Thanks Brian Seiken – Crazy Legs Conti has compiled a list of competitive eating websites written in the inimitable Crazy Legs style.

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While the official opening of futureofeating.com remains in the future, Joey Chestnut fans can make do with his myspace site.

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The surge in popularity for the winner of the Gluttonous Queen contest, nicknamed “The Gal”, can be tracked by searching for her name (ギャル曽根) in Japanese blogs using technorati. There were almost 200 mentions of “The Gal” in Japanese blogs the day after her victory was televised. She currently has 439 mentions in Japanese blogs which is quite impressive when you take into account that her competitive eating career only started last fall. In comparision, Kate Stelnick has 244 mentions in blogs, most coming in January 2005 (and there are more blogs in the US than in Japan).

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(From beautifulbrian.com) Ryan Nerz has set up a web site promoting his recently released book at eatthisbook.com The website has a gallery, a calendar of Nerz’s appearances, an interview with the grilled cheese sandwich slandered by Tim “Eater X” Janus and a blog where you can expound on your hypotheses about the entities producing this website. The release party for “Eat This Book” will be on April 20 at a currently undetermined time and place.

According to his calendar, Nerz will appear on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central on April 18 at 11 pm eastern.

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Several podcasts of the Paunch Stevenson show have some competitive eating content in general and Sonya Thomas in particular.

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Dave Shoffner has started a new blog at http://megamunch.blogspot.com/ Like SuperSizedMeals.com, the main focus of the blog is the preparation and attempted consumption of abnormally large meals, but there is also some competitive eating content. The blog’s initial entry describes Ashley’s consumption of a one pound burger from Fuddruckers

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If you would like to see the start of the original version of the Boston Herald article that inaccurately reported that Sonya Thomas competed in the March 16 corned beef and cabbage contest, it can be found on the GoldenPalace website. No attribution is provided for that page and its second paragraph matches the second paragraph of the current version of the Herald’s article. Two videos of the contest are also available.

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Don “Moses” Lerman has started his blog at MosesNews.com, about 10 days before his announced opening date. The blog has a mailbag section where readers can post comments. The current mailbag question is “Should Don Lerman retire?”

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Levi “the Prophet” Oliver has a blog at http://levioliver.statesmanblogs.com/ The blog descibes both his training for a triathlon and his thoughts on competitive eating. Oliver does not say if he will be competiting in the Huevos Rancheros contest to be held on South Padre Island later this week.

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The seventh episode of Brian Seiken’s video podcast is now online, and it is the funniest show yet. Brian declares a truce in the Great Pickle Jihad (by jihad I mean the quest for the most spiritually enlightened way to eat pickles quickly and not violence or terrorism against pickles) and goes to chez Lipsitz for what he believes is a friendly dinner, only to have Kevin spring an escarole contest on him. The scenes of Kevin preparing the escarole with dubious sanitary standards should help discourage any dieter from eating. Brian also has a phone interview with Kevin’s nephew.

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Krazy Kevin Lipsitz will be Brian Seiken’s guest for the seventh episode of his television show. The episode is currently in post-production.

Brian has also made a commitment to improve his physique and health. Lets all support him in his efforts to lose weight. He intends to continue in competitive eating.

Seiken has also submitted two links:

• A show on radio station WFMU from early 2002 about competitive eating with interviews by Richard Shea, Cookie Jarvis and Andrew Goldstein can be obtained at http://www.wfmu.org/listen.php?show=2698
  (Real player required) The competitive eating segment begins at 1:04. The show occurred between the Glutton Bowl and the airing of the Gutbuster documentary (it was hoped at the time that the Glutton Bowl would be an annual event.)
• A blog entry by a Harvard Law student briefly mentions the MTV True Life competitive eating documentary. The author finds the milieu of competitive eating fascinating and hopes to write some personality sketchs of eaters on his blog.

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The sixth episode of Brian Seiken’s television show is now available. Commissioner Charles Hardy is Brian’s first in studio guest. Hardy describes how he became involved in competitive eating and his role in the 9/11 recovery efforts. Hardy also offers his opinion on if he would have disqualified Kobayashi in the 2001 Nathan’s contest. The most dramatic section of the show occurs when Dale Boone calls into the show from India and Hardy confronts Boone about his inflammatory statements and actions.

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Myspace sites for other competitive eaters:

Pat Bertoletti
Chip Simpson
Loren “Bubba” Yarbrough
Levi Oliver
Jason “Erbavore” Erb
Laura (Jason Erb’s girlfriend)

Thanks for the information about myspace sites. If anyone is aware of other competitive eating myspace sites, please supply a URL to it if you know it.

