To hair is human Nate Poulin, arrested on charges stemming from an alleged rent scam, may be the most despised man in Lewiston-Auburn right now, but did you see his mug shot? His hair is GLORIOUS! We’re talking Michael Landon-level locks here. Wisdom Teeth Removed There’s a sign that advertises this in big, bold letters […]
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Street Talk: Spitting lobster into my napkin
My shame is great. All I wanted to do was turn my attention to the ear of corn on my plate. Butter it, salt it, chew it up from one end to another like a dog biting at fleas. Is that so wrong? I mulled the chunk of pinkish flesh floating in its little bowl […]
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Talk of the town: Yoinked!
Can I be frank? So Ward’s Neighborhood Market in Lewiston takes its backpack policy very seriously. I got shooed away from the deli Tuesday because I happened to be wearing one and, do you know what happened? By the time I got it all sorted out and returned to the deli, some scoundrel had bought […]
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Street Talk: Hit me with your best shot, yo
Boy. If I had a nickel for every person who has asked for my thoughts on the Pat Benatar concert last week, you know what I’d have? I wouldn’t have a nickel, that’s for sure. Nobody gives a hang about my penetrating thoughts on Benatar, but I’m going to tell you anyway, and do you […]
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Talk of the town: The Lurid Fantasy Gazette
Yodels! The woman who describes herself as “the crazy French lady” has done outdid herself by bringing me not one box of Yodels, but three boxes. We’re not talking the cheap knock offs here, either. We’re talking smooth chocolate cakes filled with creamed whatever brought to you by the good people of Hostess. Or possibly […]
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Street talk: I am not a robot (as far as you know)
I think it’s time we talked about the elephant in the room. And by elephant in the room, I mean the robot sitting at my desk. The other day I received an email from a random stranger. In the subject line he wrote simply “FYI.” In the main body was posted a link to a […]
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What do black cats, pigeons and editors have in common?
Sometimes they come back Out behind the Motel 6 early Wednesday night, I came upon a dead black cat next to a dumpster. Wanting to spare the poor creature from scavengers, I hopped off my bike to scoop up the poor kitty – at which point, the poor kitty lifted its head, hissed at me, […]
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Smoke 'em if you got 'em
It’s hard to believe there was a time when smoking was considered cool. But oh, there were such times. Think James Dean leaning against that 1949 Mercury Coupe, a mile of street cred dangling from his lips. Think Clint Eastwood in “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” scowling around that hand-rolled smoke so blazingly, […]
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Talk of the town: Go big or go home
‘Is color a sign of infection in nasal secretions?’ A headline that appeared early in the week, possibly as part of our “Connecting You With Your Nasal Secretions” series. I tell you, this kind of journalism is nothing to sneeze at. Who did what to who, now? So, if I have this straight, CNN threatened […]
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Street Talk: Creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly
My shirtless wife was becoming hysterical, convinced the tiny spot on her back was something other than a freckle. “Look again,” she said. So, I did, moving in with a magnifying glass like Sherlock Holmes on his lamest assignment ever. “It’s a freckle,” I told her. “It’s not,” she said, so I looked one more […]