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A.P.C.’s surplus store is hosting an overstock sale Friday through Sunday, 10/30-11/1, featuring 80% off past seasons’ stock and samples.

Saks Fifth Ave Friends & Family event starts online on 10/13/09, and starts in stores on 10/15/09.

For saks.com orders, use Code FRIENDS2 at checkout.

For in-store purchases, click here to print your invitation.

Sigh…I miss NYC…

If you were one of the models who stripped down to her skivvies in the Rose Bar last Thursday night, you might have been caught on film. A source told Page Six, “the air conditioning was on the fritz” at the swanky lounge in the Gramercy Park Hotel, and the usual revelers began losing their cocktail dresses. “Some ended up fully topless, while others were only in lingerie,” said our source, who added that documentary filmmaker Douglas Keeve shot some video and is putting the footage up on YouTube today.

My wallet is going to be empty really soon…

Summer’s not over yet, but our Blowout Sale almost is. Starting Friday, July 10th, shop Opening Ceremony New York, LA, and Online for even deeper discounts of our limited collections. Enjoy 50-70% off designers like Acne, Alexander Herchcovitch, Band of Outsiders, Fifth Avenue Shoe Repair, Final Home, Hussein Chalayan, N. Hoolywood, Nom de Guerre, Patrik Ervell, Peter Pilotto, Rachel Comey, Rodarte, Stephan Schneider, Toga, Tsumori Chisato, United Bamboo, Whyred, Zucca, Opening Ceremony, and many more.

I just looked and their entire selection of Band of Outsiders is on sale.

My favorite store just announced an additional markdown.   There is a growing lightness in my wallet already!

The days of looking for your cell phone charger are over! Earlier this year at the Consumer Electronics Show Powermat launched this cool product which can charge your cell phone, camera, video game system and even laptop simply by resting the device on the mat – no cords or plugs involved! Why can’t I come up with these simple, ingenious ideas? As they say, you can come up with a thousand terrible ideas, but if your 1001st is brilliant then you can still end up a billionaire.

 
Just in time for this great country’s birthday, British researchers announced the discovery of a rare original copy of America’s Declaration of Independence.  An original copy was recently found in the National Archives in Kew, England.  The print, part of the series of copies known collectively as the Dunlap Broadside, were the first copies of the Declaration of Independence. They were printed by John Dunlap of Philadelphia and distributed to political and military leaders, including George Washington, and dispatched throughout the colonies to be read to the public. National Archives officials said they weren’t sure how the Declaration of Independence copy ended up there.  As for its value?  The last one found was sold at an auction for $8.14 million in 2000.

For those who haven’t seen the new movie Star Wars: Revenge of the Fallen, allow me to summarize…

1. Megan Fox leans over a motorcycle

2. New robots are introduced, such as The Fallen (hence the title)…

3. …and Rampage

4. Megan Fox appears scantily clad in several scenes

5. Stuff blows up

6. More gratuitous scenes with Megan Fox, who does a lot of running and almost falls out of her top

7. Ginormous final battle takes place (in Egypt!!)

8. More stuff blows up

9. Megan Fox thankfully survives and will undoubtedly appear in the next movie

 

Hopefully next time around her top won’t be as secure.

“When the show got to be No. 3, I figured it was our acting. When it got to be No. 1, I decided it could only be because none of us wears a bra.”
- Farrah Fawcett, on Charlie’s Angels