Namaste and Salaam to Everyone of you Blessed, Beautiful People! I trust bliss is showering you and you are energized and ready to greet September with open hearts! And, Beauties, with OPEN MINDS.
As life goes, September finds a lot of us anticipating NEWNESS.
Being raised in systems of schooling, and having been brought up returning to scholastic endeavours, year-after-year…..I have always found that September makes me desire some type of formal education. This, I figure, is a conditioned psychological behaviour, bred into me, from my childhood experiences of school. I always seem to want to seek out courses (never having had any real opportunities, schedule-wise, of returning full-time to complete my University education. Beh. )
Even LAST fall, for example, freshly having completed radiating radiation (which followed those loooong months of heinous initial chemotherapy), I was drawn to the ambition of taking a course. Ambitiously (and mistakenly) thinking I was “over-the-worst” of my cancertreatments, and ready for Fresh Stimuli.
Boy! Was I wrongo!!! LOL! (I had no idea that I would soon discover the excitement of a systemic staph infection, blood clots from the Surgically Implanted Port-a-Cath, etc.etc.)
Innocently and with open mindedness, I embarked on a course at Emily Carr (yep. The famous Art School).
I wanted to start with a “Portfolio Course” and eagerly and happily enrolled in classes. My goals were many.
Mostly, I needed to get some basic education and guidance to help me better organize my THOUSANDS of filled-sketchbooks/cartoons/artphotos and devise a solid plan of compartmentalization to assist my putting together of the “Long-Planned-Autobiographical-Art-Book” project, and perhaps even help with my further artistic development an basic understanding.
Completely delusionally unaware that I was still very sick (and yet to get sicker) I threw myself into class and absolutely LOVED it!!!!
*sigh* as the weeks passed and I deteriorated further, I was unable to continue and sadly, I never completed the course. The photo I share with you (above) is from My First Day at Emily Carr. Filled with Hope+Promise.
Isn’t everything? LOL!
Of course, I hope to return to Emily Carr one day. It remains one of my “goals”.
I would also like to take Francais and Italian. And Farsi. And proper Hindi courses. And a Basic Chef course. And a First Responder (preferably “emergency”) course. And Yoga Teacher’s Training. And Personal Training Certification. And Pallative Care Medicine. And Reiki for Animals. And Art History. Okay, and Political Sciences. And Photographic Arts. And Biochemistry. And Interior Design. And Theraputic Massage. And A.S.L. (Signlanguage). And police training. Okay, and Hindustani Dessert making. And Make Up courses. And Motorcycle licence(finally) course. And on, and on, and on!!!! LOL!
I do believe that someday…maybe SOMEDAY, I will have time. :)
And I will eventually accomplish these lofty goals! Why not?
In the meantime, I can still LEARN everyday. As human beings, we are ALL LEARNING AND EVOLVING all the time. I am still learning Perfect Patience (a life-long course) and learning to “just be”. Aint we all?
I hope we continue to learn from life, and from each other, every day. School of HardKocks, school of fishies, Schooly D., School is Cool. :)
Have a blessed and blissful week and be thankful for your BRIGHT AND OPEN MIND everyday. I learn from you all. Thank you for that! Now, go learn somethin’, and share with the class!!! Highest Respect And Infinate Bliss to you all…
Om Nama Shivaya. Go get em!
Love,
Biffy

Namaste and Salaam to all you Beautiful, Lovely People.
I hope everyone is enjoying everything in your day, and the last days of August find you in a state of bliss and fun!! Can I get a kazooo(for fun) and some rose petals to throw into the air for you(for beauty) and can I get a “hell yeah!” For motto!!!!! :)
I have had a pretty stimulating week, indeed. On very little sleep (the unfolding journey of insomnia) I managed to get killer workouts, grounding yoga, and healthy food all while dragging everyone around me through my “positive mental attitude” trip! LOL! Nicklas even got a haircut and got lots of hillwalks (due to last week’s discovery of his weight-gain!).

