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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May 5Randy Whitehouse, my friend and confidant of a quarter-century, is gone.
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April 27Maybe the perfect reporter would be one who is never personally affected by anything that comes his way. Just writes up all the grim facts, collects his check and moves along in a cold and clinical way.
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April 20There's a certain kind of salt-of-the-earth charm about local scuttlebutt that is exclusive to the American small town. If that's where I ended up for my remaining reporter days, I'd have no complaints.
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April 13Fire, I would come to accept, is as cruel and indiscriminate as any force on earth. It will take without compunction a child not yet old enough to walk on his own or an old woman too infirm to save herself.
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April 6In its way, the press is the very symbol of how news is supposed to work.
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March 31Street Talk: Potshots, potholes, public nudity and pond passion: Ahhhhhh, spring!
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April 2
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March 3It's no secret that I have what is known in zoology circles — and by my own team of therapists — as dog envy. If I see a strange dog on the street, on a hiking trail, or eating from of an overturned trash can at the curb, I immediately want to play with it, giving no thought at all as to where it's been.
Talk of the Town
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The Talk of the Town influenced by migraines, woodpeckers and haikus.
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The Talk of the Town clears up some confusion over the Freeport tourist attraction, celebrates Canal Draining Day, asks people to take off their shirts and clears up some confusion over scintillating scotoma.
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So, a dragon and a bright pink unicorn are walking up Lisbon Street, right? That's not the start of a joke, it really happened.
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April 2
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