Pageant Season

It’s that time-Miss Louisiana (aka the Super Bowl of Pageants) was in June and now every young competitor is racing to prelims in their clear heels and falsies to try for a shot at a title to compete at state. I am producing the Miss Shreveport Pageant Tomorrow. The theme is "One Last Stop Till Vegas" seeing as how the Miss America Pageant has been recently moved from Atlantic City to Vegas. I’ll be driving up tonight and running 100 miles an hour to be sure everyone is in order, prepared and not showing any swim suit liners...that's what I do-it is what I love. For weeks I have gotten emails asking what girls should wear, sing, and answer when asked about gay marriage and now on my desk in a sealed envelope are their on-stage questions. I have been in their shoes so many times-the nerves and excitement, the let down. We shouldn't have favorites, but silently we do. Regardless, we offer all of them help as if we were spray gluing our own daughters’ swimsuit to her butt. Well, I am ready, with music from 2009-no Van Morison at my pageants!-and my new spray tan that smells a little of Vanilla musk...I am on my way to S'port.