BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND, JUNE 23-25, 2017) — Cultural fashion, Linguistics Branch, has a way of nudging the English language in odd ways. For instance, social progress (albeit progress of a certain sort) rendered the word “gay” (“don we now our gay apparel”) meaningless except for the […]
By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY JUNE 21, 2017) — Welcome to the longest day of the year. After today, we thankfully begin going the other way, and you know what that means. Love it. THE PLANET gathers information from far and wide, near and narrow. We recently got word […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY JUNE 19, 2017) — Cinebon to the new week, for which we give thanks and blessings. We also pass condolences to the family of the north county State Rep. Gail Cariddi, who died over the weekend. THEY SHOOT TAXPAYERS, DON’T THEY? — Now that […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY JUNE 14, 2017) — Thanks to all those who are back on THE PLANET and those who sent in compliments on PLANET VALENTI TELEVISION‘s latest show. FLAG DAY — You probably didn’t know it. Maybe you did. It’s a day receded into “fade […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY PROGRAM NOTE: Be sure to catch PLANET VALENTI TELEVISION tonight at 6:30 p.m. on Spectrum TV local access, channel 16. Supercitizen Terry Kinnas joins us as we continue our autopsy on the cadaverous official Pittsfield. … with love, of course. The show re-airs same channel Monday at […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY JUNE 12, 2017) — You here a lot these days about “affordable housing,” especially in a Walmart city such as Pittsfield, where decent, taxpaying middle-classers are on the run and the “gimme gangs” have taken root. In the abstract, affordable housing for all […]
