The Basics.
Astrological Sign.
Sagittarius, and I also enjoy long walks on the beach and poems about unicorns.
Day job./Bad habit
Currently I am the Purchasing Director at the Penthouse Executive Club. It is an upscale gentleman's club so classy that we don't call them "strippers", we call them, "entertainers". My liquor room office shares a air vent with the strippers' locker room, sorry - entertainers' locker room.
Where did you grow up and where do you live now?
I'm a Masshole from just outside Boston. I wear shorts year round because my poorly dressed childhood in Beantown has lead me to become weather immune. I've lived in the East Village, NYC for almost ten years and I let the weather adapt to me.
Two For YOU.
How did you get into competitive eating?
Some people come to New York and want to see the Statue of Liberty. I wanted to see 400 pound men eat as many hot dogs as they could on the fourth of July in Coney Island. I was a fan first. I always hoped Eric "Badlands" Booker would throw me one of his half-eaten dogs from the championship table. Since I've turned pro, I have been fortunate to eat all of Badlands leftovers.
What makes your mouth water?
It is either saliva or Pabst Blue Ribbon? I don't really know the science behind it all. I have a dachshund named Pavlov who tells me when it's time to eat.
Which New Year's resolution will you break in less than a week?
I said I wasn't going to look at naked groupie's photos sent to www.crazylegsconti.com. I keep telling the girls not to send the naked photos to www.crazylegsconti.com, but they keep sending them.
Who would you stalk if you were guaranteed NOT to be caught?
Gummo Marx
What's the best place in New York for semi-public sex?
The photo booth at Otto's Shrunken Head. I've got the pictures to prove it. Wait?! Did you mean with somebody else?
How many take-out menus do you have in your apartment?
Never do delivery in Manhattan. I use to be a short order cook...food is not meant to caged or boxed in. If you order poached eggs in those aluminum jails all you are tasting is fear. I eat all my meals at Coleman's Bar and Grill.
What's your favorite dessert/high-carb indulgence?
I enjoy ten to thirteen pounds of green jello eaten off the belly of a Red Rock West bartender. Sadly, if is not served in most restaurants for health reasons.
If you could have dinner with three famous New Yorkers, who would it be?
Little Jimmy, The Drunk Poet, and Mike Sandwich. But I would give Sandwich the wrong address so I could eat his dinner too.
Complete this sentence: "2005 will be known as the ___"
The year of the documockery. If you haven't seen "Crazy Legs Conti:Zen and the Art of Competitive Eating" check it out. It is the, "It's a Wonderful Life" for a whole new generation.
