Mickey Friedman December 17, 2011 If there’s one thing I learned from hearing “Oklahoma” eight million times it’s that the cowboys and the farmers should be friends. We’re short of cowboys and growing short of farmers around these parts. Which…
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Hasta Luego, Pablo – Occupy Everywhere
By Mickey Friedman December 12, 2011 I’ve been very sad lately, having lost another dear friend to cancer, Dr. Paul Epstein, Pablo to me, Rufus to his family. Paul was one of the world’s leading experts on the ever-increasing effects…
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…
UC Davis & Some Teachable Moments
Mickey Friedman November 21, 2011 It’s been quite awhile since I dwelled in academia. So I’m out of practice. No longer speak the language. Maybe you do. Maybe you know what Chancellor Katehi is saying. Maybe it’s the wax in…
When Green Is All About The Green
Mickey Friedman November 18, 2011 You’re not going to want to read this if you’re paying an extra penny or two a kilowatt hour to buy green electricity. Or you think we should sacrifice our mountaintops for wind turbines because…
A Million Faces
By Mickey Friedman November 7, 2011 This Sunday morning, after an hour of serious shoveling, I was able to get my car to Fuel for my Sunday latte. My deepest sympathies to our Great Barrington pear trees which fell overnight,…
The Fish, the Ducks, & the Clucks
By Mickey Friedman October 21, 2011 The Fish are the fish that swim the Housatonic River; the Ducks are the ducks that travel the flyway, stopping to live for a bit in the Housatonic. And the Clucks, well read on,…
I Heart Rain Forestology
By Mickey Friedman September 25, 2011 The Jungle, Costa Rica Frank T, who transformed sandwich life as we knew it in Great Barrington, and simultaneously built a home for wayward Barringtonians of all shapes, sizes, and pedigree and fed them…
A Hamlet For Us All
By Mickey Friedman September 23, 2011 Eminent Déjà Vu Domain. I remember those words. Something about a dump for Great Barrington. Eminent Domain. Paying less than the land was worth. And then a court case and paying a whole lot…
Goodnight, Al Schwartz, and Goodbye
By Mickey Friedman September 7, 2011 GREAT BARRINGTON, MA — Tuesday night is poker night. How appropriate that I learned from my friend Bijan of Al Schwartz’s passing on poker night, Tuesday September 6. I only played a few times…
Remember When Communities Cared
By Mickey Friedman August 25, 2011 It’s been the best and worst of times for Lenox. Smidley, Crump and Crump’s innovative ad campaign: “Lennoxx: We’re More Than We Were; We’re More Than You Expect; And We’re More Than You Imagine”…
Riots, Tweets, and Zero Tolerance: 4 Years in Jail
By Mickey Friedman August 16, 2011 Interesting new developments from the riots across the sea. Amidst the calls to curtail the use of social media – and the arrests of a few Facebook posters and Blackberry instant messengers for incitement…