Hilarious video from inside the ..... turn and look at the big banner behind you..... American Queen Pageant. With in depth interview questions, a jake gyllenhall look-alike, twins with fake eyelashes, fake hair color, and maybe, just maybe... matching fake boobs! Need I say more???
Artificial boobies & More
Friday, May 30, 2008
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
The NCAA Final Four
Somehow I missed seeing this shot from Las Vegas of four of the Miss USA girls representing the NCAA Basketball tournament. Cute shot! Although the picky photographer in me would like to point out to you that they should have picked a basketball that had the NCAA logo on it instead of the NBA logo on it.... Oh and as you know I could care less about them Tarheels since I was raised in Winston-Salem I am a diehard Wake Forest fan. GO DEACS!
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Miss America loosens up!
Most of you who know me know that I'm all about doing the crown in the hand photo. I like it much better than the typical crown on your head portrait. And if you haven't noticed, Miss America tries her best not to wear her crown in public anymore. Instead she just rocks the crown pin and leaves the real crown on the shelf at home.
Well thank goodness for other creative photographers like Jeremy Cowart, who can bring a new vision to photos of Miss America! Instead of the crown on the finger slung over your shoulder, he has brought a new angle to the crown shot. I call it the surprised monocular pose.... Lets hope it catches on!
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Queen Haglund hangs with Prince! No not the purple one.
Miss America Tune-In Alert!!!
On Friday morning, Miss America and HRH the Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex will be the morning guests on Fox & Friends live from Mississippi to announce the newest initiative for the Miss America Organization, The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Young Americans’ Challenge.
Ummm.... Mississippi? The guy comes all the way from a far, far, land to meet our Queen and we picked Mississippi?
They’ll discuss with Gretchen the importance for this award which is for personal achievement and can be obtained by anyone aged 14 to 25. I remember back in school when we had the Presidential fitness award. President Reagan had Arnold Schwarts'hisname as the spokesperson for it. I was pretty good at all the running and stuff, but those pull-ups always got me....
This Award is featured in 120 countries with over 600,000 students currently participating and the objective is to create and develop life skills for young people. The Award, is non-competitive, available to all, voluntary, flexible, balanced, progressive, focused on personal development, and last-but-certainly-not-least, enjoyable! Wonder if Kenya is one of those 120 countries? Those Kenyans can really run fast. Have you seen all the marathons they win. I can't wait for the Olympics. Those Kenyans are gonna be hockin' a lung in all that bad air in China. We should send a runner from somewhere like LA to the Olympics. Our runners will think the Chinese air smells like a Carolina pine forest compared to the LA air.
On Friday morning, Miss America and HRH the Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex will be the morning guests on Fox & Friends live from Mississippi to announce the newest initiative for the Miss America Organization, The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Young Americans’ Challenge.
Ummm.... Mississippi? The guy comes all the way from a far, far, land to meet our Queen and we picked Mississippi?
They’ll discuss with Gretchen the importance for this award which is for personal achievement and can be obtained by anyone aged 14 to 25. I remember back in school when we had the Presidential fitness award. President Reagan had Arnold Schwarts'hisname as the spokesperson for it. I was pretty good at all the running and stuff, but those pull-ups always got me....
This Award is featured in 120 countries with over 600,000 students currently participating and the objective is to create and develop life skills for young people. The Award, is non-competitive, available to all, voluntary, flexible, balanced, progressive, focused on personal development, and last-but-certainly-not-least, enjoyable! Wonder if Kenya is one of those 120 countries? Those Kenyans can really run fast. Have you seen all the marathons they win. I can't wait for the Olympics. Those Kenyans are gonna be hockin' a lung in all that bad air in China. We should send a runner from somewhere like LA to the Olympics. Our runners will think the Chinese air smells like a Carolina pine forest compared to the LA air.
The Reign is up for "Crowned"
The reign is up for the CW Networks show "Crowned - The Mother of all Beauty Pageants."
After only one season the network announced that it would not be picking up the show for a second season. Dude, what am I gonna do? I just got the shows logo tattooed on my back. Now I am gonna look like a total douchebag at the pool this summer.
