thanks for the tipoff, Justin Lamb!

You saw the LA picks, now check out the folks and the places honored in Baltimore!

Baltimore Honors
Baltimore Best Ofs

it is time to honor those who made extra-special contributions to this year's Meat Week celebration. check out the Meat Week 2010 Honors!

you voted, the results are in! check out the restaurants Meat Weekers loved the most in our Meat Week 2010 Best Ofs! (and if you're a captain from another city and held a voting extravaganza of your own, send us your winners!)

well, we made it into the future without getting attacked by robopigs. this year was especially glorious, with old and new friends revelling in sauce and social times from the west coast to the east. as the holiday blues set in, don't forget the glorious bonds we've made over meat! we truly have a radd conglomerate of friendlies across the country now.

oh, and if you're trying to get your system back on track, check out Meat Free Week! this is a cool counter-culture to Meat Week that's sprung up in DC. i wish i was there to tour the vegan restaurants with them, but i'll have to settle for LA's finest instead. (nothing to sneeze at.)

check back for the 2010 honors & best ofs! they'll be up real soon.

well, Meaters, we're halfway through the 2010 celebration. by now your body is probably slowing down, dragging through the days, and completely dependent upon that meathigh to get you through the nights.

well, here's a couple more cool things to hype you up:

Tonic.com article

and some mid-week hype created yesterday by your faithful Admirals:





AND in case that doesn't do it, here's an uplifting spiritual message from our ATLiens.

buckle up for 4 more days of meatbonding with your meatbros!

author and Meat Week attendee Gina Pace wrote up a cool article about our blessed holiday and the NYC Chapter. somehow, CBS News just sounds awesomely official!

our favorite quote from the article?

And you can read up on nose-to-tail eating, the timing couldn't be better for Meat Week to try and make its mark on the hipster foodie zeitgeist.

this is possibly the best explanation for Meat Week's current press storm. there are also some choice quotes from NYC Captain Derek Atkinson:

I have to pace myself if I'm going to make it...I'll have meat sweats by Thursday.

(click here for full article)

apparently the internet world has really latched on to Meat Week this year, especially the D.C. area. it warms our hearts to know that the nation's capital is squarely behind our little holiday. or maybe that's just our arteries preparing to go into overdrive...

either way, here's a list of links that have popped up over the past few days on various websites. i can't think of a better way to hype you guys up for MEAT WEEK 2010: DAY 1. here it goes!

Los Angeles Examiner.com

NBC Washington

an update at Capital City Spice (including the announcement of a BBQ Buffet just for Meat Weekers!)

Northern Virginia Mag

Zagat

We Love DC

the Meat Week Haiku Winners in the Baltimore Sun (towards bottom of this blog entry)

Meat Truck (by our new best friends Porterhouse and Baconstrip)

A Blogger Completely Disgusted by Meat Week hype

Favorite Things Atlanta (featuring the pretty muggs of our ATLiens)

Canadian Meat Business (so professional AND canadian!)

PHEW! i haven't been this out of breath since that time i ate a whole pig! now let's throwdown on MEAT WEEK 2010: THE FUTURE!!!

apparently, there is such a thing as a food marathon, which is truly exciting. and the brilliant blogger behind this concept has decided to include Meat Week in their pre-Superbowl Marathon.

there are a LOT of things about this Food Marathon Blog that are making me excited, including a Health Food Marathon that ended in TACO BELL, a blog about the similarities between HEAVY METAL and cooking, and an original rap written in the voice of LI'L WAYNE. but my favorite thing so far is the unintentional hype topping the Meat Week blog post:



Food Marathon, you are pushing all of my favorite buttons. we are kindred.

two more Meat Week blog posts showed up this week, one on UrbanDaddy and one on Atlanta's Creative Loafing site. UrbanDaddy seems to totally nail the spirit of the season, along with all the simple details. details that sort of, well...eluded Creative Loafing (along with our URL).

here's an excerpt from UrbanDaddy:

Sometimes a juggernaut so powerful comes along that you can't help but be swept up in its all-consuming maelstrom. Particularly when said juggernaut involves barbecue.

HOLY CRAP. i just pooped a little reading that powerful phrase! and, for a really fun contrast, here is an excerpt from Creative Loafing:

Originating in Tampa, Fla., the organization uses a naval ranking system, which seems to sort members by their time and relative importance in the organization. The original admirals have now moved to L.A. where they earn their keep by creating sitcoms, or so a rather scattered and bulleted press release (of sorts) claims. Their current professions help explain why the event is so quirky.

wow! we are way more radd than we thought. Chris and i have decided this image of us is better than reality, so we will now issue this historically-revisionary press release. are you ready? this is it. here it is. put it in stone. our first REAL press release:

"Sitcom moguls from Tampa put on a naval-ranked week of meat . Request only sailors attend. RSVP please."

and you can take that to the blood bank.