Cru Jones Society

Horse racing has been called “The Sport of Kings.” If you were to judge horse racing solely by my experiences, you might as well call it the “The Sport of King’s Cup.” If there’s horse racing going on and I’m involved, E Dagger’s probably drunk out of his gourd.

You read about the misadventures in mint julep making and celebrity Derby Day coverage last May. You didn’t read about the huge CJS Field Trip to the Motherland where on a bar crawl of our hometown we watched Big Brown choke away the Triple Crown in craptacular fashion where his owner sweated like some sort of farm animal on slaughter day (None of us could find the wherewithal to muster up enough energy to relive the ridiculous binge drinking of that day.) And you’re about to read about my trip to Del Mar where I played the ponies, Lady E came up big, and four people further defiled their livers in the name of fun. Good times all around. Come on in! Continue Reading »

Every town has a historical figure celebrity; either one that was born in the town, like Cincinnati and Taft; or moved to the town and did something important, comparable to Larry Bird in Boston; or they died in the town; the way Davy Crockett did in San Antonio. The town I grew up in, Golden, CO, has William Frederick Cody. Perhaps you know him better as Buffalo Bill, perhaps you have never heard of him at all. Golden-ites have heard of him, and love him so much that four days every summer are dedicated to his memory. These four days are known as “Buffalo Bill Days.”

Almost every year I lived in Golden, I would make my way downtown and partake in the festivities. Then I moved away and haven’t attended “Buffalo Bill Days” since 2000. So eight years later I decided it was time to experience it again. Now I would like to share with you the events I partook in, and just exactly how enjoyable they were. Continue Reading »

(Warning: This is another long post by E Dagger. Just wanted to get that out there before we start.) 

Wake up. 7:30 in the morning. What the hell am I doing up this early? Water World doesn’t open until 10:00 and it only takes about 20 minutes to get there. Oh right, I live with Lady E and she’s got an actual job to go to this morning. She looks pissed. Eh, pissed is probably too strong. Maybe annoyed. Possibly not entirely awake. But definitely at least mildly perturbed. And why shouldn’t she be? She’s got a long day of phone calls and meeting people and I’m spending the day at the greatest water park on earth. Continue Reading »

Christmas morning. Of all the days, hell, of all the portions of days on the calendar, this is probably the day kids look forward to most (with the possible temporary exception of the afternoon on the last day of school). The anticipation, the merriment, the copious of amounts of toys, games, and candy, and the guilt-free nature of the unabashed materialism of it all makes it the best day of the year for a kid. If I interviewed 100 kids, I’d bet that 95 of them would tell me that Christmas Day is their favorite day of the year with 3 kids choosing their birthdays as the best, and one weird, fat kid who likes Halloween above the rest.

And then there’d be that one totally bizarre kid who didn’t choose any of the above and instead marked the day he went to Water World each year as the most awesomely excellent circled date on the calendar hands down, case closed, argument over.

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It’s only taken a month but finally an article about beer.

Nectar of the Gods!

This past Saturday I, along with Keithage and my little sis, took a trip to Ft. Collins, Colorado, with one purpose in mind, to tour the breweries of the town. It’s very possible there are many more breweries than the ones we planned on visiting, but we were only intending to tour these four: New Belgium, Odell Brewing Company, Ft. Collins Brewery, and Anheuser-Busch.

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A word of warning right off the bat: This is an extremely long post. At last count, 14 single-spaced pages in Word. I’ve broken this post into sub-headings, so if you don’t feel like reading the whole thing, go by the headings. I’ve broken down my latest trip to Las Vegas into Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down ratings to accurately convey where you should and shouldn’t go and what you should and shouldn’t do. This is my eighth trip to Las Vegas in four years, so I have a decent handle on where to go and what to do. See if you agree with my assessment. Did your favorite place make the list? Read on and find out…

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