If anyone ever writes a Guidebook to Supernatural San Diego, one chapter will have to be set on the bluff in Encinitas where the coastline takes a bend eastward. The Self-Realization Fellowship owns about 13 …
October 20, 1994
News & Stories
Those who knew Yogananda — Encinitas' swami
Try to imagine nothing
Dear Matt: My friend and I were having a discussion about life in general, and we decided that we need to know why there is any stuff in the universe. Why is there anything instead …
October 20, 1994
It's okay to deface a penny
Dear Matthew: On vacation recently, I saw a machine that for 50 cents squashed a penny into a thin copper disk with a picture of the Golden Gate Bridge on it. I remember my dad …
October 20, 1994
Be proud of the term Yankee
Dear Matthew Alice: My in-laws recently came to visit from Ireland. When my mum made the remark, “That’s a Yank for you!” I said something derogatory regarding Micks. Where did we assume the name Yankee …
October 20, 1994
Pacifica Strings, one of San Diego’s few long-lived string quartets
Unlike, say, rock-and-roll bands, classical musicians in a quartet are not required to exhibit personalities as they perform. A tuxedoed homogeneity and a serious sameness of expression will do nicely, thank you. If the performers …
October 20, 1994
Why hatters were considered mad
Dear Matthew Alice: Where did the expression “mad as a hatter” come from? What’s a hatter, and why is a hatter so pissed off? — Don’t Get It, San Diego You sure don’t, Don’t. The …
October 20, 1994
Disenchanted sportswriter Jeff Savage tells all – Padres, Chargers, Copley Press
Since the merger on February 2,1992, 11 people have left the U-T sports department. One distraught sportswriter says he spends the first hour every morning chanting to himself, “Don’t quit today. Don’t quit today. Don’t quit today.”
October 20, 1994