Talk of the Town: Buffed bumpers, advanced physics, Bactine, trouser terror. When it rains . . .
Mark LaFlamme
Mark LaFlamme: Suicide’s unwitting players have to live with the trauma
Street Talk: I’ll never understand why a person would want to end his own suffering by inflicting suffering upon another.
Mark LaFlamme: It’s not so much what you said but the way you said it
Talk of the Town: Rain. Breezy tussles. Higher math. Jilted lovers. What a week. How about a do-over?
Mark LaFlamme: Do you want to be an award-winning reporter? Write this down.
Street Talk: One-on-one interviews may not be the meat and potatoes of a news story, but they are definitely the carrots and peas.
Mark LaFlamme: The pod people are among us
Talk of the town: Public confessions, zombifying flowers, only eating after dark and so much more.
Mark LaFlamme: What to yell in a crowded theater?
Street Talk: Fire is one of the most powerful forces on earth and yet, at best, we have two synonyms suitable for use when writing about it.
Mark LaFlamme: Sure is quiet around here but don’t you dare say that around police
Street Talk: Police are a superstitious lot and as far as they’re concerned, any utterance of the Q-word is bound to cause mayhem and ought to be a felony.
Mark LaFlamme: Plant your corn early
Talk of the Town: Good times for yard drinking, bees, meat lovers and Sheriff Eric Samson.
Mark LaFlamme: A former ‘putz’s’ graduation lament
Street Talk: After graduation, I spent eight or nine years just wandering in kind of a shabby, hedonistic daze.
Mark LaFlamme: You forgot Mother’s Day, didn’t you?
Talk of the Town: What with the lawn, the killer hummingbirds, Mother’s Day and pesky peanut jar tops, it’s a very busy season.