Oh well I guess they go in good company. Other shows that got the can included Shark, another of my faves, Quarterlife, Men in Trees, Jericho, Oprah's Big Give, Women's Murder Club, Cavemen, Cashmere Mafia, Beauty and the Geek, The Bionic Woman, and a bunch of other crap that you never watched.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Criss Angel THE PAGEANTFREAK
About a month ago, Criss Angel decided to flip out when his girlfriend Veronica Grabowski, Miss Nevada USA didn't win the Miss USA Beauty Pageant. Criss' actions included pissing off "The Donald" and threatening respected reporter Norm Clarke of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. No one has asked his Royal Anus to comment about the incident - until now!
"Vegas Happens Here" got a brief Q&A in with the illusionist:
VHH: Are you planning to apologize for the threat you made against Norm Clarke of the Review-Journal?
Angel: The problem is, some people got their lines crossed. And if some people got the whole story, they would see that what he wrote is actually not what really happened. So there’s nothing to apologize for.
VHH: What really happened?
Angel: I’d need a while to explain that to you and now is not the appropriate time.
Hey Criss, I dont know about you, but I've got all the time in the world. Whatcha waiting for? In fact, I've got too much time, hence the blog. So, I dunno, maybe you can come over and play Wii Bowling or something. And if its on the weekend we can go cruisin for pageant chicks and grab a pizza.
Ooops! Well seems Criss doesn't have much time on his magical hands. Here's a shot of Criss with his new girlfriend of the week, Gisele Diaz. I guess he and Veronica didn't make it! Veronica "Call Me!!!"
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
From THE REAL WORLD to Miss Universe
MTV's Real World Austin castmember Johanna Botta was all set to represent as Miss Peru USA at the Miss Universe 2008 Pageant, but left after constant pressure from the organization to get plastic surgery along with her sense of the pageant’s corruption as well disorganization.
Johanna was in Peru for 4 months getting ready for the event attending classes and events, but was dismayed when the dates for the actual pageant changed from late February, to various dates in March, before settling on April 16th, 2008 as the final date. The Peru Beauty Pageant was actually held on Thursday May 1st, 2008 with the winner being Karol Castillo.
The main sponsor of the 2008 Miss Peru Pageant was a plastic surgeon so there was constant pressure for Johanna to get the free plastic surgery for her nose and breasts. She states she has nothing against plastic surgery, but did not like the fact people were telling her to get it done.
She wanted to make sure as a result of this, “that I wish so many young girls were not pressured into doing stupid things just for the idea of perhaps winning.”
Johanna also shared other thoughts like the similar controversy in some respect to her season of The Real World Austin winning the best season at the Real World Awards Bash. She chalk’s this up to her season having more recent fans than what most felt was the presumptive winner being The Real World San Diego.
Johanna Botta now lives in Los Angeles and as she stated in her Maxim photo shoot, she is still “single and ready to mingle.”
Johanna and another Real World Austin castmember Wes recently broke up as they both wanted different things at the time, but are still best friends and talk all the time.
She also confirmed she is still looking for a guy that is nice, kind, likes helping people, has looks, a great personality, makes her laugh, is intelligent, kind, and not superman. Of those she states having intelligence and a great personality are at the top. Hey Johnna.... Ever come to Charlotte?
Johanna has NO COMMENT on the upcoming Challenge scheduled to shoot in June 2008, but said she thought it was very strange for the next Real World to be in Brooklyn, New York which is widely known as the place where THE REAL WORLD began. Is this the beginning of the end for Real World??
Florida students spell cat, F-C-A-T
Story Courtesy - www.News4Jax.com
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A controversy is brewing at an area high school after parents of the runners up in the school's beauty pageant speak about, claiming the winner shouldn't have been allowed to take stage.
The controversy doesn't have anything to do with what the participants did on stage, but rather what they did in the classroom.
The Miss Raines pageant took place last Saturday. The contest is open to qualifying students at Northwest Jacksonville's Raines High School.
Click here to find out more!
"This was very important to my daughter," said parent Lisa Green.
Green's daughter, Alicia, is a junior at Raines who competed in last weekend's pageant. The teen came in as the second runner up; however, Green said her daughter was robbed of the title. According to Green, the winner and the first runner-up in the pageant did not qualify to enter the competition in the first place.
"It shouldn't be, I don't feel that's fair," Green said.
School district officials told Channel 4 that girls who enter the pageant must have at least a 3.0 cumulative grade point average and a score of 275 or higher on either the math or reading portion of the FCAT.
