Here’s the latest scoop:

Remember I said we had Something Special since we’re unable to have Jello Wrasslin’ this year? OOOOHH! Y’all are gonna LOOOVE THIS new product for all your Home Jello Wrasslin’ needs! It’s called Gelli Baff® and it is HILARIOUS! It’s just like the stuff we used last year at the Hilton (not actual edible Jell-O®)—your kids will go NUTS for it—IF you let them try it, that is. You just run a tub of WARM water (which we did NOT have at the Hilton pool!), sprinkle the “goo maker” stuff over the top, wait a couple minutes—and VOYOLA! GOO! TCBITW is in there soaking in it RIGHT NOW! He says it actually feels really good in the warm water—retains the heat and is quite soothing. Here’s his PHOTO on my Facebook Page.

Then, when you’re done with whatever you decide to do in there—you sprinkle the “goo dissolver” stuff in there—and it turns it back into water and it goes right down the drain—MAGIC!

A percentage of all GELLI BAFF® sales next weekend will, of course, go to THE CHIRREN.

Jan Michaels, Q105.1FM and Mississippi Blood Services will be at the Hilton on Thursday, 3/18. Not only do we want your MONEY for the CHIRREN—we ALSO WANT YOUR BLOOD! MBS is the supplier to Blair E. Batson Children’s Hospital.  Remember, our motto is always: ANY-THANG FOR THE CHIRREN™—and we ain’t kiddin’—so, give us a pint!

On Friday Night, at the FireFly® Sweet Tea Vodka SPQ™ Ball, there will be a SILENT AUCTION, during which you will have the opportunity to Bid On The Body Parts of TCBITW, including his HEAD (but excluding the parts that are obviously reserved as My Personal Property and I WILL BE THERE, don’t forget.) And again, NO THONG THIS YEAR! Winners of this auction will then have the unique experience of SHAVING the particular body part on which they successfully outbid the other Queens. (Necessary shaving articles will be handily provided to you.)

Then, Saturday Night, at the Michelob ULTRA SPQ™ Pearls & Pj’s™ Party, EVERYBODY can purchase SPQ™ and/or FireFly® Tattoos and apply those Alll Over His Body (except on the aforementioned Parts belonging exclusively to ME)—we would REEALLY like to see him turned into THE ILLUSTRATED MAN—so buy LOTS—IT’S FOR THE CHIRREN!

Also, on Saturday Night, our very own KILTBOY—known in Hollywood as “Randall Wallace,” writer of such films as Bravehart, Man in the Iron Mask, We Were Soldiers, Pearl Harbor, will be At Your Queenly Service. You can buy another round of those Tattoos and Kiltboy WILL INSTALL THEM ON YOUR OWN PERSONAL BODY PARTS (within the bounds of Commonly Accepted Decency). We are told (by him) that he holds a Black Belt in this particular sport and we have no cause to doubt that.  Again—DO IT FOR THE CHIRREN!

BIG-A** CROWN & CRUISE RAFFLE!

Whoo hoo! McGehee Cruise & Vacation has generously given Blair E. Batson Children’s Hospital a CRUISE to add to their Big A** Crown Raffle! The winner gets NOT ONLY the Big A** Crown BUT ALSO a 5-night crusie for 2 on the Carnival Elation, out of Mobile headed for Progreso and Cozumel—in DECEMBER—when we reeeeally need it!

Ok, here’s the fine print part of the Cruise deal:

The winner will receive a 5 night Cruise for two, sailing on the Carnival Elation from Mobile, AL Saturday December 4, 2010, returning to Mobile, AL Thursday December 9, 2010. The winner of this cruise will receive one interior stateroom for up to two people in the stateroom, including port charges, government cruise taxes and fees, and prepaid gratuities for dining and stateroom staff. Also, the cruise includes cruise transportation from Mobile, AL to Progreso and Cozumel, Mexico and cruise transportation back to Mobile, AL, and meals and entertainment on board the ship.

There are some expenses that must be paid by the winner – transportation to the ship in Mobile, a current US Passport, and any other personal expenses requested by the winner, and anything not specifically mentioned as being included.

They can change dates and pay any price difference. They can give it to an immediate family member who can go December 4, or change dates and pay the difference. It has no refund or cash value and can’t be sold or bartered.

