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Published
June 5, 2023

Mark LaFlamme: What to yell in a crowded theater?

Street Talk: Fire is one of the most powerful forces on earth and yet, at best, we have two synonyms suitable for use when writing about it.
Published
May 22, 2023

Mark LaFlamme: Sure is quiet around here but don’t you dare say that around police

Street Talk: Police are a superstitious lot and as far as they're concerned, any utterance of the Q-word is bound to cause mayhem and ought to be a felony.
Published
May 16, 2023

Mark LaFlamme: A former ‘putz’s’ graduation lament

Street Talk: After graduation, I spent eight or nine years just wandering in kind of a shabby, hedonistic daze.
Published
May 9, 2023

Mark LaFlamme: Online ugliness is the rule, not the exception

Street Talk: In the day when public discourse was conducted in a real-world environment, one could expect a punch in the nose if he resorted to the kind of trash talk we see as a matter of course online.
Published
May 2, 2023

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.

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Published
April 25, 2023

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.
Published
April 18, 2023

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.
Published
April 11, 2023

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.
Published
March 31, 2023

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Published
March 14, 2023

Mark LaFlamme: No time for the monkey bars: Adulting is just a drag

Street Talk: Every kid who dreams of being a grown-up will eventually be cursed with that very thing.