Two Bloggers, One Surname

A couple weekends ago I spent a portion today meeting two fellow bloggers–one from the other side of the world, and one from…er…Brooklyn–one Mr. Jamie Boud, who had kindly been putting up one Mr. Daniel Boud, who was visiting from Australia.

I’ve been following Daniel’s work on his blog and on the Flickr for quite some time, so it was great to finally meet him in person. Unbeknownst to me, we were actually at the same random loft-party gig where Apache Beat and Cut Off Your Hands (yes, a real band name, and yes, they wear oh-so-emo stripped shirts) the night before I met him for brunch.

Daniel blew the Backseat Blogger and my mind when he showed us some Australian money. Did you know that Australian money is A. MADE OF PLASTIC and B. Has Queen Elizabeth on some of the bills? Crazy. I’ve never seen plastic money in my life, but it’s the greatest thing EVER! You can dunk it in water and it comes out crisp and unharmed. You can crumple it up into a little ball and it just snaps back into shape. Why isn’t all money plastic?

money
Photo by MV

9 Responses to Two Bloggers, One Surname

  1. 1. alyse | 11:53 pm on April 6th, 2007

    new zealand also the no tear, dunk in water money. more colorful and even wackier. canada also has the queen all over it’s money too. and they say they’re independent! pshaw! ;)

  2. 2. spamber | 2:50 am on April 7th, 2007

    hey hey hey.. we are independent!
    that bitch signed away her rights in 1982..

    and she’s only on our $20.00 bill..

  3. 3. Michele | 10:33 am on April 7th, 2007

    daniel boud is a great photographer

  4. 4. Anonymous | 8:00 am on April 8th, 2007

    Here in Brazil we also have plastic money!

  5. 5. Angus | 4:53 pm on April 8th, 2007

    You know your country has great currency when you can to for a swim at the beach with a 50 in your swimming costume.

    Also, I found a 20 floating next to me at the beach once!

  6. 6. Anonymous | 6:46 pm on April 8th, 2007

    mv is hot.

  7. 7. Molly | 3:04 am on April 9th, 2007

    uh huh. When you come home (to Australia) from O.S opening your wallet is like going to a Klaxons show.

    That’s why we aussies take about an hour when we try to pay for stuff in the U.S. We’re confused. Our money is coloured and sized and washable.

    But the good thing is laundry is a less expensive exercise over here. My money comes out fine.

  8. 8. kristen. | 6:58 am on April 9th, 2007

    australia is the greatest!!

  9. 9. Anonymous | 1:43 am on April 10th, 2007

    Even Romania has plastic money, dudes. Get with it!