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Street talk

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.
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 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.

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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.
Published
March 7, 2023

Mark LaFlamme: James Earl Jones must hate the new baseball rules

Street Talk: Major League Baseball is tampering with tradition all over the place, and in a variety of perverse ways.
Published
February 28, 2023

Mark LaFlamme: Lost ladies find their way home

Street Talk: Maybe someone will write a folk song about Maine's lost ladies. Someone should.
Published
February 21, 2023

Mark LaFlamme: 21 years of blither

Street Talk: It's downright strange to me that a person sitting next to me, drinking legally at a bar, could have been born the year I started writing Street Talk.
Published
February 16, 2023

Mark LaFlamme: Abused feline has found a home, wanted in another

Street Talk: For the cat named Harlow, the long road to recovery was just beginning. But for the young woman who rescued the animal, all that awaited was frustration.