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PublishedAugust 9, 2021
Street Talk: Stop looking at my beard
The longer my beard grew, the more it seemed to antagonize people and I couldn't go anywhere without enduring one snide remark or another.
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PublishedAugust 3, 2021
Street Talk: How to assemble a posse and retrieve a stolen bike
Jess Paquette, a local busker, had her bike and ukulele stolen. After a few posts on Facebook, the community rallied to find the missing stuff—and succeeded, mostly.
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PublishedJuly 28, 2021
Street Talk: When newspapers were king
Reading news through a digital medium is long on efficiency but short on charm. There's a certain just-the-facts discipline about it that discourages dawdling when dawdling was always the kind of fun of reading a newspaper.
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PublishedJuly 13, 2021
Street Talk: Arguing with a fool
I'm pretty sure that if I kept track, I'd find that I talk to myself way, WAY more than I talk to others.
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PublishedJune 30, 2021
Eureka! Walmart pole mystery solved!
Street Talk: Behold the A-pillar blind spot, the cause of so much woe and/or hilarity.
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PublishedJune 22, 2021
Street Talk: Old time sleuthing with Ma Bell
Say what you want about the archaic nature of phone books, but with one of them, I found exactly what I was looking for in about six seconds.
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PublishedJune 15, 2021
Those yellow poles in the Walmart parking lot; they’re out to get us
Street Talk: I think we can all agree on this: In the war between Walmart's yellow poles and our cars, trucks and minivans, the poles are winning on every front.
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PublishedJune 9, 2021
Street Talk: Signing bonuses and fancy titles. Get your dream job today!
We are living in the kind of economic state that could allow a person to take giant leaps in status by simply showing up. And they'll pay you just to be there!
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PublishedJune 1, 2021
Street Talk: Naked people everywhere and doing weird things
By the time I was six months on the job here, I was already bewildered by how many people were running around naked on the downtown residential streets.
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PublishedMay 18, 2021
Street Talk: Even pilgrims made the police log
I have never had any sort of personal link to the logs, other than the philosophical demand that if you're going to run the arrests, you have to do it fairly.
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