District spokeswoman Jill Johnson said although the pageant winner and first runner-up did not do well on the FCAT last year, those scores don't count.
"Their FCAT scores may not be where they need to be as long as the winner this year passes the FCAT for this year, prior to her reigning year, which is 2008-2009, she's fine," Johnson explained.
Green said she believes the district's has the wrong interpretation of the rules, and said she saw other teens turned away from pageant participation because of low FCAT scores.
"You had to place both of those scores there and they had to have passed both the reading and the math portions of the test," Green said.
The principal at Raines is expected to meet with concerned parents like Green about the pageant.
Green said she doesn't want what happened to her daughter to happen to anyone else's daughter.
"For her to meet all of the eligibility requirements, I felt she was robbed. I truly feel she was robbed," Green said.
The FCAT scores being questioned will not be available until this summer, according to district officials. They said if the girls from the pageant do not meet the required scores, they would be stripped of the titles.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A controversy is brewing at an area high school after parents of the runners up in the school's beauty pageant speak about, claiming the winner shouldn't have been allowed to take stage.
The controversy doesn't have anything to do with what the participants did on stage, but rather what they did in the classroom.
The Miss Raines pageant took place last Saturday. The contest is open to qualifying students at Northwest Jacksonville's Raines High School.
Click here to find out more!
"This was very important to my daughter," said parent Lisa Green.
Green's daughter, Alicia, is a junior at Raines who competed in last weekend's pageant. The teen came in as the second runner up; however, Green said her daughter was robbed of the title. According to Green, the winner and the first runner-up in the pageant did not qualify to enter the competition in the first place.
"It shouldn't be, I don't feel that's fair," Green said.
School district officials told Channel 4 that girls who enter the pageant must have at least a 3.0 cumulative grade point average and a score of 275 or higher on either the math or reading portion of the FCAT.
District spokeswoman Jill Johnson said although the pageant winner and first runner-up did not do well on the FCAT last year, those scores don't count.
"Their FCAT scores may not be where they need to be as long as the winner this year passes the FCAT for this year, prior to her reigning year, which is 2008-2009, she's fine," Johnson explained.
Green said she believes the district's has the wrong interpretation of the rules, and said she saw other teens turned away from pageant participation because of low FCAT scores.
"You had to place both of those scores there and they had to have passed both the reading and the math portions of the test," Green said.
The principal at Raines is expected to meet with concerned parents like Green about the pageant.
Green said she doesn't want what happened to her daughter to happen to anyone else's daughter.
"For her to meet all of the eligibility requirements, I felt she was robbed. I truly feel she was robbed," Green said.
The FCAT scores being questioned will not be available until this summer, according to district officials. They said if the girls from the pageant do not meet the required scores, they would be stripped of the titles.
Sheila's with Wobbly bits need not apply
Rachel Wells - www.TheAge.com.au
Choosing the most beautiful woman in Australia was no cakewalk.
What do you do when you are asked to judge the final of Miss Universe Australia? Whoop and cheer in the same way you might had you just won the lottery, then send off an email to 728 of your closest mates? Or spend several days agonising over whether finding a few charred bras in your letterbox is a small price to pay for a sneak peak into the world of beauty pageantry?
The answer, in fact, is both. While a fellow (male) judge at Wednesday night's crowning ceremony of Miss Universe Australia admitted to responding to the invitation in the same way a spotty teenager might behave following his first awkward kiss — with boastful glee and a few (hundred) smug emails — my reaction was far more torturous and considered.
After all, beauty pageants have been the target of bra-burning, banner-wielding, flour, stink and ink-bomb-hurling women's liberationists for close to a century.
In fact, even way back in 1852, when an American circus magnate — inspired by the overwhelming success of his baby, bird and dog beauty contests — staged the first ever female beauty pageant, it was quickly shut down due to vocal public protest. Since then, controversy has followed bikini-clad beauty queens the world over. The most violent, of course, came in 2002 in Nigeria, when 200 people were killed, 400 injured, and the Miss World event relocated to London after a local journalist wrote that the prophet Muhammad would have approved of the contest and might even have chosen one (or two) of the contestants as his wife.
