I guess if one had ingested enough Bacardi Limón, or any type of rum for that matter, the Twin Towers might have looked a little wobbly. Furthermore, if one is prone to hallucination while under the influence of alcohol then the moon could certainly look a slice of an orange.
Bacardi Limón’s Wobbly Twin Towers
I found this ad on the back page of a 1998 issue of People magazine, one of many magazines and other materials I am purging from my living space.
Years ago I discarded most of my horded copies of The New Yorker, saving only the covers, which I now intend to throw away. Somewhere around here, filed away in a place so special and so secret that I have no idea where it is, is a separate stack of those covers from the 1990s in which the Twin Towers appeared. For all the derision heaped on those structures for their architectural bluntness they were also used as playthings and material by artists and advertising agencies. I seem to remember as many as a half dozen New Yorker covers from the 1990s which invoked the Twin Towers in humorous or playful ways, though my memory could be off base.
The only one of these covers I can find online at the moment happens to be my favorite from November, 1999, in which 5 women of sky-high fashion are seen wearing skyscrapers on their heads. The Twin Towers are joined by the Chrysler, Sony, and Empire State Buildings in a fanciful sartorial fantasy in which high society meets the B-52s. What an amazing thing it would be if such hats actually existed:
New Yorker Twin Towers Cover, 1999
