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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January 27You know you're in weird times when ... a dinner order is conducted like an arms deal.
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January 20If you see five crows, sickness will follow; see six crows and death will follow. If you see seven crows or more, you probably need to wash your car.
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January 6Come late summer, I'm typically sanguine about my chances of finally enjoying winter for a change — enjoying it the way I did when I was a boy and every day was a thrill of sleds and skates and snowballs hucked at the unwary.
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December 26, 2020An hour passed in darkness. Then two, then three and clearly this time I was vindicated. It really WAS the end of the world.
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December 22, 2020This year, there is no unity, no sense of goodwill toward all mankind. The notion that "we're all in this together?" A ghastly joke.
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December 2, 2020The first reports began to trickle in last month. One woman reported that she was approached in the Auburn shopping district by a man in his 30s who got out of his car, peed himself and then took off.
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November 25, 2020
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October 27, 2020The kitchen, the living room, the little room you use as an office, it all becomes too familiar and you begin to develop resentments for inanimate objects.
Talk of the Town
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January 24Man, this is a rough time of year for writing this column.
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January 3Mark LaFlamme got a new washing machine and fancy key fob for his truck. And now he's seeing life in a whole new way. Except on the passenger side of his truck.
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December 20, 2020Everything you missed this week
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December 8, 2020
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