We are soooo excited about this FOR THE CHIRREN and for the WINNER! To make it even better for the Queenly Winner, I will also donate a regular SPQ™ Crown—which, by itself and compared to most any other earthly crown, is pretty fabulous—however, alongside the custom-made LARRY VRBA BIG A** CROWN–it looks PATHETIC. So, the Winner will have the BIG GIANT SPARKLY CROWN to wear—and the Lucky Friend that she selects to accompany her on the cruise will have to wear the puny-by-comparison one the whole time—thus leaving NO DOUBT in anybody’s mind WHO THE BOSS QUEEN IN THAT DEAL IS!

A fabulous crown, a fabulous trip, AND the chance to drive your Best Friend wild with envy—PRICELESS. (I’m personally thinking it would be HI-LARIOUS if MARTHA JEAN won the thing and then FIFI would have to watch her prance around in that Big A** Crown for the rest of their lives. We could all enjoy that—in that really mean sorta way that we love!)

We hope to see lotsa leaves on the Dirty Rotten Bastid Tree and the Heinous B*tch Bush—buy the leaves (for the Chirren) and plaster the names of the Ones You Love to Hate all over the place. Whee!

Be sure to get your All-In-One Weekend Pole/B*itch Pass—giving you unlimited access to the STRIPPER POLE, all weekend—PLUS—free rein to gossip, bad-mouth and/or dog-cuss the whole time. (For non-Pass Holders, it’s a quarter a spin on the pole and AT LEAST that for every verbal assault on another person, whether it’s behind their backs or not. You gotta pay to play and if you don’t, you’ll be restricted to DIRTY LOOKS ONLY—which is bound to be bad for your blood pressure!) The CHIRREN NEED FOR YOU TO SPIN A WHOLE LOT—and VENT YOUR QUEENLY SPLEENS ON BY-STANDERS, INNOCENT OR OTHERWISE! Get your Passes or bring a BIG SACK OF QUARTERS! (FYI: This year the Weekend Pole/B*itch Pass is Veeeery Cute—original Steve Erickson art on both sides, laminated!) Cheaters will be ostracized.

Again, many LARGE THANKS to our sponsors: FireFly® Sweet Tea Vodka, Pepsi, Comcast, Michelob ULTRA and Q105.1FM/Clear Channel Radio for heppin’ us hep the Chirren.

Here is just SOME of what we plan to do to raise $$ for Blair E. Batson Children’s Hospital. We set the bar pretty high last year! Keep in mind our motto is, as always,

“ANYTHANG FOR THE CHIRREN!”

Before I go any further, let’s pause a minute in humble gratitude to our beloved sponsors without whom your Weekend Passes would be at least $900 each: FireFly® Sweet Tea Vodka, Pepsi, Michelob ULTRA, Comcast, and Clear Channel Radio.

We are so excited about Renaissance Rockin’ The Queens, the Big Hat Luncheon™ at BRAVO! Italian Restaurant and as always, the Fat Mama’s Knock You Naked Margarita Party at the Everyday Gourmet. And many thanks to Cathy Nail for lining up Mississippi Singers/Songwriters to entertain us as we gather on Thirsty Thursday at the Hilton-Jackson.

The Hilton-Jackson is the best hotel ever

in the history of the entire world, living or dead and

we loooooove them so!

Parade Virgins: The Hilton sponsors the Door Decoration Contest—so be prepared to do all manner of stuff to your door—they encourage it.

We also loooove our BSCI Bus Drivers—who drink Pepsi—so YOU can drink Firefly® and Mich ULTRA without worry about driving!

If you have ONE drink, don’t even get near your car!

Ok, right off the bat, let me just tell you that we cannot have Jello Wrasslin’ this year.  Since we are going last in the Parade, it will prolly be dark-thirty by the time we all get back from downtown and you just cannot Jello Wrassle in the dark. Never fear, Jello Wrasslin’ WILL be back—just not this year—but we think we’ve come up with some alternative activities that will prove to be equally ridiculous and entertaining.

All weekend long there will be a Finger Football® Tournament hosted by our dear friends from Zelosport®. This is going to be BIG FUN!!!

