Voodoo Hash House Harriers

Hello. It’s YMBJ. Your friendly neighborhood Black hasher. Apparently February 26 is Black Lives Matter Day. I didn’t know that either. Wild that we need a calendar reminder for something that should be baseline human decency, but here we are. I figured we could do what we do best: move our bodies through the city with intention. This Thursday’s trail starts around Congo Square inside Louis Armstrong Park, one of the only places in early America where enslaved Africans were allowed to gather, drum, trade, and preserve culture. From there we’ll run through Tremé, the oldest continuously Black neighborhood in … Continue ReadingTrail #1030: BLM Day

Idk about you, but my fvcking knee hurts, my tax accountant has already texted me twice this morning, and an insurance company left me a voicemail on Fat Tuesday about a fender bender that happened at work in October 2025. Y’all need to collectively leave me alone. In honor of these mundane, never ceasing, pains join me at the hash! Where every week we gather to pretend like we’re 22 again, we can still hang, and a third thing I can’t think of… Wear your knee braces, ankle braces, KT tape, arm slings, orthopedic shoes, wrist guards, neck supports…whatever strange, … Continue ReadingTrail #1029: Adult Ailments

**PLEASE NOTE THE TIME CHANGE! HOUNDS ARE AWAY AT 6:00 PM SHARP! THIS IS SO WE DON’T MISS THE PARADES. Come join the Voodoo for the Anal Muses Trail! Muses rolls early this year, so instead of a traditional trail, we’re doing a shoe scramble in Coliseum Square Park. Here is how it works: our shoe hares are hand-crafting special shoes for hounds to find. Shoes can sometimes be tough to get at the actual Muses parade, so this is your chance to take one home! Hounds will hunt the park for tokens that can be traded in for shoes. … Continue ReadingTrail #1028: Muses Parade

It’s almost Cleo Friday (a.k.a. Pre-opatra), so before we start wooing and clamoring for more throws it’s a good time to reflect on the junk we already have. Please adorn yourself in shirts, beads, lights, and whistles from past parades. This is your chance to warm up your attention-getting abilities, scout where to get some free tarps and couches on St. Charles Ave., and find a use for that one box of plastic gimmes that’s been shamefully sitting in a corner since last year (or for many years, perhaps?). Bring: $1 (no coins); Beverages of choice (glass discouraged), whistle, flashlight … Continue ReadingTrail #1027: Pre-opatra

Another year, another DiCaprio nomination for best actor. That’s right, its award season! At this trail you may or may not receive an awesome award for how many trails you have attended last year! Don’t worry backsliders, there may be something for you as well! Or you could be horribly disappointed by all of this buildup and receive nothing, who knows what will happen! Also at this trail we will give out awards for the best and worst trail of the year! Bring: $1 (no coins); Beverages of choice (glass discouraged), whistle, flashlight, $$$ for extra credit Date: Thursday, January … Continue ReadingTrail #1026: Awards Season!