Half-Mind Weblog

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 [...]

Flying Booger’s Goodie Bag is a occasional column containing hash-related observations too short to justify stand-alone Half-Mind Weblog entries. Barterbitch from Melbourne takes me to task for differentiating between male and female hashers with the labels “harrier” and “harriette.”  Looking back at past posts, I have to plead guilty.  We are hashers, every one of [...]

In yesterday’s post, I commented on an email someone sent me about Phil Kirkland’s famous quote: “If you’ve half a mind to try hashing, that’s all you’ll need.” Re-reading the message, something else catches my eye. The message, addressed to regional and national hash directory webmasters, contains a proposal to adopt a standardized set of [...]

Everybody loves “A Drinking Club with a Running Problem” motto. Not me. I always loved the one Phil Kirkland came up with in a newspaper interview back in the 1970s: “If you’ve half a mind to try hashing, that’s all you’ll need.” Used to be, every hasher could quote that line.  Used to be, you’d [...]

Must.  Scout.  Trail. I’m haring next Sunday, and all I’ve done so far is decide on a start point, a park in southeast Tucson.  Normally I’d have scouted trail twice and had all the details worked out by now.  Getting lax in my old age. Speaking of getting lax, I’m scouting on my mountain bike.  [...]

Hijacked trail? Got this photo from my friend Casual Friday, taken last weekend during the Jolly Rogers H3 hash cruise of the Bahamas. Until I have a chance to talk to Casual Friday, I don’t know if this was a no-shit hijacked trail, or just a shot check inserted into a Jolly Rogers trail by [...]

Note from Flying Booger: Minneapolis hasher Pooper Scooper sent this as a comment to a previous post, but I think it’s worth posting right out where everyone will see it (everyone who reads this blog, that is . . . all eight of you).  PS raises an interesting point, one that dovetails with some of [...]

Like many hashers, I’m interested in our origins and history.  I read everything I can get my hands on.  When I go to interhashes, I seek out experienced hashers and ask them for their take on things.  I’ve swilled beer and talked trash with old-timers around the world, including Ian Cumming, Bill Panton, and Magic [...]