Planet Valenti

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 […]

BY DAN VALENTI The Planet, in the middle of an extremely busy and productive morning picking hundreds off the money tree, offers a few quick though not-so-random thoughts on matters that have come out way in the past 24 hours: — SURE TO HAPPEN: Before he leaves office in early January, 2012, assuming the world […]

BY DAN VALENTI FIRST ADD APRIL 7 The Planet and The Chief, Man to Man (FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, APRIL &, ADD 1) — The Planet’s exclusive came this morning with Pittsfield Police Chief Michael Wynn. We called his office, and his secretary, Maggie (and one of the best in the business, by the way) put […]

BY DAN VALENTI SECOND ADD, APRIL 6 April Surprise Petition Circulating Ward 4’s Mike Ward is first in officially and on the record, posting on his Facebook page to my question that he likes the moves since it give the city two fine candidates “on a trial basis.” The Planet has talked off the record […]

BY DAN VALENTI FIRST ADD, 4/5/11 Chief Wynn, Attorney Dohoney to Speak? The Planet had learned that Pittsfield Police Chief Mike Wynn and City Attorney Rich Dohoney may be making a statement tomorrow about SteroidsGate. We haven’t confirmed that officially, as a call into city hall was not returned, but we believe the information is […]

BY DAN VALENTI SECOND ADD, 4/4/11 The Planet has just posted the following notice on the “comments” feature of this website: NOTICE TO ALL FROM THE PLANET!WE WILL NOT POST NOTES THAT GO BEYOND FAIR COMMENT. WE WILL TRY TO KEEP THIS SITE OPEN FOR A FREE EXCHANGE OF VIEWS, BUT, AS OUR DELETION OF […]