June 21, 2012 By Mickey Friedman I’m bringing it home. That’s what Bob calls finishing the song or the gig. I’ve been doing what I said I wouldn’t ever do again. Making a film. When my friend Beth began her…
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Going, going, gone
June 7, 2012 By Mickey Friedman Things are different since Vladimir left. Now when I rant, mutter, or converse in more measured tones, there’s nobody listening. Vladimir responded in his own unique Quaker Parrot way and most of it went…
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…
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…
The War’s Not Over
Mickey Friedman January 7. 2012 Few Americans know about David Emanuel Hickman. The media jabbers about Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum and neglects David Emanuel Hickman. For all their rhetoric about standing tall and…
Occupy Christmas
Mickey Friedman December 25, 2011 As 2011 comes to a close, it’s fair to say Occupy has occupied the land. Far from the opening and closing bells of Wall Street, and its powerful bull, here in the southern Berkshires, Occupy…
Some More Moments Of Occupy
Mickey Friedman November 22, 2011 Remember the mythic and mystical friendly neighborhood policeman. He is alive and well in the form of Retired Police Captain Ray Lewis of the Philadelphia Police Department. Captain Lewis was recently arrested as part of…
The Power of Silence – Occupy UC Davis
By Mickey Friedman November 20, 2011 Red Crow’s Bill Shein has written and spoken often of the power of nonviolent protest. The students at University of California, Davis have offered a new and inspirational example. Take a moment to review…