When it comes to gauging fluctuations in the economy and preparing for potential recessions, I use the price of aerosol cheese to dictate my level of panic. Well, it’s freak-out time, friends.
Mark LaFlamme
Mark LaFlamme: How NOT to remove a bat from your house
Street Talk: By the time I pulled myself up and scraped the potting soil out of my ears, the bat was in the kitchen, flitting about in those crazy parabolas bats like so much.
Mark LaFlamme: We’ve got enough problems with Target balls and earwigs
Talk of the Town: Target is almost here. I can hardly wait to see if Target’s iconic red orbs are going to get the same treatment Walmart’s maligned yellow poles get.
Dennis Dechaine: Human sacrifice? Or justice well served?
There’s no gray area here. Either Dennis Dechaine is a monster who deserves every bit of the suffering he’s endured, or he’s a man in Hell, tied to one of the region’s worst atrocities.
Mark LaFlamme: Great white sharks are hard to spot
Talk of the Town: This would finally fulfill a lifelong dream of mine in which I get to be the dude who runs along the beach yelling ‘Shark! Get out of the water!’ just like Chief Brody himself on the big day.
Mark LaFlamme: Where have all the UFOs gone?
Street Talk: All my life I’ve been down here waiting for Mork to appear and yet the only UFO experiences I have are vicarious.
Mark LaFlamme: Long pants for the coming zombie apocalypse
Talk of the Town: Once you pay to get into Range Pond State Park, you might as well enjoy some beach time even if you’re wearing long pants on a sweltering hot day and being called ‘Senor Pantalones’ by other beachgoers.
Street Talk: Bad vibes in Lewiston, then and now
If you spend a lot of time in downtown Lewiston you don’t require any kind of scientific study or earnest crunching of the numbers to reveal what your gut is screaming at you like a klaxon: tread carefully, brother. There is danger afoot.
Mark LaFlamme: Behold the power of cheese
Talk of the Town: Tricky words, ornery pedestrians and back at Hobby Lobby for . . . never you mind.
Mark LaFlamme: Obscura Cafe and other entities from alternate dimensions
Mark LaFlamme finds driving past Lewiston businesses looks a lot different than it used to.