My Cardboard Balcony

Ambitious Little Boys by Belinda Roddie Ambitious little boys took up writing to score a chance to see Miss Texas read their works of poetry to a large crowd between Corpus Christi and Houston. They wanted to see her big, red lips and her hair all curled up in little balls of gold and auburn bouncing all along her neck as she displayed her "bounteous delights." They wrote lewd limericks, haiku, even long, flowery ballads for the pageant dame to recite. But in the end, it was an old lady's sonnet that was picked as the poem of choice. The boys all moaned and frowned, but you can't always get the girls in town.

Johnny was the poster boy for Transcendent Cologne - a product that attempted to be Zen while still catering to the bloated market of overhyped aromas. As he strutted around the shoot with his abs glistening with sweat, he watched as his photographers confided with his manager, juggling a bottle of the stuff between them. They couldn't decide between his holding a fat bottle or a small flask.