• Beautiful Brian wants to know who will stop the Shea Stadium rain
• Rice and Bean Pot burrito eating contest at Boston area colleges starts January 27
• Nacho eating contest in Paul Blart: Mall Cop
• Questions about performance enhancing substances in competitive eating
• Picture of 29 inch pizza at American Pie Pizza in Florida
• Oyster Bowl X to award 4 Night All Inclusive Trip to Cancun or Punta Cana for two Adults
• Hot dog eating contest in Hong Kong
• A youtube page by “Kobayashi”
• Don Lerman has resumed competitive eating posts on mosesnews.com
• Olivia Wilde of House MD once ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes to win an eating contest – interview video (from Sebastian Walters)

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• (from Pierre Abry) Food Network page about tonight’s episode (at 6:30 pm) of My Life in Food starring “Crazy Legs Conti , a dreadlocked veteran, Lovely Juliette [sic] Lee, a petite 100lb female rookie, and Patrick Deep Dish Bertoletti, a talented up-and-comer”. The episode will not be rerun in the near future and the series is not available online, so watch it when it is televised if you want to see it.
• Segments from the new tracks on the Best of Hungry & Focused are available on Badlands Booker’s myspace page
• Wing eating contest at the Den Again in Racine, Wisconsin January 25 $500 first prize
• Facebook page about the Seaside, Oregon mayoral campaign of “Consumption”
• Blog entry about Frank Pastore, former Big Texan record holder, from a resident of Pastore’s hometown
• Video of Joel Podelsky’s cheeseburger eating contest at a Newark Beaks game
• Wing eating contest in Beijing
• Don Lerman’s baked bean record (but not Lerman by name) was mentioned on Who Wants to be a Millionaire recently according to a Ray Meduna email

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Badlands Booker’s new CD, Entrees & Leftovers, the Best of Hungry & Focused is now available for purchase via paypal (click on the B above iTunes digital downloads) on Booker’s myspace page.

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• Consumption has a rap video directed to Badlands Booker
• Wikipedia page about Man v. Food, has a short Adam Richman biography and episode details
• The Princeton Oyster Bowl has a new website at http://oysterbowlnj.com/
• Mike Fitzgerald attempts the 12 pound pizza challenge at Polito’s
• IFOCE review of Santa’s Slay by Tim “Gravy” Brown
• Georgia Tech beats LSU in a beef eating contest held at a Brazilian steakhouse before the Chick Fil A Bowl.
• Dale Boone is in India according to his myspace status

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Beautiful Brian has uploaded a holiday message video to youtube in which he announces and plays samples from Tim “Gravy” Brown’s new CD titled Santa’s Slay Beautiful Brian compares Tim “Gravy” Brown to Elvis Costello. Songs include “Go Tell it on the Mountain”, “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christman”, “Deck the Halls”, “O Little Town of Bethlehem”, “Take My Breath Away” and “My Heart Will Go On”.

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A greatest hits CD containing high points from the first four “Hungry & Focused” albums along with three new songs from the upcoming album “Extended Play” will be released on New Years day. A promo clip is available on youtube. The album can be purchased on Booker’s myspace page and the store at majorleagueeating.com

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• Beautiful Brian’s Christmas CD is ready and a copy will be mailed to any IFOCE member who requests it
• Another article about Chip Simpson’s win in the Bonita Springs, FL wing eating contest which continues to include the claim that he defeated Kobayashi in a wing eating contest
• “Furious” Pete Czerwinksi halves the 15 scoop challenge record at Ricky’s Candy, Cones & Chaos
• Christmas Day latke eating contest in Red Bank, NJ
• Cameron McKirdy challenges Badlands Booker to a rap battle on July 4, 2009 (from email)
• Toby Keith’s 100 ounce challenge reportedly finishes with 2 burgers, making it a 132 ounce challenge (from email)

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• Samples from Beautiful Brian’s remixed holiday CD are available on reverbnation
• Wendy’s Baconator eating contest held in the Philippines. There were three divisions: heavyweight men, lightweight men and women
• BeefJerky.com finds eating contest sanctioning fees too expensive
• Picture of Dale Boone receiving the 2003 IFOCE Rookie of the Year. Rich LeFevre and Crazy Legs Conti were the runners up
• Travel Channel clip about the Buffalo Wing Festival wing eating contest
• The “Acidic Jew” qualifies for the Wing Bowl by eating 10 lemons
• The youtube page hosting Wing Bowl 17 stunts

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