Well, lessee. ...
BBBM, never was part of an on-line community. Now I've made a lot of new friends, some cyber, others actually in person! That's the biggest and best change in my life, the new friends.
BBBM I had dismissed Heath Ledger as just another Australian pretty boy. A might pretty pretty boy, but just a pretty boy nonetheless. I had no idea he was capable of such depth as an actor.
Jake Gyllenhaal was just a name to me. I knew he had been in
October Sky--which I still have not seen
--and I remember reading a short article on both him and his sister Maggie in the "Talk of the Town" section in
The New Yorker--that's the other issue of the magazine I wish I had saved, along with the issue of October 13, 1997.
BBBM, if anyone had told me I'd write and post fanfiction about a couple of gay cowboys, I'd have said he was nuts.
My Western Casual wardrobe has expanded considerably.
Being nearly 20 years in the gay leather-Levi community, of course I owned cowboy boots. But they weren't worn much. Now it's Western Casual all the way!
BBBM, if anyone had told me I would think about developing an interest in professional bullriding as a spectator sport, I'd have said he was nuts. Funny thing about that, though. A couple of years ago I cut an ad out of a Friday morning
Philadelphia Inquirer that announced an appearance by the Jim Beam Bull Riding Team--seven young cowboys all dressed alike in red shirts, black hats, and black leather vests and Western chaps (yowzah!)--and all of whom would certainly merit a second look in a gay bar on a Saturday night. That ad has been hanging over my desk since long BBBM, so I guess I had "latent tendencies" so to speak.
I think I've become at least a teensy bit more of a risk taker--depending on how you define risk taking--like running off to Boston for the weekend, hang the expense (a fella's gotta start somewhere).
Ennis and Jack rule!
Brokeback Mountain forever! Yeehaw!