BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY, AUG. 10, 2015) — That Mayor Lockdown keeps those on his Enemies List out of the loop is not news. However, when one finds concrete evidence that Lockdown hides relevant facts from his friends, we step from mere political quarantine into classic Nixonian paranoia. Witness this […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY ——– 000 ——– EDITOR’S NOTE: Here is the YouTube link for Dan Valenti‘s feature film, KENTUCKY FRIED PITTSFIELD … or … WHERE HAVE YOU GONE, COL. SANDERS? You’ll laugh! You’ll cry! You’ll flub-a-dub. Click here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzflpEb_zQQ . ——– 000 ——– (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEEKEND EDITION, AUG. 7-9, 2015) — […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THURSDAY, AUg. 6, 2015) — The D.A. called it murder-suicide. That makes four murders and four shot in a month in Podunk, the city-dump on the River Housy. It’s a city that gilds the revolving door of a 1-Star ghost-town’s 3-Star hotel and calls it […]
By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY ED. NOTE: In the listing of ballot-approved candidates below, THE PLANET inadvertently omitted KATHY LLOYD. She is challenging the incumbent in Ward 7. We have corrected the record. Thanks to all those, including the candidate, for reminding us of this. (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 6, 2015) […]
BY DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, TUESDAY, AUG. 4, 2015) — QUESTION: How do you stop five teenagers from going on a shooting rampage in Pittsfield? ANSWER: Throw them a basketball. It’s not as simple as that, of course, but as the shootings, stabbings, gang activity, and drug deals make of […]
By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY, AUG. 3, 2015) — In verse, we would address it this way: July is the cruelest month. Gunshots out of the dead city, mixing mayoral incompetence and desire, stirring anger in citizens with dull indifference. That’s how we would begin the discussion of the […]
