David, our founder and buyer for the store, was in Las Vegas earlier this week at the Project trade show.  It was very hot and smoke from the fires surrounding LA was visible in the air over the Valley of the Sun, some 200 miles away.  Some TV reports I saw had the smoke partially blocking out the sun as far as Denver.   Yesterday I was in Chinatown here in Los Angeles and 5pm looked like 7pm, as the smoke eclipsed the sun.

This posting will mostly have nothing to do with fashion, music or pop culture. It's about Labor Day  It's been interesting being in Los Angeles this past week, the dog days of August/first week of September, the scene was at times apocalyptic, as this time-lapse video clip shows.   This weekend, while many of us will enjoy a long weekend with BBQs, trips to the beach or lakes, many will toil in relative obscurity in shops, restaurants, hotels, gas stations, hospitals and airports to make our long weekend possible.  In this part of the country, the labor of a few truly make this weekend possible, and I think the television pictures over the last week make it clear who I am referring to.

Labor Day is about different things to different people.  I think this year it is about sacrifice and dedication, at least for us here at Awesome Avenue.