Mark LaFlamme is a Sun Journal news reporter and columnist and the author of several works of fiction. He sleeps until noon each day and regrets nothing. Mark has several exciting hobbies, all of which are none of your business. Seriously, you don’t want to know. This page is a collection of his Street Talk and Talk of the Town columns.
Street Talk
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August 17, 2023Street Talk: That's the thing about this whole explosion of communication services. If all the best sources are hanging out on one of those newfangled apps and webpages, I have to be there, too.
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August 9, 2023Street Talk: And so instead of dealing with shootings and car wrecks and tales of pain and woe at the end of the week, I spent my time on the tail of a menacing creature of unknown origin.
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Street Talk: We've got supercomputers small enough to tuck into our pockets. We've got bug-looking cameras that fly around in the sky and we've got artificial intelligence writing term papers and composing music. All of that and yet no food in pill form to eliminate the need for inconvenient eating.
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July 22, 2023Street Talk: It remains to be seen if the people of Lewiston will ever grow to love "the rock" in Kennedy Park like they've grown to love the zebra on the Canal Street parking garage.
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Street Talk: Unsolved deaths of a suspicious nature are specters that gnaw at the collective memories of the community. They haunt and haunt and haunt.
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July 5, 2023Street Talk: The biggest horror of them all in this sordid affair is that there seems to be no one in the world at all able or willing to extricate Riley from the ongoing nightmare.
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Street Talk: I'll never understand why a person would want to end his own suffering by inflicting suffering upon another.
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June 20, 2023Street Talk: One-on-one interviews may not be the meat and potatoes of a news story, but they are definitely the carrots and peas.
Talk of the Town
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Talk of the Town: It's easy to confuse me with Carietta White, I know.
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Talk of the town: I'm Luke Flyvakker and vengeance is mine! Wooann ... wooann ... wooann ...
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August 13, 2023Talk of the Town: They've got us vacuuming, cursing, drinking them, dodging our wives and twerking. Powerful little suckers really.
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Talk of the town: All rants, diatribes and tirades ... well, except for that tangle of lady underthings.
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July 23, 2023Talk of the Town: I already had a nice little island picked out. The lottery's rigged.
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Talk of the Town: A new daddy, unmentionable ring worms and unclaimed cocaine.
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July 14, 2023Talk of the Town: We apparently have given up on lighting off firecrackers and hindquarters.
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Talk of the Town: Buffed bumpers, advanced physics, Bactine, trouser terror. When it rains . . .