Talk of the Town: I swear one pothole was so deep, I saw a beautiful mermaid down there frolicking in a lost subterranean city. Either that or . . .
Mark LaFlamme
Mark LaFlamme: Dope smuggling isn’t for the faint of heart
Street Talk: As long as there’s the potential for big money, somebody somewhere is willing to take the risk, and sheer numbers mean the odds are in their favor.
Mark LaFlamme: Just do it! It will amuse me.
Talk of the Town: The more this person wrote me to trumpet the many joys of the presumably stinky cheese, the more it began to feel like some practical joke.
Mark LaFlamme: Brother, can you spare a column idea?
Street Talk: I may not have the intellectual gusto to generate ideas of my own today, but plenty of you weirdos were happy to step up and do it for me.
Mark LaFlamme: May the glory of Garfunkel shine upon you. Or something.
Talk of the town: Seasonings, sensors, sunglasses and sad, confused daffodils.
Mark LaFlamme: The Christmas cookies that changed everything
Street Talk: For me it was the detail about the Christmas cookies that transformed this from just-another-Route-4-wreck to a deeply personal human tragedy.
Mark LaFlamme: Fowl ending to a ducky race
Talk of the Town: Pricey cones, senior moments and battling fast-food mascots. ‘One Flew over the Intersection’?
Top national psychic medium with Maine roots plans visit. Do you believe?
The author and reality TV star who was written about by the New York Times says ‘It’s almost like carrying a pager back in the day. That’s how I feel as a medium: I feel like sometimes, I’m just getting paged by heaven.’
Mark LaFlamme: The robots really ARE taking over
Street Talk: Not only is artificial intelligence producing credible written works these days, by some estimates, those bots may be responsible for HALF the content you find on the web.
Mark LaFlamme: Where’d everybody go?
Talk of the Town: There have been way too many changes in Lewiston lately and I’m not having it. I shall propose an ordinance demanding that . . .