Official Crimson/Blue Fest 2023 invitation
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2023 1:35 pm
Where: https://www.frontierdriveinn.com the drive in and the nearby town of Center CO will be our private party town for 2 days
When: July 31 - Aug 1 these dates are important because they coincide with the Super Moon
A hypothetical question was posed on a KU sports/shit talk message board, "if you could get together with a group of your imaginary internet friends and watch the four "greatest" KU basketball games of all time, what games would you choose?". A short list of 10-12 games was quickly put together. The second question was "if these games could be watched on a 1950's era drive-in movie screen out in the high desert of Colorado, would you attend?". There was an enthusiastic response.
The dates were given to me by the Archangel Cannabis last summer. I was at the drive-in for a film screening with friends during the 2022 summer Super Moon. The angel came unto me and said, "Fuck Yeah!" as the moon was rising over the Sangre de Cristo mountains. On a side note this may be the same angel who appeared to my boy Cano Espinosa and told him to build his towers in nearby Antonito. It wasn't until the idea of the KU Basketball get together under the stars was hatched that the full meaning of what Cannabis said unto me that fateful night was fully understood.
I will reserve the entire Frontier (10 yurts and 4 quonsets) for those two dates. You can place your reservations for a yurt or a quonset with me. Just send me a PM with your contact info. The cost for a yurt for 2 nights is $320 and for a quonset is $380. The quonsets have their own full bathroom, the yurts have a nice heated communal bath/shower facility. If you sign up late and the on-site rooms are taken, there are motels in the nearby towns of Monte Vista and Del Norte. I think from preliminary head count we have about hall of those rooms spoken for in this group, but I have sent invites out to KU folks beyond this group. But let's get real here....if you are coming to this you wanna to stay on site. After the night game is over you can walk across the big lawn and just flop in your room.
This is a schedule of events for the two days.
Proposed Schedule of Festivities for Crimson/Blue Fest 2023
July 31
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM-------Check in at the Frontier and then make your way “downtown” to The Spud Lounge at 342 Worth Street.
11:30 AM – 3:00 PM-------Free Lunch, we will be cooking burgers and brats on the grill behind the Spud Lounge. There will be a keg of Three Barrel Hop Trash and the "Manhattan King" will be tending bar.
3:00 PM – 5:30 PM-------Game 1 will begin showing in the Spud Lounge with postgame festivities.
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM-------Dinner break, I will have a list of local places to eat. There is a new place in Alamosa that made this year’s James Beard Semifinal list for best new restaurants for those that like that stuff.
7:45 PM – 8:30 PM-------Assemble at the east side of the property with libation in hand. As the sun sets you can see alpenglow across the 60 mile long expanse of the Sangre de Cristos which is why they are called that. This will be followed in about 15 minutes by the rise of the super moon over the same mountains.
8:45 PM – 11:30 PM-------Game 2 to be followed by more post game festivities.
August 1
8:00 AM – 3:00 PM-------Open time. Anyone who wants to see the haunted Lafayette Head Compound, Cano’s Towers and Ron Rael's Labyrinth can follow me to breakfast at the Sun Flour Café in Monte Vista and we will proceed to Antonito from there (if Ron is in town I will get him to lead the tour). Other adventures I would recommend for those not wanting to go to Antonito would include, trip to Sand Dunes National Park and adjacent hippie town of Crestone and Colorado Gator Farm, Penitente Canyon with side trip to the Gates of Hell is also nice. There are good breakfast and lunch places in Monte Vista and Del Norte.
3:00 PM – 5:30 PM-------Game 3 to be followed by even more postgame activities.
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM-------Celebrity chef group dinner in the Frontier “snack bar”. It is a very upscale snack bar.
7:45 PM – 8:30 PM-------Again with the damn moon thing. Assemble at the east side of the property with libation in hand. As the sun sets you can see alpenglow across the Sangre de Cristos which is why they are called that. This will be followed in about 15 minutes by the rise of the super moon over the same mountains.
8:45 PM – 11:30 PM-------Game 4 to be followed by more post game festivities.
It will be a celebration of all things KU basketball under the stars in the wide open spaces in one of the most beautiful places on the planet. I am also putting together some "shorts" to show before the games on the big screen. There are the old favorites; the grandma scene from Outlaw Josie Wales, Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, the pregame intro video from AFH. And maybe some seldom seen video of a favorite conservative son's appearance on Tucker Carlson. Did you know that fuckwad Tucker puts his guests in short slouch chairs just to make them look less manly than his ball tanned self on the show? I mean seriously, who would do that to a Jayhawk brother?
If'n you get there a day or two early or stay a day later I might show you around my private trout stream.
As the Archangel Cannabis is wont to say, "Fuck Yeah!". She is a real potty mouth that one.
