PRINCETON HHH HASH #638.4 Date: December 21, 1997 Weather: Truncated Venue: New Road Park Time: ca. 0.45+0.15 Set By: A. G. Zaire Hashers: 242, Bang Him Harder, Wendy Sullivan, TFM, Rojo, Hey!Yo! Paully, Rich Sarpong, I'm SO Dirty, Delay LLLama, A Joy to His Mother, Matt Arnone (No Gerbils Here). Rookie: Ginger, Moron's Sister Descriptions, Polemics, and Lies: I ran into A. G. Zaire at his usual table in the back of the Belle Meade Inn. Jorge the waiter had warned me that there was something wrong with his boss, but I was unprepared for what greeted me when I met him. He sat there behind the usual collection of empty Steg bottles, but his face was ashen, and there was nothing but pain in his eyes, one green, the other pitch black, and usually so alive with malevolent potential. "Maybe if the Cuban Assassin had been there," he whispered, "maybe then it would have all turned out differently." "Have another nice Steg, boss," said Jorge, delivering the frosty bottle and pulling me aside. I've learned to translate Jorge's South Portuguese dialect, but it was harder this night; clearly Zaire's old sycophant was upset. "You know what happened," he began, "The Boss got faced down in the woods by some redneck. Short guy; surprised him with a rifle. Couldn't hardly see him at all, he was so small - and with the cammo suit and the paint and all." I couldn't believe it. Zaire, the consummate professional - so skilled that he was unknown to any police force; Zaire, who had by himself erased several small countries from the map - places that have just been deleted from the atlases now. Zaire chased out of the woods by some wimp with a pathetic rifle? Couldn't be, it just couldn't be. But the evidence was right there before me - I had never seen him like this, sitting in his chair rocking back and forth, muttering to himself. "Hey Zaire," I called to him, "I'll phone Rojo and you can throw some Stegs at the Reagan picture, just like the old times!" No response; he just sipped at his Steg and look blankly at the wall. There was nothing I could do, I tipped Jorge and slipped out into the night, somehow darker than usual, and lifeless. The aura of dread that always presaged a Zaire set was missing. No nameless horrors lurked in our futures, just a midget with a big gun out there in our woods somewhere jacklighting pitiful animals, unaware of the Giant he had accidentally toppled. Remember: February 22, 1998: There will be pain and there will surely be much suffering, but there will be finishers. NO MONEY, NO T-SHIRTS, NO WHINING, and, of course, absolutely NO MERCY! Hard Core NEXT HASHES: #639.4: Sunday, December 28, 1997, 2 pm, 87 Prospect, Bang Him Harder sets #640.4: Sunday, January 4, 1998, 2 pm, 87 Prospect, Always Open sets #641.4: Sunday, January 11, 1998, 2 pm, 87 Prospect, 242 sets? #642.4: Sunday, January 18, 1998, Wendy Sullivan sets?? #643.4: Sunday, January 25, 1998, Toxic Waste sets?? #644.4: Sunday, February 1, 1998, Throatwarbler Mangrove sets #645.4: Sunday, February 8th, Annual G Hash, 2 pm, 87 Prospect, Pinup Sets?? #646.4: Sunday, February 15, 1998, Speedbumps sets?? #647.4 Sunday, February 22, 1998, HARD CORPSE VI, Geezer and Wacko Set. #648.4 Sunday, March 1, 1998, 2 pm, 87 Prospect, Delay LLama sets the Losar Hash. #649.4 Sunday, March 8, 1998, 2 pm, 87 Prospect, Solo Sets? #650.4 Sunday, March 15, 1998, 2 pm, 87 Prospect, 2Dicks sets? #651.4 Sunday, March 22, 1998, 2 pm, 87 prospect, Speed Bumps sets? #652.4 Sunday, March 29, 1998, 2 pm, 87 prospect, Table Toes sets? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe to the Princeton Hashnet, email the message subscribe phhh to the address majordomo@cdiprinceton.com Post messages to the Princeton Hashnet by emailing to phhh@cdiprinceton.com and don't forget to check out our Web Page http://members.aol.com/phhh ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- _____________________________________________________ Maitland Jones, Jr. Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 Phone: 609 258-3909 FAX 609 258-2383 email: mjjr@chemvax.princeton.edu homepage: http://www.princeton.edu/~mjjr