Date: Saturday, July 4th, 2009, 9:00 am

Breakfast: Freedom Toast (which is the same thing as french toast, but we call it Freedom Toast), breakfast sausages, coffee, and breakfast potatoes.  New rule!  Bring your own damn catsup!  (Yes, Yakker.  I will not attempt a full cavity body search for little packets.  You can put catsup on your potatoes. I’ll try not to cringe.)  I’ll provide the orange juice and the first two bottles of champagne for mimosas. If ya’ll bring another beverage of choice to share, that’d be appreciated!

Movies: Two Fourth of July Classics: “Yankee Doodle Dandy” and “Independence Day”

More Info: I’m starting a little earlier this year for two reasons.

• The film initially was green-lit with a budget of 69 million dollars from the studio
• Before being launched out of Area 51, the alien attacker floats in front of a circular indentation in the wall behind it. Together they form the shape of Darth Vader’s helmet from Star Wars.
• Holds the record for most miniature modelwork to appear in one film. It is said more miniatures were used for this film than in any other two films combined. Due to the advances in digital technology since this film’s release, most experts believe this record may stand forever.
• The President’s speech was filmed on 6 August 1995 in front of an old airplane hangar. The hangar once housed the Enola Gay, which is infamous for dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima exactly 50 years earlier on 6 August 1945.

Goofs: The commemorative plaques left on the moon by the Apollo astronauts were attached to the front leg of the Lunar Module’s Descent Stage; neither was placed on a pile of moon rocks.

• The Commanding Officer of the Black Night Squadron is shown wearing Lieutenant Colonel Oak Leaf Clusters during the initial brief, later during the attack of the base he is wearing Captain’s Bars.
• The scientist’s mouth never opens when he orders to “open the launch tunnel”.
• When Levinson is kicking stuff around in Area 51, one of the trash cans is marked “ART DEPT” on the bottom. Area 51 would not seem to have an art dept. Suggestions that ART is a military acronym or abbreviation are amusing, but don’t stand as mitigation.
• The same blond man runs from exploding buildings in New York and Los Angeles.

In a wonderful confluence of events, the fourth of july actually falls on a hashing day this year, which means we can celebrate our independence by breaking as many trespassing and traffic laws as possible! so, after you sober up from bitch n’ hoe’s tasty (and entertaining) independence day breakfast, head on over to central phoenix in your fourth of july best dress (red, white, blue, stars, stripes are all acceptable, though “American Icon” would be awesome as well – i’m thinking of cumming as sarah palin or paris hilton ; ). here are the deets:

*hares:  bush straddler and all of her fist

*date:  saturday, july 4th (duh)

*start: Desert Storm Park (its totally a coincidence that the park we’re starting at is named that, though the irony is not lost on me), 1700 E. Colter Street.

*di-erections: the park is on Colter, right next to the entrance/exit of the 51. from the north, get off (!) at Colter, turn right. from the south, exit Highland, turn left, make a right on 16th street and proceed to Colter, which is one block north of Camelback. ok, here’s the tricky part, the park has no parking lot, so stash your cars either at the Extended Stay Inn, which is on the corner of 16th Street and Colter; or you can park on Georgia Street, which is the first right after Colter (there’s an entrance to the park at the end of street).

*you will need cash and ID on trail. as has become my personal tradition, this trail is not dog-friendly (unless you want them to ride back in a cab)

*On-Afters: There is a big Fourth of July festival thingy at Indian Steele Park (Indian School and 3rd Street), which will have fireworks that evening, so we’re thinking of either hitting that up, or a bar somewhere nearby to watch the show. some people were tossing around the idea of a pool party, but the hares, alas, have no place to stage such a thing. if anyone wants to volunteer, please give a shout out.

Any questions, issues, etc., just lemme know.

on-give me liberty and give me a beer-on

bush straddler

It’s time again for another Full Moon Hash. The Farmer’s Almanac says
the July full moon is the “Full Buck Moon”, “Full Thunder Moon”, or the
“Full Hay Moon”. Since there is no agreement, we’ll just call it the
“Full Pabst Blue Ribbon Moon”.

• Date: Tuesday, July 7′th
• Time: 6:30pm (hares away 6.9^2 minutes later)
• Start: Lookout Mountain Park 14441 N 18th St, Phoenix, AZ
• Hares: Snatch-n-Sniff and Just Ben (602-391-5399)

Di-Erections:
From Cactus/Cave Creek Rd: North on N. Cave Creek Rd for about 1 mile.
Left on Shannon to 18′th St for about 0.69 miles.
Right on 18′th st. for about 0.69 miles to the end.
Parking lot entrance is to the right.

Map:
http://tinyurl.com/July-07-Full-Moon-Map
http://preview.tinyurl.com/July-07-Full-Moon-Map

Trail:
This is an A to A trail.
You do not need ID on trail.

Hash Cash: $7 – This is for the good beer at the start and finish and
the Pabst Blue Ribbon on trail.

On-After:
Chuy’s at 12235 N Cave Creek Rd, Phoenix, AZ‎ – (602) 992-8150
(Cactus / Cave Creek Rd)

(See www.zoniehhh.org for all the deets…)

Hares: Bitch N’ Hoe