The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)

[Fran]

"The two men meet when they're hired to protect herds of sheep that are grazing in Wyoming mountains.  It's a two-man operation, as each takes a turn as cook/camp tender and 'bodyguard' to the livestock.  It's also cold and lonely work, which is why the two men turn to each other for physical comfort.  In the weeks that follow, that turns into something more." 

-- Jeff Vice, Deseret Morning News   

[southendmd]

"The two men meet when they're hired to protect herds of sheep that are grazing in Wyoming mountains.  It's a two-man operation, as each takes a turn as cook/camp tender and 'bodyguard' to the livestock.  It's also cold and lonely work, which is why the two men turn to each other for physical comfort.  In the weeks that follow, that turns into something more." 

-- Jeff Vice, Deseret Morning News

=aside= Fran
Thanks, I'm feeling a little lazy today after the big weekend.
Glad to see you arrived home safe and sound.

=congrats= Meryl
4000 unbreakable and lovely posts!

[Toast]

Nothing could xinanite "Ennis, riding against the wind back to the sheep in the treacherous, drunken light, thought he'd never had such a good time, felt he could paw the white out of the moon."

def - To make empty; to render of no effect; to humble.

=congrats= Meryl
4000 interesting, informed posts.

[Toast]

Round 593!
Here's Looking at Me!



More of the struggle to connect, attach, and bond.

[Fran]

"But Ennis and Jack's deepening bond colors their lives over the next 20 years.  Ennis marries Alma (Michelle Williams), and struggles to do right by her and his new daughters on a ranch hand's salary.  Jack catches the eye of a sassy rodeo queen (Anne Hathaway), who sets him up in the tractor business operated by her daddy, an antagonistic blowhard who treats Jack as little more than a stud bull once he's produced the old man's requisite grandchild.  But as resigned as both Jack and Ennis think they are to their new lives, a reunion years later leads to annual fishing trips together up on the mountain -- alienating them helplessly from the half-lives they share with their increasingly disappointed wives."

-- Lisa Jensen Online   

=congrats= Meryl
Happy 4,000th post!

[memento]

"This epic tale about the unexpected love between two men working on the Brokeback Mountains combines our American thirst for the stories of the West with the undeniable power of a loving bond that knows no boundaries."

  Ramone Johnson, About.com: Gay Life    

=Congrats= Meryl
On 4,000 witty, insightful, well-written posts.

[Meryl]

Jack and Ennis had no idea they would connect so strongly that their lives would never be the same after that summer on Brokeback.

=aside=Paul, Toast, Fran and Sandy
Thanks so much, friends, for noticing my milestone and making it so much fun to reach! 

[Fran]

"The two men meet when they're hired to protect herds of sheep that are grazing in Wyoming mountains.  It's a two-man operation, as each takes a turn as cook/camp tender and 'bodyguard' to the livestock.  It's also cold and lonely work, which is why the two men turn to each other for physical comfort.  In the weeks that follow, that turns into something more." 

-- Jeff Vice, Deseret Morning News   

[southendmd]

When Ennis enveloped Jack in his arms, it was the "single moment of artless, charmed happiness in their separate and difficult lives".

[memento]

In Jack and Ennis's case, absence (and sometimes abstinence) certainly made their hearts grow fonder.