Former Editor
Flying Booger |  |
Former Editor
Flying Booger | |
No, that's not me - that's Buckwheat, the hashing macaw. If you want to see me in the debauched state, click here for a photo of moi with some like-minded friends!
Hashtory: I started hashing in Tampa, Florida, in March, 1988. My wife Pick'n'Flick joined the Tampa HHH a few months later. Before long we were posted to Japan, where we joined the Okinawa HHH. It was there, after a rigged election, that I first savored the joys of grandmasterhood. We were posted to Hawaii in 1991, where we hashed with the Honolulu, Aloha, and Hawaii Full Moon hashes (Hawaii license plates: HASHER). I was Song Master for all three hashes, and at different times GM and OnSec of AHHH and HFMHHH. We lived in Nevada from 1995 to 1997, where I was Religious Adviser & Song Master for the Las Vegas HHH (Nevada license plates: SWNG LO & ON ON). We currently live and hash in Tucson, Arizona (Arizona license plates: hmmm . . . gotta work on those). I'm also a proud member of the Iguana HHH, the Warriers HHH, the Randsberg HHH, the Sad Bastards HHH, the Founders' HHH, and the Fat Boys' Athletic Club.
HHH Publishing: I began publishing lists of Asian HHH contacts in 1990, using contacts gathered during hash road trips around the Far East. By 1992 this had grown into the Whole Hash Catalog, a monthly newsletter containing international hash contacts and upcoming events, which I handed out to local and visiting hashers and to hashers I met on road trips. By 1994 I was mailing the Whole Hash Catalog to several subscribers, including the major HHH publishers of the day: Tim "Magic" Hughes (Harrier International, World HHH Handbook & Directory), Mr. Spock (InterHashional News), Larry McDowell (Global Trash), and Sea-Xplanation (Hash Events on a List). Magic and Mr. Spock based much of their own upcoming event calendars on the information I sent them. In August, 1995, I chose a new (and more hashlike) name - the Half-Mind Catalog - and went on line. The Half-Mind Catalog was first HHH web page to offer international HHH contacts and an upcoming events calendar. In November, 2003, after an angry stockholders' meeting, I was deposed as CEO and chief editor, and stewardship of the Half-Mind Catalog passed on to an international cast of editors.
How I Got My Name: Blame the Okinawa HHH. I was an Air Force pilot, hence "Flying." The second half of my name came from a trick I demonstrated at a formal hash dinner (didn't know hashers had formal dinners, did you?): I hung a spoon from the end of my nose when one of the speeches got boring, and everyone thought I was cheating. "Using a natural adhesive" was the charge, hence "Booger." Oh, well . . . it could have been worse . . . much worse!
Need a real Religious Adviser? (Click for photo!) I'm an ordained minister, founder and pastor of the Church of the True Trail (a Universal Life Church ministry), available for hash weddings, confirmations, baptisms, exorcisms, funerals, miscellaneous blessings, etc. Have robe, will travel!
Knots in My Whistle String
The Booger Dynasty: We are hashers, so they say . . . Pick 'n' Flick, my wife of 41 years; Nose Candy, our son (former GM of St. Petersburg HHH, Florida & Las Vegas HHH, Nevada); Green Flagger, our daughter (aka Snared in the Bush); and Buckwheat, aforesaid debauched macaw with over ten hashes to his credit. Here's a photo of me with Nose Candy and Green Flagger.
"Real" Life: I'm a retired US Air Force lieutenant colonel and fighter pilot. I flew the F-15 Eagle in Arizona, Virginia, the Netherlands, Alaska, and Japan. At other times in my semi-illustrious military career, I was a training command T-37 instructor pilot, a joint staff officer with US Special Operations Command, an aircraft accident investigator, and chief of flight safety for the Pacific Air Forces command. Since leaving the USAF I worked as a civilian contract instructor, training USAF fighter aircrews in the USA, Europe, and Asia; I also managed academic and simulator courseware development for USAF A/OA-10 pilot and EC-130H Compass Call mission crew training at Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, Arizona. Today I'm semi-retired, driving disabled veterans to and from their appointments at the Southern Arizona Veterans' Administration Health Center. I attended California State University in Sacramento, where I earned a BA and MA in English.
Non-Hashing Life: One does have one, contrary to appearances . . . I'm an avid motorcyclist as well as the founder of the Harriers Motorcycle Club. I publish two weblogs: the Half-Mind Weblog and Flying Booger's HHH Blog. When I'm not riding, working, blogging, or slaving for the hash, I occupy my time as an amateur cook, flâneur, and bon vivant.
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