“It’s a favorite dumpster raiding spot. People out wandering, it’s something you get used to. It’s not that I want to choose that lifestyle, but it’s not that I don’t want it around me either.”
Thursday, June 24
Dear Matthew Alice: My bicycle's tires go flat if I don't ride my bike for a couple of months. Would they go flat just as fast if I rode my bike regularly during that period? …
Dear Matthew Alice: What is Ross Perot's real first name, and why has this information been so carefully suppressed in the media? — Curious, Clairemont If you promise this will stay just between the two …
Mr. Matthew Alice: Hibernation: to pass the winter in a torpid or resting state. Aestivation: to pass the summer in a torpid or resting state. Question: What creatures aestivate? Thank you. — George H. Roberts, …
Matt: When my dog smiles, is he really smiling? He is practically human. He looks like he’s smiling, but I don’t know.... Do you? — Bob G., El Cajon That sort of grimace, when Bowser’s …
The monster jobs broke almost immediately. After brushing up on a few knockouts, it was off to Lawrence Welk’s for an 80-unit. Then a two-lift monster in Oceanside, then a three-lift monster in Corona,
Thursday, June 17
Schwartz-Nobel responds that she took Betty’s word “on faith — because from my perspective, What was important here was not whether [Linda] was 19 or 21, but what was underneath. What really happened to these people....”
Dear Matthew Alice: Settle an argument. Does it really do any good to run from your car to your house when it’s raining? Do you actually stay drier or do you just run into more …
“We’ll have to knock him out first, so he doesn’t call the federales before we reach Tijuana.” We approached the VW. Stooping down beside it, I picked up a rock the size of a baseball
Dear Matt Alice: Where do farts come from? Why am I so damn flatulent, especially post coitus? — Senor Nerve Gas, San Diego My sympathies to your girlfriend, amigo. But not to worry. Medical science …
Thursday, June 10
My thoughts drift to the squirrel woman. Where did she get those bruises? Where is she sleeping tonight? The other people. The little artist I met this morning, probably passing this night on El Cajon Boulevard.
Nick bought his heroin at Fifth and Main. The dealer slipped him a pebble-sized ball wrapped in balloon rubber. Nick put the pebble in his mouth and palmed off 15 bucks. Every deal downtown was …
Thursday, June 3
These people have been among us for centuries. They can be found, emerging from the coal mines of a Zola novel, reaping the season’s harvest in a Millet painting, in any number of works by Van Gogh.
Dear MA: San Diego has busy-looking clouds — and not just the “marine layer” type, although they’re the worst. Local clouds invariably look dirty, dingy, and depressing, as if they were composed of coagulated Riverside …
Hi, Matt: Why when I buy my container of chocolate milk every morning is it thick and smooth? When I make it at home it’s thin and watery. What’s the difference? — Robert B., San …
If people get carpal tunnel syndrome from repetitive motions, why don’t we get it from writing the same 26 letters of the alphabet over and over again during our lives? — Cindy A., in an …