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Thursday, May 29, 2025

"For a Free Six Pack of Beer Wear this Shirt...

...to Philadelphia Hash House Harriers 500th Run" reads the printed paper tag sewn onto the bottom of the Stedman Hi Cru label on the tee shirt from the 1987 event:


"FOR A FREE SIX PACK OF BEER WEAR THIS SHIRT TO PHILADELPHIA H H H 500TH RUN"

I've never seen a t-shirt promotion like this. Free beer for wearing a tee. It probably belongs in a museum!

The Hash House Harriers seem like a spirited bunch - billing themselves "A Drinking Club with a Running Problem," "the (HHH or H3) is an international group of non-competitive running social clubs. An event organized by a club is known as a Hash or Run, or a Hash Run.

Hashing originated in December 1938 in Kuala Lumpur, (now Malaysia). A group of British immigrants began meeting on Friday evenings, to run in a fashion patterned after the traditional British game of hare and hounds, in which one or two "hare" runners scatter a trail of cut paper for the "hounds" to track. Apart from the excitement of chasing the hare and finding the trail, Harriers reaching the end of the trail would partake of beer, ginger beer, and cigarettes."

The objectives of the Hash House Harriers as recorded on the club registration card dated 1950 are:

To promote physical fitness among our members
To get rid of weekend hangovers
To acquire a good thirst and to satisfy it in beer
To persuade the older members that they are not as old as they feel - Wiki

Back to this deadstock vintage 1987 Philadelphia Hash House Harriers tee shirt with the free 6-pack promotion tag sewn onto the label. On the back is a colonial flasher on Victorian house under "Expose Yourself to Philadephia." So extra. Imagine the thrill of someone handing you a six free beers due to the t-shirt you're wearing.

The promotion came amidst a giant Hash party weekend as an international "Americas Interhash" was in Philadelphia the same weekend. This other deadstock vintage 1987 tee shirt documents that weekend, apparently held from September 4 - 7, 1987:

The Hershey Hotel is implicated as is the Liberty Bell

This one is printed on a blank tee shirt from the famed Melrose Los Angeles punk store - The Village Mews - the tag reads "Village Mews - Clothes for Heroes - Los Angeles, California" :

I acquired 4 other Philadelphia Hash House Harriers vintage 80s t-shirts in this collection. They are:

1. Another 1987 Philly HHH 500th Run tee, no free six-pack tag, just normal, officially dates the run to Saturday, September 5, 1987:

2. A bright yellow vintage March 1 1980 Philly Rumson Joint Hash tee:

3. A light blue vintage 1983 Philly HHH 300th Run tee:

And 4. A vintage 80s Chickenman Sunday HHH Run 689 Cum On On tee:

All these tees are available at Skippy Haha Vintage Etsy!

Friday, November 15, 2024

Hinckley house

We have sold the Hinckley house! For the past 8 years I lived in what was John Hinckley Jr's last known address at the time he attempted to gain Jodie Foster's favor by shooting Ronald Reagan.

It was his parents' house. His dad was an oil exec from Texas and they relocated to Evergreen about 5 years earlier. Immediately after Junior shot his shot, his parents moved out to a neigbors' house and never moved back in, lines of TV vans sat outside for weeks and a secret service helicopter landed on the lawn. The address was printed in the NYT.

We didn't know this before buying but also weren't upset upon learning. An oldtimer neighbor who had been there and lived through it told me when she saw me at the mailbox in the first month we were there.

Jeffco summoned Junior to jury duty in 2017. We got the notice in the mailbox. My thought on that is someone in the county office has the address flagged and every time it's sold they summon him in the following year to alert the new owners. It makes zero sense otherwise.

He was released from prison while we lived there. That was kind of weird. By all appearances now he is a peaceful folk singer.

There were some attempted assassinations (I think? Still not sure) this summer and the NYT ran a feature profile on Junior on the cover of their magazine the week we put his house on the market.

We closed on the house 8 years to the day from the date we bought it. Both times trump was brand new president elect. The cycles are pretty bizarre.

Anyway after a wonderful 8 years we are officially out of the Hinckley house and Evergreen and onto more coastal pastures in Oregon and Florida for the next few months as we find a place to land.

Friday, April 19, 2024

Horns for Health!

The concept is very simple - turn negativity into laughs.

The method involves bicycle/clown horns.

Rule 1 is Everyone Consents.

Only 1 Rule because it may only take 1 honk!

Everyone gets a horn that makes a funny honk noise.

Everyone agrees to honk the horn when someone else says or does something that is ______ (this is what you all consent to beforehand.)

Common honk reasons are for "negativity" or "being unnecessarily critical."

Instead of holding resentment, honk away negativity!

The honk noise may make pets flinch. A 1 inch magnet at the horn's end - aka Pet Mufflers - will muffle the sound.

Lanyards may be helpful to carry the horn around.

Happy honkers Greta and Clark Walker endorse H4H!

HORNS FOR HEALTH!

Horns available at many places online and in dusty garages around the world!

COMING SOON: A very limited number of new branded Horns for Health horns may possibly be available for purchase in May 2024.

Sunday, April 07, 2024

Improvised Sunglasses

"Snowblindness is caused by brilliant reflections or glare from the snow. It can occur even on foggy or cloudy days. The first warning of snowblindness comes when you no longer detect variations in the level of ground, followed by a burning sensation of the eyes. Later your eyes pain when exposed to even a weak light. Prevention is the best cure, but if you are stricken, complete darkness is your best medicine. Wear your sunglasses or other material with narrow eye slits cut in it (fig 185)."

Improvised sunglasses x 3

Using an iPhone, banana peel, and concert ticket