by admin | Mar 29, 2008 | GGFM Writeups
The Truth Official Organ of the Greater Gotham Full Moon Hash House Harriers G2FMH3 Hash #205 – Friday, February 22, 2008 Hare: Ed LunchStart: Chambers Street & West BroadwayOn-In: The Patriot, Church Street & Chambers StreetPunk Ass Bitch (Scribe): Noah’s Dinghy Remember the movie Dirty Harry? If you haven’t seen it (commie), there’s a sequence where Clint Eastwood, as Inspector Harry Callahan, is forced by a crazed sniper who has taken a girl hostage to r*n from phone booth to phone booth. He’s only given a brief amount of time to get to each phone and answer once it rings; if he misses the call, the girl dies. It’s a taut sequence, not just because the sight of Clint “r*nning” makes the viewer worry about his health even though the film’s over thirty years old and he’s still with us. (Fun fact: the plotline about a murderer terrorizing San Francisco and sending letters to newspapers was inspired in part by the real-life Zodiac killings, which were very much fresh in the minds of the city’s residents when Dirty Harry was released. Slightly less fun fact: the conceit of the villain making the hero chase phone calls has been ripped off by any number of lame Die Hard knock-offs, including Die Hard 3, with ever-diminishing returns.) With Old Man Winter finally making an appearance and dumping a few inches of snow on New York City which then turned to rain, the job of Old Man Hasher became a bit difficult. Fortunately, Ed Lunch is nothing if not resourceful. (He may be other things, but we won’t get into that.) And...
by admin | Feb 22, 2008 | GGFM Writeups
The Truth Official Organ of the Greater Gotham Full Moon Hash House Harriers G2FMH3 Hash #204 – Friday, January 25th, 2008 Hares: Eager 4 Beaver with moral support from Empress NormaStart: 110th and BroadwayOn-In: Homer's World Famous (Amsterdam at 83rd) Punk Ass Bitch (Scribe): Tim The hash started out with a bang. Fortunately this was not a literal bang, considering that the police were involved. Still, it came as quite a shock to see the police interview one of our fellow hashers as a suspect in a string of upper west side robberies. Although looking back on it now, I'm not sure that my shock had anything at all to do with the fact that the police suspected one of our own of being a felon. Rather, I think it was more a case of hypothermic shock setting in after standing around in the cold for 30 minutes while the cops checked out Gabe's id. (By which I mean his identification. Clearly they didn't do a Freudian analysis of Gabe's inner most desires. That would just be preposterous.) Once this case of mistaken identity was finally sorted out, the hare distributed chalk and we were on our way, thankful to get moving in order to keep warm on a cold night. Unfortunately the moving didn't last too long, however, as the trail was completely lost at a check upon exiting Riverside Park, and we were once again left standing around in the cold. I may have started to think some negative thoughts in regard to the hare at this point, but it turns out that it was not...
by admin | Jan 25, 2008 | GGFM Writeups
The Truth Official Organ of the Greater Gotham Full Moon Hash House Harriers G2FMH3 Hash #203 – Friday, 1/11/2008 Start: 110th & Lexington On-In: Yogi's, 76th & Broadway Hare: Just Scot Scribe: Wet Willy The annual GGFM New Moon Flashlight Hash is the stuff of legend. Court jesters still sing of the night the pack traversed the frozen Harlem Meer; after last week's Giants game, some pickled old hands at the On-In said the temperature was nothing compared to the "Frozen Flashlights of '03" (pronounced "aught-three"), where temperatures neared zero and hashers huddled in the subway entrance, unwilling to head into the darkness … Despite all of this, your intrepid correspondent was, frankly, on the fence about even going to the annual Flashlight Hash. Friday afternoon, I looked west toward New Jersey out my office window and saw some rather impressive thunderstorms rolling in. Torrential rain pounded the city and I considered finding something else to do for the evening. However, the skies managed to clear up, so after work I headed north on the 6 train. Unlike past years, the weather was neither frigid nor windy (about 35 degrees and clear – a marked improvement from the afternoon). The pack gathered at 110th & Lexington; the usual motley collection of somewhat lost looking alcoholics standing around in sweats and shorts awaiting direction. We looked either helpless or suspicious enough that two of New York’s Finest stopped to see if we needed any assistance. Scot arrived and immediately began warning us about the trail: "The ground is wet, so not all of...
by admin | Jan 9, 2008 | GGFM Writeups
The Truth Official Organ of the Greater Gotham Full Moon Hash House Harriers 200th GGFM & All Hallows Eve Extravaganza G2FMH3 Hash #200 – Wednesday, October 31, 2007 Hare: Empress Norma with help from the GGFM committeeStart/On-In: Bar None (3rd Ave and 13th St)Punk Ass Bitch (Scribe): Girl Scout Nookie As if the annual Halloween Hash isn’t enough excuse to drink, this year’s event was also the 200th GGFM. The Halloween Hash has been described as the second largest r*n in the hash behind the Red Dress (and maybe post-marathon bash) and it truly didn’t disappoint. About 60 hashers arrived dressed as zombies, gay 80’s aerobics instructors, Gorillas, Posh and Becks (US Marine Whore/Noah’s Dinghy), Boy Scouts, some weird cross-dressing with wigs (Redhead Steve!), Where’s Waldo (Eager for Beaver) Blackout (not as himself, but a super hero, and blackout he did later), and the rest are a blur after the seemingly limitless beer we drank till 1 in the morning. Empress Norma, our hare, arrived in her Peter Pan of the Underworld costume. She was the mockery of East Village kids as she laid trail marks. Anna and I drug ourselves away from the pre-game to take up residence in Sty town armed with 2 jugs of vodka/Gatorade concoction, where we promptly started drinking and catcalling non-hashers. Redhead Steve checked in every 10 minutes to detail his cop situation with the drink check that almost didn’t happen; he was about 2 feet from the fuzz for a good 30 minutes. Most people missed it anyways as the lazy bastards went back to the bar knowing it was...
by admin | Jan 9, 2008 | GGFM Writeups
The Truth Official Organ of the Greater Gotham Full Moon Hash House Harriers G2FMH3 Hash #201 – Friday, November 30, 2007 Hare: Virgin Hare MattStart/On-In: Tempest Bar (30th and 8th ave)Punk Ass Bitch (Scribe): Sarah Down Under and Polish Manslave Alcohol & obfuscation. Redundancy.…Or what happens when Man Slave (Big Sums in Finance guy) and Down Under (Dubious English Honours and Drinking) are approached to do the write-up. Like a combination of sub-prime lending and Dubya’s grasp on the English lexicon, this is designed to end up in the crapper. So… The Tempest was remarkably forgiving as a pre-lube. The bathrooms were clean and the local crowd polite. Scooter, Lunch and Lauren disrobed to legs, although Lauren had lycra under her r*nning shorts. Smart girl. It was f*cking cold. Empress Norma smacked us into order outside. For a pocket hottie, she has the voice projection of an over-ample soprano. We were handed chalk and I made sure mine matched my jacket and socks in a fit of fashion pique. Virgin Matt, in case of Hare Chalk Talk Failure, doled out little slips of paper. He was dealing “Hash Holiday Riddles”, but we were jonesing for something more – to be off and hashing. Yes, it still was f*cking cold. However, a quick glance at the stash he’d slipped us revealed the following: A garden’s not for planting feet.A boat’s not the sole place for drunken sailorsSlip and fall around winterYule be denied a loan of Norman Mailer Keep running on time to conduct yourselfGet a watery respiteMistletoe break a legMiss a fella’s lights The place of the great trialWas a place of sudden deathGet too...
