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Newsday has an article about Long Island competitive eaters featuring Eric "Badlands" Booker, Patrick "The Viper" Viviano, Mike "The Real Skinny" Hoffman, Allen "Shredder" Goldstein and Paul "Porkslap" Arcaria. (via Badlands Booker).
Eric "Badlands" Booker has started a new website at http://www.badlandsbooker.me/ and will be releasing a new CD titled Big Man Mentality on Thanksgiving. IFOCE.com also has a new article about Booker.
Eric "Badlands" Booker's appearance at K104 this morning to promote tomorrow's Nathan's qualifier in Fishkill, NY can be viewed online.
With one qualifier left, it appears that at least one Nathan's finals streak will be broken. Crazy Legs Conti has competed in the last nine Nathan's finals and I believe that Eric "Badlands" Booker has appeared in all Nathan's finals he has attempted to qualify for since 1997. (Booker took a hiatus in 2007.) The only way both Conti and Booker could reach the finals is if they both exceed 37 hot dogs in Saturday's qualifier in Fishkill, NY.
The MLE twitter reports that Bob Shoudt, Tim Janus and Eric "Badlands" Booker and former bunnette Laura Leu will compete in tomorrow's Nathan's qualifier in Queens.
Eric "Badlands" Booker's facebook page announces that he will appear at the Nathan's qualifier at the NY Mets ballpark in Queens on Saturday.
Adam Richman has posted a picture of his appearance with Eric "Badlands" Booker on Martha Stewart radio today.
Eric "Badlands" Booker announces he will appear with Adam Richman on Martha Stewart Living Radio on satellite radio on Monday.
2010 Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest field
(Bumped & Modified originally posted June 27)
The following people won a slot in the 2010 Nathan’s finals by winning a qualifier. The second column is the number of hot dogs eaten in the qualifier (click on the names to see their contest history)
| 2010 May 6 | 29 | “Big” Ben Monson | Las Vegas, NV |
| 2010 May 8 | 38.5 | Eric “Badlands” Booker | Foxborough (Boston), MA |
| 2010 May 8 | 18 | Bryan “Big Sexy” Beard | San Jose, CA |
| 2010 May 15 | 23 | Peter “Pretty Boy” Davekos | East Hartford, CT |
| 2010 May 15 | 28 | Tim “Gravy” Brown | Newnan, GA |
| 2010 May 29 | 40 | “Notorious” Bob Shoudt | Atlantic City, NJ |
| 2010 Jun 5 | 29 | Erik “The Red” Denmark | Tempe, AZ |
| 2010 Jun 6 | 12 | Andrew Bosque | Virginia Beach, VA |
| 2010 Jun 12 | 34 | Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas | Norfolk, VA |
| 2010 Jun 13 | 23.5 | Sean “Flash” Gordon | Thackerville, OK |
| 2010 Jun 19 | 13 | Kristopher Adams | Fayetteville, NC |
| 2010 Jun 19 | 30 | Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti | Charlotte, NC |
| 2010 Jun 26 | 46 | Tim “Eater X” Janus | Queens, NY |
| 2010 Jun 26 | 25 | Crazy Legs Conti | Escondido, CA |
| 2010 Jun 26 | 28.25 | Juliet Lee | Fishkill, NY |
Allen Goldstein received a slot by leading the wild card standings. Here are the wild card standings according to results in the eatfeats datbase (qualifier winners not listed):
| 2010 May 8 | 28.75 | Allen “Shredder” Goldstein | Foxborough (Boston), MA |
| 2010 May 15 | 27 | “Jammin” Joe LaRue | Newnan, GA |
| 2010 May 29 | 25 | “Buffalo” Jim Reeves | Atlantic City, NJ |
| 2010 Jun 5 | 25 | Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan | Tempe, AZ |
| 2010 May 29 | 24.5 | Pat “from Moonachie” Philbin | Atlantic City, NJ |
| 2010 Jun 26 | 24 | Micah “Wing Kong” Collins | Fishkill, NY |
| 2010 Jun 5 | 22 | Damon “The Omen” Wells | Tempe, AZ |
| 2010 Jun 26 | 21 | Brian “Dud Light” Dudzinski | Queens, NY |
| 2010 May 29 | 20 | Dave “U. S. Male” Goldstein | Atlantic City, NJ |
YourNabe.com has an article about Eric "Badlands" Booker.
923now.radio.com has a video and slideshow of Eric "Badlands" Booker's appearance on "Rollin w/ Nick Cannon" this morning where he coached Sarah Lee on how to eat 10 Nathan's hot dogs.
Eric "Badlands" Booker will appear on the CBS Early Show tomorrow morning before he competes in the clam eating contest at Pete's Clam Bar.
Badlands Booker video wins 3rd place & $25K in GoDaddy contest
GoDaddy.com lists the top 3 entries in its Indianapolis 500 commercial contest. The video in which Eric “Badlands” Booker played the rapping proprietor of a gourmet grocery store finished third and received a $25,000 prize. The New York Times media decoder blog mentions the video.
Badlands Booker raps on ExploreLI.com
Eric “Badlands” Booker did a rap on ExploreLI to promote the Memorial Day clam eating contest at Peter’s Clam Bar in Island Park, NY.
Go Daddy has produced a video listing the 10 finalists of its commercial contest, and Eric "Badlands" Booker is one of them.
Eric "Badlands" Booker has submitted a video to GoDaddy.com's Super Bowl video contest.
Eric "Badlands" Booker new video Vibe with Me is available on youtube. The video was directed by Pat Bertoletti and opens with a segment of Paul Barlow's, "Mad as Hell". Tim "Gravy" Brown also appears.
Cameron McKirdy produced a video of Eric "Badlands" Booker completing the five pound "Burritozilla" at Iguana's in San Jose in 5:15 before last year's Asparagus Festival contest. update Booker also produced a commercial for his new CD, Surf & Stillwell that will be released July 4.
Micah "Wing Kong" Collins directed a video of Eric "Badlands" Booker performing I Eat Em Up at the TooJay's corned beef sandwich contest in West Palm Beach, FL.
KSO blog interviews Badlands Booker
The Krystal Square Off blog has an interview with Eric “Badlands” Booker, who will compete in the Birmingham qualifier on Saturday. “Humble” Bob Shoudt will compete in the Atlanta qualifier on Sunday and Micah “Wing Kong” Collins, Eric “Steakbellie” Livingston, Kevin Ross and Paul Barlow will compete in unspecified qualifiers this weekend.
Eric "Badlands" Booker has started an online store selling his CDs and T-shirts at http://hungryandfocusedstore.bigcartel.com/
Second Avenue Sagas has a blog entry about Eric "Badlands" Booker, the author's favorite subway conductor.
Some post-contest articles on the 2009 Nathan's finalists: Pat Bertoletti (Chicago Tribune | Examiner), Badlands Booker, "Buffalo" Jim Reeves, Marco "Mongo" Marquez (Liz Kellermeyer interview | Pueblo Chieftain)
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