Despite my nagging reservations, I did eventually accept the offer and decided I'd worry about the backlash later. However, I needn't have worried. On Wednesday night, at the Trak Showroom in Toorak, there were no missiles or stink bombs, just a room full of excited men and women (in equal numbers) and 29 nervous wannabe beauty queens strutting their stuff before a panel of seven official judges and a couple of hundred unofficial ones.
Our judges' brief — delivered in a hurried couple of nano-seconds just minutes before the ceremony began — was short but crystal clear. "It's simple, really," began Miss Universe Australia's national director, Deborah Miller. "There is a swimsuit category, an evening wear category and a personality interview.
"You mark each contestant out of 10 for each category," she continued. "But at the end of the day, this is a beauty pageant. That means you have to pick the girl who you think is the most beautiful … Oh, and she also has to be fit and toned, so no wobbly bits."
Choosing the most beautiful woman in Australia was no cakewalk.
What do you do when you are asked to judge the final of Miss Universe Australia? Whoop and cheer in the same way you might had you just won the lottery, then send off an email to 728 of your closest mates? Or spend several days agonising over whether finding a few charred bras in your letterbox is a small price to pay for a sneak peak into the world of beauty pageantry?
The answer, in fact, is both. While a fellow (male) judge at Wednesday night's crowning ceremony of Miss Universe Australia admitted to responding to the invitation in the same way a spotty teenager might behave following his first awkward kiss — with boastful glee and a few (hundred) smug emails — my reaction was far more torturous and considered.
After all, beauty pageants have been the target of bra-burning, banner-wielding, flour, stink and ink-bomb-hurling women's liberationists for close to a century.
In fact, even way back in 1852, when an American circus magnate — inspired by the overwhelming success of his baby, bird and dog beauty contests — staged the first ever female beauty pageant, it was quickly shut down due to vocal public protest. Since then, controversy has followed bikini-clad beauty queens the world over. The most violent, of course, came in 2002 in Nigeria, when 200 people were killed, 400 injured, and the Miss World event relocated to London after a local journalist wrote that the prophet Muhammad would have approved of the contest and might even have chosen one (or two) of the contestants as his wife.
Despite my nagging reservations, I did eventually accept the offer and decided I'd worry about the backlash later. However, I needn't have worried. On Wednesday night, at the Trak Showroom in Toorak, there were no missiles or stink bombs, just a room full of excited men and women (in equal numbers) and 29 nervous wannabe beauty queens strutting their stuff before a panel of seven official judges and a couple of hundred unofficial ones.
Our judges' brief — delivered in a hurried couple of nano-seconds just minutes before the ceremony began — was short but crystal clear. "It's simple, really," began Miss Universe Australia's national director, Deborah Miller. "There is a swimsuit category, an evening wear category and a personality interview.
"You mark each contestant out of 10 for each category," she continued. "But at the end of the day, this is a beauty pageant. That means you have to pick the girl who you think is the most beautiful … Oh, and she also has to be fit and toned, so no wobbly bits."
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Whew, thats an ugly crown....
There are some ugly crowns out there.
In the realm of what were the directors thinking,
here are a few good/bad examples.
In the realm of what were the directors thinking,
here are a few good/bad examples.
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Atlantic City Woman crowned Miss Mistress USA 2008
TRENTON, NJ—Lacey Lauderdale, a 25-year-old cocktail waitress at the Showboat Casino & Hotel in Atlantic City, was named the winner of the 2008 Mistress USA Pageant, a competition held each year since 1954 to honor the country's most beautiful and talented other women.
The clandestine pageant took place Sunday evening in a New Jersey motel room off Exit 23, shortly after the nation's males told their wives they were going out bowling with some friends. Sixty-three mistresses—one representing each state and 14 representing Carson City, NV—competed for the coveted crown, traditionally awarded to the woman who best exemplifies the qualities of youth, sexiness, and having large breasts.
"We are proud to present Ms. Lauderdale with the grand prize of one year's rent, a basket of erotic massage oils, and this red lace undergarment, which she must try on right now," said the Mistress USA chairman, who identified himself only as "Mr. R." "Lacey, we admire you for your dedication to not getting emotionally involved with the nation, and for your willingness to do things my wife would never try in a million years. Now twirl around a little so we can get the view from the back."
The 62 losing contestants were then told to get lost.
