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…
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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,…
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…
Small Schools
By Mickey Friedman February 4, 2012 No kids, a different district, so I am just an interested bystander in the raging debate about the small schools of Monterey, Egremont and New Marlborough. Having taught I have a continuing interest in…
A More Mickey America
Mickey Friedman January 25, 2012 I’ve tried to convince Bill Shein not to run for Congress. But my friend hasn’t listened to me. Don’t get me wrong, Bill would make a fine Congressman. And I’ll vote for him. It’s just…
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…