Showing posts with label Mamma Mia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mamma Mia. Show all posts

Saturday, August 30, 2008

biker dog


As we drove home last evening from seeing the movie Mamma Mia (YES - I saw it again, this time with my husband, who typically has a disdain for musicals, but this one broke the mold. He loved it!) ... oops, I digressed.


A motorcycle passed us. The driver had a passenger: a dog! Have any of you ever seen this? I had not. We drove beside them long enough to check out the situation. The driver had some sort of backpack-contraption for the dog. She was stuffed down into it, so that she rode piggy-back fashion on her master. It looked like there was a chain securing her collar to the top of the backback. She looked marvelously content: front paws sticking out, ears flapping as she looked around. Now, this dog looked amazingly similar to our dog, Ellie. So imagine our sweet Ellie, riding piggyback ..... on Bill, on a motorcyle! Now, that I'd love to see!
However, I'm pretty sure I never will.

Saturday, August 9, 2008

Mamma Mia!

Katie, Jill and I took in a matinee of Mamma Mia! yesterday.

Outrageous!

I'm not sure what I was expecting, but the songs, dances and out-of-character characters burst off that screen. Everyone knows I'm not a huge movie buff, but didn't Pierce Brosnan play the role of Bond? James Bond? So when he sings duets - ABBA duets - with Meryal Streep while dancing across a Greek isle ... it's just tongue-in-cheek hilarious. Check it out.

Better yet, go see it, and be prepared to laugh and sing along if you're over 40.