"The label was red, the text white

sovay wrote about a dream she had that featured a bottle of beer:

I dreamed of reading a story printed on the label of a bottle of beer; it ended apocalyptically, with the ghosts of slaughtered whales and other, increasingly less identifiable leviathans passing in endless procession down the road to the sea. The label was red, the text white. I remember just the last half of the last line: "and watched the road burning, which was America."

I can't stop thinking about this. It makes me

(1) want to invent beer names (always a fun thing to do)
(2) create beer labels (potentially a fun thing to do?)
(3) write a poem ending in that line .... so many poems could end in that line these days

My brain isn't reaching to a poem, but I made a beer label. Behold:



Very weirdly coincidentally, the beer we had this evening matched the color scheme she described:



(Sorry for the unedited snapshot--complete with stove time stamp, LOL)

and speaking of beer and art...

For sheer magnificence, nothing beats the art on this limited-edition (celebrating the brand's fortieth anniversary) can of Medalla beer. We had some on our trip to Puerto Rico and brought two empty cans back with us (but the photo below is not mine; all photos were swiped randomly off the internet). The artist is Alexis Díaz:



This can is just one in a series. About the series, Díaz says, "All the designs were made inspired by Puerto Rico, by its people and all that we are as Puerto Ricans. By the tenacity we have to fight for our homeland, by the icons that represent us, which in this case would be the Puerto Rican jíbaro [peasant farmer], the countryside, the beach, the dance, the maga flower."
(Source)

Here's the whole series:


How about that octopus woman dancer!!



And I love this hummingbird with a halo:



In this 30-second ad you can see the designs semi-animated, and this 4-minute video shows you lots of examples of Alexis Días's art. He's mainly a muralist, and he's done murals all over the world.