BY DAN VALENTI Medium Rare Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well done. Nonetheless, The Planet will sit under the McDonald French Fry studio lights of PCTV today and answer questions from, gasp, Republicans. Yes, the Berkshire County Republican Association will host The Planet for an hour’s grilling at the studios. […]
BY DAN VALENTI (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, APRIL 26, 2011, FIRST ADD) — No, SteroidsGate has not gone away. Stories like that don’t take time off, although journalists do. SteroidsGate and The Granger Memo The Planet now presents for the first time at this website (published first by The Pittsfield Gazette in Dan Valenti’s opinion column) […]
BY DAN VALENTI How the ‘Newspaper’ is Run … into the Ground For months, we have offered evidences and assertions supporting our argument that the Newspaper Formerly Known as The Berkshire Eagle no longer exists. In its place is a fraud and fake called The Boring Broadsheet. The BB began operation in 1995, replacing the […]
HAPPY EASTER TO ALL! Tomorrow, The Planet returns with the most devastating expose to date on how the Boring Broadsheet really operates. We shall prove the “newspaper” (for it isn’t, except that it is physically printed on paper) is a fraud, and we name names, along with the liberated Conor Berry. On Tuesday, The Planet […]
ANNOUNCEMENT (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, APRIL 22, 2011) — IN HONOR AND OBSERVANCE OF GOOD FRIDAY, HOLY SATURDAY, and EASTER SUNDAY, THE PLANET WILL POSE NO STORY ON THOSE HOLY DAYS . OUR NEXT MISSIVE WILL BE UP ON MONDAY. LOTS GOING ON. GOD BLESS ALL AND LOVE TO ALL. — THE PLANET
BY DAN VALENTI (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, APRIL 21, 2011) — 2nd Add — The Planet has yet to hear from Boring Broadsheet executive editor Tim Farkas on our challenge to three rounds of boxing at Beloved Wahconah Park at a time and date to be specified. A few months ago, you may recall The Planet […]
BY DAN VALENTI ‘Phony Bastard’ Apparel, Items: A Sensation Waiting to be Born (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, APRIL 20, 2001) — SECOND ADD — We have slapped a copyright (C) on “Phony Bastard,” and have our second fortune lined up with PB T-Shirts, Mugs, Keychains, and the like. There will be a Phony Bastard float in […]
BY DAN VALENTI (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, APRIL 19, 2011) — Four things out of the gate. Baseball, God, and Other Non-Sequiturs (1) Tomorrow night, The Planet hosts and produces “Baseball, God, and Other Non-Sequiturs,” a celebration of these two metaphysical topics as part of the city of Pittsfield’s observance of National Poetry Month. City cultural […]
BY DAN VALENTI ADD 2, April 18, 2011: A call is placed. (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE) — We can share this brief update. The Planet called Chief Wynn this afternoon. His secretary did not pick up nor did the chief, so the call kicked into voice mail. I left the message that if Chief Michael Wynn […]
BY DAN VALENTI First Add, April 16 into 17th, 2011 Briving a Dus, and Other Kramden-isms (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, April 16, 2011) — Busses, busses, who’s got the busses? And who’s going to pay for them. The bus story below is EXACTLY the kind of nonsense that must stop in the city of Pittsfield. The […]
BY DAN VALENTI Where Have We Been? Busy, That’s Where It has been a bee-busy morning and afternoon on The Planet, replete with laughs, love, and lucidity. The laughs came in part to several “rumors” that hit us about our lack of a post this morning by noon. Rumor 1: The Planet pulled the plug […]
BY DAN VALENTI (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, April 14, 2011) — As we always do when we appear on “Good Morning, Pittsfield,” The Planet enjoyed our repartee with host John Krol in the first half. In the second half,we experienced pure fun talking about Stanley Kubrick with Jack Rubin of the new Berkshire Film Club. Certs […]
BY DAN VALENTI FIRST ADD, APRIL 13, 2011 Flagging Down the Truth (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, APRIL 13, 2011) — On March 25, The Planet posted the exclusive expose on cheating in the City Flag Competition. Today, The Boring Broadsheet wrote the scintillating (NOT!) of the winner. Here’s what we wrote, as a refresher. No one […]
BY DAN VALENTI FIRST ADD, April 12, 2011 The Planet has what we judge to be good, reliable information from informants within the Pittsfield Police Department. We are trying to vet as best we can prior to presenting this material, but the information does raise a number of interesting and plausible questions. A few days […]
BY DAN VALENTI FIRST ADD, APRIL 11, LATER THAN EXPECTED A Quick Question for Our Readers The Planet has been experimenting with a “1-Star,” or our Early Edition, posted for the next day the night before. Is that something you want to see? We think (though not entirely decided) that we can accommodate such a […]
BY DAN VALENTI FIRST ADD, 4/9/11, 3:44 p.m. (Ted Williams’ lifetime batting average) (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, APRIL 9) — Do you remember Patrick Sheehan, the mysterious owner of the building on outer East Street that the city wanted to purchase for a DPW garage? He of the seemingly countless LLCs and corporations? Uncovered by sleuths […]
