Summer rains shower crowns on gals and guys!
Oh my goodness, kiddies — here it is, the one and only Drag Rag and I’m running late (as usual) and trying to get to the “American Idol” concert in downtown to see this year’s winner Kris Allen and my...
View ArticleThe tea is abundant in the world of pageantry!
Greetings, admirers and fans of all shapes, colors, sizes and ages! Thanks for joining me once again for pageant chatter. There’s a whole cornucopia of tea to pour this time. I’ll start with results...
View ArticlePageant Nation!
I’ll start off with a big ole Howdeeeeeeeeeee! to honor the likes of Minnie Pearl from the “Hee Haw” days. If you grew around these parts, I don’t have to go any further. I’m back from Chicago and with...
View ArticleWhat a great pageant time
Greetings and salutations, kids! Welcome back to my contribution to the wonderful world of female impersonation pageantry. We have new national titleholders hither and yon and a few new on the local...
View Article‘Dreams do come true, it can happen to you…’
Hello fans and freaks, welcome back to the column where a crown (or a good show) is as good as gold! I’m so excited to be writing this particular Rag as we’ll be talking about a good friend of mine who...
View ArticleBe jolly with pageant news, by golly!
Happy Holidays, kiddies! ’Tis the season for shows and pageants and such. That’s where I’ll start off. I hear I missed the show of shows the Wednesday before Thanksgiving at Scorpio and I am...
View ArticleWhat a wild, wonderful year, already!
Howdy, folks, and Happy New Year! Where to begin? By the time this Rag comes out, I’ll be on my Central American voyage, but that’s a completely different story. It’s all about starting a new year off...
View ArticleLife’s a real tough thing to understand!
Snowy greetings, kiddies. Normally I’m in such a good mood when I write the Rag. I do enjoy writing about the queens who do pageants and talking about the results of them. But this time, my mood is...
View ArticleOh, my, it’s reigning pageants!
Oh, boiz and gyrls, here we are once more at my little inkspot on the page to talk about accomplishments in pageantry and the folks who do them. After a rough week that I got through, thanks to dear...
View ArticlePageants bloom like Spring flowers
Oh, boys and girls, Spring has sprung! And, we’ve got pageants springing up everywhere, too. Let’s start off with some tea about contests that have already taken place, then we’ll sign off with some...
View ArticlePageants are pouring out of the woodwork
Well, damn, kids — here we are for another drag ‘killing’ and I’m up to my neck in notes about tea from all over. I’d like to start with a sort of correction from the last time. I’m surprised none of...
View ArticleOMG! There’s an avalanche of stunning beauties!
Well, kiddies, here we are again in my little world where the best looking women just happen to be males! So much to hash and re-hash, I don’t know where to begin. In the past month or so, Miss Della...
View ArticleIt’s a not time in the ole’ pageant scene right now
Oh, kiddies, it’s that time again when we chit-chat about the girls of crowns and gowns. It’s hotter than a Central American soccer team outside — Lordy, mercy! I’ll start this time with an oversight...
View ArticleRoad trip, no drag!
Gather ‘round, gals and gyrls — it’s that time once more to chat about accomplishments in impersonator and male lead contests! I’m your Hostess with the Mostest, Miss Della, welcoming you back with...
View ArticleOh, mercy bells! It’s pageant news!
Well, ladies and gents, here I go again! You know the drill — it’s about crowns and gowns here and sometimes a tux or two. Just depends. I hope everyone is doing well, getting ready for a gorgeous...
View ArticlePlum proud of all y’all out there!
Greetings and salutations, folks! You know the drill — we’re talking about wins and successes in pageantry here. Hope everyone is enjoying the gorgeous fall weather! It’s time to shave and put on a wig...
View ArticleSure are a bunch of ‘pretty ladies!’
Gather ‘round, kiddies — the Thanksgiving table, that is! Let’s pour tea about some contests that have taken place recently, but I’ll also mention some shows that I’ve seen, too.
View ArticleDinner with friends and so much more!
Season’s Greetings, kiddies — hope everyone is managing to stay warm somehow! Our common interest brings us back once again as we chit-chat about contests and the queens who do them!
View ArticleIt’s a star-studded time out there!
Happy New Year, kiddies! I hope this finds everyone off to a great start. As 2011 rolled in, I was at The Asylum in Gastonia (which has since closed) with my 2 sisters Brooke Divine LaReese and...
View ArticleShe’s not a Facebook diva!
Miss Della dishes on two Carolina girls, as she laments her absence from the social media scene: "I sit here owing my editor a story on two NC girls, one current and one from the past, who are making...
View ArticleSpring is here, there and everwhere!
Hello kiddies — here we are again, back to talk about contests and the girls (and sometimes guys) who do them. I hope this finds everyone doing well and ready for spring and the time change that’s upon...
View ArticleQueens are blooming everywhere!
“Hey y’all!” as one of my favorites, Paula Deen, would greet her folks. And, welcome back to my little neck of the woods — here since the fall of 1996! Oh my goodness, that’s a lot of drag and...
View ArticleSpring’s bursting out all over the land with pageants galore, yes, ma’am!
Howdy folks, and welcome back to my column where we chit-chat about pageants and the queens who do them. I did want to start with a little oversight from the last time, like I always do! Seems I always...
View ArticlePageants are sizzling this summer!
So, it’s not many times that I can say I’m actually excited to be writing the Rag. I’ve enjoyed doing it, but it’s a monthly thing for me and has been for many years. But, when you have two national...
View ArticleHeavens to Betsy…the tea is overflowing on the pageant scene!