FRIDAY NIGHT at the Firefly® Sweet Tea Vodka SPQ™ Ball, we will AUCTION OFF the various body parts of my own personal husband, The Cutest Boy in the World—for shaving. His HEAD is included. Certain Other Parts are NOT and I think you know what those are. LEGS, ARMS, CHEST—all Fair Game. (He has no hair on his back—I made sure of that before I married him, of course—but if you want to “purchase” it, you’re welcome to rub shaving cream on it.) We will provide the “Winners” with shaving cream and razors and he will willingly submit to this because I assured him we could raise a LOT MORE $$ if we WAXED him instead—so he’s pretty tickled about being shaved.  ATTN: ABC Board. There will NOT be a thong involved!

SATURDAY NIGHT during the Michelob ULTRA SPQ™ Pearls & PJ’s™ Party and the Pepsi Karaoke Kontest—we will have TCBITW corralled for tattooing. Yes, you may purchase an O-fficial SPQ™ Tattoo and apply it, your veryownself, to the freshly shorn body parts of The Cutest Boy in the World (Certain parts excluded as previously discussed. Attempts to circumvent this rule will be met by ME.) We want to cover him COMPLETELY in tattoos, of course, FOR THE CHIRREN. Think how their little faces will light up with delight when they see him, in Top to Toe Technicolor—won’t that be sweet?!

Also on SATURDAY NIGHT—another tattoo event! Parade Virgins may not be aware of this, but one of our Very Favorite Spud Studs is Randall Wallace—the brilliant writer of Braveheart, We Were Soldiers, Man in the Iron Mask and Pearl Harbor and who just finished directing a film for Disney about Secretariat, the Greatest Horse Who Ever Lived—but to us, he’s KILTBOY. He marches with us in the Parade every year, BRAVELY wearing his Clan Wallace kilt and he looooves all the Queens. The ONLY thing closer to the heart of Kiltboy than the Queens is, of course, THE CHIRREN and so this year, he has unselfishly volunteered his time and talent to manning the Tatts for Tots Booth. You may purchase an O-fficial SPQ™ Tattoo and the brave and goodheated Kiltboy will hisveryownself PUT THE TATTOO ON YOU. There is an O-fficial Location for placement of these tattoos; although, he expects requests for variations on that theme. Kiltboy is nothing if not amenable. His stated goal is to “personally tattoo every Queen in attendance, no matter how long it takes.” His devotion to the Chirren is very moving.

The Stripper Pole will be back (and no, we do NOT strip—only twirl!) Twenty-five-cents per turn or you can purchase the popular Weekend Pole Pass for unlimited twirling. (When Aunt Faye approaches the Pole, all are expected to yield the right of way.)

The B*tch Box will be back—and some of you still owe from last year—you know who you are! For Virgins, the way this works is: if you feel the need/desire to say anything bad to/about someone else, you must put a quarter into the B*tch Box—OR you can buy the Weekend B*tch Pass and just let fly, unfettered, the whole time. This is a bargain, for sure!

New This Year: A Bastid Tree! You can purchase a “leaf” and write upon it the NAME OF YOUR OWN PERSONAL BASTID—along with a brief synopsis of his Bastidly Behavior, if you so desire. We expect to have a VERY FULL TREE!

In the interest of at least appearing to care about attempting to be Fair to the Men in Attendance: There will also be a (much smaller) B*tch Bush—with (much smaller and far more expensive) “leaves,” because, of course, the instances of Female Misbehavior are much less frequent and certainly nowhere near as egregious as that of the Bastids. Am I right, or what? Of course.)

There will be a Big A** Crown Raffle. Protection will be provided to the winner if it happens to be anybody other than Robin Mitchell, who buys about $800 worth of tickets every year and never wins and she’s getting a mite testy about it.

Most of y’all are familiar with my Ugly Shoes—the pink/camo croc-like abominations that were abandoned on my front porch—they have been photographed in many parts of the country on many different feets. You will have a chance to HAVE YOUR PHOTO MADE IN THE UGLY SHOES—great Christmas card! And just keep telling yourself:  IT’S FOR THE CHIRREN! IT’S FOR THE CHIRREN! I mean, if Kyle will allow himself to be shaved and tattooed—you can certainly put an Ugly Shoe on your foot for 10 seconds! And poor Kiltboy—if he can put countless tattoos on countless bosoms FOR THE CHIRREN—then YOU can suck it up and put on an UGLY SHOE for them. (Jeffrey Gross—of JEFFREY DOLLBEAR fame—will be assisting you with Posing.)

Remember:

If you do not participate in all of these carefully thought out and well-orchestrated,

not to mention dignified, fundraising efforts for

Blair E. Batson Children’s Hospital, well then,

what you are saying to the world is:

“I DON’T CARE ABOUT THE CHIRREN!”

