I still miss the Pier View Diner. Before local zillionaire Larry Ellison bought it four years ago and promptly shut it down, it was Malibu's last divey restaurant and bar, with roadhouse food, cheap drinks and, in their halcyon days, Pam Anderson and Tommy Lee in heat.

Something new is in the works now, something exclusive and pricey, another step away from the original 'Bu. And because I've been sick for a week and not taking great pix, I'm leaving this snapshot, taken from the end of the Malibu pier, as an IOU.