It's the Fourth of July- our nation's 235th birthday. Like many other Americans, my family is celebrating by going to a parade in the morning, the beach in the afternoon, and a cookout and fireworks in the evening.
I was yapping about my URLs for some of my other sites yesterday. My new pet project is All Around, a crudely constructed web comic featuring a wisecracking computer. The Hot Dog Truck is an underlying theme. I plan on updating it a couple of times a week. It's kind of a pet project for me, but it would be nice if someone actually read it! Here's a sample (click the image to view full size):
Please, give All Around a look.
My daughter was looking at the silliness over at a new site I'm fiddling with called All Around. I've been goofing around with a comic strip generator over at Witty Comics and she wanted to give it a whirl. Here's what she came up with. Click the comic to enlarge.
The animation is pretty pedestrian but it's a real easy site to use. That's probably why I like it.
Here's a recent All Around Strip:
I had so much fun fiddling with the comic strip generator at Witty Comics, I decided to start a new site called ALL AROUND to put them on. Check it out!
Here is the second installment of the ridiculously funny new comic, ALL AROUND. This strip will chronicle the insanity that grips fans of the Hot Dog Truck and how they cope with their addiction to the best hot dogs anywhere!
Loyal followers of the site may "get" some of the jokes while other jokes may only be funny to patrons of the Hot Dog Truck. I will publish these comics on a semi-regular basis as inspiration strikes me.
Enjoy.
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I found a fun comic strip generator at Witty Comics today. There are a bunch of sites that allow you to create a comic strip, this is the first one I tried. I'd been thinking about making a regular comic strip for the Hot Dog Truck for a while now and this is my first attempt. You probably need to click on the comic to read it!
Kevin from Horizon Technology pulled up in this stylin' Mercedes today-he must be selling the heck out of the hardware over there! Kevin is one of my new "regulars" and likes to chat about youth coaching (he's a football guy) and all the silliness that goes on at his workplace.
Apparently the sales crew over there has a lot of fun goofing around and joking with each other.
Since it is Opening Day for the Red Sox, Kevin decided to celebrate with 2 "all around" dogs!
Today was a gorgeous day, 70 degrees and the hot dog lovers are coming out of the woodwork!
This lovely Red Sox fan was havin' a good day!
Here's another happy Sox fan with "Red Sox" spelled in Japanese on his shirt. (Further translation found the shirt to say "My mother dresses me funny"). This guy's buddy is a former Hot Dog Man from Worcester. I guess that makes me "the Hot Dog Man's Hot Dog Man!"
Fred from Coldwell Banker is a hard core, year 'round regular. Here he is enjoying his standard "two all around brown" dogs. Fred owes me about $320.00 for STRAWS! (Straws are 8 bucks at the Hot Dog Truck and he never pays). Fred is going to be PO'd when he sees this picture!
Here's Fred's lunch: YUMMY!
The good weather means the folks at BOSE finally crawl out of their cubes and come on down for hot dogs. BOSE World HQ is right around the corner from my truck. When the picnic tables are out, they conduct meetings there! This guy bravely takes a bite out of a chili dog for the camera. I must say people look pretty goofy eating hot dogs!
These two guys (also from BOSE) are regulars but they tend not to venture out on the REALLY COLD days. The guy on the right gets two RED and WHITE dogs (Ketchup and Mayo). There really is no good explanation why someone would put ketchup and mayo on a hot dog-there must be some trauma in his childhood manifesting itself by ruining good hot dogs with KETCHUP!
The guy on the left switches it up a lot-sometimes going for a burger, sometimes dogs. Today he got two BLONDS (Chili, Onion and Mustard). This hot dog name is courtesy of a gal from LA who suggested that name here (she's sooo naughty!) Many people who work at BOSE are also musicians and guy on the left is too. He's in a Grateful Dead
I am revamping my menu for the spring (no more crayon scribbled on torn cardboard) and I want to "name" my hot dogs. I figure a menu with catchy names for the hot dogs would be cool. For instance mustard, relish and onion is called "All Around," a plain hot dog is a "naked puppy," etc.
Today I had this hot dog for lunch:
It has chili, onions and mustard (it was delicious!)
OK people, Name that hot dog!
OK SO I SCREWED UP THE COMPANY NAME, so sue me.... Apparently the company name is Horizon Technology, not Horizon Technologies. If Jeff didn't talk with his mouth full, I'd have gotten it right. I just hope Jeff annunciates better when he's making his sales calls.......
There's this guy, Jeff, who comes by the Hot Dog Truck 3-4 times a week (hey, he knows where to get the best lunch in town!) I must say he's a trooper-out in rain, snow, wind, cold and sunny days (like today). He works at Horizon Technology in Framingham, right around the corner from the Hot Dog Truck. He gets two "All Around" as a rule, though one time he had the Sausage when I had run out of Hot dogs! 
While he does like the food, he mostly comes by to get away from his slave driving sales manager and the relentless, productivity killing and harrassing phone calls from the boys in the home office out in Lake Forest. It seems the Hot Dog Truck has become a bit of a company cult classic as Jeff constantly raves about the delectable dogs he so frequently snarfs down. While I haven't seen Hans yet, 
I hope to meet more of the gang at Horizon and hip them to the joys of the best damn hot dogs on the planet! For all you guys at the Home Office, enjoy the pics of Jeff's thrilling, favorite lunchtime spot!
Can you beat this price? I DON'T THINK SO!
