Jesus Juice
7 November 2005 by Sean
From the good folks over at Smoking Gun.
Snippet:
Westlake and Rheins filed to trademark the “Jesus Juice” name in January 2004, two months after the entertainer was arrested and days after news outlets first reported that Jackson used the term “Jesus Juice” when referring to wine he allegedly gave minors.
On October 1, Westlake and Rheins provided USPTO officials–who are still reviewing the trademark application–with a copy of the proposed “Jesus Juice” logo, which features a photo of a barely clad man with a sequined glove, shiny loafers, stringy hair, and a black fedora that obscures his face.
7 November 2005, on 9:23 pm
Yeah, I thought that looked like M.J.
They aren’t really considering patenting this are they?
Because if they are, what’s sick is that people will actually drink this crap.
Speaking of Michael Jackson, have you seen the video on LiquidGeneration.com?
They have a funny spoof on Michael Jackson and McCauley Caulkin. You should check it out.
7 November 2005, on 10:38 pm
Haven’t seen the vid yet. Will go check it out.
I don’t think you can patent something like this. It’s not an invention, just a trademark.
Hey, if they hook up with a good winemaker, who is to say that the wine will be crap?
8 November 2005, on 2:39 pm
So essentially, another charlatan (Jackson) has used jeebus to manipulate the weak minded to benifit his own sick cause… hmmm… sounds like every organized religion I know of.
8 November 2005, on 4:21 pm
Hate to disagree, but I think this is a stroke of genius. Anything that makes fun of Michael Jackson and Christianity simultaneously is great. Wise-asses like me would buy it just to have the funny label. Shiite Baptists have no room to complain; their book says Jesus turned water into wine. But the tight-asses at the Trademark Office will probably reject this. Oh well.
8 November 2005, on 5:49 pm
Disagree with who …I’d love to bring a bottle over my fanatic xian brother’s house for dinner… he’d probably shit his pants trying to figure out if he should be offended or not.
10 November 2005, on 2:22 pm
This is greed at it’s worst. They should be run out of business as they have no original ideas and this one is absolutely distasteful. No one should be able to profit off anything that came out of that trial, as a matter of fact, isn’t it time to let it and all the sordid details go and get back to your own boring lives?!
11 November 2005, on 9:28 am
isn’t it time to let it and all the sordid details go and get back to your own boring lives?!
Wow… I never thought of it like that, Debi. Thanks, you’re right. I’m leaving now. You guys talk about how evil religion is and how they want to push their magic into schools. I’m going to go back to being a regular Rockstar now…
HEEE-HEEE! OWW!
15 November 2005, on 9:21 am
Ryan – rock on
15 November 2005, on 10:52 am
Chris,
Wow, you have a fanatic xian brother too? Small world, isn’t it?