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

[Toast]

"And what's the image of the real America through (Ennis' trailer) window? Why it's flat. It's a dreary rural wheatscape, if you will, with no features to interest the eye, no textures to assuage the soul. There's nothing interesting to it. It expresses someone's idea of repressed America, where gay men are forced to bury their personalities and violent conformism is the rule of the day.
To paraphrase Gertrude Stein, there's no there there."     

=comment=
Someone posted on one of the other topics that there is a sign in the middle of Oakland with the word "THERE" in great big letters, calling it a rebuttal to Gertrude Stein's famous quote.
Sandy

=reply= Sandy
Interesting point about Gertrude and Oakland.

"There", a monumental sculpture (1988) by Roslyn Mazzilli is installed in Oakland City Center, answering the addage from the late poet and ex-Oaklander, Gertrude Stein, who wrote about Oakland after returning years later "there is no there there". Additionally, in 2005 a sculpture called HERETHERE has been installed by the City of Berkeley on the Berkeley-Oakland border. The sculpture consists of eight foot high letters spelling out the words "HERE" (Berkeley) and "THERE" (Oakland).

Toast

[Meryl]

The structure of the Riverton Elks Club is that of a modified Quonset hut.

[Mikaela]

Their affection for one another is spontaneous and unthinking at times, and at others ravenous and addictive.
The Stanford Daily review: here

[memento]

"The cold air sweetened, banded pebbles and crumbs of soil cast sudden pencil-long shadows, and the rearing lodgepole pines below them massed in slabs of somber malachite." [Story]

[Toast]

Conservatives will see the liberal tyranny of an entertainment culture forcing elitist "progressive values" on the reluctant red-state millions and, in the process, staining the purity of the most American of good ol' American genres, the western, home of Duke Wayne, Gene Autry and Roy Rogers.     

[Meryl]

To relieve the sick feeling that came over him after parting from Jack in Signal, Ennis knelt down in an alley and tried upchucking.

[Will-U]

 
* Higgins Gift Shop *
==CLOSED Evenings==
Re-opens tmo. Labor Day
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Heart-uneasy Ennis had emotional dry heaves and was in process to upchuck vomitus!

def = materials discharged by vomiting


=congratz= DeeDee
Our Gyrl -- and Dre's Godmama -- hit 1,000 postz!
Delayed congratz as DDD hadn't posted here then.
In fact, DeeDee hasn't played ABCz since Aug. 17!
Detective Dee has been busy on 2 mystery cases:
"Who's that Girl II?" and "Where's the body?"

=aside= Kitty Wells
Meow!  I luv your classic C&W song about God and "Honky Tonk Angels"!  Thanx to "BBM", it's getting a new boost.  Happy B-day, Miss Wells!  Folkz, Country Queen Kitty just just turned 87 years the other day on August 30th!

[Toast]

Lureen"  "What are you waiting for, cowboy...a mating call?"
Jack flushes. 
She leads him onto the dance floor.
The jukebox plays Kitty Wells' "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels."   [screenplay]

[Meryl]

Jack, Ennis, their horses, the dogs and the coyotes were all well acquainted with the smell of the xcreta of a thousand ewes and their lambs.

[memento]

"Instead, director Ang Lee's film is a poignant, heartbreaking and startlingly romantic exploration of the years-long relationship between two rugged young ranch hands, the taciturn and closed-off Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and the open-hearted, longing Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) as they struggle to both indulge and disguise the intense feelings they share in a more repressive American West." From 'Brokeback Mountain': Interviews From The Film to Beat This Year Link