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Friday, February 20, 2009
Rodeo Queen Tips 3
Rodeo’s a’comin’ in early March. So we asked four current and past rodeo queens for tips on pageant glory. These gals are tough as well as pretty — riding is a crucial skill — so listen up.
Jamee Johnson, Miss Rodeo Austin 2006. Miss Texas Stampede 2009
A. Faith, family, and love for our nation are put first before all thingsB. Be prepared to be an honest and genuine role model. There is ALWAYS a little girl aspiring to be just like you.
D. Never ever let your hat fall off. If your hat falls off, your head should be in it (which shouldn’t happen either).
E. Do your home work and know who and what you are representing and learn from our western forefathers that continue to pour their souls into our way of life.
F. Be kind to your competitors. Trying to sabotage them will eventually lead to your own self destruction.
G. Be yourself and have fun. It’s better to fail in originality than win in imitation.
H. Proper health and nutrition are just as essential for you as they are your horse.
I. Value your education whether it is learned in the classroom or in rodeo arena. No one can ever take your education away.
J. Being a rodeo queen is just a part of life, not all of it. If you aren’t enough without the crown, you will never be enough with the crown.
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Rodeo Queen Tips 2
Rodeo’s a’comin’ in early March. So we asked four current and past rodeo queens for tips on pageant glory. These gals are tough as well as pretty — riding is a crucial skill — so listen up.
Lauren Graham. Miss Rodeo Texas Teen 2008, Miss Rodeo Austin 2007
B. Should be respectful and courteous of others.
C. You don’t have to spend and arm and a leg on clothes, but make sure they fit properly. You can always buy good, used queen clothes at a reasonable price.
D. Always have a clean, white hat with a good crease.
E. When you hold a title, you should know everything there is to know about the association you are representing and make the association proud to have you represent them.
F. When holding a rodeo queen title, be a good role model for others. Not only for younger kids you come in contact with, but also future younger and older contestants. Walk the walk, don’t just talk the talk.
G. Study, Study, Study. Every contest has either a test to take about their rodeo or rodeo questions in general. Also, be up on current events. There are always interview questions that come up about current events, rodeo knowledge, or about the rodeo association you are running for.
H. Be on time. Always be at least 15 minutes early to an event.
I. Learn to ride exceptionally well so you can ride any horse that is given to you to ride.
J. Take the time to have fun! Holding a rodeo queen title is an honor and should be respected, but you can also have a great time doing it!
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Rodeo Queen Tips 1
Rodeo’s a’comin’ in early March. So we asked four current and past rodeo queens for tips on pageant glory. These gals are tough as well as pretty — riding is a crucial skill — so listen up.
Brianna Sloan, Miss Rodeo Austin 2008
B. By running for various titles you are given the opportunity to learn and grow as a competitor and as person so take it and use it! You can always stand to learn a new thing or two from your fellow contestants or organizers.
C. Always investigate or learn about the contest you are entering or the event you are trying to represent. Know what you’re getting yourself into and what to expect.
D. Leave your boyfriends at home! Ladies, your boyfriend can be your best friend, but at times your worst enemy. Tell the boyfriend that you’ll call him when you get the chance however during the event you’ll be busy!E. Make a Pageant Day List - Write down what you will wear for every appearance or part of the competition that you will be doing during the competition. From the outfit, jewelry, belt buckle, boots, make-up and lipstick! Think of everything you will need and then everything you might need on the day of the pageant, and try to get it together a week in advance, so if you discover you need something, you’ll have plenty of time to get it.
F. Capture the memories! Always have a camera with you ready to for a “Kodak moment” you will stumble upon many!
G. Practice does not make perfect. PERFECT practice makes perfect. If you want to succeed, you absolutely must practice. The only way you’ll improve is do it. So find good ways to practice modeling, giving a speech, horsemanship and just being social. After all, the rodeo organization needs someone you can speak to the public, ride in the grand entry and present themselves with poise while doing whatever a rodeo queen might be faced with.
H. As a rodeo queen you are an ambassador to the rodeo you are representing. Wear the crown with integrity, for them, yourself and others who may hold the title after you.
I. Lip Stick, it’s a must. Make sure that your smile is all it can be, at all times. It’s easy for your smile to get lost when you’re making a flying lap around the arena at the rodeo. Always carry a lipstick in your pocket so that you can re-apply when you have a chance.
J. Last but certainly not least. Do your absolute very best then be content with it! Sometimes things don’t go our way, that should be expected. However the real trick to being successful is knowing how to handle those situations. In the end there are no re-do’s so, there is no room for regret. However if you know you did the best that you can do that is all that you can do and that is enough to be pleased with.
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IT’S WAR!
