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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August 4Jess Paquette, a local busker, had her bike and ukulele stolen. After a few posts on Facebook, the community rallied to find the missing stuff—and succeeded, mostly.
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Reading news through a digital medium is long on efficiency but short on charm. There's a certain just-the-facts discipline about it that discourages dawdling when dawdling was always the kind of fun of reading a newspaper.
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July 14I'm pretty sure that if I kept track, I'd find that I talk to myself way, WAY more than I talk to others.
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July 1Street Talk: Behold the A-pillar blind spot, the cause of so much woe and/or hilarity.
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June 27Say what you want about the archaic nature of phone books, but with one of them, I found exactly what I was looking for in about six seconds.
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June 18Street Talk: I think we can all agree on this: In the war between Walmart's yellow poles and our cars, trucks and minivans, the poles are winning on every front.
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June 9We are living in the kind of economic state that could allow a person to take giant leaps in status by simply showing up. And they'll pay you just to be there!
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June 1By the time I was six months on the job here, I was already bewildered by how many people were running around naked on the downtown residential streets.
Talk of the Town
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July 18Talk of the Town: Here and gone — naked guys, potato sticks and plastic shopping bags.
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Supermarket flaggers, the state of the economy and too many poles: The view from writer Mark LaFlamme's desk.
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Talk of the Town: Readers know a lot about pedaling pet passengers and names that rhyme with mayor. But do they know what NOT to do with fireorks?
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Talk of the Town: It's unlikely the dog's name is Goggles McGee and that Leo Sayer will run for mayor. But a columnist can dream.
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