Mark LaFlamme is a Sun Journal news reporter and columnist and the author of several works of fiction. He sleeps until noon each day and regrets nothing. Mark has several exciting hobbies, all of which are none of your business. Seriously, you don’t want to know. This page is a collection of his Street Talk and Talk of the Town columns.
Street Talk
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April 24Losing a pet is an emotional trauma no matter what the circumstances. But lose one when maybe a simple shot, pill or surgery could have saved the animal and now you can add elements of guilt and failure to that pile of grief.
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April 16If a police beat reporter doesn't have a good fleet of secret squirrel sources, he is stuck day after day waiting for the OFFICIAL WORD to come down from city hall, the police department or some political mouthpiece.
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April 9Street Talk: For a long moment, it felt as though the world had taken a brief timeout so that its complex human inhabitants could take a moment to reflect upon their existence.
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March 19Street Talk: When you have trouble accessing sleep on the reg, you end up searching endlessly for the perfect panacea that you remain convinced is out there.
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March 12Street Talk: Why spend precious minutes writing a column when I can have unsuspecting fools on Facebook write one for me?
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March 5Ubiquitous, convenient and unavoidable technology turned my floppy, faithful notebook into an archaic relic good for little more than starting fires or swatting flies.
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February 27Street Talk: The Walk of Shame was a giddy affair for me. For making a small-time hack like myself feel like a genuine, big league reporter, no single event could compare to the Lewiston Walk of Shame
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February 13Street talk: When I went to work for the B Section, my editors at last had their chance to punish me for all the misbehaving I'd done from my relatively safe perch on the police beat.
Talk of the Town
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Talk of the Town: Ah spring, when a young man's fancy lightly turns to screaming at snowbanks.
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Talk of the Town: Don't bother me, can't you see I'm planning for my next TOTALITY!
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April 7Talk of the Town: Please donate to my political action committee in support of my candidate, Cocky Cockroach.
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Talk of the Town: No joke. There's another writer by the same name who probably will change it when he reads this column.
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Talk of the town: 'Holy __, what if __ is even better than __?! I may not have to move to __ after all!'
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Talk of the Town: Achtung! All Christophs, Klauses and Gunters may want to avoid Harris Road for the next few weeks.
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Talk of the Town: I was in the air so long, I had time to take a good, long look at my life and how it's been impacted by stupid winter spills.
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Talk of the Town: Please deliver all future Valentine's Day cards to the handmade mailbox on the corner of the columnist's desk covered with doily hearts.