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1. anonymous said

   September 3, 2010 @ 11:19 am

   Wanna bet the lovely Juliet Lee is a no show after record holder Eater X (71tamales) and Sonya are scheduled to compete

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Eat This Book: A Year of Gorging and Glory on the Competitive Eating Circuit

Competitive eating is not everything you may think it is.  It’s not all glory on the playing field, and unless you really want to devote your life to travelling around the country in order to eat yourself silly, there really isn’t enough money to be made in eating contests to call being a “Professional Eater” a full-time career.

One has to wonder if the lack of cost-of-living raises is one of the reasons that Takeru Kobayashi, the former World Champion Hot Dog Eater, refused to sign a contract with th...
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Are we witnessing the slow but certain death of cash in this generation? Is a truly cashless society on the horizon? Legislation currently pending in the Mexican legislature would ban a vast array of large cash transactions, but the truth is that Mexico is far from alone in trying to restrict cash. All over the world, governments are either placing stringent reporting requirements on large cash transactions or they are banning them altogether. We are being told that such measures are needed to battle illegal drug traffic, to catch tax evaders and to fight the war on terror. But are we rapidly getting to the point where we will have no financial privacy left whatsoever? Should we just accept that we have entered a time when the government will watch, track and trace all financial transactions? Is it inevitable that at some point in the near future ALL transactions will go through the banking system in one form or another (check, credit card, debit card, etc.)?

The truth is that we now live at a time when people who use large amounts of cash are looked upon with suspicion. In fact, authorities in many countries are taught that anyone involved in a large expenditure ...
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Matt McAllister of KNIX in Phoenix, AZ setting the guiness world record for the most t-shirts worn at once. Matt formerly hosted mornings on KTYD in Santa Barbara, CA.

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a year ago in june, the bookbinding goddess/funnier-than-hell jen drove all the way from minnesota to kansas so we could meet and make stuff. one evening she held a creative jam session in her hotel suite, and when you have a creative jam session, you need wine. with wine you need cheese and bread, and with cheese and bread you need plates, so i lent her a few of mine. when she got back to minnesota she realized she still had the plates and wanted to mail them back, but they were not worth the postage, so i told her to toss them. so she did, but not in the way that i meant. instead she tossed them in her suitcase.

then i started getting postcards.



the first was from the rose garden on lake harriet in minneapolis, and my eyes boggled when i got it - she didn't know it at the time, but this is where i was married, and so this is the family favorite of the bunch. very special to me.



a few months later, another one appeared - this time from new york. a place where i once panicked in a nightclub on new years eve (i don't like crowds), got lost in MOMA, fell asleep at laguardia and woke up to find my plane gone, used to attend boring trade shows just to take trips to new york.



then from seattle, where i spent nearly a year on assignment drawing process maps in visio, making copies, going for morning runs along the waterfront and getting caffeinated.



then from vegas, of...
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Through all of our various research, one of the most striking finds or discoveries is the hollow towers. We have indeed found considerable evidence and what we believe constitutes a preponderance of evidence which proves the world trade center, was, for much of its life, a hollow shell, an Illusion, an on going legend which was to become larger then life, and also quite different then the reality of the world trade center.

On the outside they were tall, granite like structures which inspired awe. On the inside, we have been told, they were dark and depressing. {Gelatin B thing reference}

And the best photographic evidence for the hollow towers is this picture below; So lets start here; This article is based upon the premise that the world trade center was empty, gutted, pre demolished before 9/11. If your not familiar with this, then please read this thread here first which deals with the entire premise of the hollow towers. Was the WTC Pre-Demolished prior to 911? Read that and then read this, as this is sort of a part 2, and that is part 1. If you are familiar with the concept then read on.

Issue: Because they were not built as we were told, but had hollow sections with no floors, they had a hollow look.

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