On 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?
Mark LaFlamme
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Mark LaFlamme: Magical mice shoveling my driveway
Talk of the town: If I got rid of my driveway would winter go away?
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Mark LaFlamme: Snakes in the toilet and mean old ladies on bikes
Talk of the town: Holiday regrets? Yeah, I got a few. Put down the dish scrubby and enjoy the big moments.
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Mark LaFlamme: Poetry readin’ with George Bailey and Marty McFly
Talk of the town: Let me get this straight: Every time a bell rings an angel gets his flaming rum punch?
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Mark LaFlamme: Mystery birds and tor-chay pie
Talk of the Town: Winter — it gets you one way or another.
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Mark LaFlamme: The mass shooting leaves a sense of unreality in our wounded city
Street Talk: There are times when I can convince myself, if only for fleeting seconds, that the grim affair was nothing more than a horrid nightmare; something merely imagined in a half-waking fever dream.
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Mark LaFlamme: M’corn is hurtin’ so it must be almost Christmas
Talk of the Town: It’s not the holidays without nog, chips, rum balls, corn and fruitcake. Especially the fruitcake.
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Mark LaFlamme: Punk Icee, mysterious street wanderer, dies at 64
Street Talk: Punk lived a lifestyle that would seem almost Sisyphean to the rest of us: walk the streets from dawn until dusk, find enough empty bottles and cans to get by another day, and then when that day is done, get up and do it all over again.
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Mark LaFlamme: Have you had enough of winter yet?
Talk of the town: I’m dreaming of a Fort Lauderdale Christmas, just like the ones I used to … ah fuhgeddaboudit.
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Mark LaFlamme: If I ask your age, an editor is making me do it
Street Talk: The man in question is doing math in his head. He’s calculating the pros and cons of giving out his real age and trying to deduce how this might trip him up down the road.