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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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.
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February 6Street talk: When Howard stopped to talk, it was a by-God event, because Howard was one of the friendliest fellows I've ever met.
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January 30Covering the plight of Ghost reminded me a lot of a different dog named Abby who, in 2016, was abandoned in the cold along Strawberry Avenue in Lewiston.
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Street Talk: Once you start reading one of this mystery man's letters, it all starts to make sense, like one of those crazy photos with mystery image hidden behind the pixels.
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January 17On the unsteady march to the car, weaving around abandoned shopping carts and stomping through dirty slush, I pondered the great question of the day. Honest-to-God woman in need? Or just another scam artist looking to make mucho dope bucks off the naivete and generosity of good-hearted souls at Christmastime?
Talk of the Town
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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.
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February 18Talk of the Town: If you see me wandering along Lake Shore Drive ...
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Talk of the Town: One drama ends on TV (bad), but another made-for-TV drama continues at City Hall (good).
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February 4See, if the Snuggie was a piece of clothing, it would be taxed differently and then . . . oh never you mind. It's really all about the fine leopard print.
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Talk of the town: Unexpected offers, busy signals, celebrity friend requests and a desire to watch the city council in action. Winter has truly set in.