The logo on the California State Parks law enforcement truck is unexpectedly lovely, the center image in brilliant color, with Queen Califia presiding over some of the symbols of our golden state.

I'm at the LA Times Festival of Books today, signing my history of the Port of Los Angeles at the Angel City Press booth at 11 a.m., then moderating a panel of fiction writers, including the remarkably gifted Janet Fitch and Andrew Sean Greer, at 3 p.m. Come on by and say hello.

If I were home in Malibu though, I'd definitely be in line at Crumbs at the Malibu Lumber Yard, where our local branch of the bakery is giving away 1,000 cupcakes today. Send me a nice photo and I'll publish it.