THIS IS WHAT ONE KIND OF BAD ASTHMA ATTACK IS LIKE. At half-past midnight on a November night in 1991, my stomach suddenly felt uneasy. This was hardly unusual. For the past month, barely a …
May 16, 1996
News & Stories
Why San Diego asthmatics won't take their meds
My war with watches and clocks
Dear Matthew Alice: All my life I have adversely affected timepieces. Any clock that spends time near me gradually slows and eventually stops keeping time altogether. The process takes about five to ten months, no …
May 16, 1996
The balls on power lines at I-15 and Poway Rd. are so obvious
To: Matmail: What are those beach ball-shaped things that are strung on high-voltage power lines, such as the lines that cross I-15 at Poway Road? They are so obvious and so seemingly without purpose that …
May 16, 1996
I want to be Matthew Alice for a day
To: Matthew Alice: You've got the life. As I hang out reading your stuff. I’m thinking, “I want to be you.” Seems to me like a pretty good life. One catch. What do you make? …
May 16, 1996