By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014) — The biggest good news story will be when the police watch TOM (The One Man). TOM’s the busy guy who, according to Mayor Dan Bianchi ostrich-like view, is responsible for all of the crime currently plaguing downtown Pittsfield. While […]
By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary EPISODE 6 of Planet Valenti Television was our most ambitious yet. It is available on the PCTV website and will be up on YouTube sometime soon. The YouTube link for all out shows is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjP38gC2WQcYx71Cz0tjwoQ/feed ——– 000 ——– (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEEKEND EDITION, JUNE 13-15, 2014) — Let’s see: […]
By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary TUNE IN TONIGHT for Episode 6 of Planet Valenti Television. Tonight, The Generalissimo makes another appearance, by overwhelming popular demand. Also thrill to The Empty Suit, more letters, and other fun surprises. Live, beginning at 7 p.m., that’s PV-TV on Access Pittsfield, Time Warner, channel 16. To […]
By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2014) — THE PLANET has written many a “Fix Is In” columns, with the hard evidence to support it. For example, did we not predict, before anyone knew who she was, that Julia “No Relation to David” Berkowitz Sabourin would become […]
By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 2014) — PLANET VALENTI TELEVISION — PV-TVapologizes for the posting of Episode 5 on YouTube. Unlike the first four episodes, which were posted there in their entirety, the final 14-15 minutes of Episode 5 didn’t make the transferal. THE PLANET and […]
By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MONDAY, JUNE 9, 2014) — On Saturday, 9 a.m. to noon, our Right Honorable Good Friends on the Pittsfield City Council put on their muck boots and waded through Swamp Bianchi, otherwise known as the FY15 budget. Forget about “The Rest of the River.” […]
By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary Here is the hot link for getting Planet Valenti Television — PV-TV. Episode #5 went well last night, and it shall be available at this link, we trust, in a day or two. Meanwhile, Episodes 1-4 are there for the viewing: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjP38gC2WQcYx71Cz0tjwoQ/feed Oh yeah, and Happy 70th Anniversary […]
By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 2014) — When the question of the school bus fleet came up, We The People were strongly against. Being used to tightening the belt and getting the extra year out of the clunker, most citizens wanted to see the current fleet […]
By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 2014) — After the massive thunderclaps of last night, THE PLANET greeted this morning’s sun with joy and poetics. It would be a perfect day for morning filming in beautiful, downtown Pittsfield. With director Dave Bubriski manning the hand-held, Planet Valenti […]
By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary FOR THOSE WHO HAVE ASKED AND FOR THE CONVENIENCE OF ALL OTHERS: Here is a direct link to Planet Valenti Television — PV-TV. You will find all four episodes for viewing in their entirety. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjP38gC2WQcYx71Cz0tjwoQ/feed 00 ———————————————————- 00 (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 2014) — First, […]
By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary PROGRAM NOTE: You can watch all four episodes of Planet Valenti Television — PV-TV now, on demand, at YouTube. Simply 1. go to YouTube. 2. In the search window, type “Planet Valenti.” 3. Enjoy. Our show is catching on, and we are having more fun with it […]
By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary Fourth in a Four-Part PLANET Exclusive Literary Autopsy on Pittsfield’s FY15 Municipal Budget (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEEKEND EDITION, MAY 30 to JUNE 1, 2014) — THE PLANET could spend from now till financial Doomsday (coming soon to Pittsfield) writing prose poems about the vagaries of the FY15 […]
By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THURSDAY, MAY 29, 2014) — Want budget? We got budget. “Budget” here on THE PLANET means something far different than it does for the mayor and his stooges. “Budget” also means something else than what The Boring Broadsheet and other commercial media in the […]
By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary Part 2 of THE PLANET‘s Exclusive Four-Part Series on Pittsfield’s FY15 Budget Proposal (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 2014) — At the recent Memorial Day tribute, Pittsfield Mayor Dan Bianchi said the following: “Memorial Day should be a reflective day for all Americans. I am honored to […]
By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary First in a Four-Part Series on the Proposed FY15 Pittsfield Municipal Budget (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, TUESDAY, MAY 27, 2014) — Under Mayor Dan Bianchi, more popularly known as The Empty Suit (TES) thanks to our recent coverage both here at this website and on the telly, Pittsfield has […]
By DAN VALENTI PLANET VALENTI News and Commentary (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, MEMORIAL DAY, 2014) — THE PLANET immensely enjoys one of the year’s great, sweet, unpretentious treats: the Stockbridge Memorial Day Parade. Now this is what a hometown parade should be: Simple, eye-to-eye, breathable, and full of more warmth, good will, charm, and innocence than a Norman Rockwell painting […]
