As governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger has the privilege of picking California's commemorative state quarter. I blogged about it in a panic last fall sometime. Were you worried what design he would pick for the state quarter? What?! No?? You say you thought it was a trivial issue in times like these? Well, a lot you know. A state's quarter is looked at by the whole world. We'll be judged by our quarter. If California were saddled with a silly-looking art deco quarter, our credit rating would go right down the toilet. And it is Arnold we're talking about here.
But fear not. Good taste prevailed.
I credit Maria.
poor connecticut, our quarter was well-intended (eg, a tree) but such a flop. the tree is just so busy and twiggy, the coin ends up looking like a play money, at best one of your lesser video arcade tokens. the fucking project, all fifty of em, what a missed opportunity. i mean, start from a blank slate, you can do anything you want, anything at all... what about color? texture (little coils of razor wire?) sound, smell, taste for crissakes? like new jersey could have a hard little turd, wb such a hit. calif, i don't know, little chunks of c4, the military-industrial state?
Posted by: orionoir | March 30, 2004 at 04:57 AM
All good ideas, or at least interesting! But you sell CT's quarter short. I like the big tree!
Posted by: pam | March 30, 2004 at 06:25 AM
Hey at least your quarter wasn't vetoed by the mint like Ohio's was. Now, admittedly, we used the quarter as another salvo against upstart North Carolina in the battle to claim the Wright Brothers, but still!
Posted by: Bob O'Shaughnessy | March 30, 2004 at 03:33 PM