Jezebel: Vodka

There Is Such A Thing As Marshmallow Vodka, And Amber Rose Is Its Face

Dodai Stewart — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:15:00 EST

Amber Rose is the face of Smirnoff fluffed marshmallow flavored vodka. There are many weird things about that sentence, but the words "marshmallow vodka" are perhaps the most stomach-churning. How kid-friendly! The concept brings to mind barfing gently by a campfire. Amber Rose is also the face of Smirnoff whipped cream vodka, which perhaps might be nice in some kind of milkshake if your goal is to experience brain freeze, heart burn and diarrhea simultaneously. The full ads — as seen in Star and Ok! this week — are below. More »

Vodka Marketing Has Always Been Ridiculous

Erin Gloria Ryan — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 13:32:00 EDT

Nowadays, you can't open your front door in a trendy urban neighborhood without hitting someone vomiting vodka cocktails on your front stoop. Vodka has become the stuff boozy dreams are made of- the fuel for Jersey Shore fist pumping, the gasoline upon which hundreds of disproportionately teary boyfriend/girlfriend arguments run, a clear solution to the problem of sobriety. Our nation's favorite white liquor has become ubiquitous, but it hasn't always been that way. More »

And Now A Personal Grooming Tip From Joan Rivers

Dodai Stewart — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:20:00 EDT

"I always spray my costumes with vodka and water. It's an old Broadway trick — two-thirds water and one-third vodka, spray your armpits and you'll never smell again." More »

Betty White Guzzles Vodka With David Letterman

Dodai Stewart — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:48:00 EST

Letterman asked Betty what she likes to do in her free time; she said, "Play with animals, mostly. And vodka's kind of a hobby." Naturally, Dave busted out a bottle of Grey Goose. More »

Booze Makes Beautiful Art

Dodai Stewart — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:48:00 EST

What you're looking at is Champagne. Michael Davidson creates art by crystallizing drinks on lab slides and using a microscope with a camera attached. Most his images involve alcohol that has been magnified over 1,000 times. More »

Michael Jackson's Version Of Happy Hour

Dodai Stewart — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:40:00 EST

[This image just begs to be forwarded to a friend. As my pal wrote, "He looks so happy!" Thanks to the folks at ONTD for posting it, and making this Monday magnificent.]

Skyy Continues The Vodka=Penis Ad Campaign

Dodai Stewart — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:34:00 EDT

First the brand sucked balls. Now a new Skyy ad makes vodka a sexy phallic symbol around which women wrap their legs. (Although we've seen the bottle in person and it's much smaller.) It's all part of the vodka=cock movement! More »

Study Says: Girls Drink To Forget Problems, Have Fun

Katy Kelleher — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:30:00 EDT

• Teen girls are drinking alcohol! And now that it's almost the holiday weekend, newscasters are going into hysteria-mode. According to an adolescent psychologist, "the numbers are staggering." Use of alcohol, ecstasy, and marijuana are all on the rise. More »

Putting "Cock" In Cocktail: The 14 Most Pervy Vodka Ads

Dodai Stewart — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:00:00 EDT

They say sex sells. But the way ad agencies market vodka, you'd think it was a bottle of hot, throbbing cock instead of water and ethanol. More »

Vodka Is For Cougars; Will Renew Your Masculinity

Irin Carmon — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:40:00 EST

The overlords of advertising seem confused on a very important point: should vodka be girly or manly? Or is it the realm of that strange and exotic creature, the cougar? Millions of dollars hang in the balance. More »

Liquid Assets

Katy Kelleher — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:20:00 EST

Dodai points out that this chart, which compares the relative prices of different liquids, would be more interesting if it included perfume. Also: Breast milk. And when it comes to vodka, are we talking Grey Goose, or Mr. Boston? [BuzzFeed] More »

Swine Brew

Anna Holmes — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:45:00 EDT

Bacon vodka? Take it away, ladies. [The Life Files] More »

Happy Hump Day!

Dodai Stewart — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:10:00 EST

Obama And McCain Meet Rick Warren For The Betterment Of Rick Warren

Megan Carpentier — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:00:00 EDT

Rick Warren is the author of A Purpose Driven Life, which is a book I haven't read nor do I intend to read because I'm a bigger believer in the motivating nature of futility. But lots of people do buy what Rick Warren is selling, so Barack Obama and John McCain schlepped to his California megachurch this weekend for a little conversation witnessed by 5,000 people and a television audience of tens of tens. But that audience included the pundit class with little else to do — i.e., not Spencer Ackerman or me, who have totally busy lives we swear! Our lives were not so busy, however, that we couldn't read everything about the talks afterwards and cut it up like little pieces of meat for you to ingest with a gooey side of Sally Quinn's crazy and the delicious dessert of lobbyists living by the letter, if not remotely the spirit, of the lobbying reform. Yum! More »

Ad Libs

Dodai Stewart — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:20:00 EDT

New billboards for Damskaya, a Russian Vodka aimed at women, (which we've written about before) have hit the metro stations in Moscow. The tagline, "Between us girls," is meant to lure chicks to the booze, because, says Natalya Shumilina, marketing director of the distillery, "In Russia, vodka is definitely a masculine product." But Gennady Onishchenko, Russia's surgeon general, is not pleased. "Most likely, the next step will be infant's vodka for infant consumption," he says. He thinks Russia's consumer protection agency should look into filing charges against the Vodka's distillery for violating consumer rights laws. But here's question: How do we feel about the Marilyn Monroe upskirt shot? [NY Times] More »

Smirnoff Source, The Official Beverage Of Summer 2007

Moe — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:04:49 EDT

Yesterday we read about Paula Abdul drinking a form of alcoholic water at a party. We expect that most of the "water" Paula drinks is alcoholic, but this was different: a spring water with 3.5% alcohol content called Smirnoff Source. Just in time for Lindsay's 21st! A "water" for people who are, you know, "sober"! A Google search revealed that the Source was swilled by none other than Samantha Ronson and Anna Kournikova — beloved by winos AND anas alike! — and that it was somehow, like everything else consumed by Hollywood these days, "green." The only other thing we needed to know was how to get a case sent over to the house as quickly as possible! So we IM-ed intern Cheryl. Who, as it turned out, was familiar with Smirnoff Source already, because when liquor companies launch new beverages she is the sort of drunk who sets trends among other drunks. Her verdict: "It's what you drink when you're done with your 'real' drinks." Like Maker's Mark, you mean? After the jump, her review. More »