By Mickey Friedman May 13, 2014 I’ve got mice. A friend’s got rats. Congressman Bill Shein just lost a duck to a fox. Mice, rats, tigers, lions, and bears. Everywhere it’s war. Congressman Bill, the most nonviolent of men, had…
Category: Bill Shein
No to Mimes, Yes to Bill
September 6, 2012 By Mickey Friedman I’ve been sleeping a lot more easily these days. Ever since Lenox banned street performers. I’ve never met Ms. Hagenah, the “living statue” who asked for a permit to statue on the sidewalk. And…
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…
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…
Sen. Downing’s ‘Tips Bill’ & Fundraising Raise Questions
By Bill Shein October 31, 2011 There’s at least one thread that runs through the many-flavored Occupy Wall Street protests: Big money from a narrow economic elite, flowing into and around our political system, has distorted participatory democracy to create…
Bill Shein & Occupy Berkshires
Bill Shein, Red Crow writer, reporter, racounteur and small-scale duck farmer, hits the airwaves to explain to WGBY’s Carrie Saldo what Occupy Berkshires is all about: Occupy Movement comes to Western Massachusetts from WGBY on Vimeo.
My Summer with Ducks
By Bill Shein September 26, 2011 Early one morning last May, in a sleepy California town just 20 miles from the Pacific Ocean, eight ducklings emerged into the wider world beyond their shells. Within hours, the small, fuzzy creatures were…
Looking Back On Lenox, 2011
By Bill Shein June 30, 2031 “[One Lenox resident] told the Selectmen that the slogan is dividing the town.” – From “Criticism of Lenoxology marketing plan continues,” Berkshire Eagle, June 25 Sometimes it’s funny how things work out, you know?…
An End to Blandness in the Berkshires
By Bill Shein GREAT BARRINGTON – Finally! For those Berkshire-ites who find their food a bit bland, their mental clarity a bit fuzzy (see below), and have been unsure what to do about it, there is an exciting new development…
Facebook: When Will It Become Sentient and Enslave Us All?
We had to know this was coming: Facebook, the uber-application that has rapidly aggregated unprecedented amounts of very personal, very detailed information about 600 million humans (and counting!), now uses facial-recognition software to identify people in photographs uploaded to the…