The Bahooka

While looking for pictures of the Bahooka on the internet, I’ve enjoyed discovering a number of Tiki websites and blogs. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that, supposedly, some scenes in “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” were filmed in the Bahooka.

N. and I went to the Bahooka for dinner last Friday night. It was the first time I’d been there since my bachelor party in June, and the first time I’d eaten there in about ten years. I ate ham. There was so much I had to bring it home. They brought us warm little wet towels to wipe ourselves down with, just like in Bali.

The enthusiasm about moving back to L.A. is really beginning to rouse itself, build and take form. I hope I can go to Trader Vic’s somehow; is it closed yet? This year I’ll be on hand to go with my grandma to the little market to buy yards of tripe for her New Year’s Day menudo (I never eat it, I just like going to buy the tripe). I’ll be able to resume work on my Super 8 film “The Skulls”.

But a real bummer is Florendo’s departure for Boston. It’s terrifying to imagine all the fun that I’ll miss out on in L.A. without his tips and suggestions. But if he wasn’t splitting then I couldn’t have his job and I’d still be in San Diego.