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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at 6:00 PMStreet Talk: When news of the latest vandalism spree started to get around, the furor landed in its usual place: on social media.
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September 13Street Talk: No matter where in the Twin Cities you live, chances are good, apparently, that you're uncomfortably close to a bona fine haunted house.
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August 30Street Talk: The rain clouds themselves seemed particularly sly and malicious this summer, waiting to pounce on you and your plans like a cat on a field mouse.
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August 17Street Talk: That's the thing about this whole explosion of communication services. If all the best sources are hanging out on one of those newfangled apps and webpages, I have to be there, too.
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August 9Street Talk: And so instead of dealing with shootings and car wrecks and tales of pain and woe at the end of the week, I spent my time on the tail of a menacing creature of unknown origin.
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Street Talk: We've got supercomputers small enough to tuck into our pockets. We've got bug-looking cameras that fly around in the sky and we've got artificial intelligence writing term papers and composing music. All of that and yet no food in pill form to eliminate the need for inconvenient eating.
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July 22Street Talk: It remains to be seen if the people of Lewiston will ever grow to love "the rock" in Kennedy Park like they've grown to love the zebra on the Canal Street parking garage.
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Street Talk: Unsolved deaths of a suspicious nature are specters that gnaw at the collective memories of the community. They haunt and haunt and haunt.
Talk of the Town
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Talk of the Town: Pork rinds, giant bees, tiny irons, tube socks and Tara Reid. Aside from the weather, this week was a bzzzzzzzzz.
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Talk of the town: Where combining late-night shopping and a curiosity for bygone clothing is done right!
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Talk of the town: What better way to see the world but in a hamster wheel.
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Talk of the Town: Pumpkins ... stale milk and plastic ... cinnamon EVERYTHING ... Ah, the wonderful flavors of fall.
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Talk of the Town: It's easy to confuse me with Carietta White, I know.
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Talk of the town: I'm Luke Flyvakker and vengeance is mine! Wooann ... wooann ... wooann ...
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August 13Talk of the Town: They've got us vacuuming, cursing, drinking them, dodging our wives and twerking. Powerful little suckers really.
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Talk of the town: All rants, diatribes and tirades ... well, except for that tangle of lady underthings.