Cowboy Up!

Melissa and I went to see Brokeback Mountain last night. Although this movie hasn't caused a political firestorm along the lines of, say, Fahrenheit 911 or The Passion of the Christ, I don't think it's any secret that Conservatives are quietly hoping this movie--the story of a passionate, decades-long secret love affair between two cowboys--will fail financially. I don't know what sort of impact this movie is bound to have culturally or financially, but I can tell you that the theater in Reno that I saw the film in was packed.

As for the movie itself, while watching it all I could think was wow, it looks to me like being gay totally rocks! I had no idea it was all about living on horseback, cooking elk steaks over campfires, huntin' varmints and gazing stoically at mountain vistas. Heath Ledger and Jake I'm-not-even-gonna-try-to-spell-that-last-name are so manly in this movie, they make me feel like a sissy because I like girls.