Anything Goes

Robert Rodriguez did the background for the "Anything Goes" poster that Sutton Foster is sitting on! Saw the show last night and wow! I tap danced home! Really fun and utterly delightful - go see it! Best, Piper

Coco Masuda

This is a fun way to show our support for Japan. All profits go to aid for Japanese people. Please check out Coco's online shop.

No Voice

This month's April cover is about the struggles of unionized workers. It's interesting that at the beginning of the twenty-first century, it feels like the nineteenth. The very upper levels of American society seem set on draining every last drop out of the country. It's the teachers, firefighters, police, and other unionized labours that are the bones of a civil society which are now again under attack. As their voices are stripped away, tax breaks for the upper incomes over $200,000, are renewed. The common good of a community seems too much of an expanse for the wealthy to contribute to on a proportional basis. It's playing out in the state capitals across the USA. The cover story is about the events in Wisconsin.

Please help the Japanese people.

I just gave to Save the Children to help survivors of the terrible earthquake and tsunami in Japan. You can too!

also visit Coco Masuda's shop for another way to help while spreading the word and encouraging everyone to donate - even $20 will help if enough of us chip in.

Thanks Pat

Regan Dunnick's New Bag

Here is Martha Stewart with my bag. She describes it as "Most Excellent" . Obviously she is a big " Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" fan!

T is for Taj Mahal

T is for Taj Mahal available at your local bookstore and on Amazon next week!

LA Weekly

Art director Darrick Rainey asked Brian Zick to illustrate this week's LA WEEKLY in the old airbrush style of the 60's and 70's.
Brian's work has been digital for years.... does anyone still use the evil airbrush??