"No, no. Think of the doughnut as a metaphor for Capitalism."

Hubert, neal, and i flung open the lid of the dumpster underneath the white circle of the steet light to reveal the holy grail of krispy kreme doughnuts. Don't worry. This isn't our first doughnut heist. We threw the boxes of fattening delights through the crisp October night air going from hand to hand into the car until it we had to look out our rear view mirrors were rendered useless.

"I know what im gettin' all my friends for Christmas..." chuckled Neal.

"Would you like a doughnut, Hubert?" I asked my finger in a motherese voice.

He didnt respond.

He never does...

I loaded myself with 2 doughnuts and let the world spin.

I have a low doughnut tolerance.

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-Xanga post of mine, dated October 2006

So I rushed home to see the fam for a couple nights over the fall break and managed to slip into this stop-motion project with my bro. The local gas station gave us the doughnut for free.

I sometimes miss living in a small town.

I used the above old blog post as a rough idea for the stop-motion, except the consumption of said doughnut takes me through an experience.

A More Current Currency

The alliteration in the title of this post is mostly for the joy of alliteration (which is abundant). I would say they're not so much more current as they are more attentive to the history of the US' wealth.

The existing bills are already historical, but as we know, it's problematic to point to a specific history of individuals and call it the history of a nation.

Also, the architecture and the language pictured on the existing bills connects our image as a country with Roman antiquity. This is certainly accurate in its comparison. It could be said, I suppose, that what these redesigned bills do is try to depict the implications of that connection.