Italian coin.

I can't stop drawing and posting, it's becoming an obsession.

"This is my SECOND FAVORITE COIN in the whole world. My absolute favorite coin was a British Pound that I lost a few years back. It was the only coin I ever felt bad about losing. I got both of them on a trip to Europe when I was eighteen, back before the rise of the Euro. I was digging through some scraps from that trip the other day and stumbled across my collection of coins. I decided to start bringing this one with me wherever I go from now on for two reasons: 1. Italian things are classy. I feel a little more refined when I rock the L. 500 piece. And 2. the outer ring is silverish but the inside looks like copper. Any coin that can go 2-tone is gravy in my book. Sometimes I lament living in the United States because our money is so lame. It doesn't help that I live near the Money Museum, where I can go to covet other countries' currency whenever I get the mood. I really wonder how many people besides numismatists ever think about the design of money. I also wonder how many people out there walk around carrying a defunct currency."

Another new word!

In an effort to bring back much of the designer's mystique that has been lost through the advent of desktop publishing, I've decided to employ the same technique of the Renaissance Masters: make up fancy Italian words. Introducing:

moltovachiccino (mol-toe-vah-KEY-chee-no): drop shadow

Yusssss!!! I have mysterious techniques! Give me more money! Be sure to use this word whenever possible, people will be impressed and slightly intimidated. That's probably it for today, enjoy your Monday and remember: "Ballroom dancer" isn't that impressive. I know some people who can learn to do that in eight weeks.