Clapboard - Full Frontal Nerdity

Matt Loewen works in Hollywood now (only ONE job these days---a departure from his usual 3-4 jobs at a time...he's really turning into a slacker...:-)) and because of this fun fact, and my constant desire to do things in H-wood, we decided to make it a somewhat regular thing to grab dinner or drinks when he gets out of work.  Loewen (as I'll refer to him for the rest of this post---too many goddamn Matts in this world!!) met up with Matt (!) and I @ the intersection of Cherokee and Hollywood and walked down the boulevard for a bit, uncertain about our choice for dinner. We decided on Tekila, a mexican restaurant that used to be a DIFFERENT Mexican restaurant (oh Hollywood and your changeovers). It's right on Hollywood Blvd--connected to a little courtyard filled with other restaurants, bars, and I think a club--all future fodder for this blog.

Last Thursday Matt and I drove up the 101 to Topanga Canyon and took the winding road straight to the PCH (I suppose that's the only place it really goes---besides Topanga State Park and the main thouroughfare of Topanga, which are both along the way). Our normal choice of beach is Zuma, some 30 miles north of Malibu. We've been going there so long that I forgot there are other public beaches all the way up the Malibu coast, none of which I've ever set foot apon. Combined with my desire to go to the Reel Inn, a fish shack just off Topanga on the PCH- this seemed like the perfect opportunity to kill two birds with one stone.