Gray Kangaroo News

Still Shipping!

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Esposito) — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:37:00 +0000

So it's Tuesday and we're still shipping GKs!
this week we'll ship all orders the same day they come in (as long as they come in before 3pm EST).
also we're running them to the central hub post office in Philadelphia (which generally takes a day off the shipping time) so keep ordering GKs and maybe you'll get your by Xmas.

Otherwise the GK makes a great "Oh shit-I forgot it was Xmas" present!

HOliday Marketing at its best!

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Esposito) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:37:00 +0000

Our carefully planned a marketing push is exploding with this flier!
Also we'll be shipping all orders USPS priority mail.
the postal service is pretty fast this time of the year and we'll be shipping the orders as they come in. SO if you order by DEC 21 at 3pm EST, we will get your order to the post office by the end of that day, and you should get it before xmas.
Its still the best goddam product on the christing earth!

First Fridays with the Gray Kangaroo at 2424 Sudios in Philadelphia, 10/02/09

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Esposito) — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:16:00 +0000

"Instance, Instants, Distance is the first Friday opening for 2424 Studios. Featuring a wide variety of contemporary artwork from some of Philly’s most talented new artists, tonight is sure to be full of excitement. Exhibits include video, photography, sculpture, paintings, installation, and performance art. Sponsoring the event is Gray Kangaroo Personal Liquor Filters, based out 2424 Studios. We too will be introducing a piece from our own fresh work: “The Vodka Diet” as well as the unveiling of our new original drink The Fishtown Tea Party.

Instance, Instants, Distance is Friday, October 2nd from 6-9 p.m., with POST openings October 3rd and 4th from 12-6 p.m. at 2424 Studios in Fishtown.

2424 is located on the corner of York and Gaul Streets. It is easily accessed from the Berks stop on the Blue Line or any of the five bus stops along York and Frankford Avenues. The area has ample street parking, and has quick and easy access to mass transit from., the El, I-95, as well as various shops, many restaurant selections, and Center City Philadelphia.

Works by: Aki Torii, Alana Bograd, Asher Barkley, The Batsto Collaboration of Artists not from Batsto, Michael Gerald Bauer, Colleen Rudolf, David Allen Walker, Jon Allen, Kevin Richards, Mariya Dimov, Matt Kieltyka, Matthew Bertsch, Robert Scobey, Rodney Thoms, Sarah Jackson-Moore, Simona Josan, Tad Sare, and Tina Zavitsanos.

Sponsored by: Gray Kangaroo Personal Liquor Filters.

New Press Images Page

noreply@blogger.com (Tornado Jack) — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:02:00 +0000

We've got a fancy new press images page here.
You can see some cool new pictures with Amber "Obama Girl" Ettinger.
You can also use these images to make your own boozecash banners and flyers.

A new super-functional website!

noreply@blogger.com (Tornado Jack) — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:14:00 +0000

Hey there pretty lady!!!
We got a new website!!!
Buy some shit!

Google Checkout now accepted..

noreply@blogger.com (Tornado Jack) — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:13:00 +0000

As we are in the process of updating our site to give it a cool cutting edge 2004 type of look. We've submitted further to the electric hydra that is google.

The internet may have ruined the country but apparently people use Google checkout, so now we take it.

A testimonial so good you'd think we wrote it ourselves!

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Esposito) — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:28:00 +0000

I have had this filter for some time, but just now have been able to shoot you an email! We make homemade liquors every year. Limoncello is the main one and to make it we have to use Everclear grain alcohol which we dilute after being steeped. People usually go crazy for my husbands recipe. They say it's better than any stuff you get in a store. My husband has always been a little more critical and he knew that there must be a way to improve the end result but not sure exactly HOW! He had resigned himself to the fact that if he really wanted SUPER PREMIUM Limoncello, smooth and luscious, he would have to use a decent vodka, thus increasing the price of production and making it almost pointless to make. I mean if I have to pay for Sky Vodka, I might as well just buy the Limoncello already made! I knew there must be a better way! After lots of research I found your product and being skeptical, I figured NO Way cant this thing do what it says..but if it does HALF of what it says were in great shape!

i got the thing in the mail and went right out to but a giant $5 bottle of vodka and some nasty tequila. When told the guy at the store what I was doing he thought I was crazy. YOU WANT TO DRINK TRIPLE FILTERED POPOV VODKA??WHYYYY???

Can I tell you that this thing is AMAZING! Everyone loved the filtered vodka and tequila..I mean when I had people taste the before stuff they couldn't believe it was the same! Needless to say this has done amazing things to my Limoncello when i used this on that nasty Everclear! I even had a liquor store who likes to carry boutique brands offer to sell it for me if I could bottle it for sale! Danny Devito thinks he is so cool coming up with the idea to make Limoncello but we have been ahead of him for YEARS..and I must say my Limonecello is way ahead of his in TASTE thanks to YOU! No way he uses super premium liquor to make his...and the benefit of using the Grain alcohol is that you can dilute it to the exact 'proof' you want and we make ours just slightly less potent than rocket fuel!

