Peter Max

It's the way they worded it, and this is the New York Times.

It said, included in this half-billion-dollar total, Reuters reported, is a claim from losses sustained on work by a pop artist, Peter Max, whose work on paper are said to have been stored in a warehouse.

But they write on paper because...

They might still be out there and might get sold 20 years from now.

And there are other ones to talk about.

But I am writing about Peter Max.

Do you know him? So Peter Max was really the most prolific and influential artist of our lifetime.

Wow.

And

Yes, you do.

It's already on pre-order on

Amazon, and it's called Saving Liberty, Peter Max and His Five Muses.

And oh, I still can't remember it.

Peter Max.

Peter Max.

And you knew Peter Max? I did.

Oh, I see.

You were bringing knowledge to bear here.

I'm like, they were using the fucking color range tool back in the day.

I got really emotional the other day when I posted the Peter Max thing on Instagram.

I got really, really like, like my eyes like started to water when I listened to like the demo version of silly love songs.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

Sunshine lists out candidates Chuck Berry, Peter Max, Shea, who I believe must refer to Shea Guevara.

Yeah.

Timothy Leary, Ringo, Baba Ram Dass, Spider-Man.

Uh, uh, for the grand opening, of course, it was like a radio row of all the stations.

You know, we were there, and, uh, you know, people were stopping by, from Yoko Ono to Peter Max down down the line.

But you know what? The concert for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, when people say to me, "Best concert you've ever been to," I'm kinda cheating, because look who was there.

But I got to be backstage with the late, great Mike Belkin from the Belkin Brothers, now part of Live Nation.

Happy birthday, Hudson, from Cape Cod.

He shares it with my cousin Elena Bartzen's twin daughters, Anna and Amelia, who are getting a special requested birthday flashback later on, as well as the late Harry Potter actor Michael Gambon, actor John Lithgow, actor Jon Favreau, who turns the big six-oh, YA author Jennifer Lynn Barnes, and the late graphic artist and illustrator Peter Max.

My friend Nina Badame's sister Kate Badame, Kamala Harris, rapper Snoop Dogg, the late rock singer Tom Petty, actor Viggo Mortensen, comedian Dan Folger, TV actress Rachel House, the late TV actor Chance Perdomo, who would've been 30, and the late actor Jerry Orbach all have birthdays on October 20th.

That's the debut date for the One Piece anime, 1995's Now and Then, 2023's Killers of the Flower Moon, 2017's Leatherface, 2006 films Flicka, Pan's Labyrinth, Marie Antoinette, and The Prestige, 2000's Pay It Forward, and 2003's Brother Bear.

Nice.

Um, her initial cover was kind of very Peter Max.

Mm-hmm.

And the, um, and the main character had, like, really bright red lipstick and red nail polish, and I said, "No, no, no.

I think we all did more than likely.

I had a Peter Max notebook.

Wow.

They were calling my Peter Max notebook.

So I don't know where the notebook is.

And that's probably good.