Street Talk: Faces of the fallen emerge after we learn the details of the crime

Covering killings is like putting bloody puzzle pieces together. In the early hours, we're still limited to 'victims' and 'perps' and all the other generic terminology from the grim vernacular. 

Street Talk: ‘Timmy’s adventures in school-skipping’

I feel sympathy for kids these days, whose lives have been so disrupted, and their realities so warped, that to skip school, all they are required to do is close their laptop lids and go sit in the living room.

Street Talk: Who needs a shovel when you’ve got pure rage?

What's worse is that now ordinary people like possibly you are talking about the coming storm, too, so I have to employ my black belt level talent for denial everywhere I go. 

Street Talk: Weird scenes inside the new normal

You know you're in weird times when ... a dinner order is conducted like an arms deal. 

Murder! What the crows are trying to tell us. Probably.

If you see five crows, sickness will follow; see six crows and death will follow. If you see seven crows or more, you probably need to wash your car.

Street Talk: Winter lies I tell myself

Come late summer, I'm typically sanguine about my chances of finally enjoying winter for a change — enjoying it the way I did when I was a boy and every day was a thrill of sleds and skates and snowballs hucked at the unwary.

The power is out. I may have to eat you.

An hour passed in darkness. Then two, then three and clearly this time I was vindicated. It really WAS the end of the world. 

Christmas 2020: The ultimate bah humbug

This year, there is no unity, no sense of goodwill toward all mankind. The notion that "we're all in this together?" A ghastly joke.

Street Talk: Mystery man offering Pee for View

The first reports began to trickle in last month. One woman reported that she was approached in the Auburn shopping district by a man in his 30s who got out of his car, peed himself and then took off. 

Street Talk: All the world’s a stage