Expect taunting.

Saturday morning, we want EVERYBODY to be QUEENED-UP for a Class of 2010 Photo. Here’s the plan: at 10:30 AM all Parade Veterans (more commonly know as Parade Sluts) should line both sides of the big hall that runs from the front to the back of the Hilton. All Parade Virgins gather in the Hilton lobby. When directed to do so, all Virgins PARADE DOWN THE CENTER OF THE HALL and out to the parking lot for the photo. This will give us the opportunity to properly Welcome All Our Precious Virgins Into The Queendom.

Please bring a photo of your group with you and on it write your Chapter Name and Hometown and State. We want to post these on the wall in the SPQ™ Store—Southern Bell will be manning the Wannabe™ Booth as always. Southern Belle is great at helping you meet up with Queens from all over as well as dispensing M&M’s.

Actually, I DO have a Pretty Entertaining Fall-Back Plan regarding Jello Wrasslin’—but I’m not gonna tell you what it is just yet!

Regarding Pearls & PJs™, I think I MAY have crossed Some Line with our outfits this year. Suffice it to say, you will see us coming from a LONG way off.…

Remember PRE-ORDER

Weekend Passes, Big Hat™ Reservations, and Sunday Bathrobe Brunch™ Tickets

They will cost more once you get here!

And one more time: NOTHING WILL BE MAILED OUT—YOU GET ‘EM WHEN YOU GET HERE!

IT’S NEARLY TIME!!!

I’ll be in CHATTANOOGA, TN, next Friday, 5 March. I’m speaking at a fundraiser for the T.C. Thompson Children’s Hospital. You’ll be helping the chirren AND you’ll have a chance to win one of my BIG-A** Larry Vrba crowns!

Celebrate Reading with me! I’m one of ten best-selling authors appearing at the 10th Annual Celebration of Reading event on February 12, 2010 in Florida.

Learn more how you can join me as we celebrate the joy of books and learning to support families who are working hard to achieve a second chance at education and a better life.

I’ll be part of this year’s gala event featuring Bush family members and fellow authors including Derrick Barnes, James Bradley, Carol Higgins Clark, Mary Higgins Clark, Steve Doocy, Jeffrey Engel, Brad Meltzer, Jill Conner Browne, Sharon Robinson, Art Smith and R.L Stine.

Visit www.celebrationofreading.org to learn more and please share this with your book-lover friends!

Okay, fine. As far as I know, here’s the latest with respect to the 2010 Parade “theme” issue as posted by Malcolm on Facebook yesterday, Thursday, 14 January 2010, at 5:16 pm: “This all has to be submitted to Disney (which has been done) for approval and that has not been granted. The SPQ “announcement” of my announcement is premature and unofficial.”

Since the Parade Theme appears to be up-in-the-air as of yesterday at 5:16 pm, if you’re planning outfits to coincide with the “official” theme, I suggest that you keep an eye on Malcolm’s pronouncements on the “Friends of The Mal’s St Paddy’s Day Parade Jackson Mississippi” Facebook page, which is a public forum–you don’t have to join it to read it.

We are just working away on all our plans for the big MILLION QUEEN MARCH^TM Weekend, 18-20 MARCH 2010! Everything is not finalized yet (PASSES ARE NOT AVAILABLE YET—CHILL OUT!) but here’s some updated stuff for you in the meantime:

OUR SPONSORS—boundless blessings be upon them forever—Firefly® Sweet Tea Vodka, Southern Beverage/Michelob Ultra, Comcast, and Clear Channel Radio are back and new to the line-up of People We Love the Most in All The World: Pepsi/Brown Bottling Group!

None of this Weekend would be happening if not for the help we get from these folks—REMEMBER THEM and show your appreciation by SUPPORTING THEM EVERY CHANCE YOU GET.

(Remembering always, of course, to drink responsibly—maybe just lie around and listen to Clear Channel and/or watch something on Comcast if you are consuming a few Mich Ultras or Firefly® Sweet Tea drinks (mixed with a delightful Pepsi product)—but if you’re going to be driving—then DRINK YOUR PEPSI STRAIGHT—unless you have a designated Pepsi-drinking driver! But THIS weekend, nobody needs to drive—we got BUSES all lined up for you!)

FIRST Big Announcement I have:
The SPQ^TM BALL will be held for
the first time ever in the Ballroom of the Hilton!