Welcome back friends, and Happy late 4th (by the time you read this)! Hope you made some fireworks of your own. I come to you again with some things that I’m excited to talk about, like new pageants...
View ArticleIt’s hotter than blazes in a hand basket, but the shows are way cool!
Oh my goodness, kiddies, here I am sweating like a ‘ho in church. I always hate the summers in this part of the state, so it was with great pleasure that I was in Asheville just last weekend (along...
View ArticleSure are a boat-load of pageants!
Oh, kids, I swear. This Rag is going to look like a list of Who’s Who in contests, I guess. It shall be chocked full of info. I wonder what I save for the next time? Let’s see.
View ArticleMercy buckets! There’s a downpour of pageants galore!
Well dammit, Janet — here I sit, rounding up the tea for yet another Drag Rag. What a time it has been since the last one. And, the pageants are still coming at me. By the time you read this, I will...
View ArticlePageants are falling like leaves from the sky!
Well, hi kiddies! Happy Fall — heavy pageant time! Can’t wait. Our photo this time is of Alana Steele of Indianapolis, the reigning All-American Goddess who’ll be in Charlotte in December for the NC...
View ArticleSugah! It’s a bushel basket of all things pageant!
Well, chirrens, you know the drill…we meet again to discuss pageants and the goddesses who do them.
View ArticlePageants and shows bring out the best, past, present and future!
Season’s greetings, boys and girls! Where has the time gone? Here we are at the end of another year of shows and pageants. What will 2012 hold? Who’s to say? I think it will be a fierce year of...
View ArticleLawzie mercy, I’m here, there, everwhere!
Well, Happy New Year, kiddies. My, my, my — 2012 is off to a great start. Life is truly great and I’m ready for some good drag and some good pageantry as well.
View ArticleFrom she to shining she — and even some he — from coast to coast, oh, my!
Greetings, gentle readers — is that love in the air I sense, or just Latino sweat from the nearby soccer field? LOL! I hope this finds everyone doing well in this second month of 2012 (Leap Year, no...
View ArticleSweeties, I took to the road and beheld royalty and stars galore!
Hey everybody — here I am working on another late submission of the Rag. Just as I promised before, we get a promo of Luscious, the only Carolinian to win Miss Gay U.S.ofA. Too bad it’s 10 months into...
View ArticleIt’s never too late!
Oh, my gosh — let’s see what I can mess up this time! I must have been tapping away while I was falling asleep that last time — all this talk about going to the formers show in Hickory for Miss NC...
View ArticleCrowns abound from all around!
Greetings, kiddies. Here I am, burning the midnight oil again, trying to get another Rag “in the e-mail” before I get fired from a volunteer job. Ha! Worse things have happened, so…
View ArticleThe girls got it going on!
Oh, boys and girls, here we are all over again. How many times have I said that over the past 15+ years? And, here we are still carrying on. Did you see my responses to the 20 Questions in the most...
View ArticleIt’s hot in the city and in drag!
Well, kids — while I write this dittie, it’s hot as hell in the Queen City. Here we are, having celebrated July 4th and I needed some independence from the humidity, by golly! No thinking of drag for...
View ArticlePageants wind down and wind up — oh, how fun!
Oh, guys and gals, it’s that time of the month again when we talk pageantry. Time just flies, even when you’re not having fun, but staying busy regardless.
View ArticleI’m proud as punch for all these marvelous queens and kings
Boys and girls! Happy Pride and national conventions and all that other jazz. What a busy summer, but it’s just about over and Miss Della is so pleased to see drag-friendly weather just around the...
View ArticleSpecial: Catching up on the pageant scene
It’s Miss Della here with a quick little ditty, long overdue (months actually!) about what's going on with Don't H8 pageantry.
View ArticlePageants are pouring in from everywhere! Where’s my cup?
My dear readers, we gather once more, as we have for 16 years now, to get updates on pageantry tea and such. It has been a busy time since the last one, for sure. I hope you all noticed or know that...
View ArticlePassing the crown down
Well, kids, you know the drill — we’ve been doing this for a long time and we’re here to chat about pageants and the queens who win them. And, those who almost win them, too, I guess.
View ArticleIt’s tea time at the pageant scene!
As I sit down to write another tardy Drag Rag, it occurs to me, as it does every once in a while, that I have not rounded up much tea this time. It seems the pageantry calendar is dry about this time,...
View ArticleIt’s the season for ‘we’ and not ‘me’
Season’s greetings, kids! Here we are with Thanksgiving and Hanukkah behind us and Christmas and Kwanzaa and the New Year coming at us fast. And. never forget to add in Miss Della’s birthday in there,...
View ArticleLet’s make 2013 ‘legendary!’
Greetings, my dear readers and the happiest of new years! I hope you all had good holidays and are ready to make 2013 legendary. I, for one, am looking at doing some things differently myself now that...
View ArticleThe skies are reigning men and women!
Ah, yes, boys and girls, we meet again. I hope love is in the air, or something like that, as we celebrate the Valentine’s Day season.
View ArticlePageant results are overflowing everywhere across America!
Ah, my dear readers, we come together again and celebrate all that is good (and sometimes not so good) in the world of drag pageantry. I’ve got so much damn information, there’s no time for idle...
View ArticleSpecial Report: In Memoriam
Last month dealt a massive blow to the national female impersonation community. We lost two wildly popular, award-winning queens and just plain, good people apart from all the accolades and fame.
View ArticleAll Stars Season 3: Take the ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ DQ Quiz
Take the quiz and test your "RuPaul's Drag Race" knowledge.
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