In my humble First Lady In Waiting opinion, this was the best one ever. There were six contestants who were all fairly organized and together, compared to some other years. Make that five fairly organized, one supremely organized. Thanks in part to the excellent publicity garnered by the supremely organized Marie Slugtoinette, the crowd was really really big! Maybe even bigger than last year. The house band was great - Rich Glauber with Dave O'Toole on sax and Kenny Sokolov on drums - they provided some crowd pleasing settling in music with the divine Miss Savanah Coen on vocals, and then gave nice little fill in pieces where needed and accompanied the Queens in their "50 Ways to Love Your Mother" piece and a couple of contestants as well. And the weather? Absolutely sublime! Here are the Old Queens waiting for the show to start:
It's hard to take photos and run the show and enjoy the show all at the same time, so the pics are generally sketchy. And how can you adequately report on such a crazy thing? It was a true competition this year. Ambassador Mucous Molluscadia was second runner up, his half-male, half-female "Age of Androgynous" piece was brilliant. Lady Slugiva definitely caused a stir when she rode in on a real live horse, and had the crowd roaring with approval for her rendition of "Summerslime." But Marie Slugtoinette won the day with her musical medley and her eight months of over the top bribery. Check out her slugqueeneugene.com for a comprehensive history of S.L.U.G., it's quite impressive! Here's a pretty bad picture of her:
For those who were there, and are wondering how the hat-passing went, we did indeed raise enough money to cover the expenses of putting on the show, and buying wristbands for all the contestants so they could Celebrate, plus a bit left over to start next year's extravaganza. Thanks to all who witnessed the event, we wouldn't do it without you! Here's a fraction of the assembled masses:
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