Losing My Grip

May 19, 2012 By Mickey Friedman Do you remember when people would say “he’s losing his grip on reality” about someone who seemed not quite there? When an expert on something or other would announce on TV that some adamant,…

A Greater Barrington

April 21, 2012 By Mickey Friedman I like knowing where things are. Where the bathrooms are? Where you can find pasta sauce at the Big Y? And I get used to things the way they are. It’s taken me years…

The Bestest Small Town in America

May 5, 2012 By Mickey Friedman Gettya free money! Free money! Right over here! Reminds me of the Marx Brothers and A Day At The Races. Gettya ice icream. Tootsy fruitsy ice cream here. I thought of this walking to…

Bringing Life to Lennoxx

April 7, 2012 By Mickey Friedman   God works in mysterious ways. How else explain the near-magical events that once again put me and Abigail Starkfield-Crump in the same place at the same time? Turns out some folks in Lennoxx…

A Brief Apology

We are sorry crows, aware we have been derelict in our duties. DS Red Crow has been hard at work editing a newsweekly, raising his children and writing a play. BS Red Crow has been doing his best to transform…

Stop Kony. Stop Us.

March 24, 2012 By Mickey Friedman If 80 million people had seen a short film I made about Joseph Kony, an African madman/dictator who kidnaps kids and makes them slaves and soldiers, sent me $30 bucks for a bracelet, then…

GE Brought A Good Thing To Life

March 10, 2011 By Mickey Friedman Having grown up on city streets, I wouldn’t have known a vernal pool if I had fallen into one. Today I’m writing about vernal pools because they are central to the battle about how…

The Rick Sanitorium

February 26, 2012 By Mickey Friedman I’ve been spending time at the Rick Sanitorium. There, I learned it’s the values. It’s all about the values. You won’t last long at the Sanitorium if you don’t have the right values. Granted,…

It’s Not Me; It’s My Wife

February 12, 2012 By David Scribner HOUSATONIC, MA – Like everyone else, I was surprised to learn that Sandra Muss, a painter and wife of Stephen Muss, the Florida-based developer and would-be savior of Housatonic, was buying the Barbieri mill…

Housatonic Has A Pulse

February 10, 2012 By Mickey Friedman With all the horrendous things adults do to children, from forcing them to fight and kill in Sierra Leone, making them make soccer balls for pennies in Pakistan, abusing them physically and emotionally, there…