Mr. Van Winkle asked the Student Council Reps, to indicate to the classes that if they can convince him through sound logical arguments that they should ride skateboards to school that he will reconsider his position.
September 12, 1991
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A Way of Staying in the Blood: Washington D.C.'s San Diegans
Across the street from the White House on the edge of Lafayette Park. Midnight-wintertime Washington, D.C. It’s a tooth-hurting 15 degrees on the coldest night of the year. “How are you fixed for food? Is …
July 18, 1991
The best place to meet singles in San Diego
I've never felt there was much I could do about making love happen, that is, getting the goods delivered to my door when I needed it. I knew there was some complex mix between how …
May 23, 1991
Life of an El Cajon RV salesman
There are times to dance like a duck, there are times to leave your spouse, there are times to quit your job, there are even times, they say, to drop cluster bombs on strangers; but …
February 21, 1991
San Diego, the meth capital
“I got out of prison this time, and there was no good crystal meth-amphetamine, so I started doing heroin because the quality was there. I ain’t give up on meth. Once it starts getting good again. I’ll go back.”
December 6, 1990
Racing the Baja 500
This lunacy is the Baja 500. It’s an off-road race, for race cars, trucks, motorcycles, ATVs. It’s been going on for 28 years. Mark Thatcher, the British prime minister’s son, ran it in 1982.
September 20, 1990
Reader writer reports from South Africa
June 30, 1990. There was no way I could keep away. Didn’t try, didn’t think of it, wasn’t a consideration. I’m sitting center field, Oakland Coliseum on a searing summer afternoon with 72,000 sweaty, restless …
August 30, 1990
The low-budget horror film of San Diego homelessness
‘Spare change. Spare change,” says the beaten voice of a white, 40ish bum. The man’s oval face has the shaky, unfocused quality of a 1950s porno film. The last distinct lines left on an otherwise …
May 3, 1990
Books: Sandra Dijkstra, what teachers read, play scripts, baseball, airplane books
I’m Talking Monster Books Amy had a title on this book. She called it Wind and Water. She was using the theme of the I Ching. I looked at these synopses of the stories, and …
April 26, 1990
Airplane books kinda like airplane food
LAX. SAN. JFK. You're standing at Gate 27B. You've already checked in for the ugly 12-hour flight to Europe or Africa or South America. Bags loaded, aisle seat assigned, nothing to do now but mill …
April 26, 1990
How They Ended Up In Jacumba
“Well, we don’t have cable TV out here, but we do have our tourists. It’s a much nicer lifestyle than Manhattan. I have friends who come out from New York, look around and say, Are you okay?’"
April 19, 1990