The sovereign state of Out & About declares total and permanent war on the outlaw tribe of music-club babblers, bags of wind, bigmouths, blowhards, chatterboxes, gabbers, gasbags, gossipmongers, jabberers, loudmouths, motor-mouths, windbags and yappers.
(Yes, that’s a synonymal selection from thesaurus.com.)
From now on, I vow to confront them with more than freezing looks and discreet remonstrations. They are the canker sores on Austin’s smooth-featured music scene.
And yes, I know Austin columnists far more brainy and influential than I have battled this biblically proportioned plague with little apparent success, but for me, it’s once more into the breach.
I sat on the “music side” of bar, aware from previous visits that the north section was more chatty, bleeding into the pressure-valve pool hall and always-occupied smoking perches outside.
In between sets, a couple of sandal-clad young men were hitting on two expertly groomed young women (“The Sandia Mountains are off the charts, man!”) to my left, while a clutch of co-workers mourned the end of a colleague’s relationship (“I want to fall in love with a woman — for a week.”)
All well and good. They were stationed just far enough away that, once the Hyland launched into his first plaintive song, I could ignore them. But just before his arrival, two ladies squeezed into the tiny zone between my bartsool and the one occupied by one of the well-groomed young women.
“We’re taking over this space, OK?”
Animated does not begin to describe their conversation (“I knew when I moved to Austin, I’d get a divorce!’). They chattered vigorously, then invited various unattached men to join their party, even as Hyland slowly cranked up his vocals in response.
At one point, an Earth-goddess of a woman — bless her — came over, smiled, hugged the women, then begged them to move to the other side of the bar. “We’re listening to the music,” she rather obviously explained.
They declined. No amount of head-craning or stool-scootching from my end helped. There was no place to sit otherwise, and I needed to sit at the end of a long social day.
Later, one of the chatterers disappeared, leaving her high-volume friend in conversational despair. So she turned to me — of all people! — to complain that some tall man was now blocking her view. What could I say?
I boiled. I fumed. Now I declare open hostilities. This outrage must end.
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Vignette Reunion at Parkside
“We had the unfortunate timing to grow at a time when a lot of money was being made,” says Ross Garber about Vignette, the Austin software company he co-founded with Neil Webber. “If I had one wish, it would be to remembered for the incredible time we had together rather than the money.”
Ross Garber, Neil Webber
Vignette was one of Austin’s gold-kissed companies — 10 years or, to calculate it in another way, two tech booms ago. At one point, it planned a multi-tower complex at the same downtown site where multi-tower complexes from a later boom hoped to rise (not yet). Garber and Webber’s company pretty much defined the Internet optimism of the late ’90s in Austin.
Steve Vitale, Anna Cooke, Sally Baskin, Wade Walker
Vignette’s 10-year reunion was a noisy one at the upscale Sixth Street restaurant Parkside. Upstairs, casually but smartly dressed people in their forties — mostly men, but also women — hobnobbed happily.
Greg Hilton, Mike Makuch, Steve Manweller (among the first employees hired at Vignette)
The room that held the bar was way overcrowded, making social reporting a mess. But in the west wing, we could appreciate the buoyant party planning of Courntey Caplan of Caplan Miller Events. She employed Townsley Designs for the decor and furniture — very mod, with bean-bag chairs and tables adorned with radiant “10s” — as will as Ilios Lighting, which provided stunning light screen behind the DJs.
John Tyler, Phil Powers
My hoarse voice — almost of month of cedar fever later — denied me a conversational mode to compete with the nostalgic music, but I was uplifted to run into, for the second or third night this week, effervescent Beth Krauss from the ACVB. You know it’s a party if she’s there.
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‘Jollenbach’ screening at the Arbor
Making a movie makes community. That was readily apparent at the Arbor Theater on Thursday as an enterprising community gathered for a screening of the Austin-filmed “Jollenbach.”
David Anderson, Michelle Carter, Dana Glover
Actors, crew, backers, followers embraced, shook hands, traded stories before the Midian Films thriller sparked up. Austin’s shortest red carpet pointed the way.
Bryant Clark, Alex Burback
Everybody played multiple roles on this ultra-low-budget film about ghost hunters, partly captured in the hand-held video model, à la “Blair Witch Project.” That included Dana Glover, Michelle Carter and David Anderson, who, among them worked just about every aspect of the movie.
Danyelle Carter, Donahill Dixon
Herds of radio folks were in the house, including crack storyteller Bob Cole and his on-air partner Bucky Godbolt, as well as veteran meteorologist and UT lecturer Troy Kimmel. (Sports commentator/movie partner Anderson is part of the KVET team, too.)
Troy Kimmel, Andrew Perrone
Midian is still trying to finalize “Jollenbach” to get it in the can, but with the community on hand at the Arbor, I’m confident that will come soon. And hey, a low-budget thriller is a recession-proof product.
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