September 08

Alecia Beth Moore's Birthday
 

     

When Alecia Moore went to see the film Reservoir Dogs (1992) with several of her friends, one of them laughingly mentioned that she resembled the character Mr. Pink (played by Steve Buscemi) because of her tomboy attitude towards life. So when she left her all girl trio Choice in 1998 to start her solo career, she remembered their girlish conversation and decided to make Pink her stage name.

Her debut solo album "Can't Take Me Home" sold more than five million copies, and scored her first top-10 hit, "There You Go."  She then recorded a remake of the the LaBelle song "
Lady Marmalade" with Mya, Christine Aguilera, and Lil' Kim for the film Moulin Rouge (2001) which won Pink her first Grammy Award. Pink has sold more than thirty million albums, won five MTV Video Music Awards and two Grammies. She was rated No.13 on the list of Artists of the Decade and No.1 Pop Song Artist of the Decade (2000–2009). She has also scored eleven Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 US hits, including eight as a solo artist, and has won three Grammy Awards,  and five MTV Video Music Awards  Pink has been  rated by Forbes Magazine as number 27 in their Celebrity 100 of the one hundred most powerful celebrities.

But among all of her litany of hits. the one that we love the most is her music video "Stupid Girls" in which she Parodied Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie .Lindsay Lohan, Mary-Kate Olsen, and several other celebrities and celebutants who were poor choices as role models for young girls, We also applaud her for her countless charity work especially for the Human Rights Campaign, ONE Campaign, Run for the Cure Foundation, Save the Children, Take Back the Night, UNICEF, and PETA.

Pink married freestyle motocross motorcycle racer Carey Hart who was also a cast member on the fifth season of the VH1 reality show The Surreal Life.  After four years of dating, Pink proposed to Hart in 2005 via a pit board during one of his races in Mammoth Lakes, California. She was holding a sign saying "Will you marry me?" Initially, Hart ignored her and completed another lap of the race. Only when Pink changed the sign and held it up again with it now saying, "I'm serious," did Carey pull out of the race to pick Pink up.

We debated on the perfect recipe to celebrate Pink's birthday. When she commented that would win on "'Survivor" as long as she didn't have to eat bugs, we considered Bug Lady Tofu Pate. But we couldn't recommend that for one of our favorite artists. So we recommend toasting her with a Pink Panties Cocktail while watching her cameo in Rollerball (2002) as a leather babe lip-syncing "Feel So Numb" before the games begin. In fact we suggest making two of these cocktails so you can enjoy a pair of pink panties.
 

Pink Panties Cocktail
 

ingredients
 

 
1/2 ounce vodka
1/2 ounce pink lemonade
 
Whipped cream  

 

Instructions
 

Combine these ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice and shake them well. Strain into a shot glass.
© 2011 Gordon Nary and Tyler Stokes