Jasper and I get a burger:
Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Courage the Cowardly Dog
I had never heard of Courage the Cowardly Dog, probably because I’m too old. But maybe I’m getting younger every day, so it’s time.
Photos From Protesting
Howe at Arden, Dec. 13, 2025. I'm the Burma Shave of protesters!
Sidewalk At the John Moss Federal Building, Dec. 11, 2025.
Piñata at the John Moss Federal Building, Dec. 11, 2025.
Sunday, December 07, 2025
Sunday, November 30, 2025
Tiffany's Birthday
I marvel how we city dwellers share the city with homeless people. Two communities living together, sharing the same space, but not interacting with each other very much. It seems wrong, somehow. We have common interests in safety and self-respect. We should interact more, and help each other in times of need. We don't, though, mostly because of the gulf of means, which encourages dependency and inappropriate relationships.
I get nervous when a homeless tent appears too close to my back gate. Such folks are able to monitor my presence, and investigate weaknesses in security. Indeed, several years ago, when I was gone for a number of hours, someone dismantled my back gate and stole a bicycle. There had been someone camped nearby, in a perfect spot to know my comings and goings. And I still remember February of 2022, when a strange woman entered my house and police were required to remove her.
So, in early November, I got nervous when someone camped in a tent near my back gate. I stopped feeding the birds, because they were also camped near the bird feeding spot.
Then, on the evening of November 9th, someone knocked on my front door. It was the homeless person camped in the tent; a woman complaining that her clothes were wet, and wondering if I could dry them out with my clothes dryer. She seemed somewhat mentally-challenged, but also in some trouble. Wet clothes are a menace in the November chill. I told her I would meet her at her campsite and see what her needs were..
Meeting her out back, she said someone had thrown water on her clothes, but I didn't believe her. She was using a two-wheeled rubbish bin as a transport vehicle for her belongings, and I think that the bin had collected rainwater from a storm several days prior. There was no other way for her clothes to get so wet. I determined it was probably best to wash and dry the clothes. So, that's what I did, taking mostly jackets and jeans, and washing and drying them. Her name was Tiffany, and she was tracking the time, because at midnight it would be November 10th, and her 38th birthday.
I took Jasper out for his late-night walk. When we returned, after midnight, she was rolling her belongings away, including clean, dry clothes. She did not return either. So, no dependency or inappropriate relationship to worry about. I was able to help her out of a jam, as a good neighbor should do.
Saturday, November 29, 2025
Fun at the Howe at Arden Protest - November 29, 2025
Good times and general impressions, particularly of the periodic Honk Countdown.
Wolf Alice - "White Horses"
I love stumbling across indie rock/pop groups that I've never heard of before, singing songs with geographical references. Love this song!
I just missed their tour this year. Something to look forward to in the future!
“If I Were a Rich Man”
I had a strange dream. “If I Were a Rich Man” was a TV Reality show based in Annetevka, with all the residents acting out with rich wardrobes, luxury yachts, and private jets.
"Bugonia"
November 22nd, I saw the film “Bugonia,” featuring an all-too-complicated conspiracy theory, and starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons. Excellent movie!
The next day, listening to KVMR (Grass Valley) on the radio, this song came up. Seemed apropos!
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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