proud mary, keep on burnin'.

How about a little birthday shout-out to our girl, Ms. Tina Turner, who celebrated her 69th birthday November 26th . . . and followed it up in true Tina style with a December 1st celebrity-crowded, tear-the-roof-off, bring-the-house-down show at New York's Madison Square Garden.

According to Billboard, "[T]his woman defies so much conventional wisdom that being in her presence for two-plus hours is a bit of a head trip. . . . it was beyond clear that she'll probably outlast us all, still glittering like the sequins sewn into her dresses."

Of course, she nevah evah does anything nice and easy . . .