You ever get the sense you're missing something? Here at the old dead-tree factory we try to catch a breeze from the falling of the axe, and over at WHYY-FM, they're throwing ice cream parties.

I was over there recording a commentary for next Sunday's Weekend Edition (my driving while texting rant/confession) and as I was walking back to the paper, I passed a room filled with shiny happy people eating free ice cream.

It gets more depressing. They were celebrating the launch of a new Bassett's flavor called The WHYY Experience.

(What would The Inquirer Experience taste like? Stale coffee and salt? Easy now, we have a sensitive objectionable-material filter.)

The new flavor, to be introduced Saturday at Bassett's Reading Terminal space, involves vanilla ice cream, chocolate covered pretzel balls and butterscotch. A listener named Sean O'Halloran of Oreland, Pa. created it.

A press guy named Jeff Bundy was scooping out the new flavor, and afterward forwarded these details of the event, which is held Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.:

Be among the first people to taste The WHYY Experience - Bassetts' newest ice cream flavor - at the 2008 Ultimate Philadelphia Ice Cream Festival. WHYY's Ed Cunningham will emcee this cool event, which includes appearances by PBS Kids character Clifford the Big Red Dog and activities for the kids provided by WHYY's Children's Service.

This all makes me wonder ...

What would the Philadelphia Experience taste like? I searched for images of a cheesesteak cone and came up empty.

The Mike Nutter Experience?

Somebody?