It's hard to be in the mood for humor, but when my husband and I were reading the news article of Heath Ledger's death that had just been released on MSN earlier today, we got to the part in the article where it noted that Heath was famous for his role as a "gay cowboy in Brokeback Mountain". Spoken like a true Proulx-ian, my husband said that the article was wrong, that he was a gay sheepherder.
It lightened the mood for just a moment.