(from Mark Schrimsher) CalorieLab has a short book review in English of Gal Sone’s recently released autobiography.

Gal Sone had a book signing in Tokyo for her autobiography today and she has a blog entry about the appearance. Tomorrow, she will sign autographs in Osaka. The autobiography is currently #131 on the amazon.co.jp rankings (The Japanese translation of the final Harry Potter book, which will be released next month, is #1)

Tomoko Miyake’s book of photographs is now available for preorder on Amazon of Japan. The release date is June 28.

update June 9 Gal Sone’s book is currently ranked #97 on Amazon of Japan, which place it on the bestseller list. A screen capture has been uploaded (click the thumbnail below).

Gal Sone’s blog has a report about today’s Osaka book signing

Yama3 went to the Tokyo autograph session.

• Video of El Toro screaming
• Shannon competes in the men’s division of the Vacaville onion eating contest and finishes third
• Furious Pete to attempt the “Italian Challenge” in Niagara Falls after getting stopped at the US/Canada border crossing update Pete finished the challenge in a record 30 minutes.
• Festival goal of 200,000 brats for the Madison Brat Fest
• Article about the Durham, NC Doughman quadrathlon (triathlon + eating)
• Jill Stoler interviews Ian Hickman
• Gal Sone article in the Mainichi Shimbun

• Sadie of Hungry Sisters got married last weekend and had a “wedding reception” at Krystal
• Juliet Lee has updated her WriteNow page with a report from the Pittsburgh Nathan’s qualifier
• Beautiful Brian has a “bigger bit” about his second cousin Abe Vigoda
• Wing eating contest in Marietta, Georgia on Saturday
• Video of Gal Sone competing against Torii Miyuki in a Wednesday morning eating contest. Torii Miyuki is a comedienne who act consists of acting crazy while wearing pajamas.

Gal Sone’s autobiography is now available for preorder on Amazon of Japan. Amazon claims the book will come out on Saturday, the previously announced release date was May 27.

Sports Hochi announces that Gal Sone will be acting in the upcoming movie based on the television show Masked Rider. The website for the program has a short interview with Gal Sone about her movie debut.

(From R Suzuki) Gal Sone recently appeared on a television program in which she sampled and ranked curries from each of the 47 prefectures of Japan. The curry from Okinawa contained spam and failed to make the top five.

Like the curry Gal Sone chose on her previous appearance on the ranking show, the winning curry, from Toyama, was in short supply after Gal Sone selected it as her favorite.

• Article about Portland mayoral race with coverage of doughnut contest for candidates
• Gothamist preview of Tuesdays promotional watermelon eating contest at Rockefeller Center
• Steakbellie on qualifying for Nathan’s
• Reporter attempts to set personal wing eating record during morning newscast
• Cheeseburger eating contest to be held at Jimmy Buffet night at Newark Bears game May 23.
• Cameron McKirdy uploads 3 new videos
• Jill Stoler gets into Wednesday’s pickle contest at the Carnegie Deli
• Gal Sone gets a haircut and a new hair color

The meals Gal Sone endorsed for the Lawson convenience store chain debuted yesterday. Gal Sone has a blog entry about the release containing pictures of a store containing her advertisement. Gigazine has reviews of the meals. Lawson stores will sell the meals until May 19.

SanSpo.com reports that Natsuko “Gal” Sone’s autobiography will appear in bookstores on May 27. The book will contain Gal Sone’s secret to avoiding weight gain

Tomoko Miyake appears on the cover of this month’s Maruhan Press magazine. Tomoko did an event today to promote the Magazine’s release

A press release announces that Natsuko “Gal” Sone will endorse 9 meals from Lawson stores which are are 1.5 to 2 times larger than normal meals. The meals will debut on May 6. In July, Lawson will sponsor an eating contest between Gal Sone and a team of 10 people chosen by drawing.

See also trendynet

• April 21 Trenton, NJ New Britain, CT Hot dog eating contest for college students at minor league baseball game. First prize is a flat screen TV.
• Japanese curry eating challenge at Kenka restaurant in NYC. Curry & T shirt are free if eaten in under 20 minutes.
• Food Battle Stadium contest for women only. Gal Sone makes a guest appearance
• St. Louis tater tot eating contest video
• Cartoon of oyster eating contest
• Goliath pizza eating contest for teams of 5 in Midgeville, GA
• Melon eating contest between two elephants Saturday in Columbus, OH

Gal Sone has a blog entry about meeting Yasuo Fukuda, the Prime Minister of Japan at a cherry blossom festival. jp.msn.com and 47news.jp have articles about the festival.

Natsuko “Gal” Sone has a blog entry about her trip to Mexico to record a television program that will be televised on April 27. In the past year, she has also produced shows in Canada, Belgium, China and Hawaii.

A video of the end of the last round of the “Gluttonous Queen” competition that Natsuko “Gal” Sone competed in is available on youtube. She missed advancement to the next round by just a few grams of steak.

CalorieLab has a paragraph in English about this year’s “Gluttonous Queen” contest won by Hatsuyo Sugawara.

Ameba and J-Cast have articles

R Suzuki has part two of her contest report

The contest page on TV Tokyo’s website now has pictures of all the competitor.

TV Tokyo has set up a page about this year’s edition of the “Gluttonous Queen” contest that will be televised on Sunday. Hatsuyo “the Witch” Sugawara is listed as one of the rivals for “Gal” Sone’s crown.

TV Tokyo also has a page with links to all the Gluttonous King / Queen contests since 2005.

