August 3, 2008

• Dancing Queens, Picturesque Pigeons, Clipping Clooney & Hairy Carey

  
  Saganaki is a Greek dish that comes to the table accompanied by
  cries of “opa!” and a dramatic fiery flourish. In reality, it’s just
  cheese – but what wonderfully salty, sinfully satisfying cheese it is.  The same could be said for Mamma Mia!

  It was a hot, hazy day in Los Angeles today, so Tuan and I decided to go see Mamma Mia at the Arclight.

  
  Who knew Meryl Streep could do this?!  She was amazing!

  It was so smoggy, you could barely see the Hollywood sign from Sunset Blvd!

  

  

  The 2:45 showing of Mamma Mia was actually full!  It’s great fun.  Set in a lush Greek island, with breathtaking cinematography.  It’s a delicious romp!

  
  Tuan (far right) didn’t think he was in this picture
  

  There were so many good musical numbers in the movie, but this one was my favorite.  It was so cute!

  When I go to the Arclight Cinerama, I always like to park up on the roof and take pictures.  Today there was this very tame pigeon up there, who let me get pretty close:

  
  You can barely make out downtown LA on the top left.
  
  

  
  He finally flew off towards the Griffith Park Observatory.

  After the movie, we went to The Abbey and ate a late lunch.

  

  

  

  It was unusually humid today too, and I was so tired of my long hair in the heat, so I stopped by Supercuts on the way home and decided to get my hair cut.  You may remember my last haircut debacle just three weeks ago:

  

  After that experience, I wanted to be very specific.  So I told the girl I was thinking of a Caesar cut.  She was Hispanic, and she thought I was saying “a scissor cut”. (Think scissor with a mexican accent…see-zor!).  So she said she wouldn’t use clippers!  I said, “Not SCISSORS, CAESER.  Do you understand?”  “Yes, I understand,” she said, “No clippers.”.  We went round and round for a couple of minutes and I could not get her to understand what I meant.  Finally, she asked a girl at another station, and the girl said, “Of course I know what a Caesar cut is!”.  So I switched stations, and later, she whispered to me, “You should have just told her to give you a “George Clooney.”"  LOL

  

  

  
  The finished product.

  Speaking of bad haircuts, thanks to Sam, I was up way too late playing with this awesome site, www.yearbookyourself.com.  The scary thing is, that I actually had many of these hairstyles in many of these years.  (Though, in the interest of full disclosure, I was born in 1965. and my hair was never that long in the 70′s!)  Place your mouse over each picture to see the year it’s from.  (1988 and 1996 are remarkably accurate.  LOL…Time to fire up the scanner!)

  
  
  
  
  

  Actually, 1976 is pretty accurate too, and I just found proof.  I was 11 when this family photo was taken in 1976.  That’s me on the bottom left…diggin’ the outfit!  Incidentally, 1976 was the year that Abba’s Mamma Mia, hit #1 in the U.S.  And we’ve come full circle!

  

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