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

[Toast]

Ennis laughed at the zaniness of Jack's rodeo mating dance.

[Mary Twist]

I am as pleased as punch to also be here to announce the remarkable 275th round of the ABCz of Brokeback Mountain!

To quote myself:  You come back and see us again!

May your next visit also be "B" for "blessed".
Mrs. Mary S. Twist

[southendmd]

The mountain scenery is often awe-inspiring.

=aside= Mrs. Twist
You inspire awe, yourself, ma'am.

[Fran]

"They found a bar and drank beer through the afternoon, Jack telling Ennis about a lightning storm on the mountain the year before that killed forty-two sheep, the peculiar stink of them and the way they bloated, the need for plenty of whiskey up there."  [story]

[Toast]

It's when the movie moves upstairs at Jack's parents' house that "Brokeback Mountain" achieves its true power and universality. The subject then becomes not homosexuality but closets, which Lee presents, again literally -- that's a real closet there -- and metaphorically.   

[Will-X]

Birthday Surprise!   It's always nice to have a surprise on your birthday!  I had a few good ones today -- including Mr. Bad Boi Dre! alas posting at BetterMost Forum -- so now I'm giving this surprise 2 U all! 

Thanx to the ABCz Playerz who kindly acknowledged ABCz-ville Mayor Will's Birthday!

I believe that virtually all of the ABCz Playerz are the best, the smartest and the wittiest folkz.  I felt that from when I first started the endless ABCz game over at IMDB's "Brokeback Mountain" board.  And, sometimes, understandably, we are the most emotional.  Hey, let's face it, this ain't no feed store!


=aside= Fran
U R A-1 (OK, A-2) at being a Mod.   U ride it and guide it.  In fact, I haven't had to talk U out of quitting since... yesterday!   Special thanx 4 kicking off my colorful and lively birthday tribute here at the still #1 "ABCz of BBM"!

=aside= Sandy
Though I said it 2 U as an 'aside' about a third-year ago, U remembered about the Gay rainbow and my birthday greeting!  Tanx!  Plus, U R the "Duchess of Double-EntenDres"!

=aside= Will-ABC
While I'm here visiting, I may as well play an ABCz game letter!  What letter is up next?  "D" for Dre!

[Will-X]

When Ennis & Jack were at their BBM campfire and telling each other about their growing up, etc., Ennis related that:  "Daddy said that all rodeo cowboys were fuck-ups"!  Unfortunately for Ennis, Daddy Del Mar was a ver' bad daddy!

Note: This is Daddy in the proper name sense; thus cap "D"!  How's Beckala?  In Round 12, she played the lower-cased "daddy"!  


=greetings= Dre!
Although U have actually been an ABCz player here and at BBM longer than anyone butt me, this is your official welcome from the ABCz-ville Mayor for formally joining us on board!   All of your friends here such as Fran and Meryl must be so glad 2 C U!   Special thanx for my birthday greetings -- and your very special b-day gifts 2 me.

[Fran]

"The film stars Heath Ledger as Ennis del Mar, a laconic young buckaroo armed with a wedding engagement and more than his fair share of inner demons even before he meets Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal), with whom he spends the summer of ’63 herding sheep in the Wyoming Rockies, which are themselves very obviously the west-of-Calgary Rockies." 

-- Nicholas Tam, The Gateway

[Toast]

EXT: DOWNTOWN RIVERTON: BLACK AND BLUE EAGLE BAR: NIGHT:

Ennis parks across the street from the BLACK AND BLUE EAGLE BAR. Gets out and without looking or bothering about the thin traffic, walks across the street toward the bar. A pickup with roughnecks in it has to brake sharply to keep from hitting him, so sharply that their dog, an ugly, tough-looking mongrel is thrown out of the back, nearly run over by traffic coming the other way.

First Roughneck: (driving, size of a bear) "Hey, fuckhead, watch where the fuck you're goin', you nearly got my dawg kilt."

Without hesitation, Ennis runs around the pickup, yanks open the driver door, drags the huge man out in the slushy street, pummeling him and kicking him.

Knees him in the nuts.    [2003 screenplay]

[southendmd]

Jack was a grabber of attention, and, um, other things.

=aside= Toast
That's a hard act to follow.