Venue: O’Malley’s West
Wingsday & R Tard E School Classes
ASSIGNMENT: February has been brutal – come prepared to discuss tips and tricks for haring in inclement weather.
No more trivia 🙁 Looks like there’s more time for classroom activities.
$0.50 Wings, $3 Drafts, etc., etc.
Chicago HHH Run #1957
Sunday 3/8 – 2:00 PM
Hares: Rumplestealskids
Venue: Burwood Tap – 724 W. Wrightwood
Hash Cash: $8
Environmentally-Friendly Public Transit 🙂
From Lincoln Park/Lakeview: Take the 8 Halsted bus south to Wrightwood. Hoof it east to the bar.
From Wicker Park/Bucktown: Grab the 72 North Ave bus going east. Exit the bus at Halsted and grab the 8 Halsted bus going north to Wrightwood. Hoof it east to the bar.
Driving 🙁
Hop in your hooptie and cruise to Wrightwood and Burling. Circle the neighborhood for an hour looking for a parking space, give up, and take public transit instead.
Chicago HHH Run #1956
Sunday 3/1 – 2:00 PM
Hares: Soul Taco & TBD
Venue: Shoe’s Pub – 1134 W. Armitage
Hash Cash: $8
From da GM: 2015’s GM handover hash, send off the old GM and welcome the new GM in style.
Environmentally-Friendly Public Transit 🙂
From Lincoln Park/Lakeview: Take the Brown Line south to Armitage, then hoof it west to the bar.
From Wicker Park/Bucktown: Hoof it up to Armitage, then grab the 73 Armitage bus going east. Exit the bus at Seminary and hoof it back west to the bar.
Driving 🙁
Hop in your hooptie and cruise to Armitage and Clifton.
Official Unofficial Hash Ball Pre-Lube 2015 Edition
Saturday 2/28 – 5:00 PM
Hare: O’Shitty Runch
Venue: Cork Lounge – 1822 W. Addison
Hash Cash: $0
From da Hare: Games. Malort. Games. Drinks. Games. Nudity. Malort! Champagne!! Games! More Malort!!!! Join us for the 4th Anal Hash Ball Pre-Lube. $0 Hash Cash, 0% Dignity!!!
Environmentally-Friendly Public Transit 🙂
From Lincoln Park/Lakeview: Grab the Brown Line out to Addison. Bar is just west of the station
From Wicker Park/Bucktown: Grab the 50 Damen bus and ride that sucker north to Addison. Hoof it east to the bar.
Driving 🙁
Hop in your hooptie and cruise to Addison, Ravenswood, and Lincoln.
Chicago HHH Hash Ball 2015
Saturday 2/28 – 7:00 PM
Venue: A.J. Hudson’s – 3801 N. Ashland
Hash Cash: $35 – Give cash to or Paypal da GM (sbarne7 @ gmail.com) to rego
From da GM: Another year of hashing is in the books – make your way out to A.J. Hudsons’s where we’ll eat, drink, and be merry. We’ll reveal who the winners of last year’s Hash Awards are and determine who our new GM is (and therefore who gets to be harassed by Horn E’s emails) in 2015!
Environmentally-Friendly Public Transit 🙂
From Lincoln Park/Lakeview: Grab the Brown Line out to Addison. Hoof it east on Addison back to Ashland and then north to the bar. Bar is on the corner of Ashland and Grace.
From Wicker Park/Bucktown: Grab the 9 Ashland bus and ride that sucker north to Grace. Bar is on the corner.
Driving 🙁
Hop in your hooptie and cruise to Ashland and Grace.
Chicago HHH Run #1955
Sunday 2/22 – 2:00 PM
Hares: Feather & Stiffy for Stiffies
Venue: Casa de Feather – 1003 N. Ashland Ave #3F
Hash Cash: $8
Environmentally-Friendly Public Transit 🙂
From Lincoln Park/Lakeview: Grab the 77 Belmont bus going west to Ashland. Transfer to the 9 Ashland bus and ride that pony south to Augusta.
From Wicker Park/Bucktown: Grab the 9 Ashland bus south to Augusta.
Driving 🙁
Hop in your hooptie and cruise to Ashland and Augusta.
Chicago HHH Run #1954
Sunday 2/15 – 2:00 PM
Hares: Golden Shartches & Dickens Cider
Venue: Moe’s Tavern – 2937 N. Milwaukee
Hash Cash: $8
Environmentally-Friendly Public Transit 🙂
From Lincoln Park/Lakeview: Grab the 77 Belmont bus going west. Exit the bus at Central Park, hoof it south to Milwaukee and south again to the bar..
From Wicker Park/Bucktown: Grab the Blue Line and go out to Belmont. Hoof it south on Kimball, turn west on Barry and immediately south on Gresham. Once you hit Milwaukee go north to the bar.
Driving 🙁
Hop in your hooptie and cruise to Milwaukee and Central Park.
Chicago HHH Run #1953
Sunday 2/8 – 2:00 PM
Hares: Tampon-Tampoff & Lifa
Venue: El Oceano mariscos – 2120 S. Cicero Ave
Hash Cash: $8
From da GM: Hash Erections are in full swing – get your ass to the hash and vote!
Environmentally-Friendly Public Transit 🙂
From Lincoln Park/Lakeview: Hop on the Brown Line and go into the Loop. At Washington and Wells transfer to the Pink Line. Ride the Pink Line to Cicero Station. Hoof it north on Cicero to the bar.
