PHHH #1048.9

Date: Wednesday, July 6, 2005

Weather: Threateningly warm

Locale: South Brunswick High School

Hare: Wouiepei

Hounds: Silent Nite, fka Justin, seen at 87 Prospect sans car; a
small pale yellow frog that needs an ID by LRF; Count von Count and
Prashant, seen at the start and regroup at 7:15.

The Last Wave

A corporate historian named Ouipee takes on setting a trail after a
rash of "Death Marches," as the elders in the outback call overlong
hashes. The other, aboriginal, hares harbor a secret, promising to
arrive late at the start all the way into Sunday, whatever the
condition of the marks. Naturally they do not show up. Determined to
break their silence and discover the truth behind the hidden Death
March society he suspects lives in central New Jersey, Weiypeiy is
drawn further into shiggy that threatens to leave him as scarred as
the mysterious A. G. Zaire, while new weather patterns indicate that
those marks not lapped up by rodents and amphibians of unusual size
will be covered by the great flooding portended in the eerie clouds
and unnerving rumblings in the sky. The other hares miss a trail
whose atmosphere is alternately claustrophobic in the bush and
oppressively straight elsewhere. This trail is a fine example of Pee
Wei's ability to create a debacle out of a suburb. The ending is
ambiguous as Count von Count appears from nowhere on a bike when
everyone thought he was still on the slow boat from Capetown, and
then can't remember a down-down song's lyrics. 10 out of 10 and
highly recommended.