AND I PLAYED MY HOMETOWN SHOW AT THE COMMODORE BALLROOM!!!!! YAAAAAY!!!
That was SOFUCKINAWESOME!! So truly immeasurably fun! Flavio, jason, Jacen and I powered through a rock set that was infused with sheer LOVENERGY, man! I was over the moon! I LOVE you guys! Fuck! That was soooo fun and I had been looking foreward to it for a longlong time…I think it represented a real “psychological milestone” for me, as that place is my old stompin’ grounds, gig-wise. *beam*
I also HAVE to tell you about my newest inspiration: BRITTANY LAW.
She is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of stylerepublicmagazine.com and she RULES!!!!!! She is the quintessential Fashion Guru and I am soooo into this girl!!!
In fact, you guys KNOW the hours I keep (I am an earlybird) and it takes a lot to get me out to “parties” or anything…but I COULD NOT MISS The SummerSoiree launch party for StyleRepublicMagazine!!! (See photo of moi and the lovely Brittany Law!!!)
Can we say, “Grrl Power”! I am enamoured by lots of inspiring women, and I have to include Brittany Law. She sets the example and sets the bar higher, proving that a grrl can do EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING she dreams of doing! Wow! Fuck yeah, Brittany!
Brilliant, strong, and beautiful, you are an example of WOMAN to whom I look!! Om Nama Shivaya. I just LOVED the whole experience at Sanafir (Sanafir.ca) where the event was held! It was all so fancy and magical!
I will always be happy I had the opportunity to meet Brittany, and I will be following her blog www.stylerepublicmagazine.com/blog
Religiously!!!!!
Check it out!!!!

I am sending you all my wishes for your ULTIMATE HAPPINESS everyday and may you be empowered, healthy, and feel good about life everyday. Life gets pretty silly..just remember that! “Silly” is manageable. We can overcome anything. We can do anything. We can achieve anything. Just keep laughin’ along the way, clean-up realgood, and be nice to people. Everything else takes care of itself. Om Nama Shivaya. Om Sai Ram.
Love and Highest Blessings,
Biffy
Xoxo

NaaaaaaaaaaaaMASte!!!!!! Namaskar! Salaam! Bonjour! Highest Loveydovey Blessings to everyone! I hope this day finds you experiencing the most beautiful and peaceful frame of mind, and that all your cups are full or half-full, at least. LOL! 
This morning I am quite contemplative. I am thinking of you, of me, and of all of us who are fortunate enough to have “gadgets”. Yup.
Gadgets.

As you know, this is the FIRST YEAR OF MY COMPUTERTHINGY. No. I neverever owned one, alllll these years. Oh, sure:theyy were in the office, at the studio, my pals all had ‘em, the band even had ‘em….but I never did. Didnt care. Had my sketchbooks. Wrote everything down (still do) and didnt know how to type. Still dont. Dont really care. LOL! (cant you see bythe typos? And remember: I SEND my blog to be uploaded. I cant actually do it myself. Yes, I am aware my 5yr old Goddaughter can navigate the computer better than moi! I think my babydog even knows what “blogger” is!)

I had a cellular telephone as I didnt want/need a “land line” due to touring for my entire adult life. I never learned how to “Text” and dont understand it because I call everyone. Plus, my last couple phones have some strange trick of finnishing the word before i type it (and its always the WRONG word!) which frustrated me…so I never bothered to learn that, either. Still dont know how.

My managers DID, however, get me a Blackberry in, like, 1999, or something, when they first came out.
This was because they needed to send me “flight documents/itineraries” or “press schedules” or “hotel confirmation” info, etc.etc.
So….Ive always had one of those. I am an expert thumbtyper. My blackberries have webstuff on em, but I dont know how to use it so I dont. Plus all the instant messanging, etc. Dont know how. Dont care.
They DID make a “twitter” picture that I clik on, from the thumbtyper, and it instantly will go on the internet twitter thing. 
I do not know how to use a facebook. THAT fact does infuriate most of my personal friends, as they are constantlyconstantly on there. I dont get it because I can call them. LOL!
I use my Blackberry all the time all the time. Always have. I have been on that for ten years, instead of computers.
but now, I am learning. It is very remarkable to me. I watch BBC news on it everysingle morning. 
And……I see stuff like Hare Krishna parades or Animal Protection agencies or cooking shows or cancer surgeries or band videos or photo journals, etc.etc. I have never been on ebay because I dont want anything, and I have only bought two things on the internet which were both wigs (when I started chemo, last year)
Then my creditcard number was stolen and that was the end of THAT! I am such a fuddyduddy I wont likely everever buy anything on the computer ever again! LOL!
I still mail cheques for bills, parking tickets, vets, charity donations, etc. Its just how I run.
OLD SCHOOL! DIY! We skatepunks was po’ (yes it means “poor”! LOL!) and NONE of us had a computer. We were busy skatin and playing shows and sharing burritos in The Mission district and gettin robbed and getting in fights and on and on and on. Computer technology was not a priority. NOW, bands STILL do all those things PLUS their own websites from their personal laptops in their van! I say that is PROGRESS! ….but I still like the way I live in darkness/ignorance/bliss. I survived this long. :)

