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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December 17The government? Aliens? Or just holiday lights on a hill? Reports of drone armadas have traveled from New Jersey to Maine and I'll find them even if I have to travel all the way to Durham.
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December 12Street Talk: Mark LaFlamme feels a bit like that Sisyphus fellow rolling that rock up a mountain over and over.
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December 4Street Talk: All of those fantastic street phantoms are gone now and yet my eyes will lie to me out of pure yearning for the olden days
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November 29Talk of the Town: The police have never provided a convincing argument for why they needed to encrypt their radio transmissions, Mark LaFlamme writes.
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November 19Street Talk: Lots of people miss lots of places and things, as it turns out, and those memories came flying at me like a storm of time-traveling locusts.
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November 12Street Talk: In search of a single file, I had to go digging through a whole lot of boxes, and a whole bunch of memories came flapping out like deranged moths to greet me.
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October 23While I'll never experience the kind of soul-deep terror that a kid feels when sitting bug-eyed for a scary flick, I do still enjoy a good spine-tingler; so much, in fact, that I've compiled you a list.
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Street Talk: The real mystery here wasn't what was contained in that strange, plump bundle. The real mystery to me is how it got up there in the first place.
Talk of the Town
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Like some Maine State Troopers, Mark LaFlamme rounds up beefy news items.
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Mark LaFlamme bets Hugh Hefner didn't have to put up with weird winter weather or snow — white, brown or otherwise.
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Talk of the Town: Ahh Thanksgiving. We all looked forward to my Aunt Clara's tomato aspic.
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Talk of the Town: Can office furniture affect your writing style or connect you to the dead?
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Talk of the town: When duty calls, you know where I'll be. Happy Jacks.
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Talk of the town: I'm not sure I'd offer any of you a free cup of tea.
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Talk of the Town: Medicine or no medicine, I'll be watching my pees and Qs.
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Talk of the Town: People are reaching out with some interesting ideas.