What’d you get for eight down? So, apparently there was some foul-up with the syndicate, which caused us to publish papers Saturday AND Tuesday that contained crossword puzzles missing half their clues. Missing clues! Can you imagine it? I would like to make it publicly known that I had nothing to do with this foul-up. […]
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Street talk: Gifts for the scofflaw on the law's naughty list
The woman at the front of the line could not have been more enthused about her Christmas plans. She had procured for her son the perfect gift — in fact, a bunch of them — and now all that was left was to plan the delivery. “I’m going to wait until Christmas morning to give […]
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Talk of the town: Wild horses and butt flaps
Do stormtroopers’ uniforms have butt flaps? Ya know? When I heard that people would be lining up for the new “Star Wars” movie (“Star Wars XVI: Darth goes in for a prostate exam”), I just knew that temperatures would dip down in the teens. Pity Carhartt doesn’t produce a fleece insulated Luke Skywalker outfit, ain’t […]
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Street Talk: You wouldn’t believe who scooped us
So, every time you see me out and about of late, you note that I have a confused look about me. The hanging jaw, the squint of befuddlement, the overall comportment of a fellow who’s lost his way. You assume that I bought the wrong size boxer shorts again, but it’s not so. Not this […]
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Talk of the town: Cleanup in aisle 9
Norway woman robs store with finger Wasn’t it just a week ago that I complained, in that spleeny way I have, that nobody ever used the cartoonish finger gun to commit robberies anymore? This woman (in Thursday’s Sun Journal) failed miserably, but you have to give her credit for appreciating the classics. Although, if she was […]
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Street Talk: You're going to need fresh underpants
So, you want to hold up a convenience store. Maybe you’re looking to finance that Vicodin habit for half a day or perhaps you just need some extra dough to get through the holiday season. I’m not here to judge. It seems like everybody and his cousin is robbing stores these days and one or […]
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Talk of the town: It's a bird, it's a plane . . .
Say cheeeeese The father and son accused of an Auburn home robbery in October made for one heck of a story. It also made for one dubious mugshot. It’s hard to tell, frankly, if the younger accused bandit is snarling with defiance or if the camera caught him in mid-sneeze. Plus, it appears that his […]
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Street Talk: Dressed for success and hating it
So, I was out on the edge of Lewiston’s downtown, poking my considerable nose into the matter of whether shots had been fired in the area. I spoke with three or four people on the street, asking masterfully-crafted questions in an attempt to glean the facts for you, the reader. “What’s going on?” I inquired, […]
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Street Talk: One night in Deadwood
So, I’ve been watching “Deadwood” on Amazon Prime because it’s November and what else am I going to do with my spare time that doesn’t involve freezing parts of me that generally crave warmth? Set in an unestablished mining town in post-Civil War South Dakota, Deadwood is a wild place, lawless and volatile; a muddy […]
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Talk of the town: Pickles for everyone!
Wrong turn, Clyde I cannot be the only guy here who has accidentally walked into the lady’s room at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee in Lewiston. It happened at a hockey game a few weeks ago and I’m still traumatized. I tell you, the way the restrooms are laid out over there, with the signs posted […]