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 23There has to be some compromise that protects the tenant and the landlord while preventing people from getting shooed out onto the street like stray cats, Mark LaFlamme writes.
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April 9I'm sorry, but if you can't fill The Colisée for junior hockey even when tickets are given away, you don't get to wear the Hockey Town moniker anymore, writes Mark LaFlamme.
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March 19In this otherwise pristine wilderness, bits of bright yellow crime scene tape assault the eyes and whisper of something terrible that has has happened here, Mark LaFlamme writes.
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March 12With the stealth of an alley cat, the artist behind the message left their work for thousands to see and nary a clue to his or her identity.
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March 5Mark LaFlamme was looking for someone with an interesting story to tell, and he found one bundled up in three blankets and sitting on a sidewalk.
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February 12It was compassion that drove Skeets on, not the prospect of journalistic glory, writes Mark LaFlamme.
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To call in sick to work, one has to admit to another human being that his flesh is so weak that he can be taken down by wee little invaders not even visible to the naked eye, Mark LaFlamme writes.
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February 1The Rev. Daniel Greenleaf chased away a suspected burglar who was later arrested on charges of breaking into two homes and stealing a purse and a car from one of them, Mark LaFlamme writes.
Talk of the Town
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April 22Talk of the Town: The upside of my new office massage chair: no need for quarters. The downside: typos.
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Mark LaFlamme is back from vacation and dives into pot holes.
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Mark LaFlamme: They are called 'trousers.' You pronounce it 'MAK-a-roon.' And where are my flip-flops and umbrella drink?
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Mark LaFlamme: It's been an 'interesting' week if you're looking for men's underwear or getting poked on Facebook.
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Mark LaFlamme: When in doubt, before buckling up put some pants on.
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March 2Mark LaFlamme: I was feeling really good about my two-mile snowshoe journey until I wasn't.
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Talk of the Town: !!#$@! is what Mark LaFlamme has to say about this weather.
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viaMark LaFlamme: My relationship with my truck will be copacetic once I get this new exhaust system scotch-taped on.