Updated 2/25 11:36
Brian Seiken has set up a myspace site at http://www.myspace.com/beautifulbrian

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Humble Bob Shoudt has started a myspace site at: http://www.myspace.com/humblebob

Other competitive eating myspace sites I am aware of:
Badlands Booker
Pat “from Moonachie” Philbin
Hungry Charles Hardy
Larry “The Legend” McNeil
Wing Bowl

Please inform me of any other competitive eating myspace sites.

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If you are having a competitive eating television withdrawal after two shows on consecutive nights, go see the fifth episode of “Beautiful” Brian Seiken’s video podcast. Brian starts by reiterating the details about the “No Mas” affair and offers his anonymous critic a phone interview on his next television show. Brian does his first in-person interview with a competitive eater at Don “Moses” Lerman’s home. Don shows off his vast collection of eating trophies and paraphenalia, including what is most likely the world’s largest collection of competitive eating themed embroidered jackets. In addition to attempting 18 jalapeno peppers in under a minute, Don also does his standup routine and sings Sinatra. Don says “for the record” that he is going to come back better than ever and take the 2007 Laredo jalapeno contest.

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Erik “The Red” Denmark has started a blog at http://erikdenmark.blogspot.com/
which will document his quest to qualify for Nathan’s and become the best eater in the northwest. He has pictures from the chili cheese fries contest, the Laredo Jalapeno Festival and his attempt during Super Bowl 40 to join Sharon Scholten in the 40+ hot dogs in four hours club.

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“Beautiful” Brian Seiken has the fourth episode of his TV series available. Allen “Shredder” Goldstein is the main phone interview. The Shredder describes his frustrations with qualifying for Nathan’s in 2005. There is also a shorter phone interview with Cookie Jarvis. Footage from the grilled cheese contest at Planet Hollywood is aired in which Charles Hardy, Crazy Legs Conti, Sonya Thomas and others appear.

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Pat Bertoletti has found photo galleries for two contests:

Jan 14 Hot Springs Corned Beef: http://www.freshsquid.com/BeefWeb/

November Krystal Square Off contest: http://www.cnn.com/interactive/us/0511/gallery.competitve.eaters/content.1.1.html

Ken Wong notes that a five minute IFOCE video is available from Google video

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=competitive+eating&so=0

(The Cookie Jarvis basketball & 2005 grilled cheese finals video can also be accessed with this link)

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Supersizedmeals.com is a blog solely devoted to eating challenges. It debuted in November, but I just recently discovered it.

In other supersized meals news, information and pictures about the creation and consumption of In N Out Burger’s 100×100 can be found in this blog entry. 8 eaters were needed to consume it.

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The third episode of “Beautiful” Brian Seiken’s television show is now available for viewing. Patrick Bertoletti is the guest and there is also footage from Adelman’s Deli Kings Highway in Brooklyn. (Seiken said his third episode would be available Super Bowl Saturday, he must not have taken into account the two week gap between the Super Bowl and the conference championship games.)

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“Beautiful” Brian Seiken has uploaded the second episode of his television show. At approximately 50 minutes, it is about twice as long as the previous episode. He begins the episode with an overview of competitive eating websites (thanks for the compliments BB.) The bulk of the episode consists of an interview with Ray “The Bison” Meduna who will judge the Barrick burger contest in Las Vegas this weekend. Ray discusses his competitive eating history and describes why he has retired (temporarily he hopes) from eating contests. The show ends with a tribute to Martin Luther King Jr, a recollection about Brian’s dream involving Sonya Thomas and Dale Boone and an attempt to break Joey Chestnut’s record of drinking a gallon of milk in 41 seconds. Pat Bertoletti is the expected guest for the third episode.

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Brian Seiken has the initial episode of his online TV show available. An phone interview with Cookie Jarvis comprises the bulk of the show. Cookie talks about his experience in competitive eating and says he will have a limited presence on the IFOCE circuit in the first half of 2006 due to work. The next episode will hopefully have Ray “The Bison” Meduna talk about judging the upcoming Barrick burger contest.

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Beautiful Brian Seiken has announced that he will host a competitive television show in 2006 available for viewing on his website which will have interviews with competitive eaters, eating stunts and commentary. He also has a New Year’s video message for his fans.

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After a hiatus of more than a week, Sonya Thomas’ web site has been restored with a new picture of her and Washington Redskin Renaldo Wynn (along with a very nice compliment for this site – Thanks Sonya.) Sonya apparently had an eating contest with the defensive lineman televised on local cable televesion. Sonya vs. the entire Redskins offensive or defensive line would probably be a more evenly matched competition.

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Competitive eating websites appear to be an endangered species, first Kobayashi’s site disappears, then Sonya’s is redirected to a generic page and now Brian Seiken’s blog produces a 404 error.

In other Brian Seiken website news, he now has several video clips available on his main website.

Update 6:32 pm, the blog is back up, but only the first post is online.

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