This thing ROCKS! I am going to sign up for the refills for life program, now because I know I will be buying this for life...SERIOUSLY!

YOU ROCK!!

Julie in Somerville

New Units In! Backorders shipping as we speak!

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Esposito) — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:46:00 +0000

We've received our new shipment of units today. It's a Hanukkah miracle, the units arrived 2 days early!
We are processing backorders, first come first serve, we expect all backordered units to be in the mail by 12/23.

GK Backorder Update.

noreply@blogger.com (Tornado Jack) — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:52:00 +0000

As of 12/21/08 the GK is backordered and has been for some time.

We will be shipping all orders on the 26th or 27th. All orders will be upgraded to priority mail shipping.

We have generated this graphic so that you can print it out and put it in a card.

GET YOUR GIFT CARD HERE

Thank you for sticking with us as we waited for this shipment. If you have previously been a customer of ours you should know that we are usually very prompt in shipping all orders and don’t usually experience this length of backorder.

Friday, Dec 12th - Soltice Holiday Party - Food Drive/Fundraiser Dance Party!

noreply@blogger.com (Tornado Jack) — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:05:00 +0000

Friday, Dec 12th - Soltice Holiday Party - Food Drive/Fundraiser Dance Party!

Gray Kangaroo Sponsored!

Booze for Food! Canned food drive for Philabundance!
Dance party and FUN-raiser for the 941 Theater and the Philadelphia Friends of the Projected Arts!

Come get down and get drunk for a good cause! Dance till you can't! Debauchery for Charity!

With DJ Ginkgo and DJ Mustachio (Electro/Rock/Hip-Hop/Dance mash up!)
&
Live music from Menya (NYC) - Atlantic Records

10pm - $10 or $8 with food donation
All you can drink, local beers and booze!
21 + BYOB

Drink with Mary Poppins and Ghandi

noreply@blogger.com (Tornado Jack) — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:20:00 +0000

CHeck out this cool site where fictional characters review English BARS

"

Screw Hollywood and their damn ban. Here's how the hypocrites all end up anyway. Drunk, dispossessed and maladjusted, reviewing boozers in the UK. It's dis...dis...disgusting:"

www.fallingdownthepub.co.uk

Press COverage: Banned In Hollywood

noreply@blogger.com (Tornado Jack) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:39:00 +0000

Turn Cheap Alcohol Into Top Shelf Alcohol!

February 19, 2008

So you are anxious to start drinking, you go to the store, and the only thing your sorry ass can afford is bottom shelf vodka. You tell your friends that they put the more expensive alcohol in plastic bottles so that if you drop it, it won’t break. And you would be right, they do. It’s a fact. But let’s just say you want to filter your cheap vodka to make it taste (and feel as painless) as the top shelf stuff, you need a little magical contraption that was created by elves in the shire, called the Gray Kangaroo.

Much like Brita filters water, the Gray Kangaroo filters alcohol, and it works. It tastes much better and I’ve noticed a huge improvement on post drinking morning nausea vomitation syndrome, so check it out and get yours at Grey Kangaroo!

They have a 30 day money back guarantee, so what do you have to lose? After all, you’ll get drunk either way.

Gray Kangaroo!

HAppy 4th o July!

noreply@blogger.com (Tornado Jack) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:31:00 +0000

This is what makes this country great!
Hoochie Mama!

GK Press Coverage: Boozemonger

noreply@blogger.com (Tornado Jack) — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:26:00 +0000

Among their 12,000 drink recipes, you'll find this cool write up.

The Gray Kangaroo Personal Liquor Filter - Posted:

The Gray Kangaroo^TM is a unique device - it is the world’s first and only personal liquor filter^TM. It filters inexpensive liquor and gives it qualities of more expensive liquor by removing the impurities which cause bad taste and hangovers.

The Gray Kangaroo^TM is a foot-long carbon filter that works like the elementary school science project where you attached a pair of bottles together with a plastic piece to create a “tornado”. The Gray Kangaroo replaces the plastic piece between the two bottles and contains a replaceable carbon filter. The filtering action removes unwanted organic particles left over from the distilling process which cause the off-taste, headaches and hangovers associated with inexpensive liquor. Originally invented in 2001, the latest version (GK4) works with all hard liquors and is particularly effective for vodka which can be repeatedly filtered up to four times for optimum taste and quality. One GK4 will filter up to 50 liters of liquor and costs $29.95 at Gray Kangaroo. A life time supply of carbon filter refills costs $19.95.

Best Father's Day Advice Ever!

noreply@blogger.com (Tornado Jack) — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:14:00 +0000

Here's a great example of parental behavior from friend-of-the-kangaroo Tommy Pistol and his very pregnant wife Gia Paloma.

Friend of the Kangaroo Jesse Lee shows off her smarts on the Howard Stern Show!

noreply@blogger.com (Tornado Jack) — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:15:00 +0000

Congratulations to sexy man beater, star f-er and apparent genius Jesse Lee for appearing on the Howard Stern Show and smashing the whack pack in a trivia contest.

