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Sheyne:

I'll have a muse on this too, Phillip. I mean, yes, we came here originally to talk about Brokeback Mountain but - and I'm directing this to TJ mostly - but it was always going to be inevitable that we would exhaust our regular discussions about the movie and start to talk about other things.  This is not a bad thing.  BBM was just our meeting point. It was the catalyst that created this community and now its to the point where we're going to start branching off into other topics.

I'm extremely grateful for your forward-thinking attitude, Phillip. I don't want to see our watering hole dry up neither - I love coming here - I come here now for the people as well as the conversation.

We'll see what we can all come up with together.

 :)

newyearsday:
Sheyne!! I love your sig line--LOVE it! And yes, we are a community now (like it or not!) I love it, and I think one of the advantages of that is that hopefully, we feel safe to go even deeper in revealing and exploring what this movie can teach us about life and how to live it. (Right Keren?)

Jenny

maggiesmommy GayLee:
I think this is a wonderful idea...we can encourage each other, remensce (sp?) about the movie, go back to it as a reference point...have a WATCH IT AGAIN day, then all get together and see what it said to us that was different or deeper..lots of ways to share our lives, struggles, joys and still connect to BBM...as a matter of fact, who I AM now is because of BBM.... so anytime I post here it is all about BBM...
I celebrate your wisdom and protective spirit....you're awsome...

Phillip Dampier:

--- Quote from: newyearsday on May 13, 2006, 02:07:18 pm ---Hey Phillip, this is sort of along the lines of suggestions and improvements, but just wondering if you saw the PM I sent you a while back (a week or so ago) about little aesthetic things to do to make the site a little more easy and visually pleasing to use. Thoughts? Responses?
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Yes, I have it and I turned it over to John who is trying to learn more about this software and what can be modified and what cannot.  I have been tweaking things to make it as easy as possible to navigate around here, including increasing the number of posts per page, etc.  My technical skills at modifying the code that makes the software work isn't good enough, so I have to wait on John.  I have kept your PM in my box so it's on the list.


--- Quote from: Two_mules on May 13, 2006, 09:12:09 pm ---That is such a refrershing attitude, Phillip. One community I was a member of was driven off a message board because the guy running it didn't like the way we madeit a community. He decreed that (for example) wishing each other happy birthday was off topic. We upped and left.

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Let's face it.  If we weren't a community building something special with one another, why would people keep coming back night after night.  It's not all about the movie.  I'd like to see lots more general topics grow in forums like Anything Goes.  The movie provokes many of us to do something different in our lives, and this site should always provide a place for updates, no matter what it is you are working on in your life.  I have been trying to wish people Happy Birthday myself when I see it on the calendar.  Heck, I've started congratulating people whenever I see they have achieved a cool number of posts.  One of our great users here hit the big 500 yesterday.  It's a great achievement.


--- Quote from: TJ on May 13, 2006, 09:21:21 pm ---I like the community idea as long as it is related to the original subject of Brokeback Mountain, whether it is the movie of the Annie Proulx short story.

But, I see a lot of stuff that has absolutely no connection whatsoever with the topics brought up in the story or movie. And the fact that some of the graphics, meaning posted pics, keeps being reposted AND reposted in member's replies and takes up broadband width space.
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TJ, there will always be a place for these discussions here.  We haven't even seen the pay cable viewers hit here yet, and they'll be coming with the same questions and thoughts we had back in January.  But life is about change and evolving and growth.  Annie Proulx encouraged us to finish the story in our own lives, and that is what a lot of us are doing.  I am doing it myself personally.  If I confined my comments exclusively to the movie, I'd have burned out by now.  The movie is a catalyst for changes in my own personal life.  I started this site to help me build confidence that I could launch something meaningful and it would be useful, not just to me, but to others.  I am working towards other projects as well.

The movie discussion forums continue, and unlike some forums which delete messages after say 30 days, a lot of the remarkable threads here will be here as long as this site is.  Don't worry about the bandwidth and the site space taken up by the informal discussions here.  The entire site can still easily fit on a CD-ROM and still have a ton of space left over.

And to everyone, I agree that as time passes, we are going to keep coming back to the movie, as well as exploring new remarkable things we encounter in our lives and journeys forward.  And I'm sure Annie Proulx herself has some remarkable stories we can explore in the days ahead as well!

TJ:
Phillip,

Some of my comments here are related to the fact that some of the people posting the stuff which seems a way off from Brokeback Mountain AND that the only connection of Brokeback Mountain and their lives is they took time to see the movie.

Many also seem to misunderstand what Annie Proulx meant with so many of her Wyoming expressions.

But, so many things in the story and the movie, including the dialog or conversations, remind me of my own live and people in my life.

Roland made a comment, in a PM, if I remember correctly, about people from the rural Midwest. Well, in my grade school, high school and college history classes, we were taught that Midwest was EAST of the Mississippi River and North of the Mason-Dixon Line. And states just west of the Mississippi were the West.

In the polls section, I created a poll for people to let others know where in the West of the USA on the East side of the Rockies members live or have lived. I did add "Idaho" as an after thought do to the fact that a friend wanted to include that, too. I have been to Idaho.

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