I’m sure the nice lady meant well. But as I drooped over my coffee, swollen-eyed and garbled of thought, she exhibited all the tenacity of an overzealous police detective hellbent on punishing me for the crime of waking up. “How about some scrambled eggs with toast? I have a nice pomegranate jam.” “No thank you,” […]
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Talk of the town: Does anybody really know what time it is?
The big blow Well, what do you know. A big corker of a storm blew across the land and I wasn’t there to report on it. On vacation, I was, so when the mighty wind and rain did its thing, I was just like the rest of you civilians, fretting over power outages, complaining about […]
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Talk of the town: Let's shake on it
Intelligent design So, how do you like our new website? Pretty, ain’t it? It’s just a little something I slapped together in my spare time. I’m a man of many layers, you know. Web design comes easy to me. I’m particularly proud of those . . . link things that go across the top of […]
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Street Talk: How old is too old to trick or treat?
The kid was just slightly more than 5 feet tall, but when I climbed upon his shoulders, together we had to be close to 11 feet. That’s monstrous! Certainly the sight of an 11-foot tall snarling teenager had to be creative enough to coax an old lady out of a Zagnut or at least one […]
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Talk of the town: You miss your mom with that mouth?
Robot invasion! Sorry to scare you like that. It’s just important that you know that a veritable army of robot reporters has been covering local news lately. As I predicted years ago, by the way. I find these stories from time to time while researching current news. After a pedestrian accident in Auburn last week, […]
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Street Talk: Positive change you've been waiting for
One of these days, I’m going to up and run for mayor. It’s not that I have an interest in helping to run the city, mind you. I don’t like making decisions very much and I have trouble sitting through meetings that last longer than three minutes — which is how long all meetings should […]
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Talk of the town: Are these for anybody?
En garde! At one of the merger debates, one debater appeared so irate about the other guy making fun of the acronym COLAC, I thought for sure he was going to demand a duel. We don’t get anywhere near enough dueling around these parts. (You had to ask: Coalition Opposed to Lewiston-Auburn Consolidation.) Cayer for […]
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Street Talk: Driving you crazy
I thought the guy in the pickup was going to blow a blood vessel and die right there on Longley Bridge. At every stop between Auburn and Lewiston (there are an estimated 900 traffic lights between Court Street, Auburn and Main Street, Lewiston) the dude found new fuel for his road rage. First it was […]
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Talk of the town: Clowning around on Walnut Street
Sun Journal staff writer Mark LaFlamme is transformed into Bow the clown at the Shrine Circus. Pop goes my bladder There’s a total misconception out there that I’m afraid of clowns. It is to laugh! I am not afraid of clowns. Not even a little bit. It would be absurd. A clown is just a […]
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Street Talk: Let's go to the movies!
The kid with the baseball cap was sitting just a few rows ahead of me, but that didn’t matter. I could have spotted his game a mile away. The way he leaned in close every time he offered the girl his popcorn. The way he laughed whenever she did and of course, the classic yawn-and-stretch […]