Jesse used her female smartyness to spell tomorrow and informed us all what year Columbus found America!

And she got to meet Bigfoot it is!

Daily Candy takes a bite out of the Gray Kangaroo!!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Tornado Jack) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:59:00 +0000

Holly Cosmopolitans Miranda!

Daily Candy: the coolest website for hot chicks with cool tudes gave us a big shout out! and then they ran a picture of a wallet. Sorry Jack I guess you're not in this season. But the GK is cause it saves you big money!

Here is the bit from their Father's day newsletter:

Fingers Crossed
He’s a penny pincher. Thankfully, your guests will never know it if he has a Gray Kangaroo, a genius contraption that filters out particulate matter and harmful toxins in cheap booze, leaving delicious, filtered vodka, whiskey, rum, and tequila that tastes like the spenny stuff. Let him at least pinch in style with a Comme des Garçons wallet. If he’s a baseball fanatic, let his fingers do the talking with a pen made from salvaged wooden stadium seats from his favorite team’s ballpark.

It's all true! 100% Real Testimonials!

noreply@blogger.com (Tornado Jack) — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:52:00 +0000

It's a shame that we have to say this but OUR TESTIMONIALS ARE %100 REAL!!!!
Unfortunately we live in a world of sneaky sock-puppets and free online pamphlets on how to market your product virally by pretending to be some hillbilly from Connecticut or a math teacher from Georgia who loves to rave about products on message boards. Well we don't have time for that bullshit here!

All of our testimonials are %100 real, sure there's some stock photography on the testimonials page (we all wish we felt as happy as these goddam people look) but the testimonials are real. Maybe we cleaned up spelling or grammar but shit pal this is the real dope. Because the Gray Kangaroo is awesome.

It's a shame we have to but just to illustrate that there's not one inch of deceit or wormy internet gorilla marketing behind the testimonials page we make you this pledge. If you doubt a testimonial we will prove it's authenticity to you or we will eat your fuckin' hat!!!!!

And while we're on the subject lets highlight some genius edgy ground-breaking wild marketing stolen directly from US! http://www.tastethetruth.com/ The people behind this campaign came up with the wild idea to showcase the quality of vodka by having people spit out the bad vodka in disgust.... from us!
We've been spitting vodka for years! We had so much vodka spitting on our site that we took a bunch of it off because it was gross. imagine how much the ad agency got paid by Pradva to rip off GK marketing. I guarantee that it's more than GK has ever put into marketing! We came up with vodka spitting for free! OMG what a shock the campaign is based in Philla, our home base?!!!? Whoda thunk!

Buy a Gk and drink some cheap vodka without spittin!

More Pictures from the Yelp Event

noreply@blogger.com (Tornado Jack) — Fri, 23 May 2008 11:43:00 +0000

These are even better than the ones we took!

Congratulations Jack!

noreply@blogger.com (Tornado Jack) — Thu, 22 May 2008 21:45:00 +0000

Jack's back has successfully been operated on by doctors in NY!

Say hi to him on his myspace as he recuperates!

Yelp Elite try the GK! Chat Ensues!

noreply@blogger.com (Tornado Jack) — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:09:00 +0000

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Originally uploaded by travelroo2007

Here are pictures from last night's Yelp Elite Event in Philadelphia at Sonam.

Check out the feedback here!

Drink-A-Que with the Phenomenauts, AKAs and Maldroid

noreply@blogger.com (Tornado Jack) — Tue, 06 May 2008 05:34:00 +0000

GK sponsored a Drink-A-Que for the guys before their show at the 941 Theater and premiered our new Vodka Diet Drink which we would call "Leprechaun Piss" but there's already a drink called that, so we had another name, but forgot it. Do you remember it?

Anyway the drink is great the recipe is:

Filtered Vodka
Fresh Squeezed Grapefruit
Blended Mint

When we served it it was on the back porch out of a big plastic jug so we used regular grapefruit juice in addition to the fresh squeezed stuff and loads more vodka to make larger servings, but in a bar or at home it would be served as a martini. It's a very nice drink, like a vodka Mojito with no sugar!

Check out the pics on our Flickr

Taste Tests at the 941 Theater!

noreply@blogger.com (Tornado Jack) — Tue, 06 May 2008 05:31:00 +0000


Behind the scenes at the 941 Theater with Tornado Jack Jack was hanging out backstage at the Big Art Show and he gave some cool people some taste tests! Check it out here!

Backseat Film Festival Galleries!

noreply@blogger.com (Tornado Jack) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:57:00 +0000

The Gray Kangaroo Sponsored Backseat FIlm Festival was a major success!

Check out the wrap up here!

And see the Pictures at the Gray Kangaroo Flickr Here!

Tornado attends the Philly Film Festival with Porn Stars!

noreply@blogger.com (Tornado Jack) — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:41:00 +0000

Tornado Jack attended the Philadelphia Film Festival Screening of the Spank Rock Video "Get Loose", Jack was at the filming of this video and provided the sweet sweet filtered liquor that kept the video awesome!

Check out the photos from the screening and the afterparty here!