She Is More Than That...(Bif Naked 2016, to start)

When the announcement posted on my Facebook Wall, I literally jumped of the couch. Our town and county mayors announcing Bif Naked (and some other people - just kidding) would be playing this year’s free admission Party In The Park, Labour Day long weekend, 2016. And then I proceeded to gleefully jump around the house making loud “Yes. Yes. Yes.” and “Oh my god. Oh my god.” I then went to work and subjected my co-workers with copious amounts of Bif Naked history, without any shame and included a full declaration of girl-crush. I also booked off time to make it to her performance, weeks in advance.

Have I lost my mind? That is really not the right question. Will I lose my mind? That is what I’m trying to prevent when Miss Beth Torbert and her band, Bif Naked come to town. Then I read comments re: my raving post on a local community page. It went something like (exactly) this,

-   “wish the town would live in 2016, not 2003.”

-   “I didn’t even know that she did anything anymore.”

And even as far as,

-   “I heard she was a mega-bitch in person.” That one both made me laugh and want to throat-punch the person, personally. Simply because, everybody is a ‘bitch’ sometimes.

And all these comments were to be expected from certain folks, previous history dictates. I also couldn’t resist to urge to reply a knock’em-all’down reply back, as follows,

-   “Pretty sure this Bif Naked: Forever (Acoustic and Other Delights) was released 2012 and her new book, just hit bestseller across North America. (So who's living in what year again?) This woman rocks anything she gets her hands on, including breast cancer and stuff. And she's sexy as hell through it all. Living super woman.

BIF NAKED ~I Bificus [FULL ALBUM]

I’m not a fanatical fan by any means of the word, or psychological profile, really. I just really love and appreciate this woman for her accomplishments, her talents (which are so many), and her ability to share so openly about such personal moments, whether just waking up in her kitchen in Paris, or waking up in her hospital bed, after chemotherapy. Beth Torbert (Bif Naked) is just that way.

In short form, her resume reads experience and success in song writing, singing, poetry, Animal Rights activist, acting, philanthropy, motivational speaking, non-fictional writing, blogging, (take a breath), and more.  

Moral of this post: Just because you think that a musician is no longer performing, or (at the extreme) falsely dead, maybe a person should use their wonderful Facebook and Google apps and they will probably find out that they themselves stopped ‘rockin’, not the artist.

©Dominique Clark 2016

Cheap Cat Toy...(Felines Are Weird.)

     A few months ago, a large open-topped box was left on the kitchen floor and was immediately adopted by my fluffy furball, Rocco. Even once he had scratched, dug and shredded through to the kitchen floor, I was unable to remove the box as he would sleep in it.
     When my son visited, he mistook the box as garbage and threw some garbage of his own into it and 'Rocco's Box of Peace' was no more...
     Rocco started spending more time inside his apartment(kitty carrier) and less time with Oscar (alpha feline) and myself. He was also starting to use furniture for his manicures.
    Today, I had Rocco on the brain as I was walking through my local grocery store and came home with a brand new box, exactly like the one he loved so much. And this is what happened...

     Oscar had Rocco by the throat at one point, but I was unable to grab the phone-cam fast enough to bare witness. After a brief struggle and some growling, Oscar sat pouting for over half an hour and Rocco never moved a muscle for the next two hours. He will probably lived there for the next two months or so until I hear laminate under his eagle-talon claws again.

©Dominique Clark 2016

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