From Wicker Park/Bucktown: Grab the Blue Line into the Loop. Go upstairs at Clark/Lake and transfer to the Pink Line. Ride that sucker around the Loop and then out to Cicero Station. Hoof it south on Cicero to the bar.
Driving 🙁
Hop in your hooptie and cruise to Cicero Ave. and 21 St. The entrance to the bar is in a strip mall on 21rd St. You can park in their lot or on the street.
Chicago HHH Run #1952
Sunday 2/1 – 2:00 PM
Hares: TBD & RumpleStealsKids
Venue: It’s Too Soft’s – 933 W. Wolfram #3
Hash Cash: $8
From da GM: This is your first chance to vote in Hash Erections, so be sure to make it out. If you don’t show up, you don’t get to vote!
From da Host: There will be food and plenty of beer after trail and Chunder Pussy has volunteered to bring his smoked meat as well. Don’t go up to the roofdeck unless you plan to freeze your balls off.
Following circle will be a Super Bowl game watching party and folks are welcome to stay for the game which will be shown on multiple screens and the aforementioned food and beer will be provided.
Environmentally-Friendly Public Transit 🙂
From Lincoln Park/Lakeview: Hoof it to 933 W. Wolfram. Go around back and take the stairs up to the top floor unit (#3).
From Wicker Park/Bucktown: Take the 72 North bus east over to the North/Clybourn stop. Go downstairs to the Red Line and go north to Fullerton. Transfer to the Brown Line and continue north to Diversey. Wolfram is the next block north of Diversey, so hoof it around the block, then go around back and take the stairs up to the third unit.
Driving 🙁
Hop in your hooptie and cruise to Wolfram and Sheffield – better warn Its Too Soft that you’re driving cause its zoned back, bitch!
Hey Ballas – ARE YOU READY FOR SOME KICKBALL!!!??
February Madness is back again for 2015 with “Lunatic Bowl XV” on Super Bowl Sunday in the traditional frosty confines of Jonquil Park in Lincoln Park. Yes this sounds completely insane but just ask anyone who’s done it before… you just can’t pay for this kind of entertainment!!
Here’s the tradition – on Super Bowl Sunday Festa’s old school crew would gather at Jonquil Park (Wrightwood, Sheffield & Lincoln) around 10:30am for friendly game of kickball in the snow and to have a few drinks. With orange traffic cones as the bases (regular white bases don’t show well in the snow) and there would be traditional “team meetings” between innings to take hits from a bottle of Mad Dog kept under the second base cone.
A group of 12-15 is ideal and it’s a great warmup for all those Super Bowl parties later in the day. As you are playing kickball in the snow (and some are also drinking), little or no athletic ability is required or makes much of a difference. Yes, this is the same game of kickball we played in third grade.
In keeping with ritual and tradition the 2015 game will be held at the spiritual home of Festa Super Bowl Sunday Kickball, Jonquil Park at the intersection of Wrightwood, Sheffield & Lincoln. It’s also close to environmentally-friendly public transportation (Fullerton Red/Brown Line, Sedgwick 37, Fullerton 74, Halsted 8, Diversey 76 and Clark 22 buses) and parking is usually quite ample for Beverly Hills 60614 as it’s Sunday.
Note this is a Chicago Park District property so please don’t show up with a half barrel, a case of beer or other conspicuous alcohol. Bottles in bags or pre-mixed drinks have done us well in the past.
I will bring all the sporting goods (traffic cones and foursquare balls) for the game thanks to my participation in kickball league in Milwaukee back in the day so just come as you are and bring yourself and your favorite refreshment i.e. “warm you up drink” (like schnapps, hard cider, Mad Dog, etc) or any nonalcoholic potables for those so inclined.
I will try and get Festa himself to make another celebrity appearance at this event he originally founded back in the ’90’s for a classic matchup between Team Fuji “the Harlem Globetrotters” vs. Team Festa “the Washington Generals”.
As always there will be lots of post-kickball actual Super Bowl (the other game that day) activities to choose from and postgame we’ll probably have a drink or two and warm up at a nearby tavern as there are a “few” bars on Lincoln between Fullerton & Diversey.
A few quick things to keep in mind:
1) Please remember this is the beginning of February in CHICAGO so despite alleged global warming it will likely be VERY COLD and usually there will be snow on the ground so please dress appropriately. Speaking of which, this is an outdoor game so wear something you don’t mind getting a little dirt/mud/grass/snow on if you plan to play (cheering sections are welcome too).
2) I will be there a little early to setup. Games will start after we get rough quorum and run as long as people are in the mood to play.
3) Please remember this is a Chicago Park District park so those who want to bring “grownup drinks” please be discreet. Note that many of us are watching some sort of football game afterwards (likely with more grownup drinks too) so pacing is not a bad idea.
4) The other usual playground rules apply – three strikes is a strikeout, as is a foul ball third strike (like in softball), there are no walks (everyone has to kick!). Runners cannot lead on bases and deliberate throws to the head are discouraged. Teams will be chosen odd/evens (avoid the dreaded “last picked in gym class syndrome”) and best out of three in rock-paper-scissors will determine which team kicks first.
5) Please don’t forget this is for fun. Those deemed “playing too competitively” may find themselves doing penalty shots of Mad Dog and/or Boone’s Farm. And don’t make me bust out the Malort. We will have longer than usual between inning breaks for folks to socialize too (another tradition).
See y’all Super Bowl Sunday 10:30am @ Jonquil Park! Game on!
Party on,
— Fuji
