Street Talk: In the day when public discourse was conducted in a real-world environment, one could expect a punch in the nose if he resorted to the kind of trash talk we see as a matter of course online.
Mark LaFlamme
Mark LaFlamme: My attack hawk will be here at any moment
Talk of the Town: I swear one pothole was so deep, I saw a beautiful mermaid down there frolicking in a lost subterranean city. Either that or . . .
Mark LaFlamme: Dope smuggling isn’t for the faint of heart
Street Talk: As long as there’s the potential for big money, somebody somewhere is willing to take the risk, and sheer numbers mean the odds are in their favor.
Mark LaFlamme: Just do it! It will amuse me.
Talk of the Town: The more this person wrote me to trumpet the many joys of the presumably stinky cheese, the more it began to feel like some practical joke.
Mark LaFlamme: Brother, can you spare a column idea?
Street Talk: I may not have the intellectual gusto to generate ideas of my own today, but plenty of you weirdos were happy to step up and do it for me.
Mark LaFlamme: May the glory of Garfunkel shine upon you. Or something.
Talk of the town: Seasonings, sensors, sunglasses and sad, confused daffodils.
Mark LaFlamme: The Christmas cookies that changed everything
Street Talk: For me it was the detail about the Christmas cookies that transformed this from just-another-Route-4-wreck to a deeply personal human tragedy.
Mark LaFlamme: Fowl ending to a ducky race
Talk of the Town: Pricey cones, senior moments and battling fast-food mascots. ‘One Flew over the Intersection’?
Mark LaFlamme: The robots really ARE taking over
Street Talk: Not only is artificial intelligence producing credible written works these days, by some estimates, those bots may be responsible for HALF the content you find on the web.
Mark LaFlamme: Where’d everybody go?
Talk of the Town: There have been way too many changes in Lewiston lately and I’m not having it. I shall propose an ordinance demanding that . . .