Over the break I found myself at the local bar in my hometown. They had one specialty cocktail on the menu: KC's Pumpkin Pie — a concoction consisting of homemade pumpkin liqueur and Dr. Pepper, topped off with whipped cream.
Although it was a far cry from the expertly mixed cocktails I normally sip in San Francisco, I decided to give the drink a try.
Could you do the same?
Dr. Pepper For Everybody! (If Axl Rose Releases GNR Album)
Dr. Pepper says it will give a free can of Dr. Pepper to "everyone in America" (excluding ex-GNR members Slash and Buckethead) if Chinese Democracy arrives anytime during the calendar year 2008.
Thanks to Tay Zonday, the little croaker that could, cherry-chocolate rain is in the air. The viral video star sold out to the Dr. Pepper folks and got bikini-clad backup dancers, rapper sidekicks, and some mouth gold in return. Fame may have changed our talentless train wreck, but a couple things remain the same: zero sex appeal and surreal lyrics. Yup, he's still not got it. What a relief.
Who else remembers using Dr. Pepper lip balm? It's still around (a steal at just $1.60) and soon it will have much more company: The number of food-inspired beauty products is about to swell.
Lotta Luv is a company that creates cosmetics with a junk-food bent. It makes licensed lip balms inspired by foods that would make a dentist blush: Dairy Queen fudge sundaes, Pez, Twinkies, Snapple juice drinks, Twizzlers, Jelly Belly and at least another dozen sweet-tooth staples. WWD reports that a few new products are on the way. Cold Stone Creamery will have sliding-tin balms that will be sold at the ice cream shops nationwide, and a cute, vintagey Hershey's cocoa bath and body collection is in the works.
Okay, I can see the appeal of those items. But I'm scratching my head over a licensing agreement with McDonald's, with products due next year. I'm trying to figure out which McDo menu items could translate into cosmetic products. Most likely it'll be the chocolate shake and apple pie, but who knows? We could see McNugget lip balms or Filet O'Fish body polish. Personally, I don't know if I would trust Ronald to stock my beauty arsenal; that red lipstick never really did flatter him...
Well, this has to be one of the weirdest examples of music promotion I've ever heard. Starting May 24, generic alterna-rockers Cartel will climb inside a giant bubble at the Hudson River Park in New York, where the band will spend 20 days recording its second album. In keeping with the bubble theme, Dr. Pepper is sponsoring the so-called Band in a Bubble event, which will be streamed live on Web cams before airing as a four-show reality series on MTV.
According to the band's web site:
Cartel will enter the bubble during a live MTV broadcast on May 24 and live there with no escape until the bubble “bursts” on June 12, when they will perform new material in a concert event on the pier. ... "This is huge for us," says Cartel frontman Will Pugh.
If by "huge" he means "huge as a giant bubble," then I suppose Pugh is right on. But I don't know if this media event will really be all that major, so read more
The answer? Well, Giggle's asking the question, so what do think? (Thanks for the tip, AdFreak!)
