Street Talk: You can’t blame a firefighter for being less excited about a burning car than the rest of us — some departments average at least one vehicle fire, not per day, but per shift
Mark LaFlamme
Mark LaFlamme: Who wears short shorts? Read on and find out!
Talk of the Town: I could wear my current wife’s culottes, but fuchsia doesn’t work with my skin tones.
Mark LaFlamme: Wiffle ball memories and grass-stained knees
Street Talk: We’d come away from every game with an awesome variety of injuries. Our knees would be bleeding through the grass stains after making diving catches even when diving wasn’t necessary.
Mark LaFlamme: Talk of the town: Wherefore art thou, Optimus Prime?
Moving a giant transformer across the Twin Cities? Psych! We’re not doing it!
Mark LaFlamme: ‘I’ve never been more fearful’: A witness to the Rideout Avenue homicide tells her tale
With no arrests made in the killing of Sahal Muridi, and with additional gunshots reported at the apartment complex just days after killing, a woman who witnessed the killing finds herself constantly afraid.
Mark LaFlamme: Drinking coffee with Bigfoot and Josey Wales
Talk of the town: Publicly speaking, a job in the public wouldn’t be bad as long as I could avoid publicity and public humiliation. I’ll talk to my publicist.
Mark LaFlamme: Life is better on the Kancamagus — where the phone doesn’t work
Street Talk: One of the greatest features of the White Mountains paradise, to me, is the fact that the phone signals we all live by can’t penetrate it.
Mark LaFlamme: Putting my best feet forward or something
Talk of the town: Have you ever pondered how people got by before Crocs were invented? I have.
Mark LaFlamme: The frightening realities of Shopping Cart Theory
Street Talk: People have done studies on this and it turns out that our ability to live in harmony together may rely on its findings.
Mark LaFlamme: Things that creep, crawl and ruin your dinner
Talk of the Town: It’s a bug’s life and I want no part of it. So why don’t I like winter more?