Katie and the gang over at Cheap Thrills invited me and the kids to do a co-review highlighting some of our favorite summer treats. You can check out their submission, Culver’s Frozen Custard, below.
Naturally, I jumped at the chance to introduce you guys to one of the hidden treasures of our little neighborhood — Bahama Bucks!
Bucks is sort of like Jimmy Buffett’s own sno-cone stand. It serves sno-cones and tropical smoothies, some coffee drinks, and you can even get mixed fruit cups there if you’d like. They specialize in all the fruity flavors of the Caribbean, and feature plenty of faux-rum, faux-daiquiri, and faux-colada treats. Take a look at their menu. It’s huge. And there’s a pickle juice sno-cone. Cheeseburger in Paradise, anyone?
And you can also buy snow balls there. Year round!
Come experience some summer zest with Team Tobyblog and the Cheap Thrills crew!
From a respectful write-up on Texas Frightmare Weekend by Dread Central:
Continue Reading »Can we stop calling Texas Frightmare Weekend a “regional con” now? The first reader I met this year was Aaron from Australia, who had flown all the way here to experience TFW as his FIRST con.
Straight off a Dollar Store shelf at the lovely Grapevine Mills Mall in Grapevine, Texas, and stocked just a few bins over from the storied Orchard Skittles, comes Kranky Candy, the coffee dusted confection you will soon come to know and love. Is it an afternoon snack? A breakfast substitute? Repurposed industrial by-product? You decide.
Joining me in his first proper appearance* on Tobyblog is my good friend Brian Hammons of ReviewTheWorld.com.
Together we sample.
We discover.
And we bring our findings to the world. Enjoy.
(* The beer review, shot as it was on an already shaky stomach, and with a lame furtive effort to avoid being spotted by the patrolling cops, hardly counts. -TJM)
Join TheVCubeSolver and I as we discuss the recently announced NX project from Nintendo, a new and novel system that could be the successor to the beleaguered Wii U. But what exactly is it? For the moment, all we can do is guess. But I think we have some good ideas.
Dr. Channard from Hellraiser II, in all his glory
Collector’s Crypt is a boutique shop in Dallas specializing in horror and sci-fi collectibles, memorabilia, paraphernalia, and… well, you just gotta see it, folks. It’s an amazing place. I discovered them only recently after attending the St. Patrick’s Slay Weekend event at Dark Hour Haunted House in Plano. They were a sponsor of that particular show, so Dark Hour graciously gave them some floor space to sell a few wares after the show and otherwise promote the store. Now it’s not like Dallas has a whole lot of shops like this; in fact, I cannot think of one other. So it piqued my interest. I noticed that they are located only a short distance across the river from where I currently work, so I decided to pop in on my next available lunch hour.
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