I celebrated the 4th of July at a true American institution.. the Kwik-E-Mart !

to promote the upcoming Simpson’s movie, twelve 7-11 stores across the country got a kwik-e-makeover and luckily surprisingly a denver location was selected. it was fantastic!

i had a squishee (not a slurpee) and i bought a bunch of crap!

Kylie went too!

The only problem is that it was a frickin’ freak show down there. it was packed, and they have security guards outside, and those poor employees dealing with the lookie-loos. of course they will be able to sell their kwik-e-mart employee shirts in a month on ebay for a nice bonus. so they were actually totally sold out of all the simpson’s merchandise. but one of the Apu’s told us that all the 7-11’s are selling the stuff so we just went to a different location which had some simpsons decorations but was otherwise normal and they had shelves full of “KrustyO’s” and “BUZZ cola,” but sadly no “DUFF beer”.

and just like with the Simpsons themselves, the magic is in the subtleties..

(it’s a container at the check out for donations to “Krusty’s Kids,” and it says “up to 7% goes to actual children”)

you should check out all my Kwik-E-Pics on flickr, especially you poor suckers who don’t have a Kwik-E-Mart near you!

anywhooo, happy 4th and oh yeah, The Simpsons Movie opens july 27th (felt i was obligated to provide that little plug).