I am learning a lot today and getting great help in aligning historical contrasts, conflicts and mysteries. I am finishing New Mexico-Colorado writer Larry Calloway’s new book, Shaking Rio Arriba Down – The Courthouse Raid (Palmetto Publishing) …
and taking a side trip to one of its references, historian Michael Welsh, https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nmhr/vol62/iss4/4
And from the introduction to Larry’s book:
Whether or not he said these exact words, Maureen Dowd has found some filmmakers turning Mark Twain sarcasm on its head …
From her March 14, 2026 column in the New York Times, “The Lost Horizon of John and Carolyn,” about a 2026 TV series called, “Love Story” …
“Daryl Hannah, the actress who dated J.F.K. Jr. before Carolyn, with a bit of overlap, wrote a trenchant guest essay in Times Opinion, claiming that the show turns her into a cocaine-snorting “obstacle” to the love story, a narrative device that is not “remotely accurate.” She said she’s never done cocaine.
“Nina Jacobson, a “Love Story” producer, admitted, “Given how much we’re rooting for John and Carolyn, Daryl Hannah occupies a space where she’s an adversary to what you want narratively in the story.” The producers did not consult with Hannah or the Kennedys. Connor Hines, the showrunner, told Variety that “it allows you to be a lot more objective.” Besides, he added inanely and selfishly, “it’s an incredibly large family as well. So if you were to talk about consulting them, where would you even begin?”
One good thing about falling asleep on the couch is waking up on the couch. Also, I discovered that the snow field in my copy of William Victor Higgins’s “Winter Funeral,” left, printed on metal, takes on an interesting glow when backlit by moon light and, well, the lights of Albuquerque.
”Winter Funeral” day view.
Izzy and Cowboy2 think they’ve escaped, for the moment, their tireless, younger playmate, Molly.
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These guys made 2025 better. Tom Harmon, left, and Tim Coder, right, fellow Albuquerque Journal retirees, at the Barelas Coffee House, November 18, 2025. I’m in the middle. Barack Obama is on the wall.
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