Labor Day weekend in Malibu was crazy. There's no other way to describe it. Well, there are other ways to talk about the heat and the gridlock and the millions of near-naked people who swarmed the beaches and boy, am I tempted, but my mother reads this blog so I'll just stick with crazy. (Hi, Mom!)

Here's what a heat-wave sunrise looks like from the bluff in Paradise Cove where yesterday, even the birds were panting. (Another photo here.)