This is GREAT for several reasons:

• We don’t have to go anywhere on a bus.
• There will be plenty of room for us all to be together in one big-ass room.
• We don’t have to go anywhere on a bus.
• When we get tired, we don’t have to walk to the aforementioned bus and ride it back to the Hilton in order to lie down. We just go straight to our lovely rooms and recline.
• No bathroom lines and if the bathroom isn’t clean—the always happy housekeeping staff will attend to it pronto.
• Bars all over the place with bartenders who are gorgeous and who love us more than air and waiters who Live to Serve—with Big Smiles.
• I said no bus ride, right?
• Folks who check in late won’t have to miss the Ball—it will be RIGHT THERE, still happening, so you can get your Groove going right away.
• Free nabs. (Can’t wait to see how many questions I get on that one!)
• The Ball will last longer on account of it will be RIGHT THERE.

SECOND BIG CHANGE:

Instead of being first in the line-up of the
28th Annual Mal’s St. Paddy’s Parade,
we will be LAST!

As in saving the best for—like Santy Claus in a Christmas Parade. The last non-Queen related float will be followed by all of y’all, proud, prancing members of the MILLION QUEEN MARCH^TM, and WE will follow Y’ALL, on our float.

This is GREAT for several reasons:

• We can party much later on Friday night at the SPQ^TM BALL AT THE HILTON!
• WE CAN SLEEP LATER ON SATURDAY MORNING! Whoo-hoo! The Parade won’t start until 12 or 1 (we don’t know yet)—but there is absolutely no point in our getting down there really early—since our spot in the line-up won’t move an inch before 2:00 pm at least—so we can just daince and daince the night before, get a good sleep in and lazily dress for the Parade, then amble down there, midday!

MUSIC:

FRIDAY, 19 March 2010: On Friday night, at the SPQ^TM BALL, at the fabulous Hilton-Jackson, we will be hugely entertained by the totally Queenly BOUFFANTS from Memphis—and also, the ever-amazing KACEY JONES, our own personal SPQ^TM Songstress. (If you have not heard her song about The Redheaded Man Who Would Not Move—remember him, from The Sweet Potato Queens’ Book of Love?—you will absolutely fall over when you do!)

SATURDAY, 20 March 2010: On Saturday night, at PEARLS & PJ’s^TM, also at the fabulous Hilton-Jackson (home of the most incredible hospitality staff in the Universe)—we will be really rocked and rolled just right by THESE DAYS, featuring the inimitable JEWEL BASS. Kacey Jones will also perform between their sets; so, y’all don’t have to stop singing and dancing, ever!

SATURDAY, 20 March 2010: During Pearls & PJ’s^TM we’ll also have karaoke going in a separate room! Be sure that you don’t miss Andrew Wallace’s performances.

SOMETIME: Haven’t decided exactly when they’ll be playing yet, but Queen TammyMelanie told me about this great bluegrass/zydeco band called THE DELTA MOUNTAIN BOYS (think about it, pretty funny name)—so I called ‘em up and they’re coming. I asked ‘em if any of ‘em were single. Turns out 2 of ‘em are. I said, good, you married ones—I’ll pay y’all and be sure you bring your wives, we’ll make ‘em Queens in about 5 minutes. The SINGLE ONES—they have to PAY ME for this gig!

JUST SO YOU KNOW:

We will be keeping the price of the WEEKEND PASS the SAME that it’s been for the last 3 years (THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS); however, we’ve got to be able to have better attendance numbers in advance of the Weekend. SO, once the Passes become available on our site—WHICH THEY ARE NOT NOW so don’t even look—they will be $69 IN ADVANCE—and $80 AT THE DOOR. A similar “late” fee will be attached to the Bathrobe Brunch tickets.

As always, NO TICKETS OR PASSES WILL BE MAILED OUT. YOU ORDER THEM ONLINE AND THEN YOU WILL PICK THEM UP WHEN YOU ARRIVE AT THE HILTON.

OTHER PLANS for the Weekend continue to unfold so keep checking the PARADE page for updates. Also, if you’re just getting around to making your plans—READ ALL THE OLDER INFO ON THE PARADE PAGE—BEFORE you e-mail me with a question!

