A few weeks ago, while in Chicago, Timothy and I ended up at the Old Town Pub for what was one of the best dance parties I’d been to in a long time. As we were getting down in the dive bar turned crowded, sweaty, discotheque, I looked to my left and saw Brandy and Mike from Hit and Run in Los Angeles. Whoa….what a strange place to run into friends. They had just started their cross-country trip silk-screening custom T-shirts at “I Want it Like This” Red Stripe Parties.
Sure enough, a couple weeks later, they were coming to New York City. We worked out some ice cream slinging and pulled up on Wooster with a couple/few hundred treats on board. The line outside was a few dozen deep and once someone broke the seal, everyone wanted an ice cream sandwich. Briana, Berto, Fred, and Tessely all showed up to help out. The pace was pretty standard til people started exiting and heading straight to the ice cream truck. The party was up six flights of stairs and it was a bit warm and moist upstairs so by the time people got outside, ice cream looked like the best thing in the world to them.
I had to run up and say hi to Brandy and Mike. Once I got up the six flights, I realized I’d forgot to bring them ice cream….d’oh. Next time up, I forgot my camera…double d’oh. Well, at least the people who were helping make the t-shirts got a little treat. Hung out for just a bit, said hi to a couple friends, then headed back to the truck.
One of the managers for Red Stripe headed down and asked us to fill up boxes with cream for the people waiting in line to get their T-shirts made. Do to being in Brooklyn and not having a place to plug Bessie in, I only had the exact amount I thought we’d need for the night. We filled up what we could, kept a couple dozen on board for last call then skipped out once we gave away the last Mucha Lucha popsicle.
If anyone has pics of them in their Hit and Run shirts, send ’em over and I’ll post ’em here.
The “I Want it Like This” tour runs through the end of the month. Check the Red Stripe site for more info.
