Fashion arrest There’s a photo gone viral on the Internet of a woman whose attire happens to match the hotel hallway in which she’s standing. The last I looked, the photo had been viewed over 3 million times. How is it that this lady is an overnight celebrity, whereas every time I post a photo […]
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Street Talk: Partying like it’s 1985
If I ever stumble over a genie somewhere and get 10 wishes, one of them is going to be this: I want to travel back to the ’80s for a week. For a day — even just an hour. How long could it possibly take to adequately re-live the cheesy, neon hair-fest that was the […]
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Hoverboards & Don McLean: 8 miles high and falling fast
Lewiston to vote on hoverboards Come on. Tell me this doesn’t sound like a headline Michael J. Fox might have encountered in one of the “Back to the Future” sequels. It’s such a tantalizingly futuristic sounding thing that it borders on cheesy, yet there it is, a real-world situation that needs to be addressed. This […]
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Street Talk: The secrets that you keep
I’ve seen some weird stuff. Priests caught soliciting prostitutes, beloved teachers peddling drugs, kindly old men accused of atrocities. Everywhere you look you find good guys gone bad and the next one is just around the corner. It’s a shocking business, all right, but I don’t think I was truly thunderstruck in this job until […]
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Talk of the town: Turn and face the strange
Big money The Powerball jackpot got up over a billion dollars before some jerks across the country won it. A BILLION dang dollars, as in a 1 followed by nine zeroes. Unless you happen to be a major corporation or a small country whose name nobody can pronounce, you probably have no real grasp of […]
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Street Talk: Street names for all!
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. My favorite street name, back when I worked in that world, was “Boo.” It’s short, it’s easy to remember, and if you say it just right during the commission of a street crime, it can cause comical fright among your fellow hooligans. Great fun. When your […]
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Talk of the town: He who smelt it dealt it
Look away, I’m hideous A schoolteacher formerly known as Mrs. Morton called with the suspicion that I was her student in third grade back in 1964. She came to this conclusion after seeing my photo that accompanies my newspaper column, which to me is very distressing. Since I wasn’t born until 1967, the idea that […]
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Street Talk: Remembering the good times when you people knew nothing
People used to look me up all the time to get what I had. It didn’t matter the hour of day or time of year. Christmas Eve just before midnight? Ring, ring, ring. “Bunch of cops just went flying by my house,” my late-night caller would say. “What are you hearing?” So, I’d click on […]
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Talk of the town: The Mad Trapper of Rat River and other tales
Start me up It’s ironic that after years of getting ridiculed for riding my motorcycle in sloppy winter weather, this year it seems like everyone is out on a bike while mine sits in the garage. I have a starter problem, and just you shut up about it. Happens to all guys after they start […]
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Street Talk: The art of checking out
The mission is important and I take it very seriously. In my hands I’m clutching three cans of cat food, a carton of half ‘n half, a bag of chopped walnuts and a jar of peanut butter. If I’m not in my car and headed for home in three minutes or less, I’ll consider this […]