We will be going to RENAISSANCE at Colony Park again on Thirsty Thursday—and they will have bigger buses for that this year—and as their plans for us develop, I’ll share them with you. This is a gorgeous shopping center and they had a FABULOUS PARTY for us last year—so you won’t want to miss it—they pull out all the stops and we loooove them for it.

The BIG HAT LUNCHEON will be at BRAVO! once more and Jeff Good is trying to work it out so that he can make his now-famous “thong run” through the restaurant. We are crossing our fingers for that. ATTENTION: Mississippi’s ABC, he wears the thong OVER his pants.

OF COURSE, we’ll be going to the EVERYDAY GOURMET on Friday afternoon for SPQ^TM Security Chief Marlana’s FAT MAMA’S KNOCK YOU NAKED MARGARITA PARTY.

Be sure you allow time in your travel plans to stay for the BATHROBE BRUNCH^TM on Sunday morning at the Hilton—it is the sweetest time of the whole Weekend.

Check back here often, as we’ll up-date our Weekend Festivities Schedule and if you don’t already receive our newsletter, sign-up by clicking the E-Newsletter Signup button on the home page of the website. As soon as Weekend Passes and Brunch Tickets are available, we’ll send out a newsletter about it.

See y’all soon!!!!

Help the Chirren and support the Troops

But she not only gave me life–she gave me a WONDERFUL life and she taught me, both by example and, when necessary, relentless nagging–How to Have a Wonderful Life and hopefully, how to teach my daughter the same lessons.  So many small things–I made her Thanksgiving Dressing yesterday–I’ll put her 60 years’ worth of glass ornaments on my Christmas tree myself and we will all sit and look at it in awe every night–so many HUGE things–caring, sharing, being aware of Needs all around me and doing whatever small thing I can to help.

I hope you are with Loved Ones today–and I hope you love them a lot.  This Moment is all we have–and life does turn on a dime.  Love all you can, every second you can–it’s like Money in the Bank in times of Great Loss.

We, the Queens, have a unique opportunity right here at Holiday Time to do two incredible things for two groups of folks that we love more than life:

Our TROOPS and Our CHIRREN—

at the same time, and for very little $$ and even less effort!

Prepare to be Amazed and Excited!

You’ve all seen the Finger Football^® games that are new to our website, right? Well, the darlin’ boys at Zelosport^®, wanting to curry favor with the Queendom, have done some MAJOR SUCKING UP and here’s what they are offering to do:

For only $60, Zelosport^® will send 4 of their Finger Football^® games, in your name, to a United States military installation (which includes ships) somewhere in the world—AND—they will, out of that same $60, make a $20 donation to Blair E. Batson Children’s Hospital!

All you gotta do is CLICK HERE to go to a special-just-for-Queens-page.

There’s no tax and no shipping charge—just a flat $60. Where else can you buy SO MUCH GOOD KARMA for so little? You can get your book club or Sunday School class or the folks in your office to pitch in—and send 4 really fun Finger Football^® games to our beloved Service men and women—AND get a $20 donation made to HEP THE CHIRREN at Blair E. Batson.

AND THERE’S MORE:  When you place your order, you will get an e-mail receipt and on it will be a 10% discount coupon for YOU to use when buying Finger Football^® for your ownself!

Now, we don’t get to specify where the games go—the Armed Forces wisely do not advertise the addresses of our Troops around the world. Zelosport^® will send the games to the appropriate military personnel for distribution to all branches of the U.S. military, all over the world. But each package will include the name of the person or group that sent it.

HERE’S THE MOST AMAZING PART: By the end of the year, we, the Queens, could make it possible for 25,000 games to be delivered to our Troops AND raise $100,000 for Blair E. Batson Children’s Hospital—all at the same time, without ever leaving the house! Talk about Stars in Our Crowns!

Call the Queens in your Chapter, your Bunco club, your carpool, your neighborhood, your church, your poker buddies…you get the idea—let’s make this happen for the Troops and the Chirren!

For the record: I am just privileged to be the MESSENGER here—there is not one penny coming to me or the website from this promotion. The folks at Zelosport^® are Seriously Good Guys and they want to Do Good for Others. The most deserving beneficiaries they could think of are our Troops and Sick Kids. They chose to do this promotional effort through SPQ^™ and to make Blair E. Batson a beneficiary because the Queens have responded so well to their games and they know that the Queens are ALL ABOUT HEPPIN’ THE CHIRREN. So YAY—WE WIN! Now, let’s show ‘em they made the right choice!