I’m not going to lie to you. Sometimes I pick a random spot downtown and just sit there watching. Skulking, you might call it, although I wish you wouldn’t. I sit and watch and I note the manner in which the downtown behaves. It works in any city — choose a spot on the main […]
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Talk of the town: It’s nice out but is the ice out?
Ice out Is it out now? How about now? Now? Yes, it’s that time of year, when we all prognosticate on when the ice will go out of Lake Auburn, occasionally getting into fistfights over it, only to completely forget about the whole thing by the time it actually happens. Ice out, schmice out, that’s […]
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Street Talk: 13 years of bad hallucinations
Lord, I’m old. I made this discovery, not through some complex mathematical computation, but through a giant heap of old Street Talk columns recently unearthed from the deepest snow caves of Tibet. Or from somebody’s basement — it’s all very hazy. The fact is that I found these old columns — most of which I […]
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Talk of the Town: Making up wordz and such
Easter eggs Since I can’t hide brightly colored eggs in the real world and challenge you to find them, I’m going to scatter a variety of made-up words throughout the remainder of this column and see who among you is sober enough to recognize them. It will be great fun and educational, too. Of course, […]
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Street Talk: It’s ice cream season and I’m afraid. Very afraid.
It’s just humiliating. I would prefer to keep this secret to myself for the remainder of my days, but no man can hide forever. The truth has a way of worming, bare and unadorned, into public view like a … well, like a worm, I guess. My shame is great. I can’t order ice cream […]
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Talk of the town: I’m not falling for THAT one again
Total recall Kraft recalled umpteen million boxes of macaroni and cheese, apparently due to metal bits in the goods. I should have known something was up when every magnet in my house when whizzing across the kitchen to stick to the boxes. Can you imagine a world without macaroni and cheese? In the 1990s, this […]
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Talk of the town: The one where I fall on my keister
Cawfee So at a Dunkin’ Donuts drive-through in Lewiston Monday, the stranger in the car ahead of me paid for my coffee before driving away. Very nice. The dude was driving a white SUV with Florida plates, so now to pay it forward, I have to head to the Sunshine State. See you in late […]
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Street Talk: I just want to buy Vienna sausages and live my life
Good morning, ladies and gentlepersons. Today I’m writing from the checkout line at a popular local grocery store — or possibly a pet store or hardware joint — for the very first time. I’m writing from this cramped and crowded space because my column is due and no matter how I beg or plead, I […]
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Talk of the town: You’re not going to believe this news
Hosed On Wednesday, the temperature climbed into the upper 40s, delivering another roundhouse kick to snowbank booty and compelling at least one lunatic to drag his motorcycle out of the basement for a ride. Said lunatic regrets nothing, thank you very much. Meanwhile, one woman reports that it was sunny and warm enough to wash […]
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Street Talk: Has anybody seen my car?
All I had to do was meet the dude in a crowded parking lot for a perfectly-legal-as-far-as-you-know exchange of cash for goods. Easy as falling off a park bench. You’re in, you’re out. Everyone’s happy. “I’ll be driving a brownish Nissan Rogue,” I told this fellow I knew only as Craig S. List. I pulled […]