Lauderdale became eligible to enter the Mistress USA Pageant last October, when she was crowned Miss One-Night Stand New Jersey. She joined a field of mistresses from all different backgrounds and walks of life—waitresses, secretaries, hostesses, and even bar girls. Lauderdale excelled in nearly every event, including the swimsuit competition, the evening-wear- removal competition, and giving hand jobs.
She also received the high score from judges Adam Carolla, 47-year-old accountant Cy Weintraub from Chicago, and former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani. The mistresses were rated in areas such as firmness/roundness of breasts, color of hair, level of economic dependence, willingness to answer to the name "Hazel," and then their breasts again. The talent portion of the competition was phased out in 1974.
"I can't believe I went from being a cocktail waitress to being Mistress USA," Lauderdale said after the ceremony. "Dreams do come true."
While she received the highest score in pageant history, Lauderdale faltered in the Q&A portion of the competition, giving less than satisfactory answers to the hypothetical questions "How would you act if you ever ran into me and my wife at the grocery store?" and "How many times have I told you not to call the house phone?!"
Last year's Mistress USA, Tiffani Saunders of Miami, was on hand at the event to present Lauderdale with the ceremonial Mistress USA sash and cab fare home.
"I think Lacey will do a fine job as Mistress USA," said Saunders, who has been instructed to go live with her mother and raise the kid on her own. "I just hope she knows that while the job can be fun at times, it is also really, really exhausting work."
On Friday, Lauderdale embarks on a nationwide tour, during which she will meet with admiring men from around the country in roadside hotels, shopping-mall bathrooms, and other discreet locations. Historically, the main duties of Mistress USA have included standing there and looking pretty, not giving American males a hard time, light clerical work, and keeping her damn mouth shut.
Though most men claimed they "could not wait" to meet Mistress USA, some were disappointed with the decision.
"I would have preferred Mistress Missouri, just because she's a little bit closer," said a Missouri husband and father of two who wished to remain anonymous. "But honestly, I'm just excited about the possibility of having sex with someone who is not my wife."
He added: "After all, that's what this competition is all about."
Just two days after being awarded the title, however, Lauderdale's Cinderella story was mired in controversy when the New York Post revealed that the new Mistress USA had never worked as a stripper.
Re-Posted from The Onion.
The clandestine pageant took place Sunday evening in a New Jersey motel room off Exit 23, shortly after the nation's males told their wives they were going out bowling with some friends. Sixty-three mistresses—one representing each state and 14 representing Carson City, NV—competed for the coveted crown, traditionally awarded to the woman who best exemplifies the qualities of youth, sexiness, and having large breasts.
"We are proud to present Ms. Lauderdale with the grand prize of one year's rent, a basket of erotic massage oils, and this red lace undergarment, which she must try on right now," said the Mistress USA chairman, who identified himself only as "Mr. R." "Lacey, we admire you for your dedication to not getting emotionally involved with the nation, and for your willingness to do things my wife would never try in a million years. Now twirl around a little so we can get the view from the back."
The 62 losing contestants were then told to get lost.
Lauderdale became eligible to enter the Mistress USA Pageant last October, when she was crowned Miss One-Night Stand New Jersey. She joined a field of mistresses from all different backgrounds and walks of life—waitresses, secretaries, hostesses, and even bar girls. Lauderdale excelled in nearly every event, including the swimsuit competition, the evening-wear- removal competition, and giving hand jobs.
She also received the high score from judges Adam Carolla, 47-year-old accountant Cy Weintraub from Chicago, and former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani. The mistresses were rated in areas such as firmness/roundness of breasts, color of hair, level of economic dependence, willingness to answer to the name "Hazel," and then their breasts again. The talent portion of the competition was phased out in 1974.
"I can't believe I went from being a cocktail waitress to being Mistress USA," Lauderdale said after the ceremony. "Dreams do come true."
While she received the highest score in pageant history, Lauderdale faltered in the Q&A portion of the competition, giving less than satisfactory answers to the hypothetical questions "How would you act if you ever ran into me and my wife at the grocery store?" and "How many times have I told you not to call the house phone?!"
Last year's Mistress USA, Tiffani Saunders of Miami, was on hand at the event to present Lauderdale with the ceremonial Mistress USA sash and cab fare home.
"I think Lacey will do a fine job as Mistress USA," said Saunders, who has been instructed to go live with her mother and raise the kid on her own. "I just hope she knows that while the job can be fun at times, it is also really, really exhausting work."
