"For as long as we can ride it. There ain't no reins on this one."

How sad the ride was so short.............

You need something like this to put in perspective how meaningless the Oscars really are. His performance in "Brokeback" was so personal to me that I feel the gut punch of loss. Perhaps it is just the dramatist in me getting caught up in this strangers death. Who knows. All I know is he will be miss, by so many, on so many levels.