OT: Hash Bash
So apparently today is Hash Bash and surprisingly no one has posted about it on MGoBlog.
I graduated in 2007 and remember thinking that Hash Bash was fizzling out and not that big of a deal anymore. I went to Charley's for a drink this afternoon and South U was packed with Hash Bash folk. I also parked in the S Forest structure and spent 30 minutes waiting in line to get out. Is Hash Bash "back" or am I crazy for thinking it was dying out in the first place?
On a side note, I'm kind of bored so I'll throw this out there: what do the MGoDenizens think of Hash Bash? I don't smoke at all but I think Hash Bash is pretty cool. I like the idea that Ann Arbor can be home to one of the best universities in the world and also be home to...well...the opposite of academic rigor (sorry for stereotyping). It just goes to show how diverse this city is and how much it has to offer.
Lastly, does anyone have any good Hash Bash stories?
I called Tios and asked how busy they thought they'd be tonight (this was earlier in the week). I hadn't realized it was hash bash this weekend. The guy told me "well... there's 'something' going on in the city this Saturday so it's probably going to be a gamble."
I laughed because I knew what he meant later and he seemed like he didn't want to offend me or something. He hesitated a second before saying "something".
Sorry I don't have a better story. I thought it was always on 4/20 though? Wouldn't that make more sense?
It's always the first saturday of april. it gives us hash bash and 4/20 to look forward to separately. It'd be like having your birthday on Christmas. Gotta spread out the presents.
I thought they moved it from 4-20 because it was too intertwined with finals? I'm not an avid participant so I'm just speculating.
As long as I can remember it.
Always used to be on April Fool's Day and then got moved to first Sat in April. Best one was back in 89 - Hash Bash in the afternoon and the UM beats Illinois in the National Semi-Finals that night.
But my older sister said it was awesome in her day. She graduated in 2003 I think so a little bit ago.
take my word for it.
Class of '77.
Poor choice of words, I'm only 7 years younger than her and don't think of her as 'old' at all.
is a plot to keep everything from happening at once.
Is while you grow older, everyone else stays the same age.
can also be a benifit!!!
hmmm, I thought I was getting old.
Class of '13
I was in the class of '02. Hash Bash wasn't much of a deal for students - it had been taken over by middle-aged hippies and not many students attended.
I kept seeing Juggalos and Spartan fans, and chuckling to myself.
If our lives are just someone else's dreams, then what are our dreams?
It's a huge deal. I'm a freshman, so I don't know much about it in the past couple years, but my parents said they used to go, and in my year compared to their years, it sounds like it's gotten even bigger. I just love how many cops you see who just don't do anything despite the fact they know exactly what's going on
The Hash Bashes of late are actually much smaller now than they were back in the 70s & 80s.
However with the 2009 legalization of medicinal marijuana in the state of Michigan, a slight resurgence (in participants) has been reported via the Michigan Daily and other media outlets.
I don't smoke much either but would give anything to be sitting outside at Charleys right now.
If it makes you feel any better, they weren't seating people outside today. Indoors only.
Happy Hash Bash
juggalo central but its nice to remember that ann arbor was once cool and culturally important
Because it's not cool or culturally important now..
Well cool is pretty subjective but culturally important? Not really, especially compared to the 60s
Culturally important is subjective as well.
Juggalo?
A horrendous 'rap' group from Detroit called the Insane Clown Posse. Not kidding at all. Their fans wear white and black clown face paint and call themselves juggalos.
Were there really kids painted up like that? I saw a lot of dirtballs but no painted faces.
Just watch this.
I'm not a fan of Hash Bash.
But for fun, do a search on the term on MGoBlog. Classic post MSU game, uh, post. (Too lazy to get out of App and look up link myself).
I give UM and the city of Ann Arbor a cheers for not being to stuck up to hold a event that really should be legal. I'm not a hippie nor do I believe people should take any and all kinds of drugs. I do believe weed/hash is NOWHERE near as deadly as beer/liquor. I dont smoke(I cant because of my chronic neck problems) but believe it should be legal.
The best part is stoned hippies who get stuck in the law library trench-thingy chasing their frisbees.
There shall be no debating this point.
There are security guards making sure only law students use the Law Lib today. My friend went there to study, and they wouldn't let him in. I can imagine why.
At least for the Smith addition downstairs. Do you mean that security guards are keeping people out of the reading room upstairs?
Was there in 98 for hash bash. I just remember there being alot of parties that night ... the rest is cloudy.
Berkeley, CA and Boulder, CO are both home to great universities and aren't exactly the most socially conservative towns. Madison, WI and Cambridge MA have that reputation too, though I've never been to Cambridge. Guess I'd have to ask JimLahey.
There were a lot more people in town today than in past years. I don't really smoke much anymore, so it's not as big a deal to me as it once was. Definitely a lot of weird looking juggalos though.
I think it sometimes depends on the weather. I graduated in 2010 and there were a couple of years that it was almost non-existant due to crappy weather and a potential crack down (2006 or 7?). I think last year it was pretty big though because it was 60 and sunny out. I might have my years mixed up though.
The popularity of the event has gone in phases. It had been getting smaller for awhile, but with the advent of medical marijuana has enjoyed a recent resurgence. Today's was the biggest I have seen in awhile. I work at a bar on State Street and the entire place smelled like chronic.
The customers who just happened to come to town not knowing about it were shocked how many people there were.
A weird confluence of events...A Dead show, Hash Bash, and Mich in the Final Four. I was actually working in CT at the time, had to take a semester off, and my pledge trainer was on the back page of the NY Post for being on top of the chinese restaurant on South U during the "celebration."
Grateful Dead in town Wednesday and Thursday. Hash Bash and Final Four game against Illinois Saturday. Huge parties all weekend long. Monday night championship win against Seton Hall.
Was ridiculous, needless to say.
Monumentally fun times - big hooka on the M, in middle Diag constantly a smolder..., $5 fines, lots of passing between hands... ahh great times, great times
REM also played in Detroit the week Dead were in town
It was the Tuesday and Wednesday after, I think. Maybe the Wednesday and Thursday. I know that dates were April 5 & 6.
I'm quite sure that the shows came after the game because, at the first show, as a tribute to the basketball team, they played "Hail to the Victors" over the sound system just after the lights went down and the just before he band came out. That drew a big cheer from the crowd.
The first show was meh. The second show was first rate.
Hell, I've been telling people for years the shows were before the Final Four weekend. It was a plausible story (for me and my addled brain and my listeners) because it made sense that all the Deadheads stayed in town for the Hash Bash after the shows.
you are correct sir: the Dead played after the Final Four. my freshman year and it was a lost week. saw the biggest joint I've ever seen in my life at hash bash -- must have been 30-40 inches long with aroundabouts a 7 inch diameter being passed about. likely all seeds and stems. lots of ponchos and Middle Earth gear as I recall. I remember giggling at my $5 account balance at the Comerica ATM on South U then giggling some more.
Hell of a week. Hell of a year if you throw in the Rose Bowl victory.
But the weekend festivities and the hoops game was awesome.... Everyone was feeling good when Higgins made the put back against Illinois....Lots od celebration that night and then Monday.......
Then the best shirt game out..
Rosebowl winner on the front, and the back said - "As if it were not enough" - National Champions...
Go Blue!
China Gate has a much smaller awning now.
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<br>I think they matched for the Final Four one of the Fab Five years too. (I mean, they're matching today, obviously, too). And we wonder why there are riots.