As you all know by now: I love a fashion surprise. Thank you Harper’s Bazaar for conceiving something so brilliantly bizarre as this spread in the August issue with the all-American family soon to be on the silver screen, The Simpsons. Illustrated by The Simpsons layout artist, Julius Preite, these fun-filled pages feature the cast […]

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I’m not a “Simpsons” addict like some of my crew, but this is cute. To tie-in with the new flick, a handful of 7-Elevens around the country are being transformed into Kwik-E Marts like Apu runs . That’s hot. This might be the summer of pop culture hotness. This, and the Transformers (so hot, big robots and chases) and I saw “Live Free or Die Hard” over the weekend and it was fierce. Ok, it was really dumb but exactly what I want in a summer movie. I want hot stunts. And karate kicking. And cars driving through elevators. And Americans running and screaming as some gay hacker mastermind plays with the traffic lights. Why can’t they pull that off in “Evening”? Meryl needs to do an action flick, and “The River Wild” wasn’t cutting it. Oh right, the Simpsons -

The monthlong promotion has been rumored a long time — it’s hard to keep a secret known by so many suppliers and franchisees — but 7-Eleven managed to keep the locations of the stores quiet until early Sunday morning. That’s when the exteriors of 11 U.S. stores and one in Canada were flocked in industrial foam and given new signs to replicate the animated look of Kwik-E-Marts.

The U.S. locations where a 7-Eleven store was transformed into a Kwik-E-Mart are New York City; Chicago; Dallas; Denver; Burbank, Calif.; Los Angeles; Henderson, Nev.; Orlando; Mountain View, Calif.; Seattle; and Bladensburg, Md.

Screw you, Henderson, Nevada!