• Spike TV graphic replaced with Acme Oyster House logo on IFOCE.com home page (cached version) MLE page on SpikeTV.com remains up (from comment)
• Don Lerman considers entering Carnegie Deli pickle contest, then decides against it
• Galleries and video of Munch Madness (Connecticut) qualifiers
• First Battle of the Bone qualifier results
• Texas eating contest reportedly faked for travel show
• Mio “Sakura” Takahashi eats 5.3 kg of curry and then is filmed with an infared camera
• Gal Sone dines with Jaycee Chan, son of Jackie
• Cartoon of Loki’s eating contest from Norse Mythology

F Valenciano uploaded a video of a song about Gal Sone performed by a singer backed by an acoustic guitar. The musicians were from the group The Milk Babys and a MP3 clip of the Gal Sone song performed with a full band is available.

F Valenciano has a blog entry in Spanish about the performance. The start of the lyrics of the song (automatically translated from Spanish) follows:

My body smells like sewer,
Gal Sone must smack of hibiscus,
Never use Sawayaka Sawadee
Gal (Gal) Gal (Gal) Gal (Gal) Gal (Gal)
Gal Gal Gal Gal Gal Gal Gal Gal
Gal Sone, Gal Sone, Gal Sone, Gal Sone, Gal Sone, Gal Sone

The Hawaii Waikiki livespace has some pictures from the recording of this year’s edition of “Gluttonous Queen”. Like last year, the final contest took place in a Waikiki shopping mall. The contest will be televised on March 30. Results were not disclosed in the blog entry.

AsianInfatuation has 4 pictures with the caption:

Thanks to my viewers, I now know who this woman is! And I’ve done research to know that it is her for sure. She was at the Waikiki Shopping Plaza today, 3/2 and was mobbed by the Japanese tourists who happened to be in the area.

Her bodyguards and security could barely keep up- but the good thing is the Japanese are very gracious and were very respectful of her.

Having done research, it is noted that has earned her fame through eating contests of all things… and that makes sense, as there was an eating contest today at the Waikiki Shopping plaza.

See also Princess Nao,Travel Donkey

StarBulletin.com has a captioned picture which reveals the identity of two of the finalists.

Gal Sone’s blog has no entries between February 27 and March 5. Tomoko Miyake did not make the finals because she was at an event in Nagoya with Nobuyuki Shirota.

A weekly eating contest with a first prize of $100 is held on Saturday evening at the Waikiki Shopping Plaza.

Kotaku illustrates post about MLE game with picture of Gal Sone, who will probably not be in the game
Joystiq thread about MLE game
AICE sets up page about Collegiate Nationals
PittsburghLive.com article about pierogi contest to be MCed by Crazy Legs Conti
Somebody purchased SurfAndStillwell.com and might put a website there.
MegaMunch has a post about his office pizza contest
Come for the baseball stay for the food - Pittsburgh Pirates start all you can eat ticket (via the Big Lead)

Evansville, IN pancake contest article and video
Elizabeth Canady makes the AICE spotlight page
Gal Sone’s Belguim trip report
Newport, RI IHOP pancake contest February 24
Steerburger eating contest in Albany, NY February 29
The Yankee Doodle is looking for a new location
Tribute to “Stand by Me” vomiting scene on VH1’s “Free Radio” sitcom (from Kevin Ross)
Like eating records, chess records have also been purged from the Guinness Book of World Records
Phillies prank trade for Kobayashi (not Takeru)

The Sponichi Annex reports that Natsuko “Gal” Sone went to the Chiba Lotte Marines training camp and ate pancakes with Marines manager Bobby Valentine, who formerly managed the Texas Rangers and the New York Mets. Valentine won a pancake eating contest by eating 120 pancakes when he was in college.

See also Sanspo.com, The Mainichi Shimbun

Gal Sone also observed Valentine’s Day by going to the Godiva chocolate factory in Belgium.

Jill Stoler needs team members for the Clinton Station Diner burger contest.
CalorieLab on Eddie “Bozo” Miller
San Diego 12 egg omelet challenge
Krystal opening in Arkansas, a year’s supply of burgers to the first 12 adults in line.
American Stomach author on NPR at 11 am, will discuss competitive eating
Competitive eating parody on Shark Divers
Nathan’s hater Peter King of Sports Illustrated compares Seahawk Shaun Alexander to a Coney Island hot dog competitor.
Gal Sone dines with assistance of a crab cracker.
Mike Huckabee responds to Frank Pastore, the Big Texan steak record holder, questioning his conservatism.

Ameba.JP has an article about possible explanations why “Gal” Sone does not gain weight when she eats so much: (automatically translated)

The body of a person eating a single keyword explain this “portal” it said. Voracious eater, a food-filled stomach too long, narrow portal pressure has been heard. In other words, they can not transport nutrients, and the blame will no longer be absorbed by the idea of the theory. Results of the escape-not fat.

There are two competitive eating themed entries in two recent lists of awards for 2007:

From Japan Times:

Most Unappetizing TV Personality: Gal Sone

She’s the first competitive eating star to parlay her avocation into a livelihood as a tarento, which means on variety shows she has to talk about her skills as a big eater. But testimonials for her favorite brand of toilet paper and explications of her six or seven daily bowel movements are not things we need to hear, especially right after she’s put away 5 kg of curry rice.

From 411Mania’s pro wrestling list:

Worst Promo = PACMAN Jones’s introduction.

Actually, I think I voted the Matt Hardy/MVP Pizza-Eating Contest first, but it didn’t count since it was more of a ‘skit’ than a ‘promo’.