Monday, November 17, 2025
"A Titallating Cabaret, Redux - Sierra 2 Center - November 14, 2025
Jennifer Rineman and her tales of surviving breast cancer.
RIP, Max Aragon
Max! My first cousin! He was seven years older than I, so we didn't really hang out together at any time, even as kids, unlike Ernie, and even Freddy.
I recall how Aunt Senaida liked how my mother would line up my sisters and I on Gramita's couch, so we looked so cute. So, Senaida tried to do the same with her four robust sons. It was hard, and it didn't last very long, but she finally got cuteness from her sons too.
I recall the world of Bernalillo in the early 60s. I'd see Nehi Cola there: something that seemed unavailable in Corrales, just ten miles away. Max and his brothers would collect empty glass bottles and recycle them for probably about a penny each at the Iceberg Cafe, at the south side of town, where San Ysidro met El Camino. And the Aragon family was on San Ysidro.
Max was a bus driver in San Jose, CA, and in Albuquerque, NM, too. Good times!
Funeral service will be on November 18, 2025. I won't be there, unfortunately. Here is the obituary, which seems to contain several glaring errors:
Maximulano “Max” Aragon
April 6, 1949 – October 29, 2025
Max was born and raised in Bernalillo New Mexico . He led a fulfilling and happy life. He believed in living each day to the fullest and valued the little things in life and loved making everyone happy.
He was called home October 29, 2025 . He was surrounded by family and loved ones.
He was preceded in death by his parents Felicito and Zenida Aragon , his 2 brothers Ernie and Olie and his beloved wife Lucia .
He is survived by Max Jr and Monica Aragon from Bernalillo – Jimmy and Brandy Trujillo and Clarence and Susan of Sandia Pueblo – as well as 12 grandchildren and was blessed to have 4 great grandchildren and numerous nieces , nephews, cousins and other extended family whom he loved dearly and never hesitated to show how big his heart was .
He had such a big part in all our lives , He lives on in all of us
He will be dearly missed
Services will be :
Rosary – Funeral Mass
Tuesday November 18, 2025 @10:00 am
Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Bernalillo, NM
Burial to follow at Placitas Cemetery
Reception to follow at :
Sheriff Posse in Bernalillo
Pallbearers
Max Aragon Jr
Phillip Aragon
Karina Aragon
Gabriel Aragon
Paul Aragon
Jimmy Gutierrez
RIP, Linda Mitchell
Along with the Celebration of Life for Tom and Helen Austin, Linda's passing just shows that time is moving right along.
Poor Linda, and Dwight.
"After The Hunt"
I saw this movie last month and and I forgot to write about it. It's a curious movie, where the actors cast accusations and aspersions against each other, yet the audience doesn't have enough information to evaluate the claims. It boils down to what you believe. The epilogue of the film is interesting, yielding a happy ending, and the definite understanding that none of what came before really mattered. The Woody-Allen font aids this process of downplaying the high-tension of before.
So, it's curious. Here is a review of the film:
Of course, Hank vehemently denies any wrongdoing, but is quickly fired by the teaching department, after Alma’s testimony supports Maggie, and the higher-ups believes it is the right thing to do, optics-wise. The movie then begins to veer in a direction that isn’t at all what its introduction promised to the audience, offering no answers to whether or not Hank did what he was accused of, and if Alma’s current beliefs are perhaps the cause of a past experience she had with an alleged sexual assault. Instead of giving easy answers to anything, Guadagnino confronts the audience’s values – and their conception of cinema – with an often contradictory object that always fascinates in how he never gives the audience lines of thinking to the questions and themes he and screenwriter Nora Garrett treat within this fictionalized story of an event occurring in the middle of the #MeToo movement.
Sunday, November 16, 2025
Commemorating AC/DC's "It's A Long Way To The Top" Video
A very Australian thing, jamming every available bagpiper into Melbourne's Fed Square to commemorate rock and roll heroes, AC/DC, on what I believe is the 50th anniversary!
@carolineangel_ucat42 The world record is set for the most pipers of laying AC/DC (Fed Square). It was awesome. #ACDC #highlandband #bagpipes #fedsquare #fedsquaremelbourne ♬ original sound - CarolineAngel
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