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Speaking of BART, if you have a BART ticket, TransLink or Transbay pass, you can score a free hot dog today. Zog's, located at the tip of Market and Post, is offering free hot beef injections today in order to ease your nightmareish BART commute.

--One person is dead after a Caltrain hit a car in Palo Alto this afternoon. [CBS 5, Merc News.]

Number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column: 55.

The Examiner's on Bobagate! They've now found out Ed Jew, through his father, rents a building to a pot club, at 1545 Ocean. Hope those cannabis users have water.

This week we'd like to congratulate the -ist network's Mother Hen, Gothamist's Jen Chung, who found herself a recipient of Wired Magazine's Wired Rave Award. If that doesn't sound terribly exciting, keep in mind another recipient was J.K. Rowling. Yep, that's right, the -ist network and Harry Potter now have something in common. Go us.

We couldn't help but notice this letter to the editor in Sunday's Sporting Green:

Austinist gets arty with an interactive guide to SXSW, loved some local art galleries and a new art exhibit and lamented the possible loss of "Friday Night Lights" production to New Mexico.

Hope you had a good July 4 this week! Namely, we hope you didn't come anywhere near Joey Chestnut's 2nd place hot dog eating contest finish at your barbecues of choice.

Torontoist immediately wins our heart by using the word "Jackass" in a headline. In fact, we love their use of it so much that we're going to use it as much as possible throughout this post. For example, it looks like there are Toronto-area jackasses besides those who misuse the sidewalk: look at the crap on sale on Toronto's craigslist. But it looks like Toronto doesn't contain the kind of jackasses who pee in public pools, as the issue never came up when they interviewed the creators of art installations in their public wading pools.

Ain't no better way to celebrate the Fourth of July than by watching the Coney Island Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Competition: our buddies at the mothership Gothamist even liveblogged the whole thing! (yes, yes, it's terrible that Americans waste so much food when people in Africa are starving. We promise to give money to Jeffrey Sachs's End of Poverty program to atone for our rapacious delight today, okay?) And what's our local connection? Second-place eater and up-and-coming American star Joey Chestnut, who almost dunk-and-swallowed top dog Takeru Kobayashi out of first place with a strong start out the gate. Chestnut's a San Jose State engineering student! Yay Area whut! Alas, Chestnut started to flag about 6 minutes in, allowing Kobayashi to peristalsis his way back up to the top at the end. A nail-biter, to be sure -- but now Chestnut's claiming some malfeasance might have occurred -- at around dog 50, people noticed that Kobayashi might have suffered what the eating competition circuit delicately terms a "reversal of fortune," which is an automatic DQ from the competition. Witnesses say that Kobayashi spit up into a cup, but that he (warning, it's gross) swallowed it back down before it hit the table -- which doesn't count. Chestnut's decided to view it as a bad refereeing call, and promises to be back again next year. This summer, Chestnut's training regimen included drinking 2 gallons of warm water every morning to stretch his stomach; eating 40 dogs a day 3 days a week, and the day before he left for New York, he ate 54 dogs in a practice run. We may be betraying our Bay Area affiliation here, but we're hoping they were Rosamunde dogs. Picture from the Chron by Laura Morton.

We were just talking about how much we love food competitions! San Jose's own competitive eater Joey Chestnut has kicked off the Super Bowl in style, winning the annual Wing Bowl competition in Philly by eating 173 chicken wings over the course of the day. All wings must be stripped -- strict rule. Chestnut qualified for the competition by drinking a gallon of milk in 41 seconds. The Wing Bowl is a pre-Super Bowl tradition, and has been running since 1993. This year was the "Virgin Bowl," because for the first time, past winners were excluded from competition, meaning that our favorite competitive eater (scroll to 7/9/05, for a sample of our bloggery in the pre-SFist days), Sonya The Black Widow Thomas, couldn't re-eat her way to the top this go-around. Local boy Joey Chestnut is considered a breakout rookie on the competitive eating circuit, coming in third in this year's Coney Island hot dog competition, second only to The Black Widow and the famous Kobayashi. Chestnut's beaten Thomas once before, in the Waffle House waffle-off (18.5 waffles in 10 minutes), and almost beat Kobayashi in this year's Krystal burger competition (and was even leading him at one point, the first time in competitive eating history that anyone's outeaten Kobayashi). He's considered a lock for the prestigious title of competitive eating rookie of the year.

Our friends and family tried to tell us, but we had to find out for ourselves anyway: July in an ivy-covered Northeastern college town is no place for a California boy. We mention this because that's where we were four summers ago, huddling by the air conditioner in a townie bar to escape the heat that had been trying to braise us, watching the A's play Cleveland on ESPN, when we discovered the best. Promotion. Ever: Mug Root Beer Float Day at the Oakland Coliseum. Mulder was pitching, but ESPN had video of Hudson and Zito scooping vanilla ice cream into Mug root beer.

Gothamist, our sister site for people who don't know how to leave Manhattan, had previously secured assurances from Revolution Studios that all of the exteriors would be filmed in NYC's East Village, which is so OK with us we don't even care. No word yet on what made them change their mind, or why the film version of the play (which takes place during Christmas) would require footage of a leafy, summery park.