second time this year I’ve heard of hashers being outed by bedwetters concerned members of the public.  The first incident happened in San Diego.  Now it’s moving up the coast.  With the popularity of vigilante forums such as Scared Monkeys.com, whose members fanned anti-hashing flames in the wake of the San Diego [...]

Okay, now that we know they have beer, how long before someone gets his or her ass up there to organize the first hash?  Hazukashii, you busy? From the Korean Central News Agency: Beer Popular among Koreans Pyongyang, May 27 (KCNA) — The technological updating of the Taedonggang Beer Factory here has made rapid progress, [...]

Sent by my friend Davey Crotchitt: World's largest on-on foot This on-on foot was created by Dicksickle and Schlong of the Big Heads H3 (Black Hills, South Dakota) for a trail on May 22, 2010.  Some other details, provided by Davey: Length – 150 yards Width – approx 50 yards Materials – 600 yards of [...]

Flying Booger’s Goodie Bag is a occasional column containing hash-related observations too short to justify stand-alone Half-Mind Weblog entries. Thanks again to California hasher Nut’n’Honey (creator of Hash Boy) for the brilliant hash bag graphic, which he originally designed for the Half-Mind Catalog masthead.  I’m recycling it for this column and giving credit where credit’s [...]

The hash e-mail listserve at hash-l@usc.edu, after almost 18 years of operation, is about to be shut down. Notice appeared on Thursday, April 1st: Well, the time has come for HASH-L to sing “Swing Low,” gather up all the empties, and head ON OUT. Mainly, due to the University of Southern California, which owns/administers the [...]

A better title for these posts might have been Fear & Loathing in San Diego, but what the hell . . . I’m sticking with Witch Hunt in SoCal, because that’s what it is. A few days have passed since the initial hysteria, which I blogged about here.  Hashers have pulled photos and personal information [...]