Every now and then
Every now and then the Dresden Dolls show up at your ice cream truck and you are so amazed by it that you forget Neil Gaiman took a photo until you see it a week later and then you’re even more amazed at how cool the whole day was. Every now and then.
Live at the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck
I love, love, love to have live music at the truck. Genres don’t matter… just give me a spirited performance, get some heads turning and feet tapping, and I’m jazzed. There was a kid in line today with a violin case on his back. When he told me that he was in town to do [...]
Sometimes the hardest-working woman in the punk cabaret movement and a guy who writes things show up at your ice cream truck.
You know how it is. On Friday we spotted Neil Gaiman in line; he’d been threatening to stop by, but I thought I had a few more days to dream up an original cone for his arrival. Oops! Think fast! I ran through all of his book titles and characters as I was making cones [...]
Ouch!
My truck is undergoing (or so I’m told) some serious mechanical work. For the last two days I’ve been using a loaner truck. The good? The ice cream machine works great. The bad? It’s meant for a hobbit! There is nearly no working space, and I can’t stand up straight (see photo) and thus the [...]
We were on the TV box!
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This Friday: Twitter followers can win cacao nibs from Scharffen Berger. Here is how.
When temperatures hit 100F recently, we broke out one of our favorite refreshing concoctions. Take a dish of vanilla ice cream, add a very light yet potent peppermint syrup and sprinkle on some cacao nibs. Remember the television ads for York Peppermint Patties? Now I believe! Since inception we’ve used products from Scharffen Berger: their nibs and [...]