I have used my Blackberry in my car, however. And I am confessing that to you.
Like most of us: I am a busybee. Hit the ground, running, every morning (and you KNOW how early I am up) and I have so much crammed into everyday, that I multitask (like a pro, BTW) and I am efficient and do my very best everyday, to make my commitments and make/keep everyone happy.
So, sometimes, the only opportunity I have to shoot a quick reply to an email (office/press/family/doctor related……not many people email me) is en route to, or from something.
But……not anymore.
You and I know it is a slippery slope, it is “unsafe”, “wrong”, “not cool” to be using a gadget in the car. But I still do it.
Then i saw this video on the internet and it made me want to show you right away…..because it made me cry.
not that I want YOU to cry…but it made an impact on me.
And, since we are all friends, here, I want to share this with you.
I am going to modify my behaviour and NOT use my blackberry in the car anymore (unless it is parked).
Scout’s Honour. Double stamp, no erasies. Really. That simple. I mean: NICKLAS is in the fucking car with me, for God’s sake! Cant even imagine. 
Dont want to.
So…..I learned that I am more lucky than I already THOUGHT I was! I am lucky I got away with thumbtyping-while-driving for long enough.Whew! cool. Get out while the gettin’s good. :)
Et Vous, Beautiful Ones? Am I just a suck?
I like ya…dont want anything to befall you fine people.*hug* So……just THINK about it, at least.
I will be sending you pureness and love energy from my heart, and I hope you have a joyful and SAFE week.
Om Nama Shivaya. Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna. Fuckin’Horns. and Rock Out Wid’Ya Cock Out (proverbial, yo! non-gender specific!LOL!)
and, Sai Ram.
Love,
Biffy
xoxo

Namaste! Salaam! Hola! Howdydoo! Bonjour! And especially Salaam Alaikum as we all honor Ramadan. :)
Om Nama Allah. Om Nama Shivaya. Om Nama Ganesha+Sri Nicklas (see photo). :)

I hope everyone had a beautiful week, enjoying life and feeling lovenergy and positivity! Life is pretty cool, non? We are all so lucky!
I have had a crazy week and have navigated many things keeping my head above the waters. I am grateful. And, Beautiful Ones, I am grateful for you!!!
Where would I be without you?!!
I want you to know that! *hugs*

In fact, I know a lot of you send great messages to me, and a lot of you ask me questions. (If you’re wondering why the comments are moderated, it is because of some dangerouslymentally ill people…and that is as far as I will share any “stalking” situation).
As you know, I like to focus, as much as possible, on “positivity”, with my notes here. Shanti Om. Peace. Y’know?
Anyhoo….as I am grateful to and for you, I would like to answer some “repeat” questions I get asked. Feel free to ask more, and I will answer them. Notoriously long-winded, I have to keep my answering to “ten” questions at a time, or the blog would be EVENFUCKINGLONGER!!!!! Nyuk,nyuk,nyuk.
Here is a sampling:

1.”Why do u love bananas so much?”
-because they remain one of the only foods that don’t give me a stomachache.
Dangerbelly is my curse. Everything gives me a stomachache and always has, my whole life. But I won’t go into it too much as iit would be jus’ bellyaching about something! LOL!

2.”Why don’t u wear your wedding ring?”
-because I get edema in that arm since surgery/chemo/radiation and my fingers get swollen, plus I am afraid of losing it.
Plus its fancy and I don’t want to lose it or wreck it.

3.”Will u get another dog because Anna died?”
-no. Nicklas is getting old and he is extremely indulged+spoiled and he is very focused upon. He is happy, right now. Unless we had to take one from an abuser. That is a totally different situation. Nick would wholeheartedly support that. Nuff said. RESCUERESCUERESCUE ANIMALS PLEASE! :D

4.”Who is your favorite band?”
-that is a hardhardhard question. I would have to simply say what I listen to most frequently: DJCheb I Sabbah, Bhagavan Das, Amrinder Gill, Krishna Das, Jai Uttal, Jeff Buckley, Three Inches of Blood, Elbow, Niyaz, Otep, Tarkan, Spinnerette, and old Shelter, to name JUST A FEW! LOL!

