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Mark LaFlamme听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鈥檛 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 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.听
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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.听The real mystery to me is how it got up there in the first place.听
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October 9Street Talk: She doesn't drink, she doesn't do drugs, she's friendly with police. That's made this 67-year-old woman a target for the other homeless in and around Auburn's Bonney Park.
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September 18Every Friday, Chase rides his scooter to Dufresne Plaza to play his violin for the masses.听
Talk of the Town
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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.
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October 11Talk of the Town: Everyone's a critic. Especially that opossum with the long face.
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Talk of the town: There are vicious, limb-ripping bears and then there are the blessed creatures that look and smell just like bears but get you out of covering political candidates.
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Talk of the Town: There seems to be a lot of judgment going on and, well ... a lot of throwing out to. Take that judgers!