From an email from Brian Seiken:

Around 5-6PM EST SNY the mets station on cable tv will show MLE hot dog exhibition live . Rios myself and possibly Shredder will take part in i think a one or two minute eatoff. on June 27th tommorow Thought i would pass it on.

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There will not be a MLE event on Spike TV in the second quarter of 2007, but there will be a competitive eating themed program on this week when the episode of CSI about the death of a competitive eater, which originally ran Thanksgiving weekend 2005, is rerun on Thursday at 7pm eastern

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An alternate video for “Boom Boom Meccha Maccho”, set in a candy universe can be seen at http://www.veoh.com/videos/v661588CK67feBz

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CNBC sports business reporter Darren Rovell, who appeared on the Nathan’s finals telecast when he was with ESPN, wrote a blog entry on whether the WWE faking Vince McMahon’s death is grounds for a lawsuit from WWE shareholders. The WWE responded to Rovell’s analysis by pronouncing him a suspect in McMahon’s “murder”.

Deadspin blog entry

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Juliet Lee’s victory at the Norfolk Nathan’s qualifier has been ranked #8 on ESPN Sportcenter’s plays of the day.

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In his most recent podcast about movies, Kevin Carr responds to Ryan Reynolds’ anti competitive eating blog entry (the response starts around the 21 minute Mark) Kevin concludes by challenging Ryan Reynolds to an eating contest.

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(From Some Boys) A video of “Boom Boom Meccha Maccho” can be viewed on Oricon The sound and video are much higher quality than the video on youtube.

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The schedule for the New York City Food Film Festival has been updated and the Wing Bowl 13 documentary “Swallow Your Pride” has replaced “Zen and the Art of Competitive Eating” on the listing for June 21.

Watching the films are free but food must be preordered.

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From a Bubba Yarbrough email:

I just received an advanced copy from National Geographic with the air dates and time. It will air July 8 at 9pm et/pt. It features Me (Bubba) tim and Sonya. Tim is run through some very exhaustic digestive testing and Sonya and I go through some training and other stuff Overall it looks great.

update TVWeek has a preview (from Rhonda Evans)

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In his chat today, Bill “The Sports Guy” Simmons of ESPN.com was asked a question about Joey Chestnut:

Eric (New York City): Bill, did you read about that guy who broke the Japanese guy’s record for hot dog eating. Will you be tuning in to ESPN2 to watch USA vs. Japan in hot dog eating?

Bill Simmons: Heard about this! We really need to get behind this guy… it’s like the ’80 Olympic Hockey team all over again.

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AICE News reports that it will sanction the 30 inch hot dog eating contest to be held during the June 21 session of the New York Food Film Festival. “Zen and the Art of Competitive Eating”, a documentary starring Crazy Legs Conti, will be screened that evening and Conti will be present to answer questions about the film. Joe Menchetti is expected to defend his title.

AICE News also reports that “Swallow Your Pride” will be screened, but the Wing Bowl 13 documentary does not appear on the festival schedule.

update The schedule has been updated and “Zen” and Conti’s Q&A have been removed. “Swallow Your Pride” will most likely take its place

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Kevin Carr devotes the last quarter of his hour long movie podcast (beginning around the 48 minute mark) to competitive eating and Joey Chestnut’s record breaking performance (language may not be safe for work or families).

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(From GerberDaisee) A two minute podcast of Joey Chestnut’s interview this morning on the Today Show is available on the NBC news website.

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The IFOCE.com results for the Shea Stadium qualifier says that Joey Chestnut will be on NBC’s Today Show on Monday sometime between 7 am and 10 am.

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(from Badlands Booker) The episode of “Wife Swap” in which Eric “Badlands” Booker’s wife and female boxer Jennifer Alcorn trade families will be rerun on June 4 at 8 pm on ABC. Booker has lost 90 pounds since that show was recorded in July 2006.

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(From Gyaru’s residence) The video for “BoomBoom Meccya Maccho”, featuring Natsuko “Gal” Sone, can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUCgsUfPXII

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(From Badlands Booker) Badlands Booker has recorded a tribute to bunnettes and made it available on http://myspace.com/badlandsbooker

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(From SomeBoys) 45 second mp3s from “Gal” Sone’s group Gyaruru new single are available: “Boom Boom Meccha Macchio” “Onna no Ultra” (B side)

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(From Someboys) A video clip of Natsuko “Gal” Sone’s appearance, along with Tokito Ami, her bandmate in Gyaruru on the show Goro’s bar to promote the June 20 release of their single can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST8DT3HD-bo The is no competitive eating on the show, but Ami competes in a funny face contest.

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NYMag.com reports that “Zen and the Art of Competitive Eating”, starring Crazy Legs Conti, will be screened at the first New York Food Films Festival on June 21. The schedule of events for that evening follows:

Thursday, June 21st
8:30pm – Tasting Rachel Ray – 3 mins.
– Best of the Wurst – 21 mins.
– A Trip To The Butcher – 4 mins.
9:00pm – Crazy Legs Conti – Zen and the Art of Competitive Eating
10:15pm – Q&A with Crazy Legs Conti
10:45pm – Hot Dog eating contest – 32 inch Stahl-Meyer Hot Dog
closing – XXX – An Uncanventional Love Story – 1 min.

Another movie to be screened at the festival is Buffet – All You Can Eat Las Vegas. A trailer for that film is available at NYMag.com

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The Boston Phoenix has a report on a screening of “JO” by Cameron Jamie. Japanese noise artist Keiji Haino provided a live soundtrack.

The show began in darkness. Haino chanted a series of ghostly moans; those and the votive candles lining the aisles made it feel like a séance. JO is a rumination on patriotism, with footage of a Joan of Arc pageant in Orléans, French right-wingers laying flowers at the foot of a Joan statue in Paris, and a Fourth of July hotdog-eating contest in New York.

Haino proceeded through mysterious plucking, ominous vibrations, chimes, turbulent strumming, Godzilla thuds, and rumbles. It sounded a bit like a slasher-flick score. He deployed 13 pedals to loop and layer the noise, building jet-engine blasts. He went silent while Jamie’s camera panned down a stout fellow’s jacket embroidered with a list of dozens of eating-contest victories. The seated crowd chuckled.

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(From Megamunch and Brian Subich) Joey Chestnut’s victory at the TripRewards wing contest yesterday was the #2 play of the day on ESPN Sportcenter.

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The Sportscaster Chronicles blog has a podcast of an interview with Nathan’s announcer Paul Page Part 1, Part 2. The interview is mainly about Page’s coverage of the Indianapolis 500, but there is a brief amount about Nathan’s at the start.

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The paperback edition of Horsemen of the Esophagus will be released today. I am not sure if there will be any new material that was not in the hardback.

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The Brooklyn Papers reports that Will Millender will appear on a weight loss reality show in which he will attempt to walk from Boston to Washington, DC.

Trial, tribulations, and even a slice of celebrity are nothing new for Millender, who has battled his weight for several years, and whose image can still be found on storefront posters across Ridge for his first place showing at the Fifth Avenue pizza-eating contest last June at Rocco’s Pizzeria (Millender was cheered to victory by a huge crowd that included a once-legendary, now slimmed-down, eater, Borough President Markowitz).

He ate 10 slices in the regulation 12 minutes. The performance made him a legend.

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