5.”What is your favorite tv show?”
-i never watched tv as I didn’t even own/want one before Walker moved in. I like Iron Chef and NCIS but that’s all I ever see, really. (And only tivo/recorded as I do not see it till bedtime and I fall asleep within 5min of anything so it takes weeks to even see one episode. I do not watch dvds except on the bus when the guys are watching something)

6.”Who is your favorite designer?”
-like trying to answer “fav band” question, the list is long but I will only mention a couple, here: American Apparel, Stella McCartney, Vivienne Westwood, OlsenHaus, and Mac+Jac. I like to seek out the “vegan” haute couture, ya feel me?

7.”What do you wear to bed?”
-gonch. LOL!

8.”What is your lifelong dream?”
-youre lookin’ at it, Kid. :)

9.”What are u reading?”
-i actually always have about four or five different books on the go! Currently I’m exploring, “Palliative Care Perspectives”, (by James L. Hallenbeck), “Superfoods”(by David Wolfe), and “The Wisdom of the Prophet”(selections from The Hadith, translated by Thomas Cleary) in honor of Ramadan. I am still on my “book fast” of not BUYING anymore books…but there is one out about *gasp* bananas (and fair trade and the banana business) that I’m obviously curious about.LOL!

10.”What is your pet peeve?”
-believe it or not, I get asked this ALLLL the time, being accused of being “too optimistic to be real”, etc.etc. And, I get that. Its not a stupid question. Obviously, ALL of us “hate” the same things: mean people, violent people, injustice, etc.etc. But as far as a real irritation, I would have to relent and say, truthfully, it is racism. Oh, and homophobia. Oh, wait! there are sooo many things. But those are my top two that I will NEVER understand in people on this planet. Okay, and harming kids or animals. Or old people. Awww, shit. Any harming. You get the picture. :)

I hope some of those answer a mere smattering of some frequent questions from you, my Beloved Friends. I will try to answer more.
I hope you will all have a mostbeautiful weekend filled with creativity, fun, and happiness. I send you all energy and high-fives from my heart! You fucking rule.
Go get em! Boooyah!!!! Om Hare Om.
Bliss and blessings and love,
Biffy
Xoxo

Namaste! Salaam! Bonjour! Salut! Sussreekall! Yo! Yo! And Word Up to all you BeautifulWonderful People! I am sending you optimum energy and immense positivity on this Monday morning. Whereever you are, may you be experiencing creativity and abundance.
As you can see, by the photo I’ve included, I am experiencing abundance.
ABUNDANCEFUCKINCURLYHAIR!
Are you kidding me??? LOL!
Since my hair dissolved+fell out during chemotherapy, I anticipated its eventual return with a pragmatism and optimism that kept me laughing about my noggin’s shiny dome. Why be weirded out about it, right? I mean, it was EXPECTED. IT WAS SUPPOSED TO ALL FALL OUT (along with eyebrows, eyelashes, and armpitaroonis!)
So, I dealt. Laughed. Got some stellar wigs. Touques. Whatevvvv.
I had bigger fish to fry, than sweat it about chemonoggin. :)
I rolled.

Then it grew backk, eventually, the lenugo (white fuzz) was first, then it grew into THISDEADFUCKINGANIMALONMYHEAD!!!!!!! Har!Har!Har!*slaps knee*
Yes. Allright. The Universe was gracious enough to allow ANY of it to grow back. But I’ve never had hair this curly.
It is still growing more curls, Lovey Ones. Like Carol Burnette in 75. Or Maud. (May Bea rest in Peace with Sri Annastasia snuggling her!!!)
Now, I am perhaps self-concious. Shallow. I mean: am I so weak that my “shell”/appearance is gonna permeate my thoughts and conversations. Am I that weak and insecure? Do I need “reassurance” like some weakling?
No and no.
I will tell you a FACT: I am a Flawed Human. Like we all are, I am always wanting to find better ways to evolve my conciousness and open heart.
I just had to share this “Kodak Moment” with you. You, my Cherished Friends. *beam*
I just wanted to say “OhmyGoodness can you believe how ridiculous this is!!!”

I havebeen offered expensive hair extensions (no, not for free! LOL!) And I have turned them down only yesterday.
I shaved the side of my head instead.
Whahoooooooie! Fuck em in da neck!
I do own a hair-straightener and use it every day (except today…so after I washed it I just let it dry by itself and do what it wanted.) And THIS is what it wanted to do!!!!! LOL!

Umm……baseball cap, Baby!
Have a blessed, beautiful week and shine your light!!!!!! Our INSIDE LIGHT always outshines the crazyhair!!!!
Let it be blindingly BRIGHT!!!!! Go shine.
Om Hare Om. Hare Hare Om.
Love,
Biffy
Xoxo