On Friday, Lauderdale embarks on a nationwide tour, during which she will meet with admiring men from around the country in roadside hotels, shopping-mall bathrooms, and other discreet locations. Historically, the main duties of Mistress USA have included standing there and looking pretty, not giving American males a hard time, light clerical work, and keeping her damn mouth shut.
Though most men claimed they "could not wait" to meet Mistress USA, some were disappointed with the decision.
"I would have preferred Mistress Missouri, just because she's a little bit closer," said a Missouri husband and father of two who wished to remain anonymous. "But honestly, I'm just excited about the possibility of having sex with someone who is not my wife."
He added: "After all, that's what this competition is all about."
Just two days after being awarded the title, however, Lauderdale's Cinderella story was mired in controversy when the New York Post revealed that the new Mistress USA had never worked as a stripper.
Re-Posted from The Onion.
More LDS Pageants cut!!!
The fallout from the Texas FLDS scandal continues to rock the LDS Pageant world. A Cache Valley summer tradition will now only be happening half as often.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Martin Harris Pageant will now only be held on odd-numbered years. Yep, 2008 is out!!!
Donald Jeppesen, president of the pageant committee, said he was informed about the change in October or November of last year by the church’s missionary department, which oversees the pageant, but the department didn’t tell him why they planned to change the schedule. The pageant will not be held this year, but will be held in 2009, 2011 and so on.
Rob Howell, a spokesman for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, said the change was brought about to ease the burden the pageant places on local members. Most of those involved in the production of the pageant are LDS Church members in the Cache and Box Elder county areas, he said.
“We recognize that these folks who do this give countless hours of sacrifice,” Howell said. Howell also said holding the pageant every two years will build up greater anticipation for the show among audience members and participants.
Jeppesen said he will miss putting on the pageant this year. “I’m disappointed,” Jeppesen said. “I would rather have had it. I think the annual basis makes it easier to keep your cast together and easier to keep your volunteers together.”
The pageant has been held for more than 20 years using a cast made up mostly of residents from Cache and Box Elder valleys. The pageant tells the story of Martin Harris, one of three men who testified he had seen golden plates Joseph Smith translated to produce the Book of Mormon. Harris died and is buried in Clarkston.
About 2,000 people attend each performance of the show, for a total of about 22,000 people each year, Jeppesen said. Clarkston also sponsors a town barbecue dinner in conjunction with the performances.
The pageant will now be held on alternating years with the Castle Valley Pageant, a show that was held annually in Castle Dale. That pageant, which tells the story of 19th century pioneers’ settlement of the Castle Dale area, will now be held only on even-numbered years.
“Our plans are that it will be held next year in the month of August,” Jeppesen said.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Martin Harris Pageant will now only be held on odd-numbered years. Yep, 2008 is out!!!
Donald Jeppesen, president of the pageant committee, said he was informed about the change in October or November of last year by the church’s missionary department, which oversees the pageant, but the department didn’t tell him why they planned to change the schedule. The pageant will not be held this year, but will be held in 2009, 2011 and so on.
Rob Howell, a spokesman for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, said the change was brought about to ease the burden the pageant places on local members. Most of those involved in the production of the pageant are LDS Church members in the Cache and Box Elder county areas, he said.
“We recognize that these folks who do this give countless hours of sacrifice,” Howell said. Howell also said holding the pageant every two years will build up greater anticipation for the show among audience members and participants.
Jeppesen said he will miss putting on the pageant this year. “I’m disappointed,” Jeppesen said. “I would rather have had it. I think the annual basis makes it easier to keep your cast together and easier to keep your volunteers together.”
The pageant has been held for more than 20 years using a cast made up mostly of residents from Cache and Box Elder valleys. The pageant tells the story of Martin Harris, one of three men who testified he had seen golden plates Joseph Smith translated to produce the Book of Mormon. Harris died and is buried in Clarkston.
About 2,000 people attend each performance of the show, for a total of about 22,000 people each year, Jeppesen said. Clarkston also sponsors a town barbecue dinner in conjunction with the performances.
The pageant will now be held on alternating years with the Castle Valley Pageant, a show that was held annually in Castle Dale. That pageant, which tells the story of 19th century pioneers’ settlement of the Castle Dale area, will now be held only on even-numbered years.
“Our plans are that it will be held next year in the month of August,” Jeppesen said.