Consider this your official invite.
I will update this thread as people confirm so you know how many rooms are left.
When: July 31 - Aug 1 these dates are important because they coincide with the Super Moon
A hypothetical question was posed on a KU sports/shit talk message board, "if you could get together with a group of your imaginary internet friends and watch the four "greatest" KU basketball games of all time, what games would you choose?". A short list of 10-12 games was quickly put together. The second question was "if these games could be watched on a 1950's era drive-in movie screen out in the high desert of Colorado, would you attend?". There was an enthusiastic response.
The dates were given to me by the Archangel Cannabis last summer. I was at the drive-in for a film screening with friends during the 2022 summer Super Moon. The angel came unto me and said, "Fuck Yeah!" as the moon was rising over the Sangre de Cristo mountains. On a side note this may be the same angel who appeared to my boy Cano Espinosa and told him to build his towers in nearby Antonito. It wasn't until the idea of the KU Basketball get together under the stars was hatched that the full meaning of what Cannabis said unto me that fateful night was fully understood.
I will reserve the entire Frontier (10 yurts and 4 quonsets) for those two dates. You can place your reservations for a yurt or a quonset with me. Just send me a PM with your contact info. The cost for a yurt for 2 nights is $320 and for a quonset is $380. The quonsets have their own full bathroom, the yurts have a nice heated communal bath/shower facility. If you sign up late and the on-site rooms are taken, there are motels in the nearby towns of Monte Vista and Del Norte. I think from preliminary head count we have about hall of those rooms spoken for in this group, but I have sent invites out to KU folks beyond this group. But let's get real here....if you are coming to this you wanna to stay on site. After the night game is over you can walk across the big lawn and just flop in your room.
This is a schedule of events for the two days.
Proposed Schedule of Festivities for Crimson/Blue Fest 2023
July 31
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM-------Check in at the Frontier and then make your way “downtown” to The Spud Lounge at 342 Worth Street.
11:30 AM – 3:00 PM-------Free Lunch, we will be cooking burgers and brats on the grill behind the Spud Lounge. There will be a keg of Three Barrel Hop Trash and the "Manhattan King" will be tending bar.
3:00 PM – 5:30 PM-------Game 1 will begin showing in the Spud Lounge with postgame festivities.
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM-------Dinner break, I will have a list of local places to eat. There is a new place in Alamosa that made this year’s James Beard Semifinal list for best new restaurants for those that like that stuff.
7:45 PM – 8:30 PM-------Assemble at the east side of the property with libation in hand. As the sun sets you can see alpenglow across the 60 mile long expanse of the Sangre de Cristos which is why they are called that. This will be followed in about 15 minutes by the rise of the super moon over the same mountains.
8:45 PM – 11:30 PM-------Game 2 to be followed by more post game festivities.
August 1
8:00 AM – 3:00 PM-------Open time. Anyone who wants to see the haunted Lafayette Head Compound, Cano’s Towers and Ron Rael's Labyrinth can follow me to breakfast at the Sun Flour Café in Monte Vista and we will proceed to Antonito from there (if Ron is in town I will get him to lead the tour). Other adventures I would recommend for those not wanting to go to Antonito would include, trip to Sand Dunes National Park and adjacent hippie town of Crestone and Colorado Gator Farm, Penitente Canyon with side trip to the Gates of Hell is also nice. There are good breakfast and lunch places in Monte Vista and Del Norte.
3:00 PM – 5:30 PM-------Game 3 to be followed by even more postgame activities.
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM-------Celebrity chef group dinner in the Frontier “snack bar”. It is a very upscale snack bar.
7:45 PM – 8:30 PM-------Again with the damn moon thing. Assemble at the east side of the property with libation in hand. As the sun sets you can see alpenglow across the Sangre de Cristos which is why they are called that. This will be followed in about 15 minutes by the rise of the super moon over the same mountains.
8:45 PM – 11:30 PM-------Game 4 to be followed by more post game festivities.
It will be a celebration of all things KU basketball under the stars in the wide open spaces in one of the most beautiful places on the planet. I am also putting together some "shorts" to show before the games on the big screen. There are the old favorites; the grandma scene from Outlaw Josie Wales, Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, the pregame intro video from AFH. And maybe some seldom seen video of a favorite conservative son's appearance on Tucker Carlson. Did you know that fuckwad Tucker puts his guests in short slouch chairs just to make them look less manly than his ball tanned self on the show? I mean seriously, who would do that to a Jayhawk brother?
If'n you get there a day or two early or stay a day later I might show you around my private trout stream.
As the Archangel Cannabis is wont to say, "Fuck Yeah!". She is a real potty mouth that one.
Consider this your official invite.
I will update this thread as people confirm so you know how many rooms are left.