Inquiries from a seaside town

Is there a better life than beach bum?
Does a better deal exist than $4 domestic pitchers at Avenue Bar?
Is the ashtray the perfect dinner table centerpiece?
Will the bikini ever lose sex appeal?
Is anything more stimulating than a courtside lounge chair at a doubles women’s volleyball tournament?
Why can’t I tan?
Should Santa Cruz change its city motto to “Terribly kind to drunks”?
Will the Sharks break .500?
Is snogging on a hillside balcony overlooking the sky and ocean the perfect way to view the dusk?
Will the carnie that pulled the plug on our visit to “The Great Water Race” (shoot the water gun into the clown’s mouth) after twelve of us turned our guns on eachother and engaged in the mother of all water battles please take a walk off a high cliff?
Is it ok to feel 15 at 35?
Having spent 30 minutes in front of a TV with cable, madly flipping, is there a better show than “Breaking Bonaduce”?
Why aren’t all breakfasts served in bed?
Why are UCSC college girls so young and pretty?
Are suede boots here to stay? Please?
Are Avenue Bar barmaids the most seductive women in state?
Is there a more perfect intersection than Pacific and Laurel (Avenue Bar, Taco Haven, Foster’s Freeze, Asti, Pelegrosi’s)?
Isn’t it wonderful when the tourists stop coming?
Why do hippy chicks age better than non-hippy chicks?
Is any man’s singing voice better than that of a woman’s?
Why does one take vacations if returning from them is so damn miserable?
Was the gay guy who played five T Rex songs after he hogged the jukebox and assented to my request pissed he didn’t get any off me?
Are the Pogues translatable to any kind of American music? It’s all two chords, right?
Why was the surprise party Friday night actually surprising and wonderful?
Kind, conniving women are wonderful, no?
Will 512 Second Street be there forever?
Will the bus strike continue? If it does, will everyone still walk everywhere in bikinis and flip-flops?
Will life keep getting better?