BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION SEPT. 12-14, 20250 — Prior to recent events, THE PLANET had never heard of Charlie Kirk. True. We don’t “follow” anyone on social media or YouTube, much less watch the endless political blather of talking heads, and so when we heard […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY SEPT. 8, 2025) — Tomorrow, your Bitchfield Profiles in Courage otherwise known as the city council take up the thorny matter of what the council president calls “the houseless.” Voltron the Porkchop’s word illustrates an interesting development in neologisms, a linguistic devolution imposed […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION SEPT. 5-7, 2025) — Large things articulate a city. Small things define it. Let’s talk small. Driving through Bitchfield from outer West Street, the motorist sees electrical boxes, typically a shade of Fenway green. Some have been painted, and nicely, by […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION AUG. 28-31) — Time for a fresh set of downs. Even with THE PLANET thousands of light years away somewhere in the vicinity of Alpha Centauri, with the campers with us sworn to secrecy as to our location, the news hit. […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY AUG. 18, 2025) — As THE PLANET extends our VAY-KAY time, we will offer this quick comment on “houselessness” to jump start another week of community discussion. As you know, we are the only media site left for real-time, uncensored remarks. For the […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY AUG. 11, 2025) — We’ve caught our limit, set them free, and have had a great run with the bees. Idling can be habit forming. Question round the campfire last night: What is money? It’s the unit of value placed on compensation for […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY AUG. 4, 2025) — Gone fishing. Be back … … whenever. ————————————————- “Relaxation is the prerequisite for the beauty of aimlessness” — Sir Donald Turpentine, Knight of the Bath. “OPEN THE WIDOW, AUNT MILLIE.” LOVE TO ALL. Copyright (c) 2025 By Dan Valenti, […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY ADD 1 SATURDAY A.M. — THE PLANET received this news from the office of Berkshire County District Attorney Tim Shugrue: Becket, MA- There are no criminal charges being brought in the August 1st accidental death of Kat Sirico, a Jacob’s Pillow summer employee. An investigation conducted by […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY JULY 30, 2025) — The issue of trans education (indoctrination) is the nation’s public schools is again upon us with the new school year at hand. The issue is a critical one for every school district supported by taxpayers funds. That includes Bitchfield, […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY ADD 1 7/28 AFTERNOON — THE PLANET just received this from Det. Lt. John Soules of the Pittsfield Police Department: On Monday, July 28th 2025 at approximately 1:00am, Pittsfield Police Department patrol officers were dispatched to the intersection of North Street and Melville Street for a report […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION JULY 25-7, 2025) — Somehow, Pittsfield, now Bitchfield, got along for 264 years without a “cultural plan.” Not now, though. Not under the deadbeat adherents of Two Pete Government. Seems the idiots find devising a “cultural plan” more important than containing […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY ADD 1 TUESDAY AFTERNOON: THE PLANET received this from the Pittsfield Police Department: On Monday July 21st 2025 at approximately 9:03am officers and investigators with the Pittsfield Police Department (PPD) responded to Berkshire Bank located at 66 West Street for a report of an armed robbery. […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION JULY 18-20, 2025) — As we all know, largely because of digging by private citizens and THE PLANET, there have been changes in the Bitchfield school department (PPS) after the scandals at Pittsfield High School erupted and were whitewashed. Of course, […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY JULY 16, 2025) — You’ll sleep much safer to know that, with an avalanche of immediate and pressing problems plaguing the city (homelessness, drug trafficking, shooting and stabbings, punishing taxes, a moribund economy, shaky finances, OPEB anvil, and more), THE PLANET‘s Right Honorable […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY JULY 14, 2025) — The recent North Street stabbing, the regular sound of West Side gun play, the whitewash of a huge school department scandal that shows signs of still continuing, the disappearance of the mayor, the ineffectualness of the council, the corruption […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY / THE ARTS WHAT: Out of Character, Berkshire Theatre Group, written and performed by Ariel Stachel WHERE: The Unicorn Theater, Stockbridge, MA WHEN: Through July 26 (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION JULY 11-3, 2025) — Who are you? That’s the question Ari’el Stachel confronts in this bravado, […]
