There were a few birthdays yesterday, but the one I celebrated belonged to a friend of mine who lives out in the middle of friggin' nowhere out here in Cali.

Anyway, she charged out here with a couple friends and, failing the shopping trip because the late hour, we hit the beach.

There's certainly something to be said for watching three girls playing around in the waves, at night, not too far from the Santa Monica pier.

Afterwards, we went to Velvet, where I got my groove on, we hit as many $1 drinks as we could before the clock ticked 11pm, stumbled across a few people I wasn't expecting to see, and lost two games of pool.

The night took a turn for the more interesting, though, when we hit the strip club over on La Brea. A quick cover, a few drinks, and topless girls...one of whom had the good taste to dance to Tool's Stinkfist. Money was tossed about. I think our birthday girl fell a little hard for the blonde Russian that gave her a table dance. Heh. Girls in lust as just too cute.

Capped it off with a bite over at the Yukon Mining Co, which was almost entirely empty except for the odd couple chatting with the two transgendered ladies on the other side of the room. The food was actually pretty decent, as was the service, so I can certainly recommend it to all the late-night folks looking for a Denny's alternative in West Hollywood.

Anyway, all in all, I certainly had a good time and it was a cool alternative to how I'd spent the first part of my day.