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First he conquered reality TV.

Then the aisles of Payless and the beauty sections of Victoria’s Secret.

Now? Your coffee break.

The Christian Siriano-designed Starbucks card is officially available, starting this week.

It’s good news for those who like to charge their orange mocha frappuccinos on a festive silver palm-sized card featuring the signature of the pint-sized designer.

But it’s bad news for those who are more likely to loose said palm-sized card in their Christian Siriano bags than use them at Starbucks.

Which means that the next step in his quest for world domination is designing a wallet that holds his mini Starbucks gift card…

Holy Caffeine Intake, Batman!

According to AOL, Jolt Cola may soon be stopping production!

The heavy-on-sugar, heavy-on-wakeup drink, which is considered by most as a prelude to Redbull, declared bankruptcy last year, and may not be able to pay off its $5 million debt in time to save its factory.

If Jolt shuts down, we’ll have no choice but to raid Starbucks each and every time we get sleepy.

We got an email today that featured White Trash Charms’ latest offering:

A very detailed, very golden beer can.

The best part is, it’s slightly dented.

As for who would wear it…

*Someone who’s just turned 21

*Someone who’s moving to Wisconsin

*Someone who won a shotgunning competition

*Someone who’s just landed a supporting role on Greek?

You can buy it at whitetrashcharms.com

We missed National Peace Day, but we’ve had no problem getting into Sake Week.

Yes, that’s right, Sake Week.

Like Shark Week, only with less blood.

SushiSamba (which holds the award for most premium sakes in a New York City restaurant) opened its vaults last night, filling up glasses with some of the finest rice wine around.

If there isn’t one in your city to help you celebrate, try a bottle of Zipang’s sparkling sake – the bubbles are like a party in your mouth…

Or maybe that’s just the sake talking.

Last night, my friend Ellen stopped by with some Pick Your Nose party cups.

They’re regular cardboard cups, but with graphics of very distinct noses on each side.

When you take a sip of your drink, the cup makes you look like you’ve got an entirely different profile -

More specifically, it makes you look like Hagrid from Harry Potter, or maybe Cyrano De Bergerac on a really bad day.

We had some fun with them at left.

If you want to try them for yourself, they’re $8.99 a set at Perpetual Kid.

Yesterday, we find out that Magic Hat’s making a Living Dead brew.

Today, NotCot steers us to the Canadian beer Becks, who’ve teamed up with Ladyhawke for a series of limited edition bottles.

The beer tastes the same, but the labels are way cooler -

Illustrations of wolves, moons, and tribal rock goddesses dancing their way around each bottle.

They’ve even got a Pop-Up shop in London to celebrate the unlikely collaboration.

We wonder – wistfully – if the booze will be free at Ladyhawke’s next concert…

Last month, we tried the “human” version of True Blood.

Despite ravenously loving the TV show, the drink didn’t really do it for us.

But maybe this new beer from Magic Hat will satisfy our blood thirst.

Dedicated to Night of the Living Dead, it’s covered in skulls, has a glow-in-the-dark box, and comes brewed with a slightly reddish tint.

Hey Eric Northman, can we buy you a drink?

When we first heard that Absolut was launching a new limited edition flavor inspired by Boston, we wondered what it would taste like.

Baked beans?

 Cranberries?

 Clam chowd-ah?

 Turns out, it’s something even better: black tea and elderflower.

We found this out first hand when Absolut Boston invaded the NYLON office for a Thursday evening cocktail party.

Boston Blackberry martinis and Beantown Mules were the drinks of the hour, and though we couldn’t invite you all over to try it out, it’s pretty easy to make it at home – especially since we swiped their recipe card…xxRebecca

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A lot of weird stuff comes into the NYLON office every day, so it’s tough to phase us.

In fact, just this morning, we’ve gotten a giant bucket of Sharpie markers, a scarf and socks from Caufield Preparatory, about two hundred invitations to Fashion Week whatevers, and, um, that giant cooler that’s underneath Rebecca.

It’s called a Jagermeister Shot Cooler, and the top actually holds eight shot glasses upright when it’s closed.

The cooler also has a tiny pump at the bottom where you can pour the liquor.

We’re not sure what we’ll do with the giant box yet (it’s basically up to Rebecca if she wants to lug it home to Brooklyn or pop it open during a moment of Fashion Week exhaustion), but one thing’s for sure:

Marvin can never again make fun of Faran for keeping a small keg of Newcastle under her desk.

Anyway, seriously, she needs it.

This summer, I was lucky enough to get a table at Macao Trading Co., the Chinese-Portuguese fusion restaurant in Tribeca that’s really very special.

For starters, it’s the only place in NYC (and maybe anywhere except Macao, an island known as China’s first – and last – colonized city) where you can get clams in black bean sauce… and clams in chorico.

It’s also got one of the largest collections of antique Asian pornography and sex toys in America. Yes. You can see it on display in the downstairs bar and various restrooms around the restaurant.

And then there’s the signature drink, called Dr. Funk

I drank two in about ten minutes, and immediately needed the recipe.

Fortunately, the bar wizards at Macao were okay with sharing their secrets:

Mekong Thai Rum served tall (Tom Collins Glass)
Splash of Grenadine
Ginger beer to taste
Fresh Fruit
Topped off with mint
Drizzle of Absinthe

Now good luck finding Mekong rum…

xo faran