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Pageant Talk Radio is now online!
TalkZone Internet Talk Radio has just added PAGEANT TALK RADIO to its lineup of quality online talk programs. The live weekly one hour show debuts May 13, 2008 on TalkZone.com. Hosted by award-winning pageant coach Valerie Hayes, PAGEANT TALK RADIO will provide exciting conversation that informs and inspires contestants as they prepare for their next pageant competition. Guests will include leaders throughout the pageant industry who discuss important trends and issues. Hayes will provide pageant coaching advice and answers to live and email questions, live on the air.
Chris J. Witting, CEO of TalkZone.com, said, "We're very pleased to offer this outstanding new show to our audience. Pageants offer women of all ages the opportunity to develop important life skills such as public speaking, community leadership, and goal setting. If you've wondered what it takes to become a top pageant contestant, you should definitely tune in!"
Valerie Hayes, The Pageant Coach™, is an award-winning pageant interview coach and recognized leader in the pageant industry. Hayes has coached contestants at the local, state, national, and international level. She has appeared on network programs including CNN Prime News, MTV's Made and True Life, NBC's iVillageLive, and other media venues.
PAGEANT TALK RADIO will air live Tuesdays at 10:00 AM EST at TalkZone.com
Chris J. Witting, CEO of TalkZone.com, said, "We're very pleased to offer this outstanding new show to our audience. Pageants offer women of all ages the opportunity to develop important life skills such as public speaking, community leadership, and goal setting. If you've wondered what it takes to become a top pageant contestant, you should definitely tune in!"
Valerie Hayes, The Pageant Coach™, is an award-winning pageant interview coach and recognized leader in the pageant industry. Hayes has coached contestants at the local, state, national, and international level. She has appeared on network programs including CNN Prime News, MTV's Made and True Life, NBC's iVillageLive, and other media venues.
PAGEANT TALK RADIO will air live Tuesdays at 10:00 AM EST at TalkZone.com
Monday, May 5, 2008
Randy Moss uses KY
This weekend was the running of the most famous horse race in America, The Kentucky Derby. For the town of Louisville it's the one weekend out of the year that stars and celebrities from all across the United States come to Kentucky to see and to be seen.
Well this year Alysha Harris, Miss Kentucky USA, proved that former Miss USA and Kentucky native Tara Connor isn't the only KY girl that knows how to "Drop it like its hot" and how to "Back that 'thang up". Alysha was spotted sweatin it on the dance floor with an NFL Superstar, Randy Moss, wide receiver for the SuperBowl Champion New England Patriots at a Kentucky Derby afterparty.
OH WAIT A MINUTE!! Thats right, New England lost to the New York Giants in the SuperBowl this year. Well I guess Randy felt right at home with Miss Kentucky, who also got nada at Miss USA.
Thanks to our friends over at TMZ.com for the tip of the crown!
Friday, May 2, 2008
OH NO THE VOYBOARDS ARE DOWN!!!
The entire world of pageantry was rocked today when the servers at Voy.com, the website that hosts most of the United State's pageant forums, was taken offline for a software and hardware upgrade.
No confirmed word yet, but it is expected that 10's of 100's of American pageant moms had to seek medical and psychological counseling. Many have taken extra Zanexes today. Doctors have have recommended to their pageant mom patients to pull out old Pageant DVD's of their child competing. Hopefully this will help with the jitters and take the edge off.
So far their have been no reports of violence or suicides by the outtage, but you may remember the horrific outage back in 2003 when Voy Forums went down for 3 days. That outtage resulted in the deaths of 5 Pageant moms who simply couldn't cope with the loss of their local VoyBoard.
Stay tuned and I will pass along the news if anything dramatic happens.
No confirmed word yet, but it is expected that 10's of 100's of American pageant moms had to seek medical and psychological counseling. Many have taken extra Zanexes today. Doctors have have recommended to their pageant mom patients to pull out old Pageant DVD's of their child competing. Hopefully this will help with the jitters and take the edge off.
So far their have been no reports of violence or suicides by the outtage, but you may remember the horrific outage back in 2003 when Voy Forums went down for 3 days. That outtage resulted in the deaths of 5 Pageant moms who simply couldn't cope with the loss of their local VoyBoard.
Stay tuned and I will pass along the news if anything dramatic happens.
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